Continuing my series on cooking stew (last session)...
These are my notes:
- Pre-cooking:
- I forgot to buy eggplant as I planned to.
- These are the amounts of stuff that I decided to change from the recipe:
- Carrots - none
- Mushrooms - 12 oz instead of 5 oz
- Potatoes - 1 lb instead of 2 lbs
- Celery - 3 stalks instead of 0
- Garlic (sliced) - 6 cloves instead of 0
- flour - none
- Allspice (~2 tsp) - added as part of the rub for the meat.
- Wine (1 cup) - to add before adding beef broth
- Method changes:
- remove bacon, leaving some grease for cooking garlic
- re-add bacon + grease with veggies
- cook garlic with some of the bacon grease
- add wine to deglaze before adding beef broth
- Post-cooking:
- all the method changes were fine. everything cooked as expected.
- i can't tell a difference in the bacon or the overall product due to the difference in recipe re bacon
- the flavor of the soup wasn't as good as last time
- i realize that i need to "calibrate" my measuring tool and document that stuff when taste testing
- like if i'm hungry vs not hungry. that would have an affect on the taste.
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