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i knock up currys in the morning and leave em on all day

Get a freezer/sandwich bag or bowl, put some flour in it with some salt, pepper & an oxo cube*, put your meat in and either shake the bag or mix it all up in the bowl. Make sure each piece is well covered, then seal the meat over a high heat. Cover with the stock and add some small chunks of potato (you don't need many). The flour will help thicken the gravy. Before you put the rest of your veg in, mash the bits of potato into the stock too - the starch will also help thicken the gravy. You can always add more stock/water if it gets too thick

*other stock cubes are available but only oxo's crumble enough to go into the flour.

We used to do a stew called "Pot Mess". Recipe: Raid the Coxswains store and filch as many tins as you can of whatever he has got, the more babies heads the better, throw the lot into a big fanny on the galley range and cook slowly until supper time. Ladle out in big portions and serve with well buttered fresh bread. Keep the pot going, raid the store again the next day and add as much as it takes to fill the fanny. Keep going like this for two weeks until the Coxswain is returning from leave, empty the fanny and clean spotlessly and remove all evidence. Scratch your head when the stock take is done and profess ignorance of what could have happened to his stores. The older the stew got the better the tasted.

how did the stew go