Very Late Holiday Beef Stew (Written Nov. 2012)

Today as a pre-curser to Thanksgiving, we are making Beef Stew. I figure, there's only so much you can mess up beef stew, and since it's in a crock pot and we ALWAYS have left overs, with 4 people eating it, we will probably have the exact right amount. Oh yeah! My half-brother/cousin (don't worry, it's not incest, but it's also none of your beezwax) and his girlfriend are coming for Thanksgiving!!! I’m so excited to have people here, and OUR people too :). So, a few of the recipes that I looked at required beef bullion cubes, which we don't have, so hopefully the addition of extra salt will do the trick. The greatest thing about making beef stew the day before thanksgiving is that it uses the exact same ingredients for parts of thanksgiving so we didn't need to buy anything extra, just more of what we were already planning on buying. I'm hoping that this will help with having leftover carrots and celery that we forget about after tomorrow and then find 5 months from now.

Charlotte and David's Splendid Holiday Stew!

Ingredients

-2 cubed potatoes

-1 sauted white onion

-4 chopped celery stalks

-2 peeled chopped carrots

-1 tsp. Parsley

-1 tsp. Salt

-1 tsp. Black pepper

-1 tsp. Rosemary

-1 tsp. Marjoram

-1.47 lbs. “Stew beef” diced into small mouth sized pieces (so you don't look like an awkward 4 year old trying to eat a poptart with a spoon)

-4 C water

CROCK POT TIIMMMEEE!!!!

Step 1. Turn on Christmas music. Frank Sinatra usually does the trick.

Step 2. Toss all ingredients into your crocky pot and put it on high. We just finished it and are going to keep it on high since we just got it all together and it's 11:30. Hopefully it will be ready in 8 hours. We'll see.

Notes: Timing works best if you chop the onion and throw it in a fry pan FIRST. Then do all of the other ingredients and check the onions every few minutes. Cut the meat last so you don't have to think about it touching everything else and killing everyone with salmonella.

Result: THIS STUFF WAS AMAZINGGGG. I wish I could swim in a giant vat of it.