On 10/29/2016 9:11 PM, l not -l wrote:
> On 29-Oct-2016, jmcquown > wrote:
>
>> On 10/29/2016 10:54 AM, l not -l wrote:
>>> I can't stand the smell of beef vegetable soup, therefore would never
>>> eat
>>> it, much less make it. To me, it smells just like a trash can filled
>>> with
>>> old food scraps..
>>
>> Oh dear.
>>
>> I guess I don't need to ask if you ever make and enjoy a nice beef stew
>> with vegetables?
>>
>> Jill
> Actually, I do. I made some a week or so ago. To me, beef stew smells
> nothing like vegetable beef soup. My beef stew is just beef chunks, celery,
> carrot, potato and onion. Most veg/beef soup I have seen/smelled has other
> veg, corn and tomatoes come to mind. While I like each of the ingredients,
> alone and in other dishes, I apparently don't like the smell of them heated
> together in soup. Then again, I'm not a fan of most soups..
>
I tend not to make beef stew that is very fussy. No corn, no lima
beans, no tomatoes. Pretty much just browned beef, potatoes, onion,
S&P, a few other herbs depending on my mood. One of my grandmother's
added drop dumplings to her beef stew and I like it that way. Sans
dumplings, I like it beef stew thick enough to require toasted bread or
a crunchy roll for sopping up the gravy.

Jill