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saturday i made this recipe https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/138131/bigos-hunters-stew/ and it made A Whole Lot.

i omitted one of the three kinds of meat, as i just didn’t have any stewing pork to hand. I made a bit of a roux instead with the vegetables. also i only used a little bit of pork jowl, some already-rendered lard to make up for the lack, and a smoked ham hock, which i stewed entire and then pulled out and cut apart to put the meat in and discard the skin/bones before serving. As for the sauerkraut, it was homemade, via Dude’s method, which IDK if I ever posted here; I did drain and rinse it, which was good, because this did turn out quite salty.

Oh and instead of canned diced tomatoes, I used some halved tomatoes I’d cored and shoved into the freezer in a bag at the end of the season, but I doubt that makes much difference.

It barely fit into my dutch oven.

Next time I make this I’m going to cut down on quantities of everything and attempt to do it in my instant pot. also i’m going to use venison in place of the stew pork. but the kielbasa was chefkiss and i feel like the smoked pork hock was good. I also loved the wide variety of seasonings, I don’t use marjoram often and it was a good application of paprika and hot sauce! (Your picture was not posted)