FOOD The Real Recipe vs.The Lazy Brown Girl Recipe

My mom is a really really good cook. I am an okay cook. It's not that I don't care, I am just a lot lazier than her. I mean, she can butcher an entire pig. I have been known to cut up a tomato to put on top of a package of cous cous and call it good.

This is my mom's recipe for ragu as translated by my dad. I estimate it feeds about 25 people, give or take 10. Ragu is probably a colonial European transport to Vietnam, much like baguettes, butter, and sophisticated cigarette smoking.

Best time is tonight buy meat and seseonging put in Refregator and then cook tomorow. If not you can seseoning meat 1 hour before to cook.

Ingredients: 6 pounds beef.2can pasted tometoes.2 CU onions 1/2 CU garlic 1 table spoon Monoglutamast sodim.1 table spoonsugar.2/3 table spoon sodium

vegetable oil.5pounds potateos.2 pounds baby carrot if you want add 1 pound green bean (HOT-Grain) at Frozen food spot.

How to cook: UOP THIT:(Seseoning meat).Beef cut cube shape + Garlic (DAP DAP)+ Glutamatsodium+ sugar+sodiumStir well and then keep aileast 1 hour before cook.

Slice big piece onion stir with Vegetable oil in minute. put seseoning meat in stir well in few minutes until see meat (SAN) and then put tomateos pasted in still stir well dont let them stick at bottom .Take all out.

With litle VEge oil stir potateos and carrot ( skin out poteteos and cut 4 pieces of each potateo ) stir few minues and then take it out

Now How to cook: With water and boil until water get hot then put Meat+carrot+ potateos Keep stir dont let them stick at bottom

Cook at Tem: Midle hight in 30 to 45 mimutesIt well done when you use 1 chope stich or folk go through the mead. if you want add green bean grain put them in at 25mimutes after time you start cook because bean esea get done.

If tast is LAT put some more sodim.If liquit LONG take 1 or 2 tablespoon wheat flour + cold water stir well and then put it in and stir well.

(Capital letter is Vietnames luangage.....Pasted tometeos cans buy midle size) Good luck to you

My lazy ass version. Serves you and your boyfriend on a rainy Sunday before you watch that last Flight of the Conchords dvd:

- 1 tray stew meat or 1 package Field Roast fake sausages or fried tofu cubes
- 2 potatoes
- A handful of baby carrots
- Half an onion
- Frozen peas
- Either 1 can of diced tomatoes, two tablespoons of tomato paste, or a quarter cup of tomato sauce

- 2 cups of stock from either bouillon or some oriental noodle spice packets.
- a few spoonfuls of flour mixed with a few spoonfuls of butter

You need two pans (three if you're cooking rice in one). In a pot, get some water boiling and boil the potatoes and carrots until they're soft. Throw in the peas towards the end to cook until they're bright green. In the other pan, get some oil hot and cook the onion until it's translucent. Throw the stew meat or fake sausages in and cook until they're a little brown (like you!). Add the tomato stuff and the stock and and the cooked potatoes and carrots and peas. Make sure to scrape the bottom of the pan so all the tasty bits get into the sauce. Simmer it all together for 15 minutes or so. Then (here's the trick), stir in the flour/butter mixture so it gets all saucy. Adjust seasoning (i.e. squirt in some Sriracha), and serve with some leftover rice from last night's Thai take-out.

Good luck to you!