Whelp, it's gonna start snowing in a few hours and snow on and off through Saturday, then rain on Sunday, so I decided that it's beef boogaloo time again this weekend.
I picked up all the fixin's, including the usually hard to find pearl onions, but gall dang - I couldn't find thyme or bay leaves in two different stores. Tons of mint and stuff, but neither of those. I wasn't gonna make an hour run to the Albertson's flagship in the big city just for them, so settled on a "herb mix" that had thyme in it, and I'll just pull out the thyme and forego the bay leaves. I would have figured either of them would be a "staple" herb, but I guess not.