St Paddy's Day Irish Beer Beef or Lamb Stew Wedding Expro

Happy St Paddy's Day to all my friends out there in Web Land and hope your St Paddy's Day is great next Sunday.  Today is a beautiful day outside I went to the flea market and bought two Olive Trees to plant and some Vegetables for dinner tonight and ordered a  dish so I can make a Spanish dish here at home with fish fish, shrimp and mussels.  Yum Yum we made it on the show last week and I'd like to have the dish to bake it in.  Tonight am making a Pork Loin's over Spanish Rice with some White Beans and sweet bread.  Yum Yum, I smell it all cooking in the kitchen, a smell that my house has to learn to live with.  I've had a busy weekend with going to the Wedding Ex pro in Aiken for a few hours and talking with the vendors and of coarse me tasting all the Delicious foods that the caterers had to serve for weddings.  Let me tell you the foods are worth buying the tickets not to mention you get to see what the brides are going to be wearing for the season.  I had so much fun eating and tasting and meeting new people in the business world around here.  I don't get out much to see the business's other then food related.  I also learned more about what they call Wedding Boot Camp's, scary! They told me at boot camp one of the things they do is to make sure that the bride fits into her wedding dress, I think I'd buy it a little bigger and close to the wedding date have it altered and that part was interesting.  They had everything you could think of to help you with your wedding all under one roof.  Any who I read in the paper today that Post-50 divorces redefine golden years.  So I hope that this trend does not keep going up for us older couples.  So i do hope the younger couples have the luck of the Irish with them when they walk down the isle.  My father was still saying to me as we were walking down the isle are you sure you want to go though with this, we could just have a great big party!  He was a real mess however we have been married for 43 years and it hasn't always been a bed of roses and it will still take work to stay together.  I've changed and his changed and we are still learning about each other.  Its a give and a take.  I asked a lady not to long ago what does it take to be married as long as you and she said, you have to give ninety-nine percent.  Well I'll say, the only big thing my hubby and I seem to have a real problem on is money, he never likes to let me have my say so on that.  Am still fighting it!.  Oh and he forgets about gifts!  Read the Book, Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.  It's so true!  Women think this is how you fix this problem and a man will have a totally different way to fix the problem. Any who, I wish each and every married couple the best of luck in this life and the only thing that is truly important is to love and be loved and know that you are loved.  Here is some good luck Irish Stew for you. Happy trails to you until we meet again.  Go like my fan page on face book, Cooking With MadJona nd Friends, watch the www.aikenstandard ASTV 95.

Beer Irish Stew Beef or Lamb

Beef Stew Meat                                    3 to 5 pounds

Oil                                                                   enough to sear the stew meat Flour                                                                ¾ cup, dust the meat with the flour Onion                                                                1 large onion, diced Garlic                                                                9 cloves, minced Beef Broth                                                         6 cups Dark Beer                                                         1 Irish Beer, your choice Salt and Pepper                                                 to taste Bay Leaves                                                        3 each Beef Bouillons  Cube                                          3 each Onion and Garlic Powder                                   2 tsp each Thyme                                                                dried, 2 tsp Rosemary                                                           dried 2 tsp Parsley                                                               dried 1 TBSP Worcestershire Sauce                                        1 TBSP Tomatoes Paste                                                   ½ of a small can Potatoes                                                              4 each, peeled and diced Carrots Hearts                                                    1 ½ cups Peas                                                                   Green peas frozen 1 ½ cups Bacon                                                                1 pound cooked crisp       Directions:   Dust the stew meat with salt, pepper, onion and garlic powders.  Then mix the flour with the stew meat.  Heat the oil in the bottom of the pan and sear meat until it is browned.  You can dry the meat before you add the spices and flour to help make it browns better.  Remove the meat and set aside.  Now Brown the onions and garlic and cook them until they brown.  Now add the meat and bouillon back into the pan.  Now add the beef broth, stir, and add the spices, bay leaves, salt and pepper, Worcestershire sauce,  tomatoes  paste, stir.  Then add the beer and all the vegetables.  Brown the bacon to crisp and mix into the stew.  Cook for about 2 and a half hours on the cook top or in the oven at 350 degrees.  Cook until the meat is tender with a fork..