Stews
Stew recipes
Ditalini’s Chicken & Dumplings
What made this dish special was Ditalini’s home-made chicken stock, so I’ll include both recipes here.
Christmas Eve Seafood 2010
We’ve always trimmed our tree on Christmas Eve. During our first overseas posting in the early 1980s, we started inviting single friends over to help us hang the decorations. Even though we’re settled down in Tucson now, we still invite…
Crouton’s Easy Gumbo
Gumbo’s hard, right? Not if you use a package roux/gumbo base — then all you have to do is doctor it up. Cajun Crouton is way into easy! Notes Serve in bowls over rice with good crusty bread on the…
Hillbilly Tex/Mex?
I’m cooking a pot of chili con carne this morning, using what’s left of my smoked beef brisket from two weekends ago and a bottle of Shiner Bock Ditalini left in the back of the fridge. Sure, it’ll have a…
Crouton’s Green Chile Stew
Three summers ago I delivered fancy motorhomes for a Tucson RV dealership. We’d frequently drive new motorhomes across the state line into New Mexico so that customers could take title there and avoid Arizona taxes. Whenever we did, we’d always…
Crouton’s Chili con Carne
Over the years I’ve tried chili recipe after chili recipe. This is the one I finally settled on. Notes Chili con carne purists eschew beans. I like them. Here are two compromises for bean lovers: The easy way: add canned…
Crouton’s Easy Beef Stew
This is a simple one-dish stew you can prepare in the afternoon and serve for supper. Notes Any kind of stew meat will do for this recipe, as long as you trim off the fat & gristle. For tough meats, increase…