COOKING AND EATING HOMEMADE BEEF STEW AND FRENCH BREAD WINE AND DINE!

2020-05-29 · YouTube · Foodie Beauty · 22 min

A home-cooking mukbang where two people (Speaker A and Speaker B) cook and eat a homemade beef stew with red wine and fresh-baked French bread. The video shows ingredient selection and step-by-step cooking (searing beef, sautéing aromatics, adding tomato paste and wine, adding stock and herbs, simmering), finishing with tasting and casual conversation about wine, cooking styles, and the dish's texture and seasoning. They also sample stuffed jalapeños with feta, cheese, and bread, and mention local Ontario wine and a Canadian chef Michael Smith.

Video guide

  1. 0:00 — Intro and plan for beef stew
  2. 1:18 — Discussing wine and ingredients
  3. 5:06 — Searing beef and prepping vegetables
  4. 7:02 — Deglazing with wine, adding stock and herbs
  5. 8:16 — Simmering stew and checking tenderness
  6. 8:49 — Preparing bread and butter; conversation about Beauty and the Beast
  7. 13:41 — Meal tasting: stew, jalapeños, wine and cheese
  8. 21:55 — Wrap-up and outro

People, places, food, and other named details

  • Person — Pete: Present and assisting during the cook-along; referenced by name multiple times (participant).
  • Person — Michael Smith: Canadian chef mentioned as an influence; described as chill and inventive.
  • Food — beef stew: Main dish prepared and eaten on camera; stew made with stewing beef, wine, tomato paste, herbs, stock, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic.
  • Food — French bread: Fresh-baked French loaf served with butter to accompany the stew.
  • Food — Cabernet Shiraz (red wine): Bottle of red wine used for cooking (about 1 cup added) and sipped while eating; described as a cabernet shiraz and as local/Ontario.
  • Food — potatoes: Potatoes added to the stew (yellow-flesh variety); cut during cooking.
  • Food — carrots: Carrots added to the stew and tasted during mukbang.
  • Food — onion: Yellow onion used and discussed (including eating raw onion); sautéed before garlic.
  • Food — garlic: Garlic added to stew after onions.
  • Food — tomato paste: Tomato paste fried to reduce bitterness and added to the stew.
  • Food — butter: Grass-fed butter softened at room temperature for fresh bread.
  • Food — stuffed jalapeños with feta: Packaged stuffed jalapeños sampled during the meal.
  • Food — Better Than Bouillon beef stock: Used as the stew's stock base (dissolved into water).
  • Food — Worcestershire sauce: Mentioned as an ingredient to add depth.
  • Food — liquid aminos / soy sauce: Offered as a salty umami seasoning alternative to soy.
  • Food — Bisto (gravy/thickener): Mentioned as a commercial thickener/gravy mix; ultimately not used because stew didn't need it.
  • Food — peanut oil: Oil used to start cooking (two tablespoons) for searing beef.
  • Food — cheese: Cheese eaten with bread and wine during the video.

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