witches brew

Dear Anais,
You have by now returned to Colorado without me. But while you were here we made this delicious dish together; witches brew. I found this recipe on another blog- The art of manliness. I love this blog! If you are a fella, you must get thee to it. But I digress, this recipe was posted there. Nearly all the recipes required sausage bacon or ground beef (and this one was no exception) but you could easily modify this a million different ways for low fat or vegetarian tastes. I think you could even add greens to it and it would taste delish. Maybe the title itself implies throwing whatever the witch has on hand in the pot? We gobbled up this simple dish in two days, and I only modified it slightly (my mods are in red text).

Witches Brew

1 package precooked bacon
1 pound grass fed beef
1 cup diced celery
1 cup diced onion
1 large can 28 oz tomatoes
1 large can kidney beans
1 can mushrooms, undrained
1 bag egg noodles dumpling
3 gloves garlic minced

My instructions are a little more involved that the manly ones given of brown beef, drain fat, throw all in the dutch oven at 350 oven for one hour. I recommend thus; crisp bacon in microwave oven per package instructions, set aside to cool. Brown the ground beef in a skillet take some of the reserve fat and use it to saute the onions garlic and celery. When they are translucent throw everything in the pot and let simmer for a half hour or as long as you can go without the delicious aroma killing you! While the cauldron bubbles, cook the bag of egg noodles. Serve over the noodles-YUM!

Notes: You can make endless variations with this dish, but some starters might be with ground pork, white beans, and some collard greens? Or even you could go all veg with some boca crumbles, bacon bits/smoke flavor and black beans? How about ground chicken , cannelini beans, some spinach and ditalini for a fantastic fagioli? Now you and Daddy can eat this at least once a week...I think you could even do it up in the crock pot!