New Year's Eve Dinner

The theme recently seems to be talking about holiday meals – Thanksgiving and Christmas and now New Year’s Eve. Beef also seems to be the other theme, or at least some type of faux beef. An even bigger theme has been creating non-GMO (genetically modified organism) meals.  Thanksgiving was turkey – non-GMO grain, free range and purchased from a local farm; squash casserole – modified to not use any GE (genetically engineered) ingredients or products from companies who do not support the labeling of GE food.  Christmas dinner was Almost Beef Wellington and included only one GE ingredient from a company who does not support GE labeling.  It felt somewhat defeating, but I was pleased with the results and everyone else was as well!  For our last meal I decided to make Julia Child’s Beef Bourguignon for our New Year’s Eve dinner.  All locally sourced ingredients, made from scratch and supporting locally companies as much as possible.  The beef was purchased from Bill the Butcher and was the most amazing beef!  The results… Divine!  Here’s the step-by-step process…