Pimped Texas stew becomes a work of art #fff

Hello dear connoisseurs,
today is Food Fight Friday again and this time I dedicated myself to art. I will report about the art of cooking a good and cheap stew right after the show.

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Now I hold in my hand the can of good taste. Made of sheet metal, stable in its execution, simple in its design and the content is eternally durable. First properly staged by Andy Warhol who presented it on July 9, 1962 in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in New York. His object the Campbell's Soup Cans.

Today everybody says, yes, I know, great picture. 57 years ago, it was almost a scandal, because Pop Art was still in its infancy and exhibiting illustrated tin cans in a gallery was very daring even then. Today this exhibition is considered a historical event and the Campbell's Soup Cans are among Warhol's most famous works. Some years later he gave the soup cans different colors. The cans were designed by him in a colour-coordinated row in blue, green, yellow and violet. The polychrome series was born.

Allegedly Andy Warhol was a permanent consumer of Campbell's Soup, because he is said to have eaten them for lunch every day for over twenty years. I am not quite that extreme.

The Pottkieker Texas Stew, is my chosen artwork this week, which of course can't compete with Andy's artwork. But the basic product also comes from the soup industry and is on the shelves of various German discounters. I guess there is a comparable product in every country.

Ingredients: a can of Texas stew, sausage, 500g potatoes, green beans, tomato paste, salt, pepper, chili

But the contents of the can alone do not make a good meal, the whole thing still lacks the fine-tuning, because it still needs to be rounded off in taste and spiced up in content. As the stew is pimped with more ingredients I need more liquid. I take a bigger pot and add half a can of water to the Pottkieker Texas-Stew.

That looks very liquid now, but wait and see, I'm not done yet.

The most important thing to get better taste in the stew is the sausage. It should contain as much fat as possible and can also be smoked.

As further ingredient about 500g potatoes are added. These are peeled and then cook for about 20 minutes.

You can do the fork test if they are firm to the bite, because they should not crumble in the stew.

Now three handfuls of green beans are missing to give the whole thing a friendly colour.

Since I don't have any fresh beans I take frozen ones out of the bag.

I let the whole thing boil for at least half an hour.

Then season with salt, pepper and chili. Finally add a small tin of tomato paste to give the stew a thicker consistency.

So that you don't have to eat only this stew for a whole week, it is advisable to eat this dish with up to 6 people. With all this, this dish won't cost you $5, so you can invite a few friends. You will find that they will like it, but don't tell them that it comes from a can.

See you next #FFF and have a nice weekend