🍲 Feed Me: Slow Cooker Beef Stew

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Another fall-friendly one to prepare on a Friday and hoover all weekend long.

Adapted from Allrecipes.

Ingredients

2 pounds stew meat, cut into one-inch pieces

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 clove garlic, minced

1 bay leaf

1 teaspoon paprika

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1 white onion, chopped

1 1/2 cups beef broth

3 potatoes, diced

4 carrots, sliced

6 large mushrooms, sliced

Directions

Put the beef in the slow cooker and in a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt and pepper.  Add that to the meat, making sure to coat as much as you can (if not evenly). Add the remaining ingredients. 

The Allrecipes instructions say 10-12 hours on low, or 4-6 on high. However as you probably know, slow cookers have minds of their own with regard to the speed of their settings. Using high on mine, this is done in less than three hours - so use your best judgment with yours. If you can truly 'set it and forget it,' leave it on low in the morning and come home to it for dinner; if not, prep it the night before and toss it together when you get home the next evening. 

And then, it will (mostly) look like this.

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Day three, after it has congealed a bit from refrigeration, it will look more like this... but still taste amazeballs.