Post by @CobaltSasquatch@nicecrew.digital

2026-09-23 23:44 UTC

This is what my grandma did with basically everything. Her "beef stew starter" was just chunks of beef, carrot, onion and tomato cooked in beef stock. That got canned and then when you open it you just add gravy mix to it and in like 10 minutes you've got a good beef stew

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@tiddlywinkler@nicecrew.digital 2026-09-23 23:52

Soup and stew starters are fantastic time savers. There's a little canning company in Gonzales, Louisiana named Blue Runner and they have a whole series of canned starters for Cajun-style soups that are really good. You can take a can of their Ya Ya Gumbo starter, add fresh mirepoix (you don't have to, but you should) and fresh or frozen okra, some browned sausage, and chicken or shrimp, and in about 30 minutes you'll have a pot that rivals made-from-scratch gumbo. They've also got jambalaya and seafood bisque starters that I would recommend. Whenever I make any soup from scratch, I always end up with more than I could possibly eat in a couple of days. I'll eat it for two days and then put it in individual serving-size Foodsaver bags, seal it, and freeze it flat. It's like I have a deck of soup cards in the freezer.

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