Mom's Beef Stew

the stuff of legend ....

Mom’s Beef Stew

This has been a favorite meal on our family camping trips for as long as I can remember.

Making this stew is a "labor of love". You get to labor in the kitchen making it ... then everyone loves getting to eat it.

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Step 1: Assemble your Ingredients

These ingredients will make enough stew to serve approx 14 people. Scale the recipe up or down to suit your needs.

6 lbs beef stew, cut in 2” pieces
4 Tbsp Olive oil (you may need more)
butter, unsalted
3 quarts broth or water*
chunked potatoes (12-14 med / lg potatoes)
chunked carrots (1 – 1 ½ lbs carrots)
2 packages baby bella mushrooms (seeing as these are sold under so many different names the scientific name is "Agaricus bisporus" )
2 - 4 onions, sliced to your preference
2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
6 – 8 bay leaves
2 Tbsp sugar
Roux
Black Pepper

Optional ingredients

Celery
2 cups red wine
Marrow bones

* If you don't have the time or desire to make a broth to use in the stew you can use water.

brothertuck says: Sep 8, 2011. 5:05 PM

Looks more like a beer stew then a wine stew, but it's fine by me, and where's the ketchup???

Lorddrake (author) in reply to brothertuckSep 9, 2011. 4:47 AM

it does go great with beer also. I prefer a nice stout with it personally.

KETCHUP ?!?!

BLASPHEMER!!!!

Have at you Sir.

Choose your weapon .. Pistols at dawn, Sabres at noon, Rabid Wombats at teatime.

brothertuck in reply to LorddrakeSep 14, 2011. 3:00 PM

Foam lightsabres at midnight of the full moon.

Lorddrake (author) in reply to brothertuckSep 14, 2011. 4:00 PM

Very Well, Have it your way...

jeepguy in reply to LorddrakeOct 29, 2012. 2:02 PM

thanks for the recipe, great tastin' stew!
just out of curiosity, who won the dual?

brothertuck in reply to jeepguyOct 29, 2012. 3:12 PM

(Gotta reply before Loddrake does)
I did ... hehehe

Lorddrake (author) in reply to brothertuckOct 29, 2012. 10:23 PM

LIES!!!

you shall not sully my good name sir ... have at you

HA HA

*thrust*
*dodge*
*parry*
*STABBITY-STABBITY-STAB*

MUH HA HA HA

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l8nite says: Sep 8, 2011. 9:19 PM

looks delicious! thank you for sharing a great sounding recipe

Lorddrake (author) in reply to l8niteSep 9, 2011. 4:49 AM

My pleasure. All credit goes to Mom for the recipe, I just shared it :)

Dr.Bill says: Sep 5, 2011. 12:52 AM

ugh

Lorddrake (author) in reply to Dr.BillSep 5, 2011. 8:38 AM

could you be a little more specific .. my "monosyllabic grunts to English" dictionary is missing

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Creativeman says: Sep 3, 2011. 11:42 AM

Couldn't believe you didn't have many views, but then realized you just posted it today! This looks incredible! Now to get my s.o. to make it...can't wait! Great instructable, easy to follow directions, 5stars for sure.

Lorddrake (author) in reply to CreativemanSep 3, 2011. 12:18 PM

thanks so much. I had a bunch of people ask me for this recipe when i put it in my camping tips and tricks instructable that I had to make an Ible dedicated to the stew.

that reminds me .. i have to put a link for this up on the camping Ible.