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Friday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.  My grandkids and I have great fun being pirates for an entire day.   We swagger and burp and go by pirate names that can be found on line.  We make treasure chests and maps then hide them for the neighbors.  We eat food that we pretend is made out of the horrible ingredients that pirates actually ate.  Here is a recipe for stew with a Caribbean flare that is made from regular stew meat but we pretend that it is rat stew.

Pirate Stew
1 pound beef stew meat
3 Tablespoon Ruby Range Basic Mix
2 Tablespoon olive oil
4 small potatoes cut in small cubes
1 sweet potato cubed
1 carrot sliced
1 chopped onion
1 Tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 Tablespoons butter
3/ 4 cup pineapple juice
2 Tablespoon brown sugar
1 can beef broth
3 Tablespoons rum (optional)
salt and pepper to taste

Combine the beef, Ruby Range Basic Mix in a bag and shake to coat.
Brown the beef in olive oil in a skillet.  Transfer meat into a slow cooker.  Add vegetables to the slow cooker.  In the skillet melt the butter then add the vinegar and scrape the particles from the bottom, pour into the slow cooker.  Add juice, broth and rum to the slow cooker.  

Cook on high for 1 hour then turn down to low and cook 6 hours more.

When my oldest grandson was 5 he just couldn't get over that they sold rat meat at the Safeway.

We have been known to make meringues with chocolate bits in them for dessert.  Cleanliness was not one of the things pirates were known for.
Liz www.therubyrange.com<http://www.therubyrange.com/>

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