If your looking for a meal that will fill you up, last for days, and tastes great even days later, try a stew. Stews are great dishes to do if you’ve got a lot of time on one day, but not a lot on the following days. If I am especially busy during the week I’ll cook up a pot of stew, it usually last a couple days so no cooking dinner, and no fast food or frozen dinners either!
Stews are simple to make, but they take time. It takes me usually two hours of cooking time to make a stew. This is because I use a tough cut of meat that requires a lot of time to break down the connective tissue and make tender. For me they are also hit or miss on the viscosity, sometimes too thick others too thin. Reducing helps drop the liquid level, but it is still usually thin. To thicken it up I usually make a roux then add the stew liquid to it to help it thicken up.
