Oh, the weather outside is frightful… A mixture of snow and sleet that is expected to turn to rain tonight and then form a sheet of ice.

Weather like this calls for soup – or stew.  Since I didn’t really “stew” the meat slowly for several hours, I guess this probably qualified as a thick soup.  No matter.  It was pretty good, whatever it was.

In typical fashion, it was a clean out the refrigerator meal.  Or, in this case, freezer.  I had bits and pieces, and odds and ends of veggies that needed using up, and they all went into the pot along with some stew beef, carrots, leeks, celery, fresh green beans, potatoes… and some French herbs and thickened with a beurre manié (butter and flour.)

We had some warm, crusty French bread for sopping up the gravy…

‘Cmon, cold weather…  I have a LOT more soup and stew ideas…