Beef in Red Wine Gravy

This was the perfect meal to come home to after working all day and the aroma in the house was wonderful! The recipe was very easy to put together…no fuss, no trouble. I did make one major substitution…I don’t cook with wine, so I used a substitution (7 T beef broth + 1 T red wine vinegar = ½ c red wine) that was posted by Mean Chef (I think!) on the forum last year. I just tripled this amount to make the 1 ½ c listed in the recipe. The taste of the beef and gravy was out of this world! My DH doesn’t like anything cooked in a crockpot, and he even said it was very good. Believe me, that’s high praise coming from him! I will make one more change in the future when I make this…I’ll add more cornstarch near the end of the cooking time. The gravy was a little thin and my family likes a thicker gravy. Otherwise, I have no complaints…an overall delicious, easy to make recipe. I served this over egg noodles with a salad and rolls. Thanks for a great recipe!

This recipe is a real winner. The aroma coming from the kitchen in the middle of the afternoon was wonderful. The rich flavors all melded together for a robust and delightful dish. I served this with hard rolls and crisp green salad, but we really didn't need the salad!! Thanks NurseDi for sharing a keeper.

I'm sorry but this was not edible. I used a good wine but the sauce came out bitter. We ate pizza instead.

I made this last night to use up some leftover holiday wine. :) It was good, but I stirred in about a cup of sour cream at the end because it just seemed to be missing "something" for my taste, and also to help cut the wine flavor as it was quite strong. I have seen this recipe with dry onion soup mix instead of boullion and would like to try that. Overall a very easy dish to throw in the crockpot.

The taste of wine was overpowering for us. Maybe I didn't use a good enought quality dry red wine, I don't know. But I don't think this is something I wll make again.