interesting experience - Beef stew

To prepare the beef stew, I did a few 'firsts'

It's my first time to

a) uncork a bottle of red wine

b) and to try to keep the wine when the cork swell too much to be used again (pasted a plastic wrap round the mouth and wound a rubber band round it)

c) slice onion in this apartment and loving it

d) slice the potatoes without having cooked them first

e) using beef broth in my cooking