Boeuf Bourguignon

Since I just finished reading "My Life In France" by Alex Pruhomme & Julia Child and to pay homage to my favorite movie of last year, I decided to try my hand at Boeuf or Beef Bourguignon from the "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" cookbook. It's one of Julia's most famous dishes and I wanted to try it make it.

Those that know me well know that cooking isn't something that I enjoy doing. I enjoy watching people cook, I certainly enjoy eating but cooking for the "Joy of Cooking"?

It's not that I can't cook, I can, and I'm a pretty good cook, but it's the process that I need to work on enjoying.

So, what do I do? Take on a labor intensive recipe of Julia's, but it could be worse...it could be aspic. YUCK!

Here goes -

The recipe threw me a bit right off the bat when it had me simmer bacon lardons in water.



Everything I need....


I can't even remember the last time I bought a real carrot and not a bag of baby carrot stumps.


Making sure to dry off the beef.


Into the dutch oven it goes to get a nice brown crust.


After the beef is properly browned, out it goes and in comes the onions and carrots.


Aren't they beautiful?


We can't forget the wine.


In goes the wine and beef broth and then into the oven it goes for about 3 hours.


In the meantime, I sauteed mushrooms in beef broth.


Once the mushroom were cooked, into the dutch oven then went for one last stir.


I served the Boeuf Bourguignon over egg noodles and it was a hit!


Yea Me!!!

Julia would be proud.