Crock-Pot Stew

During Christmas the topic of crock-pots came up. It was mentioned that I could have a crock pot and a few days later I picked it up.

I went online to find some beef stew recipes and start my adventures into crock-pot cooking.

I found a few and made a shopping list. Picked up some stew meat, potatoes, onions, celery, carrots, and a few other items.

I was going to start on the stew yesterday but I was invited out so I waited until today. I woke up this morning thinking about stew. Went into the kitchen and started getting things ready. Of course by then I had my morning meeting for work.

After the meeting I went back in to get started. Chopped everything up. Put the meat into a bowl and added some oil, seasonings, flour, mixed it up real good and put it on the griddle to brown. Then I put all my vegetables in the bowl and mixed them up with some seasonings. Once the steak was browned I put that into the bowl and mixed it all up again.

Then I put everything into the crock-pot and poured a can of beef broth in with it all. Turned it on low and put the cover on.

Right away the smell was wonderful. But I had around 8 hours to wait for it to cook. So back to work I went thinking about stew for dinner the rest of the day. 😉

Every once in a while I would come out of my office and get a whiff of that awesome crock-pot stew smell. Every hour I was getting more and more hungry for stew. While I did my workouts, while I got some water, after I came back in from the mailbox (btw it’s a holiday, no mail). I can’t wait to chow into this stew.

The best thing is that I only used half the ingredients for this batch. So after cooking this pot I’m going to cook another tomorrow. Excellent!

Once the stew was done and I had just finished my work day I went in a dished up a bowl. It was pretty good but needed just a little more salt and a little more spice. That was easy to fix though. Next batch I make I’ll add more ahead of time.

Now I just need to not eat too much! Already had two bowls and there is probably two more bowls left. Got to save it for tomorrow. So…full…