True facts:
1. One does not need a dutch oven to make a stew. Sheets of tin foil over a roaster pan also work.
2. Purple potatoes, purple onion, and yellow carrots make for a colorful stew.
3. Egg noodles are needed for the kid who is afraid of purple potatoes.
4. One glass of wine for the stew. One glass of wine for the cook.
Apt. 11d 
Ah, maybe I will make every Saturday night “Cooking a la Laura” night. Me, fresh ingredients, my stove and oven, and a nice glass of wine. 🙂 I’m thinking an asparagus/mushroom pasta dish with some sort of creamy sauce or maybe just olive oil and fresh grated p-cheese. And a glass of chardonnay? Yum.
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Also, is that goat cheese or mozz on the tomatoes? My fresh basil bit the dust when we were in Germany, alas.
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Herbed goat. I just had it in my fridge. The tomato is something called a pineapple tomato from the CSA. The other tomato and basil is from the backyard garden.
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That looks pretty tasty. (I’m not a fan of raw tomatoes, but can see how others would like those, too.) As for pans, I can say that while le Creuset pots and pans are pretty spendy, the one we bought 5-6 years ago has been one of our better investments, and would be great for something like this. I recommend them.
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Also, you obviously should have more than one glass of wine with this, unless perhaps you mean a glass like this one
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Yum! I got a Lodge enamel cast iron dutch oven for $45 on sale at Target and it’s great. Pretty red color too. The nice thing about it is that it keeps the food hot after it comes out of the oven (we keep our home very cool in winter). However, I imagine hungry teenage boys mean the food goes too fast to get cold.
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