Tasty Thursday: Easy Stew

This is a recipe that doesn’t take any time at all to get started in the morning when you do not want to take much time out of your daily schedule. And it’s tasty in the evening when you get home from work so I thought it would be perfect for this week’s Tasty Thursday post.  While it does cook for quite a while (6 to 8 hours), it is fast to fix before you head out for work in the mornings and fast to put in bowls for dinner when you arrive home.  It’s one of my favorite winter meals.  Hope you enjoy.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. boneless stew meat (cut up)
• 1 Can Cream of Mushroom Soup (10 3/4 oz)
• 3 Potatoes (Cut up and Cubed)
• 2 Carrots (Diced – I just chunk some baby carrots in there)
• 1 Chopped Onion (Optional, we don’t put this on ours)
• 2 Cups Water

Directions:

1. Brown the stew meat on all sides.
2. Place meat in the slow cooker.
3. Add all the remaining ingredients.
4. Stir well.
5. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
6. Stir Occasionally (I don’t do usually get to do this since I’m at work and it turns out fine.)

This is one of my favorites because it’s so easy. I usually brown the meat the night before and just store it in the refrigerator overnight so that all I have to do in the morning (they are always hectic at our house) is throw it in the crock pot and go.  We tend to eat ours with crackers.

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CrockPot Favorite: Super Simple Stew

Another one of my fastest and easiest recipes. It does not require long to cook so it’s one I do on a weekend or if we get out of school early. It really shouldn’t cook all day long.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 chopped onion (again I just use onion powder as I don’t like the texture of onions)
• 2 cans of vegetable soup

Directions:

• Brown the ground beef and drain. 
• Combine all ingredients in the slow cooker
• Cover and cook on low 2 – 3 hours.

We serve over crackers.