Ending and Beginning

I don’t know as I’ve heard of “Chicken Stew” very often, but what I made for dinner tonight is well-descibed by that name. It came out really good!

I cooked it all on the woodstove in my new 7 quart Dutch Oven.

Ingredients:
8 Carrots, peeled and chopped not too thin
5 Large Potatoes, peeled and cut into 3/4″ cubes (I’m starting to peel potatoes more than I used to because of the solanin thing — the potatoes we get at the store are almost always green under the skin)
2 Large onions, cut up (from garden)
1/2 C Rice
2 Large Chicken breasts
1/4 C vegetable oil
1 14-oz can Chicken broth (no msg, didn’t seem to have a lot of salt in it)
A few pieces of dried red pepper from last year’s garden (might be more down in the basement)
1 C of dried tomatoes (from garden?)
1 1/2 C water
1 Bay leaf
Salt, Pepper, Thyme.

Put first carrots, then potatoes, then onions, peppers and tomatoes, then chicken, then everything else except spices in the pot, covered it and put it on a hot part of the woodstove for 2-3 hours, then moved it off to a cooler spot for another hour or so. Added salt, pepper, thyme just before serving.

Should have used more chicken — could have fit a whole chicken in that pan, and although it was enough for dinner, could have used more for the leftovers.

I didn’t add the rice until it had already been on the stove for a while. Should have added it early, and low down so it would be in the water more — it was cooked, but still had a bit of a crunch to it.

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