Hi Everyone,
There are certain dishes when made and eaten just set your soul at ease. They comfort and they fortify. That’s what a big pot of stew does. Perhaps stews evoke these feelings due to the cooking process involved that results in succulent morsels and a sauce/gravy brimming with incredibly deep flavour from all the ingredients. Such stews give you pause; they force you to slow down – to prepare them and to enjoy them.
A stew means different things for different people depending on where you are from but for the purposes of this column, a stew means seasoned meat or poultry cooked low and slow with lots of liquid and some flavouring that also gives colour – burnt sugar, browning, tomato paste, tomato sauce or annatto (achiote).
One of the many things that’s great about a stew is that it does not require expensive cuts of meats or poultry, actually, the cheaper the cuts, the more flavourful the stew. And you can add so
