Ch 95 -- Beef Bowl and Beef stew
"Fer, why aren’t you back yet?"
"Fer-ojichan, why aren’t you here?" Sui added plaintively.
Sui and I were waiting for Fer to co back from hunting but there was no sign of him at all.
I didn’t think he’d forgotten about us but I couldn’t be sure. I expected he’d be back once he got hungry so instead of just waiting around I got started preparing dinner. What to cook though... well, there’s lots of Bloody Horn Bull beef so maybe we want to eat so of that. Right, beef bowl it is. Quick to cook, delicious to eat and the pinnacle of cheap fast food in Japan. It brought back mories -- sotis after I finished work I’d stop by a local store for a quick beef bowl. It’s simple, sliced beef over plain rice with so sweet sauce.
I checked my stocks, I had onions, soy sauce, sweet cooking sake and ginger. I was short on regular cooking sake and instant dashi soup granules so I bought them from the Net Super.
Right, let’s get started. First of all, I sliced up so Bloody Horn Bull beef. Since I planned to make two large pots of beef bowl I sliced up a lot of beef.
I peeled the onions and sliced them up then I put water in the pots and added the soy sauce, sugar, cooking sake and the dashi granules before squeezing out so grated ginger from a tube and stirring it in as the mixture ca to a boil. I added the onions to the pots and after they softened I added the sliced beef. I let the sauce reduce over a slow heat for about ten minutes. It slled really good, how did it taste? I tried a mouthful, the beef was tender and juicy and the onions fell apart in my mouth. Just right.
I made two pots of sliced beef at the sa ti as I knew how much Fer and Sui could eat. By the ti I was finished though Fer hadn’t co back yet. Sui had gone to sleep in her bag and I didn’t want to start eating by myself so I decided to cook so more food while I waited.
Cooking the beef for the beef bowl got into the mood for so beef stew. Most folks would just use a roux or sauce in jars to make beef stew but not . It’s more work but I prefer my own recipe for this, prepackaged sauces are not the sa.
Stew does take a long ti to cook but I had to wait for Fer to co back anyway. I used the Net Super again for more ingredients -- I had plenty of onions but no carrots or potatoes so I ordered so. I also added butter to the cart, I had run out of ketchup and consom so they went on the list, oh and a can of demi-glace sauce and so red wine too. I paid for the order and the usual cardboard box appeared in front of . I looked over the ingredients, did I have everything? Yep, it all looked OK so I got started.
First I cut up Bloody Horn Bull beef into bite-sized pieces then I peeled and diced the onions. I peeled the carrots and potatoes too before cutting them up into bite-sized pieces. I made the potatoes a little bit bigger though.
After lting so butter in the bottom of the pot, I browned the Bloody Horn Bull beef, seasoning it with salt and pepper. Once the cubes of at were thoroughly sealed I added water and red wine to the pot and then the onions, potatoes and carrots. When the mixture started to simr I added a cube of consom.
I kept simring, skimming the scum off the surface until the potatoes and carrots softened. When that happened I added a can of demiglace sauce and so ketchup to the stew then let it simr for another 20 minutes. That’s it, a familiar dish for . I sotis add butter at the end to make it a bit richer but not always.
By the way I use a can of demi-glace sauce rather than making a roux because it’s easier. Weighing out the exact amounts of butter and flour to make a roux from scratch is a pain and it’s too easy to burn it if you’re not careful. Canned demi-glace works just the sa and it still tastes delicious but it’s a good idea to cook the at well before adding it.
I sampled the stew, it tasted just the way I wanted it. It seed I had managed to cook beef stew perfectly well in these conditions. I put the finished beef stew in my Item Box and looked around but Fer hadn’t co back yet. Funny, I thought the sll would have attracted him...
"Hey Fer, how far have you gone?"
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