My husband loves beef stew. I like to cook things my husband likes. However, in the 7 years we have been together, I have never made beef stew. For some reason, because it contains beef, I never thought I could make it. I am not good at preparing meat. I try. I just am not.
The best meat we have is when my husband grills it or prepares it.
So, after my friend Liz was telling me that it is so easy to make in the crockpot, and I found this Hamburger Soup recipe that sounded like a beef stew that I would like, I decided to make it today for dinner.

I only had a half day of work today, so I thought I could run to the grocery, and then come home and fill the crockpot with all of the ingredients. I can’t find the original website with the original recipe, but I changed it a bit, so I will just tell you what I used:

2 packages of stew Angus beef (I browned before I added to crockpot)
1 diced onion
15-20 baby carrots cut in half
3 celery stalked sliced
48 oz of beef broth
1 large can of diced tomatoes
1/2 c frozen peas
1 pkg Lipton Beef and Onion
2 garlic cloves
2 bay leaves (my first time using bay leaves)
1 tsp thyme
salt and pepper
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 tsp Italian seasoning
3 idaho potatoes peeled and chopped up in kind of big pieces so they didn’t get mushy.

I put all of this in the crockpot for 4 hours on high.

Here is what it looked like before I stirred it:

Then, here is what it looked like when we ate it:

I served it with a French baguette. It was perfect for soaking up the broth.

My husband LOVED it. Although, he informed me it was SOUP and not STEW. That disappointed me a bit, but overall I was happy it turned out as all of the ingredients aside from the beef were pretty nutritional. Not that beef isn’t nutritional, but I meant things that were considered healthy foods.

And it was VERRRY filling.

Well, I am going to catch up on my DVR and sleep, as my niece and I are having a DAY OF FUN tomorrow and then she is spending the night.

What is everybody else up to this weekend?

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Love,
Beth WA