Around the world in a number of stews

I am stuck.  This recipe, everywhere, has a combination of pork, beef and/or lamb, onions, allspice, pepper, bay leaves and water.  AND NO OTHER INGREDIENTS. The website, The Spruce Eats , has a picture of a meal which is clearly not the stew, since the sauce in the picture looks like it has tomato and some kind of thickener in it. I am fairly confident that the recipe provided will produce a thin, grey soup with meat lumps. And also, olive oil doesn't seem very authentic in Finnish cooking.  I'm going to delay in the hopes that I can eventually find a better recipe.