beef and pearl barley stew
Posted by: Andrew Brown on: 24 November, 2006
This is just in case you think that I’m the only one doing any cooking in our house. My partner is an excellent cook and its only recently that I’ve got anywhere near her skill.
This combination of stew and sweet potato worked very well together.
9 Responses to "beef and pearl barley stew"
24 November, 2006 at 10:05 am
You really ought to try sweet potato, very easy to do and lovely. It has the sweetness of butternut squash and (obviously) the consistency of potato.
Yes, I’m trying to do my fair share of the cooking now I’m at home more nights (and work from home 2 days a week at the moment). Having only 2 kids to put to bed makes it easier and we usually have that done by 7:30/8 o’clock.
I guess it would be easy to fall back on pre-cooked stuff, and we’ve eaten our share of that, but its never as nice as the stuff you cook for yourself.
24 November, 2006 at 2:10 pm
i love cooking from scratch when i have time, but stick to what i know the kids will eat. and i havent tried butternut squash either. is that bad?
24 November, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Well only if you don’t do something about it!
Know what you mean about cooking what the kids like. We swing wildly between doing the tried and tested and trying not to have to make separate meals for the children. Sometimes they surprise us and thats always great. Of course when it doesn’t work there’s hell to pay.
24 November, 2006 at 10:37 pm
I must try that one day, to make a change from spuds.
Kate shouldn’t worry, I lived in lewisham for about 12 years and I don’t think I ever had sweet potato. (Plenty of yam, fried plantain and palm oil though).
Do you cook sweet potatoes like normal ones?
25 November, 2006 at 9:12 am
We roast them for about the same amount of time as you would a normal roast potato. Haven’t boiled them so don’t know if that works.
2 February, 2007 at 4:14 pm
boiling them, I tend not to work to times, just peel, chop and boil until tender (or the texture you want). you can then add some butter and make sweet potato mash if yoo want (delicious with spicy lamb topped with mozzarella).
8 January, 2009 at 4:26 pm
sweet potato is excellent. i have had trouble getting my daughter to eat potato but we did sweet potato mash which we told her was carrots (which she does eat) and she tried it and loved it. sweet potato is lovely with fish also, but mind you dont have everything too orange! i did salmon and carrots and sweet potato as these are all things my two year old will eat… very boring looking meal but tasted delilcious.
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24 November, 2006 at 9:15 am
am i the only person in lewisham who has never eaten sweet potato? and do you really cook? i think you must have the secret to a 36 hour day i dont know how you fit everything in.