About Foods' Southern Foods page offers a great, warm mid-winter stew; if you don't have a crock-pot, trying using a Dutch oven or large saucepan on the stove-top--adjust times accordingly.You can leave out the 'thickener' or flour/cornstarch from this, and most stew recipes. Try diced tempeh, mushrooms, or almond meal as a (kind of) thickener.
