I’m here to announce that my attempt at making Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon, went very well. It was not, however a meal that one can just throw together. I had to go to the grocery store in town and ask for pork fat. It seems that this makes the sauce even more flavorful, and nothing burns when you use it. Of course now that I have asked for pork fat in town, I’m sure they will label me as eccentric! In case any one is wondering, they did not charge me for the pork fat.
There is a lot of preparation from the cutting of the meat into cubes, to the drying of the meat before one browns it in the rendered pork fat.
After drying the meat I tossed it into the very hot pan to saute.
It takes almost no time at all to do this part.
Then after you have browned all the meat and removed it to the dutch oven, you put the onions and carrots into the pan and saute until they are browned.
Then, after 3 hours in a low oven I pulled it out, added the braised onions and sauteed mushrooms, and stirred them in. Then dinner was ready!
It was delicious, but very labor intensive and after I got done with the cooking I had to pull my kitchen apart and clean everything! (Sauteing the meat in the pork fat sent the grease flying! Quite a mess!)
Was it worth it? Oh yes, very much so.
Will I do it again? Absolutely!
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM……..
It must be the season WORLD wide for slow cooked meals! These last two weeks, I have done Osso Bucco, Lamb Shanks, and whilst off work witht the flu, I did a chicken soup and a slow cooked Ham and ‘What ever is in the cupboard’ soup which slowly simmered over the day!!!
I might try this one soon me thinks…
So you actually bake the meat for three hours? Do you add fluid? I´m not a good cook and need a description of every step. This looks very good and I really want to try it.
Also, do you cook/bake the meat with anything added?
Oh this looks so good! I’ll have to try it this fall when I have some time to cook and time to clean up after wards! LOL! Love YOU, Mel
delicious!!!
Now I am hungry.
I made my first real home-made-from-scratch French onion Soup on Monday and I loved it. I think I will have one again for tonight. 🙂
I’m not a meat eater, but that does look amazing! Great job!
I love your kitchen cabinets!!! 🙂
So how much of this could you actually eat, doing WW and all?
ROFL! I decided looooong ago that I was never making ANYthing I couldn’t pronounce! (or that’s cooked in pork fat!) *g* It looks delicious – and I’m suuuure it was — but I’ll stick with the roasted chicken! 🙂
This is nothing but heavenly and also healthy.
We make the same;)