Regardless of the other thread I'll post a recipe for you here Kayla.
Yummy Beef Stew
1 lb Stewing steak
1 large onion (white, red, spanish, whatever)
4 large white or red potatoes
Several carrots
Whatever other veggies you love - for me it is Swede (a bit like a turnip), my Mom uses celery
1 glass of wine (red or white, whatever you have open)
1 beef boullion cube
salt 'n pepper
splash of Worcestershire
splash of soy sauce
cornflour as thickener if needed but you shouldn't need it if you cook it long enough
Dice the steak and quickly sear it in a dry frying pan. Dump the steak into the pot. Turn down the heat and deglaze the frying pan with half the wine. Add the liquid to the pot. Chop the veggies as finely or coarsely as you like ( I prefer medium cubes ) and chuck them in the pot too. Sprinkle the boullion cube over all the stuff, add salt and pepper to your taste, give it all a mix. Add the rest of the wine, the soy, and Worcestershire sauce and give it another quick stir. If the liquid doesn't come up to just under the level of everything else in the pot, add a bit of water until it does. Slap the lid on and let it cook for at LEAST 5 hours, preferably more like 8 stirring occasionally and inhaling the glorious odors. The beef should almost literally be falling apart when served.
I like eating mine with big hunks of buttered bread or rolls to sop up any juice.
I'd give you my Chili recipe too but it is really my Mom's Chili recipe and if she found out I'd posted it in a public forum for all to steal she'd come and kick my ass.
