Love & Best Dishes: Old-Time Beef Stew Recipe

Love & Best Dishes: Old-Time Beef Stew - Today Paula’s sharin' a beef recipe with y'all, and, boy, is it delicious...Old-Time Beef Stew!
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[PaulaDeen]

We got to talkin' about whether beef stew should have tomatoes, tomato juice, or tomato paste in it. My mama never put it in, but Theresa & Eddie's mamas did. Are you team tomato or no-tomato when it comes to beef stew?

[J.A.]

I add a half a cup of regular v8 to my beef before adding the water and let it cook with the beef and onion and celery for about 8 minutes before I add my water then let it boil for 1 hour, then add my Vegetables. It does not have a strong 🍅 taste at all. It just gives it a good flavor.

[Blankenshipable]

Bless her and keep her Lord. What a wonderful lady! ❤️ She’s touched all of our hearts and homes!

[melissaivy]

My husband grew up in the south here S.C. he his southern comfort foods...and this is one of them!! I'm from NY yes I can cook good dishes for dinner but being from the north we clash it's kinda comical lol...but he loves beef stew and would love to learn your way to make a good beef stew...being from the north I flavor in my food and love a lot of your southern dishes to make for him!!! I have your cook book to!!! Love ya Paula it's wonderful to see you again and I miss your cooking show terribly!!! So thank you much for sharing this with me ✌️💜

[rhondakanderson]

I make my beef stew just like you do but I do add a can of petite diced tomatoes a can of whole kernel corn & small can of baby sweet peas. It's so Delicious with a skillet of cornbread ❣️♥️😋 I am so Thankful I found your channel ❣️ I Love watching your Videos. I have lived in Huntsville, Alabama all my life & learned to cook from my Grandmother & my Aunt's. My Daddy's Sisters & Mother. They were all Great Southern cooks. My Dear Sweet Loving Momma Knight had 11 children 7 girls & 4 boys. She had fruit trees gardens grape Vines pecan & walnut trees. They had a smoke house back when all the kids were little. She made the best jams jellies pies & homemade ice cream for us kids. If we picked the garden strawberries peaches apples pears watermelons cantaloupe. Then she would make us strawberry & peach ice cream. She had 2 picnic tables under the big pecan trees & she would cut us watermelon, & cantaloupe & make us ice cream. She had 2 ice cream makers that you had to put salt, & ice in & crank the handle until the ice cream was made. I Cherish those Memories with All my Heart. We went to her house every Sunday & every Holiday. There was Always a Delicious home cooked meal & a pie banana pudding or cake for dessert. She made home made biscuits every day of her life. She had her flour bowl & sifter she kept in a bag in a drawer. They were the best soft buttermilk biscuits I've ever eat❣️😋♥️ I can make them too but they r just not quite as good as hers❣️♥️😋 There was so much LOVE Always at her House & anyone was Welcome anytime to eat❣️♥️🥰♥️♥️I Miss her so much. She lived to be 85 yrs old. She was so Special to ALL her Family & Friends & Loved so very much ❣️♥️♥️🥰

[jenniferkennedy]

I add tomato paste in the beginning when browning meat and vegetables. It gives the sauce a richer flavor.

[madmh]

Love your basic foods. No disregard, but boarding house dishes of the 1950 were so good, and so basic. Usually a widow lady who inherited the old farm house. still children at home would open up a boarding house. When I went to work with my Dad for the week out of town, something like that would where we would stay. 1955ish. God forbid you would find more that a chicken bone in the chicken and dumplins, or a hunk of beef in the stew, but with the day long simmering with the bones, gosh that was some good. Best after a long day of working in the cold! food. Wish someone would explore the cooking of those days!

[deborahserio]

I make my moms beef stew and brown the beef first coated in flour and seasonings before adding other ingredients. Also use a beef bouillon and some kitchen bouquet at the end. Definitely no tomatoes!

[veronicajean]

Old timers used celery salt. Gives it a nice flavor. Beef bouillon cube also. Flour the beef first.Browns up much better. Flour has celery salt and pepper in it
Pearl onions also
yes cutting up the chuck roast is a must

[kaycooper]

Paula, my parents (God rest their sweet souls) were the greatest cooks. My mom loved to add V8 juice to her stews. It was her favorite and she'd taste it and say, "Slammin' good!" Lol! I'd so love to meet you someday! You are a precious soul! You made our family Thanksgiving when I found your Buttermilk pie recipe on line years ago. My step dad HAD to have one just for himself! It's been a few years since my family has had Thanksgiving since we have lost 8 beloved members and we now all live a few hundred miles apart. My baby girl is 30 and is 2000 miles away....5 yrs now. Anyway. Thank you for teaching that pie recipe because you made me popular at dessert time! Great memories♡♡♡♡

[mddell]

My mother only used a tomato 🍅 base for her delicious vegetable soup. Mom made her beef stew the way you do. 👍
Y'all have a beautiful weekend. 💝

[colleenpiechowski]

Just a heaping spoon of tomato paste stirred into the browned beef.

[TheEternalSpiral]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE beef stew! My mom and grandmothers always made the stew with tomatoes; peeled and cut into chunks.

[lmvicente]

Just FYI for people who don’t know, you can’t use HOT water when you are using corn starch because HOT water will make it thicken to fast. Just a little tip for new people who just don’t know 🥰🥰🥰

[mollybee]

My Mother made beef stew to die for. She always added gravy aid in hers to make the gravy a rich dark brown. None of us liked bay leaves so she left that out and no tomatoes. We always had homemade hot yeast rolls with ours...with lots of butter!😉

[jennifers]

I made beef stew a few days ago in my pressure cooker. I don’t use tomato in mine, but my mother always made hers tomato based.

[karenwingler]

Paula this is just how I make my beef stew!!! It’s nice to see just a simple yet filling and hearty recipe being shown. I grew up eating this and my parents did as well!

[PokeyBessie]

Delicious recipe. I have made some variations over the years. I make a beef stew once a year when I get a good sale on Chuck roast which thee days is 3.99 a pound or less. Not often I see that deal but when I do, I act! Variations: 1) I put red wine in the pot when I am searing the meat and it adds a richness to the broth. 2) I use beef broth 3) When I cut the meat and season it, I put the chopped meat in flower and add that to the pan and sear it with flower. Gives it a nice crust and thickens it! No corn starch needed. 4) I throw in some fresh thyme for flavor. 5) I also keep tomato paste tubes and squirt some of that in there for kicks and giggles. Comfort food!

[vickiepatterson]

Nothing like a big pot of beef stew! Yes we always cut up a chunk roast then would salt, pepper and flour it before browning it. We never added anything tomato. When I was growing up we only added water to simmer the meat. Today we would add some beef broth with the water. Chuck is one of the toughest meats and that's what makes it perfect for stew. It has a great flavor when cooked low and slow. I've cooked chuck roast in my pressure cooker and it turns out wonderfully tender and juicy. You can get the meat tender then add the potatoes and carrots for only 10 minutes more to be fully cooked. We usually add more seasoning when adding the veggies.
I used to use bay leaves all the time when I started cooking as a young adult. But I never seem to use them anymore. Not sure why. I must have run out one day and never bought them again.
But I agree with Paula about stew meat. You don't know what's in there. And most packages I see are way too fatty. When you cut it up yourself, you know what it is and can also control the fat.
And this is great served with fresh baked rolls! Yum 😋
Thanks for another winner!

[lovingenglishmastiffs]

LOVE THESE RECIPES!! CAN TOTALLY DEPEND ON THEM EVERY TIME!