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Warm Your Bones Beef Stew

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Beef Stew
Burr! It’s cold outside and the only way we know to warm up is with tasty comfort foods like this recipe for “Warm Your Bones Beef Stew.” This one has a few more ingredients than we usually post, but it’s definitely worth it. The best part? You can tweak this recipe with any amount of your other favorites like peas and corn and you’re only going to make it even better — that’s the beauty of stews! We announced earlier this year that we’ve got a wide variety of new items coming to our food delivery service, and we’re genuinely looking forward to hearing your feedback on them. At Passanante’s Home Food Service we’re always looking for new ways to impress you, and we hope our new products and weekly recipes become some of your favorites!
What You’ll Need for “Warm Your Bones Beef Stew”:
  • 3 lbs stew meat
  • 1/3 cup flour
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 large yellow onion
  • 1/2 cup red wine (dry)
  • 2 tablespoons minced garlic
  • 2 carrots peeled and chopped
  • 2 celery stalks chopped
  • 2 red potatoes peeled and cubed
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 4 1/2 cups beef broth
  • 1 teaspoon thyme

Instructions:

  1. Flour the meat by shaking in a brown paper bag filled with flour and brown it in a skillet with olive oil
  2. Transfer browned stew meat to soup pot with beef broth and boil with other ingredients.
  3. Simmer, simmer, simmer – it will cook down. Add water as needed, and always have enough water to keep it covered. (Remember this is a soup so don’t worry about adding water 🙂 )
  4. Thicken with a rue of water and flour mixed together (about 1/4 cup water and 1/4 cup flour will made it more of a liquid than a paste, which is what you want. You can also substitute the flour for cornstarch if you prefer.)
  5. Serve with warm flaky biscuits (the pillsbury ones in the can are our favorite!)

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Featured Recipe: Herb Roasted Chicken

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Herb Roasted Chicken

If you don’t receive the Passanante’s Home Food Service email updates you’re missing out on exciting announcements about new menu items, contests, and some incredibly simple recipes that you and your family would love! This recipe for Herb Roasted Chicken is one of our favorites because it only had a few simple ingredients and it’s ready in five easy steps. Such a great recipe to have on hand for those busy days!

Ingredients:

  • 1 Roasting Chicken, about 4 to 5 pounds
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 Small onion, peeled and quartered
  • 1 Rib celery, cut in large chunks
  • 1/4 Tsp dried rosemary
  • 1/2 Tsp dried leaf thyme
  • 3 Tbsp coarsely chopped fresh parsley
  • 4 Tbsp melted butter

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350°.

2. Rub inside of chicken with lemon juice; sprinkle with salt and pepper.

3. Add the onion quarters, celery, dried herbs, and parsley to chicken cavity.

4. Place chicken in a shallow roasting pan and roast at 350° for about 20 minutes per pound.

5. Baste with melted butter several times. Internal temperature should register at least 165° on a meat thermometer inserted into the meaty part of the thigh.

Are you a fan of us on Facebook? We’re excited to announce a new contest that we’d love you to participate in. All you have to do is take a picture of your meal at your favorite restaurant and submit it to our Facebook contest app for a chance to win a $100 gift card to that restaurant ($50 for second place)!  It’s so easy to enter and we’d love for you to share some great grub-spots with your fellow Passanante’s customers. 🙂

Happy Eating!

Facebook Request – Sashimi Grade Tuna

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Last week one of our loyal Facebook fans asked us for a delicious tuna recipe she could try out with her sashimi grade tuna. Obviously there are many wonderful options out there including the one that’s posted on our wall, but we took it a step further. After reaching out to a close friend and master chef we found an incredibly simple and luxurious recipe that we can’t wait to try out ourselves!

Facebook Recipe Request

Preparing the Shashimi grade tuna

  1. Wash the Sashimi grade tuna with club soda
  2. Season with Himalayan salt and ground fresh pepper
  3. Sauté the tuna with truffle oil for 30 seconds each side
  4. Pop the tuna in the oven on 400 degrees for 10 min

For a spin on traditional mashed potatoes, add a tablespoon of Wasabi powder to the milk before mashing the potatoes. Serve with grilled asparagus alongside the tuna and enjoy!

If you’re looking for a new recipe or two let Passanante’s Home Food Service know about it in the comments section or on our Facebook page!

Family Recipe: Lemonade Cheese Cake

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New Year 2013

Happy 2013 food lovers! We hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and new year filled with friends, family, and phenomenal food (of course).  So tell us, what is your resolution for 2013? Trying to branch our and try new foods? Eat healthier? Pass on pesticides?  Go organic? Or maybe your resolution is to indulge yourself with delights! Passanante’s Home Food Service would love to hear about your new years resolutions on our Facebook page so we can cater our blog content to YOU and provide even more exciting recipes, food news, kitchen tips and more!

Today we thought we’d mix it up and throw out an awesome dessert recipe from a close friend’s family cookbook. This recipe for Lemonade Cheese Cake is a nice departure from the standard chocolate sheet cake, and we have nothing but good things to say about it!

What you need for the lemonade cheese cake filling:

  • 1 package of pillsbury white cake mix
  • 1 cup of sour cream
  • 6 ounce can of frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
  • 3 ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 3 eggs

What you need for the topping:

  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 cup sour cream

How to prepare Lemonade Cheese Cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Using solid shortening or margarine (not oil) grease and flour a 12-cup fluted pan (non-stick finish)
  3. In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients for the filling
  4. Blend at low speed until moist
  5. Beat at high speed for 4 minutes
  6. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean when dipped into the filling
  7. Completely cool upright in pan for 45 minutes
  8. In a small bowl, mix sugar and four cream, spread on cake
  9. Refrigerate and serve when cold!

Happy eating!

Cold Weather Recipe: Pork Chop Casserole

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This next recipe is a great cold weather meal for all of our meat eaters out there. Who doesn’t love a good casserole in December? This incredibly simple recipe for Pork Chop Casserole is quick to whip up and could be easily adapted for a melt-in-your-mouth crockpot meal.

Think this recipe looks great – but you don’t have 6-8 pork chops handy? Passanante’s is a convenient home food delivery service that provides healthy, clean, and flavorful hormone-free meats and organic veggies delivered right to your door. We put out new recipe’s every week that are sure to make your mouth water, so give us a call at 1-800-772-7786 to get your next shipment of tasty ingredients delivered!

Pork Chop Casserole

What You Need:

  • 6-8 pork chops
  • 4-6 peeled potatoes sliced
  • 1 can cream of mushroom soup
  • 6-8 slices of american cheese
  • 14 ounces of green beans (can used canned or fresh organic)
  • 1 small onion sliced

How to prepare Pork Chop Casserole:

  1. Brown pork chops in 1/4 cup oil in skillet
  2. Mix potatoes with 3/4 can of cream of mushroom soup
  3. Grease baking dish and layer: potatoes, onion, cheese, green beans, pork chops and the rest of the can of cream of mushroom soup
  4. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 1.5 hours
  5. Uncover for the last 1/2 hour to brown

As always, check out our Facebook page for more great recipes from your fellow Passanante’s customers!

Happy Eating!