Bachelor Recipe #5

One Hour Stew

This recipe is advanced - so advanced that if you found the rice a challenge, just skip over to my journal entry for today and open a tin of sardines for supper.
Don't use a pressure cooker unless it's yours, you bought it and you've read all the directions that came with it, (the more languages the better).

• $3.80 worth of stewing beef
• celery
• 284 ml can of tomato juice
• onions
• potatoes and carrots
• salt & pepper, worcester sauce

method:

• put a dab of oil in a big frying pan and the bottom of the pressure cooker
• turn heat up to high under the pots and sear the beef chunks, (you're using two pans because it's easier to get the heat to all the chunks in two pans).
• add the seared beef from the frying pan to the beef already in the pressure cooker.
• add chopped onion to the pot
• add a 284 ml can of tomato juice and just enough water to cover the beef & onions.

get the pressure cooker boiling and secure the top. - turn down to simmer.
Cook for 35 minutes.
Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables. Peel and cut into big chunks the potatoes and carrots. Cut the celery into small pieces. Possibly add turnips, mushrooms and tomatos too.

Let off the steam of the pressure cooker after the 35 minutes are up and cool slightly. Add vegetables , bring to steam and pressure cook another 15 minutes.
Use the spare time to bake up a batch of biscuits, corn bread, or apple crisp --- or try debugging that AppleScript one last time.

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