So I was confronted tonight with (1) a need to make dinner, (2) a need to make it from Wot There Wos, and (3) no idea what to make.
So I made stoo. Pound and a half of chopped chuck roast, some boiling potatoes, some baby carrots, a small onion, a couple of small beets. Sauté the beef and the potatoes to brown, make a medium roux in the kettle, whisk in some stock (to avoid lumps, of course), dump in the beef and potatoes, dump in the carrots, slice and dump in the onion, peel, slice, and dump in the beets. Add a little tomato paste for colour and a few herbs, and simmer for an hour or so. What you end up with is stoo.
‘It’s stoo,’ said the dwarf
‘What kind of stew?’
‘There ain’t more’n one kind. That’s why it’s stoo,’ snapped the dwarf. ‘Stoo’s stoo.’
— Moving Pictures
