Stewed tomatoes…

[chupathingie]

…chopped garlic, onions, mushrooms, tomato paste, beef broth, ro-tel, sweet corn, black beans and 2lbs of tender stew beef in a crockpot…

Sunday dinner, my wife is having a nap and I didn’t want to drool alone.

[Barracuda]

YUM.

[linguine]

Can I come over for dinner?

[ravnostic]

What’s ro-tel?, and kindly quantify the remaining ingredients please.

[chupathingie]

ro-tel is diced tomatoes with chilis.

Quantities:
one can beef broth (normal soup can size)
large can of mushrooms, drained
2 cans of stewed tomatoes (~14oz each)
large can of tomato paste (~16oz)
small can of ro-tel (or larger, if you like things spicy)
large can of black beans (about twice the size of a soup can, drained and rinsed)
2 packages of frozen super-sweet corn (total of 24oz)

Toss all that into the crock pot and set to high. Slice up a whole head of garlic (I love garlic) and half a purple onion and brown in olive oil with pepper. Add stew beef (and maybe a little cheap whiskey) and brown til done outside and rare inside with more pepper, add to crock pot. After a couple hours boil up a cup or 2 of elbow macaroni, drain and add to crock pot. Feeds 2 people for about 4 dinners or more. Reheats really well, my wife swears it’s better after sitting in the fridge for a day then reheated.

There are so many ways to vary this mix, and with stew beef it might cost about $15 total. It gets cheaper with ground beef, or even no meat at all. Add garlic bread or a baguette and you’re all set.

[ravnostic]

+11ty. Sounds yummy!

[lokisbong]

I don’t like stewed tomatoes but that sounds awesome! I guess I would just spoon them out of my bowl and dig in.

[orionid]

Feed me.

[CauseISaidSo]

Minus the macaroni, it sounds a lot like what my wife calls “taco soup.” And I agree with your wife; it does seem to be better the next day.

[chupathingie]

I don’t like stewed tomatoes but that sounds awesome! I guess I would just spoon them out of my bowl and dig in.

You could substitute diced tomatoes, or another can of broth, or water etc and add some other veggie as filler, I guess. I’m actually partial to okra in this stuff, but my wife hates “those drooly things”! 😆

CISO, now that I think about it, this stuff would likely be really tasty replacing the macaroni with a packet of taco seasoning…

Gotta love crock pots. Just throw whatever you have in there and in a couple hours you have food for days.

[ravnostic]

Hope it’s as good as it sounds; it’s in my crockpot this very minute, and in a few hours, I’ll be chowing down…

[chupathingie]

kill the heat as soon as the meat gets to “that point”.

I just had a big ol’ bowl with a fist-sized chunk of buttered baguette. I’m gonna be voracious on it for 3-4 days… there’s a reason I only do this like once a month, after a week you’re craving some variety. All I need is maybe 1/2 a dozen other weeks-worth recipes and I could prolly do dinner for 2 for a month on about $100 and still have steaks a couple times.

[chupathingie]

Here’s tomorrow’s lunch, just because…

[ravnostic]

Delicious don’ even begin to descrip. Nom nom!!

[fluffybunny]

That is one good lookin’ sammich.

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