Round Steak Caserole

I haven't update for a bit. So I'm going to start counting things with soup in them! Horaay!
Anyway.. round steak casserole..
I wasn't terribly familiar with it before I made it.. I had a ton of london broil and no more dehydrator.. so i was a bit desperate to do whatever i could to use it while I still could, as i'd frozen it much earlier in the year (I pulled the rest and made a carolina style bbq sauce for it, if you were wondering.)

ingredients

London broil, or any Round cut.
flour
oil
can of Campbell's tomato soup
Italian triad - onions, carrots, celery
mashed potatoes

cube the steak, flour it and brown it in the oil, put in casserole dish

diced the onions, fine diced the celery, rough chopped the carrot
sweat the triad in some oil, time dependent on the different vegetables
mix into meat

pour in Campbell's tomato, thin it out a bit - not too much though.. since it's not going to get thicker..

mix it all up and cover with mashed potatoes like a hamburger pie, etc.
bake it.. I think i did 375? not 100% on how long though..

obviously didn't hold together the best it could.. but i was pretty happy with it..

it went over rather well.. I'm actually going to keep this in the back of my mind for the future..

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Beef Stew

For real this time!

Lean, boneless stew beef, cut in small pieces
Potatoes, sliced
Carrots, sliced
Green beans, cut n trimmed
Onion, chopped
MBT, or whatever bullion/stock/broth you want - not in the mood for the cream of mushroom/cream of celery/tomato soup blend. Also not in the mood for the seasoning game..

Toss it all in the crock pot and go do something else..
(I also can't wait to get MY crockpot back out..)
Come back later and find:

Starch from the potato really thickens it enough that you don't need a flour slurry or anything..

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Panera Fronion

So a few weeks ago I hit up Panera with Darrin - no surprise there. As usual I got the you-pick-two.. went with the Fuji Apple Chicken Salad and the French Onion Soup.

This..

Is the picture I managed to take with his phone - as mine was dead..
I rrrrrrrrrrreally need to move, and unpack the camera already...

as per usual.. The feasting had already commenced when I had the clarity of mind to realize I needed a photo for this..

Luckily, someone else had the foresight. 

Aaaand someone's interpretation.

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Miso

So I recently went out for some sushi with Stacy, and part of the lunch special included a bowl of miso soup. For some reason I always forget to snap a photo before I start devouring... and miso was no exception.

It had a very good flavor - a white (shiromiso) broth, pieces of tofu, scallions, and seaweed/wakame.

For anyone concerned, the name of the restaurant is Kaze in Roseland, NJ.. a nice, typical sushi cafe - I would recommend going.

I've decided to put the corresponding Wikipedia article in my posts, to make up for my lack of facts/info in these posts..

Should be in the house soon - then my projects can resume!

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