Hi Big Al,

I made this a couple of days ago. One of my faves:

Irish Beef and Guinness Stew

I use the leftovers to make pies using store-bought puff pastry, and we had that for dinner last night. I use a bit of ras el hanout spice mix in the stew too and I always add carrots and orange sweet potato (aka kumera) chunks, slow cook it for about three hours. Yum!

My other favourite stews are beef and prunes, or lamb and apricot which are also good in pies.

For chicken, one of my faves is paprika chicken although I don't add tomato paste to mine. I don't add other vegetables to the cooking. I serve them on the side because the taste of the dish is so good and simple and I don't want to muddle it up with other flavours.