I had a dream last night that seemed fairly long and involved. I was stage managing Lady Day at The Emerson Bar and Grill. You came in to give me sound cues. For some reason I didn't have a prep week and was also laying out the floor. I was doing it from memory from the show with Karole Foreman. Charlayne was there. It was the first day of rehearsal! Daniel Sullivan was directing but he wouldn't be there for two weeks so Charlayne and I were starting without him. (This actually happened on another show. I didn't remember that in the dream.) Because I had an old floor plan the door to backstage was set at centerstage and looked like the front door of the club. Charlayne wanted the door to be really ornate. Wooden with curly cues. It suddenly occurred to me that the door needed to be a door to backstage. Oh yeah! We both remembered it was off-centered. To the SL. We talked about a door again and you said.. "Hey, hey, hey! I'm right here." Oh yeah! In my dream you were also the Set Designer. (Sorry Ed Haynes) You helped us fix the problem. See! Jobs where none seem to exist! (My mind.)
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Steak Stew.
Okay.. This is all about things in my fridge. I have a very complete stew recipe. This isn't it.
Ingredients:
1. Steak you think is too cheap and too tough to eat as a piece of steak. Maybe 1.5 lbs?
2. A medium onion.
3. 4-5 cloves of garlic.
4. garlic powder.
5. 5 Bay leaves.
6. 1 Can (or more) of tomatoes. (NOT stewed, NOT flavored.)
7. 2-3 cups of water.
8. 1 cup of frozen farm style hash browns.
9. 2 large Russet potatoes.
10. About a pound of cut up carrots.
11. One bunch of celery.
12. Some pearl onions. (I had some in my freezer.)
13. Maybe some canned mushrooms you have in your pantry?
14. Two dashes of Allspice.
15. Paprika
16. Pepper
17. Sugar 1/2 tsp.
18. NOTE: you don't really need salt in this recipe. There is plenty in the canned mushrooms and the canned tomatoes.
19. About a tablespoon of lemon juice.
20. About 2 tablespoons of Lee and Perrins' Worchester sauce..More to taste.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Slightly freeze the steak. It makes it easier to cut.
2. Cut up the steak. Cut off as much fat as you can. I hate fat.
3. Spray cooking spray on the bottom of a Dutch Oven and add meat.
4. Cook until it just starts to turn brown. Add one sliced medium onion.
6. Once meat is browned add canned tomatoes. (I only had one can so I added 2 cans of water too.)
7. Simmer for 1/2 hour. Add about 12 ounces of cherry tomatoes. (Again.. what I had in the house.. Add whatever tomatoes you have! I cut them in half.
Some pics to help:
A. Cut the meat into smaller pieces and brown. Add at least 1/2 the onion.
Meat with most of the onions browning.
Ick.
I found some mushrooms in my pantry! Yay! Added them with the pearl onions.
I threw in some celery leaves to add flavor.
Here are the onions and mushrooms.
Some flowers and a bit of vodka. (I have to drink it in a plastic glass because I've broken at least 3 glasses in the last month! Yikes!)
Okay.. This is all about things in my fridge. I have a very complete stew recipe. This isn't it.
Ingredients:
1. Steak you think is too cheap and too tough to eat as a piece of steak. Maybe 1.5 lbs?
2. A medium onion.
3. 4-5 cloves of garlic.
4. garlic powder.
5. 5 Bay leaves.
6. 1 Can (or more) of tomatoes. (NOT stewed, NOT flavored.)
7. 2-3 cups of water.
8. 1 cup of frozen farm style hash browns.
9. 2 large Russet potatoes.
10. About a pound of cut up carrots.
11. One bunch of celery.
12. Some pearl onions. (I had some in my freezer.)
13. Maybe some canned mushrooms you have in your pantry?
14. Two dashes of Allspice.
15. Paprika
16. Pepper
17. Sugar 1/2 tsp.
18. NOTE: you don't really need salt in this recipe. There is plenty in the canned mushrooms and the canned tomatoes.
19. About a tablespoon of lemon juice.
20. About 2 tablespoons of Lee and Perrins' Worchester sauce..More to taste.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Slightly freeze the steak. It makes it easier to cut.
2. Cut up the steak. Cut off as much fat as you can. I hate fat.
3. Spray cooking spray on the bottom of a Dutch Oven and add meat.
4. Cook until it just starts to turn brown. Add one sliced medium onion.
6. Once meat is browned add canned tomatoes. (I only had one can so I added 2 cans of water too.)
7. Simmer for 1/2 hour. Add about 12 ounces of cherry tomatoes. (Again.. what I had in the house.. Add whatever tomatoes you have! I cut them in half.
Some pics to help:
A. Cut the meat into smaller pieces and brown. Add at least 1/2 the onion.
Meat with most of the onions browning.
Make sure you've cut off most of the fat:
Ick.
When meat is mostly browned drain any excess fat and add a can of tomatoes.. and 1-2 cans of water.
Let it stew for about 1/2 an hour.
Add garlic, 3-4-5 bay leaves.. sugar, paprika, allspice, pepper, garlic powder, garlic, worschester sauce, lemon juice..
Add 1 potato peeled or .. as I did.. add a cup of shredded potatoes I had in my freezer.
Stew on simmer for 1 hour.
Cut up 2 potatoes. (Again.. what I had in my house.)
Cut off any dark pieces! Cut into maybe 3-4 equal pieces per potato.
Add potatoes to stew.
Cook for another hour... on LOW simmer.
Cut up about a pound of carrots. (I had those baby carrots in the fridge. I cut them in half)
Cook another 45 min.
Add a bit more onion and fresh tomatoes...
I found some mushrooms in my pantry! Yay! Added them with the pearl onions.
I threw in some celery leaves to add flavor.
Take this bread out of the freezer. (Of course you are just like me and have a ton of Arabic Bread in the freezer?!?)
Here are the onions and mushrooms.
In the last 30 minutes add the cut up celery.
The nice thing about stew is that you can clean up as you cook!
It is important to keep your stamina up!
Some flowers and a bit of vodka. (I have to drink it in a plastic glass because I've broken at least 3 glasses in the last month! Yikes!)
Enjoy my dear friends~~~
Yay.. STEW.
(It was great.)
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