Beef Stew - More Winter Comfort Food

Beef Stew

1 ½ lbs stew meat

5-6 cups water
1/4 cup red wine

4 beef bullion cubes-or 3 tablespns instant  bullion - or 1 cn beef consumme

1tspn salt

3 large potatoes

2 stalks celery

3 large carrots

2 large onions quartered – or 10-12 pearl onions

½ tspn kitchen bouquet

Flour

Shortening

 Flour meat then brown in shortening.  Put in a large kettle.

Add water, bullion, and kitchen bouquet. Add wine.

Bring to boil and let simmer for two hours.

Add veggies and simmer another hour.

Eat and Enjoy!

The easiest way to flour meat is to put in a bag, add enough flour to coat meat, and shake.

We’ve used frozen beef vegetables.  I would use two bags but one will be ok.  If you use the dry pearl onions in a bag, be sure to let cook long enough for the onions to soften real good.

Now, if it were up to me, I’d add about a cup of ketchup to the recipe.  My wife doesn’t like it like that, so I add my ketchup at serving time. Sometimes I add a little tobasco.  Mmmm!

We like to get a bag of fresh French bread to go with it, too.

So there ya go.  Nice comfort food for a cold day.

Enjoy!