it's the little things in life

I have stew beef! Wooooooh!

now that I have the beef...

...I will share. Virtually, of course!

Suzanne's Crockpot Beef on Rice

2 tbsp olive oil
1 sm onion, chopped
8 oz package white mushrooms (cut into halves or quarters, depending on size)
2 cups baby carrots
2 lbs cubed stew beef
2 cups water (divided)
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
4-6 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp ground black pepper
1 pkg (.75oz?) dry brown gravy mix
rice (basmati goes best)

In a crockpot, add 1 cup of water and turn on high. Add the soy sauce, Worcestershire, salt, and pepper and stir.

In a saucepan, heat the oil. Saute the garlic, onions, and mushrooms until the onions are translucent. Dump it all into crockpot.

In the same pan (now empty) add the beef. When browned on the sides, add to crockpot.

Add the carrots.

Take remaining 1 cup of water and stir in gravy mix. Make sure you get the lumps out. Pour into crockpot. Put lid on crockpot and wander away for a few (3-4) hours. Whenever you're bored, come back and stir. Towards the end, you may want to leave the lid off for a while to let it thicken up a bit.

Sometime in there, cook your rice by whatever method you most enjoy.

As soon as the carrots are soft, it's done. Get yourself a big fat bowl and serve yourself.

Enjoy!

My apologies to anyone who uses the metric system for measuring food. I am too lazy (and too busy sorting piles of manuscripts) to go look up the equivalents right now (-:

If you do end up making this (or any of the recipes I occasionally post), let me know how it turned out for you.