Hello there!
While learning about Canada's First Nations last month, we learned that the Iroquois people, being farmers often prepared a dish called Succotash. Sammy and Krista wanted to know more about it so we took a little wander around Pinterest and sure enough found a youtube video of an 18th century recipe. When the girls realized the dish highlighted the "three sisters" of beans and squash... vegetables we had planted in our veggie patch, they were determined we must try it too!
Soooo... the first ingredient would be bear meat. We do not have access to bear meat, but our friend in the youtube video assures us that a good cut of sirloin tip beef will work well and thankfully we still have a few cuts of grass fed beef at our disposal.
It took a full afternoon for our succotash to simmer as we used the wood stove that we were burning on that cool damp 5 degree Friday. The slower cook was well worth it though when we spooned into ourmouths the first delicious bite of garden fresh buttercup squash, beans, corn and meat.
We enjoyed our succotash - it is much like a stew without the heavy stock.
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