Any "like to cook" foodies here?

[DHBirr]

People who've read the Sten series by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch may recall that they sometimes devoted passages to the description of various recipes.  This one was called "Angelo Stew," the Eternal Emperor saying he'd learned it from an "old Mex pirate."  He claimed it would sober up two very drunk men (Sten and himself).  I haven't tried to prepare it myself; just reading the description burned my tongue.  

I'm sorry, but no more precise measurements or specifications of time or temperature were given:

Sautée thinly sliced chorizo and a heaping handful of garlic in Thai-pepper-marinated olive oil.
Quarter four or five onions and about the same number of tomatoes.  Heat some more Thai-pepper-marinated olive oil with a little sage, savory, thyme, and rosemary; glaze the tomatoes and onions in this.  Shut off the heat under the chorizo at about this time.
Chunk about a pound of bleeding red beef.  Roll the chunks first in flour, then in hot-pepper seeds.  Start heating the chorizo again.  Dump in the beef chunks; stir around until the beef gets a nice brown crust.
Dump the beef and chorizo into a larger pan.  Add the onions and tomatoes.  Throw in a handful of superhot red peppers, a glug or three of rough red wine, many glugs of beef stock, and a big clump of cilantro.  Put the lid on the pan and turn the heat on high.  As soon as it comes to a boil, turn it down and let it simmer for a while.

The Emperor served it with fresh-baked sourdough bread and newly-churned white butter.

Sten swallowed. The Angelo stew savored his tongue, and then gobbled down his throat to his stomach. A small nuclear flame bloomed, and his eyes teared and his nose wept and his ears turned bright red. The [extraterrestrial booze] in his bloodstream fled before a horde of hot-pepper molecules.
— The Court of a Thousand Suns, Chapter Four

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