A Yummy, Rustic French Ragout I Cooked Last Night (pic)

I post this a little in part because, though I have lied about this somewhat because I've been ashamed, but I've lived without a kitchen at all for for the past 5 years. No sink to do dishes in, no floor, no counter tops, no stove...nada but a fridge and a microwave sitting on a chair in the corner. And my house is certainly nice enough...to have a kitchen. I ripped it all out, everything to the bare wiring, (which I replaced), and then was unhappy at how I rebuilt the downstairs back bathroom. I was stuck.

But it was good stuck because this guaranteed that I would not marry again....women went crazy with me washing wine glasses and what not in the bathroom....lol....what the hell, I'm a simple guy. It was also good because...I am a pretty decent cook and eating out every night...was fun, was social....I liked it. However, I again have a really stunningly beautiful kitchen, (but cheaply bought....though my sink alone was $700.00....still, with Palestinian labor (true story...see me in the Occupied Territories at Christmas), and Chinese granite, this was done very, very reasonably. In any case, I am eating way too much....having way too much fun.

A Ragout can be almost anything...from an 18th Century English Recipe:

An eighteenth-century English dish from The Compleat Housewife[1] show some of the varying meats, vegetables, seasonings, garnishes and procedures which can be applied to the ragoût.

A Ragoo for made Dishes
TAKE claret, gravy, sweet-herbs, and savoury spice, toss up in it lamb-stones,[2] cock's-combs, boiled, blanched, and sliced, with sliced sweet-meats, oysters, mushrooms, truffles, and murrels; thicken these with brown butter; use it when called for.

(I love her throwing cock's-combs in the mix...lol)

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