#MEwx sun, very cold and easy Beef Stew recipe

Good morning Augusta

A direct, real-time feed from my personal weather station is available for you

here.

Today it’s going to be mostly sunny, becoming mostly cloudy. Highs around 15 with light and variable winds.

Tonight we’ll have Snow accumulating of 3 to 6 inches. Not as cold with lows around 14°F. Temperatures rising into the lower 20s after midnight. Light and variable winds,

becoming northeast around 10 mph after midnight.

The readings from my weather instruments are:

Our outdoor temperature is -0.4°F, the humidity is 56%, the Dew Point is 7.1°F and our wind chill is -0.4°F.

The wind direction is Northwest between 0.0 MPH and 0.3 MPH.  

The Relative pressure is 30.44, the Absolute pressure is 30.24, the HPA is 1034  and rising with a weather graphic indicating sun.

Visibility is 10.0 Miles with clear skies again today.

The UV rating is 1 out of 16, Sunrise is 7:10 A.M. EST, Sunset is 4:29 P.M. EST, Moonrise is 12:51 A.M. EST, Moonset is 11:49 A.M. EST and the moon phase in its last quarter.

The RAW METAR readings from Augusta’s airport are:

METAR KAUG 181253Z AUTO 00000KT 7SM CLR M18/M20 A3050 RMK AO2 SLP340 T11831200

We didn’t get any snow here over the past 24 hours.

Boy, winter has landed again with all 8 hairy legs didn’t it? Get some stew meat out of the freezer and make a big pot of this stuff. It’ll last for a day or so, depending on how hungry the kids are.

BEEF STEW

2 T. butter or margarine

2 lbs. beef stew meat in 1.5” cubes

Flour for dredging meat

8 small onions or desired amount of chopped onion

½ cup diced celery

4 sprigs parsley OR 2 tsp. parsley flakes

1 bay leaf

2 T. salt

¼ tsp. pepper

3 T. ketchup

2 qts. Water OR 1 qt water and 1 qt beef stock

6 carrots, peeled and cut in bite-sized pieces

6 potatoes, peeled and cut in bite-sized pieces

Directions:

Melt butter in bottom of stew pot.   Roll meat in flour and brown on all sides.  Add all other ingredients and stir.  Cover and bring to steaming point.  Reduce heat and simmer until beef is tender.

Mix about 6 T. flour with same amount of cold water, whisk until smooth.  Add to stew, stirring until thickened.

Delicious and it sticks to your ribs.