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(Steve Pope) wrote:
>> >A pot-au-feu is a french beef stew. Where do you get the 'pot roast'>>
>> > >idea from?

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>> Some people use pot roast and stew as almost synonymous terms.
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>> To me, it's a stew if you serve the whole thing including the>> liquid
>> and vegetables as is out of the pot. It's a pot roast if >> you're
>> serving (at least primarily) the meat ingredient.
>>
>> Steve

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> After googling pot-au-feu, it sure looked like pot roast to me. :-)


It is not stew nor pot roast. It's much closer to soup with grand benefits.