I threw in some squash, onion, and mushroom better than bouillon. The outcome was very delicious indeed. I ended up putting it on both rice and pasta, but I really didn’t need to add it to anything. 

To start this stew I cut up all of the veggies into stew-sized portions. Well duh.

With the Okra, I wanted to squeeze out some of the goo. After cutting them up, I put it in some paper towels. 

Covered it and rolled it up.

Then gave it a good squeeze. 

This didn’t work as well as plan. Just act like it did ;p. jk jk. Anyhow …

Turning to my pot that I heated for a minute or so on medium heat, I tossed in some olive oil and onions. I wanted the onions a bit tender and translucent. This brings out the sugars hidden in onions. 

After cooking for about 5 minutes, I added some squash and covered it. 

5 more minutes, then the green peppers.

Then some mushroom better than bouillon and water. 

Here’s the stuff. 

And the black eyed peas … the original black eyed peas. Please don’t add a CD of the black eyed peas … I doubt it would turn out tasty.  

After simmering for probably half an hour (might have been an hour, I forgot), I got some delicious stew. 

I think I just seasoned this with some salt, pepper, and curry powder. 

Stew’s my easy way to get all the good stuff from veggies sitting around in your fridge. There’s no recipe necessary. I usually just toss whatever I want in it (as long as I think the flavors compliment). Some of the ingredients I have added to stew have been cheese, egg, peanut butter, meat, veggies, starches (potatoes, yuca, etc), spices, diced tomatoes, coconut milk, cream, milk, and broth. I haven’t yet tried to put them in all at once … and I don’t think I will. But with just veggies, broth, and seasonings, I made the delicious stew shown above. 

On a side now toss on a fried egg or two onto any thick soup or stew and you’ll get an amazing and hardy breakfast. 

Yup. Just about anything goes with stew, even an egg. I used the delicious black bean soup from The Vintage Garden Kitchen for this start-of-the-day meal.

First: Cut up some veggies. We choose to use the green peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, and eggplant from Hollygrove Market and Farm.

Cut up some beef. We also got the beef at Hollygrove Market and Farm. It was nice and tender.

We were kinda unsure how to cook it since we were baking it rather than grilling, so we decided to broil it on low. We shoved it all onto the skewers and laid them over a broil-safe casserole dish to catch the drippings.

Trick: It’s best to skewer through as much of the skin of the veggies as you can. The veggie innards get sorta … soft. They may fall off without the support of the skin. Also, don’t squeeze all the pieces together, just kinda until they’re touching. This practice allows for each piece to cook more evenly without the other pieces interfering.

Then we added some Zea Thai Rib Sauce to half of the kabobs. Big mistake on 2 parts. Reason 1: it was almost completely corn syrup. I’m a huge hater when it comes to HFCS (high frutose corn syrup).  We had some Thai Ribs from Zea at a festival that were amazing, and didn’t taste anything like this food-colored corn syrup sauce. Reason 2: well, you can find out in the next entry where I attempted yorkshire pudding.

We put them an inch from the broiler for 10 minutes.

As you can see, the veggies still looked kinda fresh (very apparent in the green peppers). They weren’t quite done yet, so we did another 5 minutes.

Perfect! There some good blackening on the green peppers and some other veggies. The kabobs didn’t even need sauce.

The kabobs fed 2 people. With the drippings I tried to make Yorkshire Pudding … emphasis on tried to make.

In the end, the clean up (again, if u don’t attempt the yorkshire pudding):

• 1 casserole dish
• 1-2 cutting board(s)
• 1 knife

Not bad! Didn’t really need the second cutting board, I just put it on the other cutting board for the picture. I would’ve just put them into the caserole dish.

The ingredients:

• Beef
• Veggies of your choice

Also, add in some dispoable bamboo skewers to the grocery list.

p.s. I’m going to link to the yorkshire pudding entry after it goes up.