Romantic Dinner Recipe Beef Carbonnade(good stew with noodles)

This romantic dinner recipe will show your man you know what good home-cooking is about. A nice cross between comfort food and french cooking!

Prep: moderate

Fat & Cal: average

6 Servings

INGREDIENTS

2 bacon slices – diced

2 ½ lbs boned chuck roast, cut into 1 inch cubes

½ tsp salt

1 tsp black pepper

1 garlic clove minced

4 medium onions sliced thin

3 Tbsp flour

2 tsps wine vinegar

½ tsp sugar

½ tsp dried thyme

1 can beef broth

1 can beer

1 bay leaf

6 cups egg noodles, cooked ‘al dente’

Preheat oven to 325. In a deep skillet or Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium-high heat until crisp, remove bacon but leave drippings. Add beef, and salt & pepper to drippings, brown for 5 minutes, add garlic for about 1 minute, remove everything with a slotted spoon and set this all aside.

Add sliced onion to pan, cover for about 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Stir in flour and cook until browned. Add all ingredients from vinegar through bay leaf and bring to a boil. Return bacon and beef to the pan. Cover and cook all of this for about 2 hours. Discard the bay-leaf before you serve over noodles.