I think we have all realized by now that I am a pretty awful blogger.

I haven’t reliably posted, ever.

But, I am going to give it another go.

So let’s start with cooking, at least that is something I can write about. Let’s start with my stew.

Jeff’s Paleo Stew

Ingredients

• 1.5 lbs of stew meat (Trader Joe’s sells pre-packaged pre cut stew meat)
• 1 large or 2 medium sized onions (Any Kind will do, I like Vidalia but I used Red Onions here)
• 8oz of whole White Mushroom
• 1 lb of carrots (I use baby carrots here but usually prefer rainbow carrots)
• 2 – 3 sweet potatoes or regular potatoes
• 1 quart Beef Broth
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• 2 Bay leaves
• 2 tsp freshly ground pepper
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp rosemary
• 1 tsp thyme

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Steps

Collect your ingredients:

Stew Meat:

Onions:

Mushrooms:

Carrots:

Potatoes

Garlic

Beef Broth:

Spices:

Prep your ingredients:

Cut the ends off of the onion

Cut the onion into eight wedges

Wash the mushrooms very well then slice them in half

Scrub the potatos and cut the into (approximately) 1 inch chunks

Cut carrots (if not using baby carrots) into 1 inch chunks

Put it in the cooker:

Start with a layer of about ½ of your onions

Add about ½ of your carrots

Add about ½ of your potatoes

Add about ½ of your mushrooms

Put in the two bay leaves

Put in all of your meat

Put in your garlic

Put in the rest of your vegetables

Sprinkle on all of the spices

Pour the entire quart of broth into the slow cooker (try to cover as many veggies as possible)

Give everything a quick mix

Set the slow cooker to ‘Low’ for at least 10 hours. I have set it for as long as 16 hours, the longer it cooks the more tender the meat is.

EAT YOUR CREATION: