#smokeyes

[vieramars]

Aroallo Gertrude Robinson/Agnes Montague

[aminscat-blog]

Smoking and relax in your world 💚

[kcrossvine-art]

Heya folks n friends! Today on our LotR cooking series, we're going to be making something inspired by Mrs. Maggot, wife of Farmer Maggot. Originally we were going to do a cream of mushroom soup, but the idea of adding meat as a cheeky lil joke on their last names was too good to pass up. In my mind meat goes better with thin soups than creamy ones.

And thus Mrs. Maggots Meat 'N Mush Stew was born.

(As always you can find the cooking instructions and full ingredient list under the break-)

MY NAMES CROSS NOW LETS COOK LIKE ANIMALS

SO, “what goes in to Mrs. Maggots Meat 'N Mush Stew?” YOU MIGHT ASKFor the stew portion itself we're going to be using a hearty base, aiming for a layering of flavors. If you feel comfortable making a roux, feel free to do so, but I did not due to energy levels and thus the flour in this recipe is only used for searing the meat before its added to the pot.

Cubed beef

Flour

Peanut oil

Beef stock

Dried porcini mushrooms

Carrots, chopped

Onion, diced

Garlic, crushed

Scallion, chopped

Bay leaf

Salt and pepper

Ground red pepper

Cumin

Zatarins gumbo file

For the other mushrooms, were going to cook them separate and throw them in at the end (but they'll have friends to keep them company!!).

Cremini mushrooms, sliced

Half an onion

Carrots

Garlic

Salt and pepper

Thyme

Olive oil

This took about 4 hours in total. If you have a slow cooker itd probably be easier to use that, but as is isn't too bad either. I mostly worked on commission stuff in the kitchen in-between stirring. "The best food is the one you don't have to make, the second best food is the one you don't have to think while making."

AND, “what does Mrs. Maggots Meat 'N Mush Stew taste like?” YOU MIGHT ASK

HOT HOT HOT

Tastes like walking from the cold into the cramped but cozy bar your friend works at

Meat was so tender and juicy, melts in your mouth. Makes you cry

It wanst actually carmelization but the onions had a hint of tasting caramelized

Mushrooms- a strong umami flavor with a bit of smokeyness

Once you get that Perfect level of gumbo file, it just makes every other element stick out more

Like an energy booster for the ingredients

A spotlight on the bay leaf, and oils, and spices

. If you don't want to use beef, feel free to use vegetable stock instead and replace the cubes with strips of king oyster mushrooms. Exclude the flour but still cook them in the pan. . this isnt officially part of the recipe since im not sure itd be 'on theme', but feel free to start your rice cooker around the 3 hour mark so you can have some hot rice ready for serving as filler.

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When I was looking through food and food mentions in LotR, Mrs.Maggot just stook out to me. 'Queen amongst farmers wives' is both really sweet and a fuckin killer description. What a legend. I wanted to do something based on her and our two options were either beer, bacon or raw mushrooms. Beer while very appealing is also not something you can whip up in a day, while raw mushrooms have a chance of killing my beloved readers. I don't want to talk about me and bacons sordid past.

And so as praise to this funky farmer women, may you add this stew to your collection of potpie, lasagna, and roast recipes.

Did i mention i started my first grease fire when making this? Yeah. Don't cover any empty greased pan even if your intent is to keep water from splashing into it.

Anyway, this recipe is a solid 10/10 (with 1 being food that makes one physically sick and 10 being food that gives one a lust for life again.) The partner has already made me pledge to cook it again hehehe

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Ingredients:

2 lbs cubed beef

A little bit of flour to 'tumble' the meat in, in a bowl

Peanut oil to sear the beef, as needed

3 kilograms beef stock

28g dried porcini mushrooms

4 carrots, chopped

1 white onion, diced

4 cloves garlic, crushed

1 scallion branch, chopped

Salt and pepper to taste

Ground red pepper to taste

Cumin to taste

3 bay leafs

A pinch of Zatarins gumbo file

Ingredients… . . TWO:

1 lb cremini mushrooms

Half of a white onion, diced

1 carrot, chopped

2 cloves garlic, crushed

Salt, pepper, and thyme to taste

Olive oil as needed to pan-fry

Method:

Put the porcini mushrooms into a bowl, add enough warm water to cover. Give them roughly 20 minutes, or until softened and the waters turned color.

Cut the carrots, onion, and garlic.

Get a large pot with a lid, pour in your stock (or water and bouillon cubes). Pour in the porcinis and the mushroom water. Turn the burner to medium-high.

Add your bay leaves, carrots, onion, and garlic to the pot. Add extra salt if you'd like.

Tenderize and cut your beef into roughly 1 inch cubes.

In a small bowl, pour a handful of flour along with pepper, cumin, and ground red pepper. Mix until combined.

Lightly toss each cube of beef in the mixture, get a little coverage on each side.

Heat a frying pan to medium heat and add peanut oil. If using an electric stovetop it will take time to heat up.

Add some of your beef cubes to the pan, don't overcrowd it. Flip to check sides are a light brown with dark brown edges, its good for some pink/red to poke through.

Add beef cubes to the pot when done, careful of splashing.

Keep doing this in batches until all beef cubes are added. 

 Once the pot has reached a simmer, turn the heat down a few notches and cover.

Set a timer for 4 hours. Taste test every so often. Aim to stir the pot every 10-15 minutes.

(You can do steps 14-21 immediately or optionally wait a bit)

 Rinse and dry your cremini mushrooms.

Slice them vertically. Cut the carrots, onion, and garlic.

In a frying pan on medium-low heat, add olive oil, carrots, and onion. Keep the vegetables moving! When they start to change texture, add your cremini mushrooms.

Bring the pan up to medium heat. 

Once your mushrooms have cooked off the liquid inside, theyll start turning a deeper brown. Add the garlic. Keep! the! vegetables! Moving!

If the pan gets overcrowded, take some out and set it aside in a bowl. Smaller batches.

This process took roughly 15 minutes, but youll know its done once everything has a nice sear on it and the garlic is brown but not burnt. Add salt, pepper, and thyme to taste.

Set everything aside in a bowl.

Once the 4 hours are up the meat should be cooked all the way through and tender enough to pull apart. Strain the bay leaves out. Cut and add scallions. Add the bowl with cremini mushrooms.

Add a pinch of gumbo file to start, stir and taste test.

[grox]

I cried when I took a bite of this cornbread cookie thats how fucking good it is like, delectable brown crust around it, soft, buttery, deep flavor, with small amounts of texas mesquite honey up top to add a slight smokeyness. Actually insane

[irisopranta]

3 for the soft prompts!!

((Breathing in your partner's scent while hugging them))

The Manufactory has been going full steam as of late. So busy that even Stephanivien has been more hands on. After finishing work for the day, he arrived at Iris' home. She didn't seem to be around. She must be out shopping he thought. He figured the best thing he can do for now was clean himself up.

Sometime later, Iris returned to her home. She was greeted was freshly washed Stephanivien. She gave him a hug. She pick up a scent of some smokeyness. Probably from his work at the manufactory. However, she was picking up another scent. Something more woodsy. Like a cedar or maybe a teak.

"Do you like it? I figured that you might preferred it over the smokey and grease smells." he smirked. Iris just hugged him tighter. She took a deeper breath to smell him a bit more. He took that as a yes. He lifted her chin and went in for a kiss. She return it in kind.

Thanks for the ask @bnuuywol

want to hear more stories about my ship. Send me a Non Verbal Love You Prompt

[puppy95]

The smokeyness outside giving me a headache 🙄

[silvertongued-trickster]

it was the morning of the wedding so, of course, loki was dressed accordingly.

in this instance, she wore a deep, emerald green dress — a rich fabric that seemed to fit her form perfectly, soft and flowing yet hugging in all the right places. backless, of course, after all she had been invited along to make a statement, hadn't she? the bodice was embellished with gold detaling that exactly matched the gold of her jewellery, and the metalic shimmer that accentuate the intense smokeyness of her eyes. truly, the god was making an effort.

norns knows why she'd even agreed to this... but here she was, ready to attend the wedding of stephen strange's ex girlfriend, as his ' date '.

it was certainly going to be an interesting day.

appearing in the sanctum with a wash of green magic, the trickster leant against the wall as she regarded the sorcerer in question with a quirked brow — watching as he fixed his suit.

~ ❝ you know, I was half-expecting the cape. ❞ she teased.

@dutystricken — plotted starter.

[le-trash-prince]

Yunnan Sourcing’s Nannuo Mountain Guan Zi Zai 2017

I tried this today and did not enjoy it as much as the two teas from Wu Liang Shan. While I’ve read that smokeyness can be a defect in puer teas, this one was listed as light smoke, so I think that is intended here. However, the smokeyness was a little overpowering to me and drowned out the complexity of the tea. I do enjoy some smoked teas, but this is one I would probably need to do a lot of experimenting with to get it more to my taste, and even then I don’t think I would drink very much of it.

[zaelcoffee]

I got these beans from Halo's stall at Square One's Food District but they also have cafes all over the GTA.

These beans smell really good right out of the bag. They describe the flavor as molasses and cocao butter.

I can kind of taste a dark chocolate but I am not getting any sweetness but perhaps there is a bit of smokeyness that could be seen as molasses if you squint real hard. Overall it's a very solid cup of coffee. If I have one quibble it does get some sour notes if you let it sit too long but it never gets to the point of being undrinkable like some other coffees I have tried.

[chelleztjs18]

Hello you Mrs. allergic to pine tree so now she is sneezing and probably a dying eyebag 😅

That's horrible though, are you just taking allergy meds and suffer through it? Besides the wheezing, how was your day?

My day was okay, went out to get some stuff for the new place, and now just relaxing while watching anime. I love the smell of fresh baked cookies. I may go out again tomorrow to get some, Christmas time always puts me in the mood to bake lol

Ah I see. So do you think you think you guys will move again in the future? Nice, how many magnets do you guys have now?

Yeah, my uncle lives in LA and I want to visit him just so I can also scope out places that she might hang out at. I told him, that if he ever sees her, to get an autograph for me, and he goes, who is that.

I was at the store and was looking at the wrong kind of chocolate! I did find the Lindt Lindor one, in a mix container with the red and yellow and blue. Hahahaha but then again I was at World Cost Plus Market. I found the chocolate I want you to try, but I don't know how to add a picture on here. 🤔 I love Ferrero rocher too, but the original one.

You've probably heard this one. A man walks into a zoo, the only animal he sees in the entire zoo is a dog. Its a shitzu. 🤣🤣🤣

Would you rather have xray vision or have the power to be invisible?

-CuriousGeorge

Hello hello you! Hahaha dying eyebag 😅🤣 yes i was...lol. that's a good one.

Sorry for didnt reply, i got busy then at 11 pm i was gonna reply but my bestfriend from arizona called me and we talked n talked. N we lost track of time, when i was done n was gonna reply u, i saw the time n it was alreasy 3.40 am 😅 so i thought it would be too late n u were probably asleep.

I was coughing, eyes were watery n itch on my eyes. The night before was worse i coughed so bad that i almost threw up. So i been takinf my medicine n suffer through it so em can have her christmas tree 😁 my husband was gonna take it out but i said no so it stayed. 😅

Oh what stuff did u get and new place? R u moving or something? That sounds nice of relaxing night. Too bad i dont watch anime, i would probably watch a movie or modern family.haha.

Haha yeah christmas always make u wanna bake.. i love the smell of baking baked stuff.. what r u planning to bake? Maybe a pie?

I remember last year we tried to make a smoked chocolate chip pecan pie. We smoked the pie, so when u eat it, u will smell n taste the smokeyness n it was pretty good.

Haha i know which one u meant, it's the assortment one.. if u want to show me maybe u can google it n send me the link in the next ask. I think u cant attach the pict if u send the ask anonymously. Unless u r ready to send the ask off anon 😅 but i will still call u curious george anon. Hahaha.

Oh yeah forrero rocher is good too, i love them. But when i say they have the dark chocolate ones, i fell ij love with those round balls of goodness.hahahha.

Lol thats a good joke. Shitzu 😅🤣 my dog in indonesia would probably gave me a look because i laughed at his breed. Lol.

Hmm i would pick being invisible even though i will probably not ready for the bad or shit people say behind my if i wasnt around 😅🤣 jk. What about u?

Next question! 😅

Cheerio!

[creativitycache]

Gertrude, avatar of Beholding, who spends her time bringing about desolation to her enemies

Agnes, avatar of Desolation, who spends her time quietly looking out the window or watching flickering flames of other people’s misery she did not cause

[marlenesteyn]

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[sensitivesoulwarriorspirit]

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[memo-schmage]

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[cannacatwalk]

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