Simply amazing Beef Stew

 

 

 

We are a larger family than most nowadays and a little unconventional. There are 3 adults and 4 children under 8. Recipes online are not normally built for us which means either doubling or tripling the recipe to make it work for us.

This beef stew is the best I have ever made, it fed everyone plus lunch the next day.

The big buns come in a giant bag from the Superstore.

What you need:

Onion 1/2
Stewing beef (about 1lbs) cut the beef into smaller pieces
Celery 6 stalks
Carrots 6 full length
Potatoes 6 med to large
Beef Stew seasoning from clubhouse (No joke this is my secret ingredient)
Flour (1/4 cup)
Salt and Peper
1 cup of water

What to do:

Step 1) Cut your stewing beef into small pieces

Step 2) Put beef, flour, salt and pepper into a bowl and coat well

Step 3) move stewing beef to frying pan and brown

While the beef is browning and stirring occasionally

Step 4) Peel and cut the carrots into bite-size chunks

Step 5) Peel and cut potatoes into bite-size chunks

Step 6) Cut celery into bite-size chunks

Step 7) Dice onions you can do more or less here I do as little as possible to get it past the kids.

Step 8) Put beef, onions, carrots, celery and potatoes into your crockpot

Step 9) Mix the water and seasoning package.

Step 10) Pour over ingredients in the crockpot.

Step 11) Cover and cook on low 8 hours or high for 4 hours.

Enjoy!!!

Now I am not kidding when I say this is by far the best stew I have ever made. I am pretty sure it's because of the seasoning package.  I happened upon it when by package gravy one day and decided to give it a try.

1/4 kids liked it (1/4 kids will eat anything the other 3 don't "like" much)
3/3 adults loved it

New recipe chicken and gravy

A rut....when it comes to dinners I get stuck in the same rut month after month, I try not to make the same thing twice in a month but each monthly meal plan contains the same things over and over again. I always want to try new recipes and I “PIN” tons of them on Pinterest but normally I don't get around to trying them because they “look” hard or I am not sure they will turn out etc.

Well I have decided to try a new one at least each month, either from one of my many PINS or from one of my millions of cook books.

The first one of have tried so far was from Pinterest and I had been meaning to try it for months but I kept forgetting to get cream of chicken soup or I would worry about putting the chicken in frozen. I do not thaw my meat in the microwave EVER!

Well I decided the other day to give it a go I was stuck for a meal, it was a bad pain day and I didn't get it in until 10am and yes the chicken was frozen. Of course the instructions said 7 hours on low, well that just isn't going to work over here as we eat at about 430 so here we go I will cook it on med, and worse case it doesn't turn out and we have left overs from the freezer.

This is the full recipe HERE.

The recipe calls for:

2 packages of chicken gravy

1 can of cream of chicken soup

pepper

1 ¾ cup of water

Chicken breasts (I used thinner cuts of chicken so it cut my cook time)

Next time I will add a box of that stuffing mix I think it will help out the recipe a lot.

Mix everything expect the chicken together in a bowl until its semi not lumpy

Put chicken in crock pot

**put stuffing in at this point too**

cover in this mix

cook on low for 7 hours

***I cooked on Med for 4.5 hours***

I served with potatoes and mixed veggies.

I didn't get photos oops, it turned out pretty good but like I said next time I will add the box of stuffing to give it that little bit of extra. Everyone else approved except Blaine who didn't touch it.

I do have to say the blogger who posted this recipe has the best blog name EVER, "The salty Marshmallow"