Beef Bourguignon

I hear so many people talk about this dish, especially since the film "Julie & Julia" and Julia Child's beef bourguignon recipe. I only had this dish once in my life, and I remembered not thinking it was all that great, but I wanted to give it a go myself in case that one time was caused by a cooking slip-up.

Beef bourguignon has a lot of precise steps and takes many hours, although not all recipes agree on these details. But I was lazy and considering much of the cooking time is just sitting in a pot and simmering, I didn't see why people didn't use a slow cooker on this dish.

So I cooked the bacon to get the fat, seared the beef in the fat, then stuck everything and a whole bottle of wine in the slow cooker.



The stew came out more soupy than I would have hoped, but I don't think that has anything to do with my method of cooking. Perhaps I put too much liquid in the pot? In either case, it was absolutely delicious. The wine flavor worked really well with the bay leaves, thyme, and parsley and everything blended together into a really awesome taste. So even though it didn't come out in to a creamy stew like it should have, it came out very well, I think.

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