The cornbread thread yielded some great recipes, but at the bottom of that one someone suggested stew--and it would be nice if those recipes turn up in a simple search so I'm moving the discussion over here.

My stew recipe is (pardon the pun) fluid. I like the liquid the meat and veggies stew in to be flavorful, but depending on what I have around the house, it can vary. Sometimes I stew beef in soup stock (beef or chicken) or sometimes just a couple of teaspoons of bouillion crystals. I often season it with mustard (yellow, out of the bottle in the fridge) and/or Worchestershire sauce. My recipe that I originally started with says use five vegetables, but I usually only manage carrots, potatoes, parsnip (a sweet white close cousin to the carrot) and broccoli added at the last minute or it turns to mush.

Lately I've discovered the joys of lamb stew. It's a much richer and more complex flavor than beef stew. I use the recipe (more or less) from The Joy of Cooking.

And I make a very good fish stew, using orange roughy or halibut.

Take it from here--anyone have a favorite stew recipe that they think would compliment all of the recipes for cornbread? Or I could post my baking powder biscuit recipe, which I frequently make to serve with stew or soup.

SRS