Meat stew
A slow-cooked stew of meat and vegetables — winter food that needed all afternoon to produce.
A meat stew in a dream is the dream's image of winter food that needed all afternoon to produce. The stew is not a fast meal; the cuts that go into it are tough until time has done its work. The dream brings the stew when something in your life — a difficult piece of material, a hard person to know, a relationship that took years — is being received finally as the warm shared meal at the table, and the long preparation is now invisible inside the result. A stew served late and eaten with gratitude is the dream affirming the cost of the cooking. A stew served before the meat tenders, with everyone chewing through it politely, is the dream noting that the patience the dish required was not given, and the result is being met out of manners rather than out of pleasure.