Vegetable Stew

I am always on the look out for a good vegetable stew. I like a veg stew to be very vegetable-y, well seasoned and a bit tangy with a semi-thick sauce around it, so that it is clearly not a soup. This one is all of those things. It also has a little bit of molasses in it, and the sweetness it imparts makes the flavor unique. Using the optional red wine is important to deepen the flavor and give it some non-tomato-based tang.

If you don't have all of the vegetables listed, you can easily substitute similar vegetables in the same quantities called for with excellent results.

It's good eaten with any freshly-baked bread.