Stew!

It's been a while since I've made any posts here and honestly, I haven't been much in the kitchen lately. I was supposed to make biscuits for Valentine's Day and make a post about it here but I never got around to it as I was sitting behind the sewing machine all day. It's okay, the boyfriend didn't mind.

I also never posted the pineapple biscuit or peanut biscuits that I made for Chinese New Year but oh well! Today I bring you stew!

I went out to the shops and got some ingredients to make a tomato based stew because for some reason, that's what I felt like eating. I also had the tastiest stew at my boyfriend's house the other night so I was craving for more.

So this recipe started with two 800g cans of diced tomato, two capsicums, an eggplant, three zucchini, an onion, a lot of garlic, a bottle of sundried tomato pesto and some lamb. Not in that image that I also used was some EVOO, salt, pepper and flour.

All I did was coat the lamb in salt, pepper and flour and dice up all the vegetables. Then I browned the lamb in the EVOO and removed it from the pot. Cooked the garlic with the onion until it was all softened and then put everything into the pot and cooked it for a while before I decided to stick it all into an oven proof dish and put it in the oven. At this point I had seasoned the pot with salt, pepper and some sugar.

The main reasoning for the oven is because I didn't want to stand there watching over it and stirring it every so often, I wanted to go to my room and sew. So I put everything in the oven for two and a half hours, stirring every half an hour.

After that was done, it hadn't reduced as much as I wanted to so I returned it back onto the stove for a while until it thickened. And then served over rice.

This amount makes you a REALLY BIG pot that you'll be able to eat for a week. :3

And is so very very tasty! But if you're sharing with other people you might be fighting over the meat.  ;)