Beef Stew

I had my mom down for supper tonight. She enjoys the beef stew and my husband really loves it, too. This is not really a formal recipe as I just kind of throw it all together, but I will try to make some sense of it.

Ingredients

2 lbs stew meat

1 small onion, diced

8 potatoes, peeled and cubed

1 16 oz pkg frozen mixed vegetable (corn, green beans, peas)

Flour

Salt

Pepper

Accent

5 Beef Boullion Cubes

1 Bay Leaf (remove before serving)

Corn Starch (approx. 1/4 to 1/2 cup)

Instructions

Trim fat from stew meat. Season with salt, pepper and Accent. Coat meat in flour. Brown meat and onion in a bit of oil in a frying pan.

Transfer browned meat and onion into a dutch oven. Cover meat chunks with water, add Bay Leaf and Beef Bullion cubes and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for a couple of hours, adding more water, if needed.

Add cubed potatoes and cook another 30 minutes. Add frozen vegetables and cook 10 more minutes. Mix corn starch with about a half cup water and slowly stir into to stew to thicken.