Caitriona Redmond: This beef stew recipe can be bulked up with veggies
This week I have a beef stew recipe which uses broccoli and carrots which can be bulked up to a second meal by doubling the vegetables and adding some chickpeas.
It's frustrating when you buy fresh ingredients and find that they just aren’t lasting as long as you’d expect. It’s been happening to me more often recently. If I’ve been shopping on a Monday, I don’t expect a pepper to be soggy and borderline fuzzy by Wednesday. Unfortunately, it’s been happening and it’s money wasted. While I can generally adapt recipes to allow for poor-quality ingredients, it needs a bit more mental juggling so I prefer to use the freshest I can get.
