Wednesday September 12
We wanted a nice warm stew because Andi and Joel were coming in from New York, and after their flight and resultant jet lag, we didn't know when they'd be ready for dinner.
In fact, we started dinner the day before, by cutting the icky fat off a Sainsbury's "Sunday roast," cubing the beef and browning it with onions and carrots in a Dutch oven. We added a lot of Oddbins' cheapest red wine, garlic, thyme sprigs, and some orange (all right, satsuma, that is, tangerine) peel, and let it simmer for a couple of hours while we dined and watched TV.
The next day, we threw in some fingerling potatoes and pitted black niçoise/Moroccan olives, and let it go until the potatoes were tender. Once Andi and Joel were conscious and hungry, we toasted their arrival with some Tasmanian sparkling wine, snacking on sliced carrots and courgettes with the usual trio of hummus/tzatziki/taramasalata, while the stew simmered in the oven. We then ate it with red wine, and finished off the pear/chocolate chip tarts afterwards.
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