Recipe of the Week: Scotch Irish Stew

Recipe of the Week: Scotch Irish Stew




Ingredients:
　
2 pounds extra-lean stew meat, cut into bite-sized pieces
2 small pieces bacon, finely chopped
8 small brown cooking onions, peeled and cut in half (leave in halves, not separated)
8 to 12 small white and/or red potatoes
2 large carrots, thinly sliced
1 large parsnip, thinly sliced
2 big packages mushrooms, sliced (try assorted mushrooms for interest)
1 12-ounce bottle Guinness Stout
As much non-fat beef broth as necessary to fill a crock pot
Black pepper, to taste

Instructions:

Brown the stew meat and bacon in a frying pan, using PAM if possible.
Put in the bottom of a crock pot. Add three or four grinds of black pepper. Layer in the veggies. Add the Guinness first, and then the beef broth.
Set on high and cook for 4 or 5 hours. Then turn on low until serving time.
Serve with good, fresh bread. To be authentic, serve with a good brown bread, but this also goes well with sourdough, olive oil/rosemary, marble rye, or pumpernickel bread.
As a variation, try serving with rice or noodles.