{"id":3050,"date":"2014-01-18T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2014-01-18T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T16:37:03","slug":"best-things-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/best-things-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The best things in life are…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stew\"<\/a>….made with grass fed beef!<\/p>\n

Like this beef stew.\u00a0 (Pardon me, my daughter the English major may see this:\u00a0 Such as this beef stew!) \u00a0And it was only the proverbial “gilding the lily” to toss in some Hennessey’s.<\/p>\n

We first tasted it at Linda Maurer’s house, she of Springhaven Farm\u00a0near Madison (sorry, address not available), and it was absolutely the best stew we ever had.\u00a0 Linda being a dear friend, and quavering only slightly due to the\u00a0gun pointed at her, volunteered to share her recipe.\u00a0 She called it “Parker’s Beef Stew”.<\/p>\n

Well, being a fanatic about such little things I had to track down “Parker”.\u00a0 Turns out he was a chef at The Barefoot Contessa’s<\/em> former store on the island.\u00a0 If you have to ask who The Barefoot Contessa<\/em> is, you’re probably not reading this\u00a0far anyway.<\/p>\n

Get to the point, David!\u00a0 OK!\u00a0 Here’s a link to the Contessa’s<\/em> recipe:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/barefootcontessa.com\/recipes.aspx?RecipeID=156&S=0<\/a><\/p>\n

Did I mention Hennessey’s along the way?\u00a0 Well, like any good cook, Linda improvises and her Parker’s Stew includes a half-cup of Hennessey’s.\u00a0 Let me tell you….<\/p>\n

And when we told the folks at the ABC store in Marshall why we wanted some Hennessey’s and the clerk got all excited and she told everyone….\u00a0\u00a0 And so I wouldn’t go to Marshall looking for any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….made with grass fed beef! Like this beef stew.\u00a0 (Pardon me, my daughter the English major may see this:\u00a0 Such as this beef stew!) \u00a0And it was only the proverbial “gilding the lily” to toss in some Hennessey’s. We first tasted it at Linda Maurer’s house, she of Springhaven Farm\u00a0near Madison (sorry, address not available), and it was absolutely the best stew we ever had.\u00a0 Linda being a dear friend, and quavering only slightly due to the\u00a0gun pointed at her, volunteered to share her recipe.\u00a0 She called it “Parker’s Beef Stew”. Well, being a fanatic about such little things I had to track down “Parker”.\u00a0 Turns out he was a chef at The Barefoot Contessa’s former store on the island.\u00a0 If you have to ask who The Barefoot Contessa is, you’re probably not reading this\u00a0far anyway. Get to the point, David!\u00a0 OK!\u00a0 Here’s a link to the Contessa’s recipe: http:\/\/barefootcontessa.com\/recipes.aspx?RecipeID=156&S=0 Did I mention Hennessey’s along the way?\u00a0 Well, like any good cook, Linda improvises and her Parker’s Stew includes a half-cup of Hennessey’s.\u00a0 Let me tell you…. And when we told the folks at the ABC store in Marshall why we wanted some Hennessey’s and the clerk got all excited and she told everyone….\u00a0\u00a0 And so I wouldn’t go to Marshall looking for any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-recipes","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}