You know the dull gray, slow lifeless weather that makes you want to curl up and knit by a roaring fire.

Well, there has been some knitting but there’s always a ton of cooking going on. My carbonnade recipe is less than authentic but it means well.

Start off with some seared blade and set is into the slow cooker

Then I added a good measure of chopped bacon and rendered it. About 2/3 of a pound.

while the bacon was sputtering away I julienned 2 onions, minced 2 cloves of garlic, added a tbsp of celery seed and readied 2 bottles of beer. I supposed it should have been Belgian beer but a trip to the beer store was not in order so it was a Danish beer called Bavaria.

I transferred the bacon to the slow cooker and added the onion mixture to the frying pan where I sauteed it for a couple of minutes until it was limp and slightly golden. I added the onion mixture to the slow cooker along with the 2 bottles of beer. I turned the slow cooker to low and went to bed. When I got up in the morning the dog and cats were going crazy in the kitchen because of the aroma.