I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy?
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you...
That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something...
Ok this is a simple Guiness-Whiskey Stew Recipie, add more ingredients based on how many people you are feeding. You will need a suitably on sale cut of beef steak and a few kielbasa sausages (or portobello mushrooms and butternut squash for the vegetarian version.)
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Onions, fingerling potatoes, brussel sprouts (they hold together better than cabbage) carrots, green peas, mushrooms, 3-4 cans of Guinness, salt and pepper, some red pepper flakes, cumin, basil, rosemary, and 2 bay leaves.
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Chop the onion and mushrooms and toss them in a pan with butter (or olive oil) along with the sliced quarter sized sausage (or butternut squash). Add a sprinkling of cumin and pepper flakes and cook until you get a bit of burn around the edges of your pieces.
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