Beef Stew

This is VERY good. Here are my modifications when I made it for the first time: <br/>1- I used 4 lbs stew beef cut into smaller pieces and parboiled for about 10 minutes to get out all the blood etc. I very highly recommend you do this. <br/>2 - Because I had nearly twice the recipe, I added 1/4 cup flour and about 2 tbsp paprika, 1 extra tsp fresh ground black pepper, and worked the meet so all of it was coated. <br/>3 - put in a full carton (600 mL?) of Cam*****'s beef stock. <br/>4 - added about 2 cups sliced mushrooms. <br/>6 - fiddled with the water a bit for the right thickness. <br/><br/>Overall, this was a hit even for my 18 mth old. It is a keeper. Maybe next time I'll add some green beans and peas towards the end, but it is a very good recipe and I'll definitely use it for pot lucks and cold winter nights. Note that I don't like the flavour of tomatoes and carrots cooked together, nor the taste of too much thyme, and this recipe has neither.

My husband picked this recipe out for himself, made it and we both LOVED it! It made the house smelled wonderful while cooking, and the seasonings were spot on. Thank you!

I usually brown meat before adding to crockpot recipes; they look sickly otherwise. How refreshing to find one where this is not necessary. I had reservations but followed directions, and the end product is a very attractive, thick stew. What an easy dinner meal--so glad I found this before cold months set in. Thank you Danielle--this will replace the old way of making stew. It's basic, tasty and easy--the only change I made was to use sirloin. It's all I had, but worked very well.

This was wonderful. I did have to add about 2 cups of water to it. It was too thick without it. It had the best flavor.

DH was out of town on business, and I thought this would be a good, healthy, non-time dinner. I followed another reviewer's suggestion of adding tomatoes, celery, and ONE can of mushrooms, with 3 beef boullion packs and 1 1/2 cups water. It just simmered happily all day. When it became obvious that he would not arrive when I wanted to eat, fixed myself a bowl and a toasted muffin and chowed down. I DID add about 6 shakes of hot pepper sauce to the pot, and some additional salt, but it certainly is worth doing again ! Incidentally, I only had sirloin cubes in the freezer, but they were nice and tender after @ 10 hours. Thanks, Danielle