My French food kick continues! This time around I decided to make Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon from . This dish figured prominently in the movie ‘Julie and Julie’ and since watching the movie months ago this dish has been on my list of things to cook.
Truth be told I’d never even had Boeuf Bourguignon before. I feel like I don’t see it on restaurant menus that much so it’s probably something that people generally make at home. I didn’t grow up eating French food at home so clearly I missed out on this goodness.
As with many a Julia Child recipe this one has a lot going on. In addition to the actual beefy part there are onions and mushrooms that have to be prepared separately. Kind of a pain. The cooking time is about 3.5 hours and it’s shockingly pretty active for a good portion of the time which I didn’t realize at the time. I had grand plans of washing my hair while the meat was simmering away but in the end I was kind of rushing to do both.
Believe me I was shocked when I took the meat out of the oven and it was pretty dried out. Nothing says WOMP WOMP more than a fancy dish nearly ruined. Because things were so dried out there wasn’t much liquid to turn into a sauce. I ended up “rinsing” the meat in the straining with more red wine and beef stock. It was definitely not my finest hour.
In the end it all worked out though and was delicious. I would definitely make this again but would monitor it a bit more closely next time so that I could do this properly. I served this with some boiled potatoes and steamed cauliflower and it was a good time.
For the full recipe click here.
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It looks great despite your adventure in making it. I guess that’s the beauty of the trial and error of cooking. Thanks for sharing your experiences