The first stew

Having noticed the last saucisson sec stew of the old year at reference 1, today I notice the first of the new year.

It looks pretty much the same, but there were some subtle variations.

The green pepper and red pepper were replaced by a single yellow pepper.

The chou pointu was replaced by crinkly cabbage, which last has the advantage of not being so easy to overcook. It must have a flatter cooking curve. Properly cooked, both equally good at the point of consumption.

A little water was added shortly after the beginning, less than half a pint.

But most important, while I did not go back to using potatoes, I did add two level soup spoons of red lentils. I thought this significantly improved the texture.

7oz of tubes more or less done in the first sitting.

But enough stew left to provide a meal for one, reheated, the following day, that is to say today.

For him, tinned peaches for dessert. Plus my medicinal banana. For her, banana plus for dessert. Where by plus I mean golden syrup and white yoghurt.

PS 1: the peaches being those procured in the margins of Trolley No.620. OK, but not as good as those tinned in their own juices. Plus the odd bit of stone got left behind by the presumably mechanical stoning operation. For which last, see, for example, reference 3. Not great, but for the truly curious there are always the references that follow. While the Bing assistant, always wanting to help, offers the snap above. I wonder where it got the 'relatively economical' from? What exactly does he mean? Would a food processing engineer agree? 

PS 2: I associate to the Foyles of old, perhaps thirty or forty years ago, where you could find stodgy looking books devoted to this kind of thing. A lot of them sold off at knock-down prices when they withdrew from that class of book. I have a memory of them mostly being big blue hardbacks with small black and white photographs, but who knows.

PS 3: Bard (from Google) offers a more complete response, about half of which is snapped, unchecked, above. But there is a health warning in small at the bottom. Another difference being that you have to go and get it. Bing comes unsolicited - which can be a bit irritating with it typing away in one part of your screen while you are looking at another. I suppose it will all settle down as these chat engines - and their users - mature.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-last-stew.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/trolley-620.html.

Reference 3: https://ctifoodtech.com/en/industrial-machines/peach-stoning-machine-repitter-vision-2-0/.

Reference 4: https://video.directindustry.com/video_di/videos/video-211523.mp4.

Reference 5: https://www.directindustry.com/prod/cti-foodtech-srl/product-210807-2157133.html.

Reference 6: https://youtu.be/pQDnJypTxYA.