So last night I decided to dive into my list of recipes inspired by Beauty and the Beast. The first one I decided to tackle was beef ragout. One of the many things mentioned in the best dinner time musical number every written.

Beef Ragout is a french style slow cooked stew with meat or seafood and vegetables or maybe just vegetables. Now it may be march and spring truly wants to be sprung, but….I live in Oregon where spring is kinda just warm winter. So I still bust out my slow cooker even now.

Ingredients

• 1 pound stew meat
• 3 carrots, sliced
• 3 parsnips, sliced
• 1 white onion, chunky dice
• 4 roma tomatoes, chunky dice
• 1 can whole peeled tomatoes and juices
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• bouquet garni ( 3 rosemary sprigs and 3 thyme sprigs)
• 2 cups beef stock
• 1 cup red wine
• salt/pepper to taste

Directions

1. Put parsnips, carrots, onion and Roma tomatoes into slow cooker.
2. Tie up your bouquet of herbs. I used the thyme to tie the rosemary together, but if you happen to have twine that would work too.
3. Put meat, garlic, herb bouquet in the slow cooker on top of the vegetables.
4. Put stock, wine and canned tomatoes on top of every thing. Salt and pepper aggressively. Stir it gently.
5. Cook on high for four hours.

After being out in the snow getting attacked by wolves and being rescued by the hairiest prince ever I would definitely want a bowl of this delicious warm stew to fill me up again.