Dinty Moore """Beef Stew"""" is more like: hamburger soup.

[Muley Gil]

I have made homemade chili in the past. Cut up stew meat, browned it, added onions, tomatoes, spices, etc and cooked it low and slow for hours.

I can get decent chili these days by browning a pound of ground chuck, adding some garlic powder, draining off the grease, adding a can of diced tomatoes and a can of light kidney beans and a packet of McCormick chili spices. Bring it to a broil and then simmer for a while. Meantime, I fix a skillet of cornbread in the oven.

Add some sour cream to the chili once it is in the bowl and serve some hot buttered cornbread on the side.

 

[susieqz]

i can't believe anyone eats that stuff.
BE ADVISED, I TEACH COOKING ONLINE.
NO CHARGE

 

[mstem]

My brother, this excuse is lame. You can do this better than any industrial food company with a one-burner hot plate and a small 4 or 6-quart slow cooker.

Get 2 pounds of chuck roast, well trimmed, and cut it into 2-inch cubes. Salt and pepper them well. Brown the meat over medium high heat in a little olive or canola oil several pieces at a time. You just want to brown the surface of the meat on all sides, not cook it all the way through. This might take five minutes per batch. Do the whole two pounds and put the meat aside.

Get five or six carrots and cut them into rounds a half inch thick. Two or three yellow onions cut into 1/16ths. Six or seven celery stalks (green part only) cut into 1/2 - 1 inch pieces. Two medium Russet potatoes cut into half-inch cubes. Wash them well, but leave the skins on.

Take the meat and the vegetables and put them in the slow cooker. Cover the pieces with a 32 ounce container of Swanson's low sodium beef broth. You may need part of a second container depending on how many veggies you included.

Put the slow cooker on Low and let it go 6 to 8 hours. Get some chewy thick peasant style bread, a little butter if you like that, and a large bowl and spoon, and enjoy.

You'll never settle for the canned poison again. I promise.

Food Lion just happened to have chuck roast on sale last week. I saw this recipe & picked up 2. Got home & trimmed on up, had 2 1/4 lbs. Followed the rest of the recipe except for adding a grated potato to thicken broth up a little, 2 diced tomatoes & thick sliced mushrooms that I added 2 hrs before supper time. This was fantastic!!! Daughter, son-in-law & grand daughter loved it! We all ate to we were about to pop. Had a qt. left which we will have tonight! Did I say this was fantastic! Thanks for the recipe!

 

[DWalt]

I'll repeat something I mentioned earlier for those who may have missed it. Wal-Mart sells a frozen bag containing all the ingredients needed for beef stew, including the meat (about 4-5 average sized bowls). Put everything into a slow cooker with some water and let it cook all night. It is a little expensive (still, a lot less than at a restaurant), but the end result is delicious, especially with some cornbread muffins. We've fixed it several times.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Food Lion just happened to have chuck roast on sale last week. I saw this recipe & picked up 2. Got home & trimmed on up, had 2 1/4 lbs. Followed the rest of the recipe except for adding a grated potato to thicken broth up a little, 2 diced tomatoes & thick sliced mushrooms that I added 2 hrs before supper time. This was fantastic!!! Daughter, son-in-law & grand daughter loved it! We all ate to we were about to pop. Had a qt. left which we will have tonight! Did I say this was fantastic! Thanks for the recipe!

Much appreciated. I will post some more recipes along this line -- simple, healthy, tasty that anyone can cook -- in a new thread soon.

 

[the ringo kid]

Lickin forward to them.

 

[Abbynormal]

I haven't eaten Dinty Moore Beef Stew since 1968! My first Boy Scout campout, we did a 22 mile hike and the Dad's cooked supper.

One smoked cigars and accidentally dropped a Dutch Masters stogie into the pot of stew. It tasted awful and smelled worse.

I've never eaten ANY Dinty Moore product since

 

[rogerwnuss]

Sounds like Skyline chili. Just ground hamburger at the bottom of hot water.

I tried that once, that's some nasty ersatz chili

 

[walkinghorse]

I gave up on Hormel products many years ago. Just not to my taste.

I am EXTREMELY upset to learn from you that Wolf brand chili has been watered down. It was a staple of our pantry for many years, although we have not bought any recently. It was perfect for Coney Island chili dogs, also. There was a house brand that tasted nearly the same with the same texture, but I can't remember what it was, and we don't have any currently (I checked).

The only constant is change. That is why Smith puts those holes in the sides of most of their current revolvers, and I will NOT comment further on that.

John

We had Wolf brand chili last night. Needed a quick dinner before heading over to the local VFD for a training class in EMR. Turned cold again and snowing. We have chili cheese burgers, and have found that the Wolf grand was the canned chili we prefer. This can was noticeably different from the past. Definitely not for the better!!! Another product changed? Now we have to find another choice and Hormel has been out of our selections for a long time!! Assume the bean counters, pun intended, now do the cooking for Wolf!

 

[the ringo kid]

I tried that once, that's some nasty ersatz chili

I liked the usage of the German--ersatz. Ive not heard that used for quite awhile. Reminds me of the one time I tried austex.

 

[the ringo kid]

We had Wolf brand chili last night. Needed a quick dinner before heading over to the local VFD for a training class in EMR. Turned cold again and snowing. We have chili cheese burgers, and have found that the Wolf grand was the canned chili we prefer. This can was noticeably different from the past. Definitely not for the better!!! Another product changed? Now we have to find another choice and Hormel has been out of our selections for a long time!! Assume the bean counters, pun intended, now do the cooking for Wolf!

THAT'S disheartening news indeed. I was shopping last night-wondered down the canned meats aisle-just to shake a few cans to see IF, I was wrong or IF--the batch I bought was just a "bad" batch-shook every can--nope--all of it was soup-like. I tried a few cans of Dinty Moore "Stew" shook them-but appeared too packed (probably with large chunks of potatoes) so didn't appear like soup. I didn't buy a can to check-see. However-I did buy a can of Sweet Sue Chicken and Dumplings-opened it at home-still dice-sized "chicken" but at least the can was packed-solid with food.

 

[cmort666]

Tonight, a can of Campbell's chicken and corn chowder with a can of white meat chicken mixed in.