MCF4T #MultiCulturalFood4Thoughts

Wild Goose Lemon Stew A wonderful dish for stormy nights in fall or winter, where a good stew warms you up both physically and mentally. You can serve it with rice if you keep it rather moist, or with mashed potato if you let it thicken a bit more. Whatever the way you serve it, make sure you don’t finish it by continuous tasting, as I almost felt like doing after the first spoonful of it during cooking. The different ingredients combined with the fresh meat give it different depths and a velvety and meaty feel in the mouth. Then the anis taste and the other herbs start releasing their flavours with in the end a very distant but still distinct lemon taste. To finish each spoonful, the piment d’espelette gives a warm tingling in the throat, just hot enough to make you enjoy it and wish for more. INGREDIENTS Ingredient Amount/how to Butter 50 grams Olive oil 2 ta...

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