Beef Stew

When you make one of my recipes, you need to understand that about 75% of the time, I'm not following a recipe. I probably followed a recipe the first time I made it, then I adapted the recipe, and I make it out of my head. So a lot of my ingredients I'm just eyeballing, especially the spices, so always do the spices to taste. With that said, this was a really good recipe and I was truly winging it the whole way.

Beef Stew

1 pound stew meat (I like to buy the already diced stew meat because I hate cutting raw meat.)

1/4 cup flour

5 small potatoes peeled and cubed (you don't have to peel red potatoes if you have them)

1 cups chopped carrots

3 stalks celery, chopped

1 small onion, diced

5 cups water

4beef bouillon cubes

1 tsp worcestershire sauce

2 TBSP ketchup

Put the meat in a bag, put the flour in, and shake until coated. Grease a large soup pot and cook meat over high until it is browned on all sides (it doesn't need to be cooked all the way through, just browned). Don't panic, it will make a mess of your pan, but the next step will take care of that. Just make sure to not burn the flour.

Add water, bouillon cubes and the chopped vegetables. Reduce heat to medium, put cover on and simmer for about 1 hour. When vegetables are nice and tender, add the worcestershire sauce and the ketchup. If it needs more of either one, add a little more. Remove from heat and serve. Yummy yummy yum!