Cratchett's Slivered Beef

We decided tonight to go for an old southern favorite: Cratchett's slivered beef. Story goes that this was invented by R. Brandeis Cratchett, proprietor of Cratchett's Travis County Beef Farm around the turn of the century. It's a meal of slivered beef and carrots mixed with some shaved pork and potatoes. It's traditionally served with bread and mashed potatoes. We spent some time thinking, though, and figured that was too much potato for us, so we swapped the potato in the beef out for green beans, and then because Jim is a vegetarian, we traded our beef and pork for apples and pears. Also, due to Adam's theories on the balancing of appropriate flavors, we decided to go with mashed sweet potatoes rather than the standard. We finished our plate out with a good chunk of french bread.





Our recipe:

3 average sized sweet potatoes
3 carrots
2 good handfuls of green beans
1 apple (we used gala)
1 pear (we used bartlett)
sliced cheese
1 loaf of french bread





Cut your sweet potatoes into small cubes and toss them into boiling water, then ignore them for a while. Matchstick your carrots, apple, and pear, then begin to sautee the carrots and green beans. When the potatoes are getting soft, toss the apple and pear into the sautee pan, mix, and top with cheese. Drain the water from your sweet potatoes and mash (we used a beer bottle for authenicity). Dish each generously onto a plate, rip off a hunk of bread for the side, and serve.








While we were cooking this we were listening to: Van McCoy's "Disco Baby".