Calling All Cooks!!!

We were sick last week and I was craving a yummy easy stew so I got online and found this one. It was done in the crock-pot and super easy. The kids all loved it and it was just the comfort food I was looking for

Well...It got me thinking about how much I LOVE a good easy crock-pot recipe. I want to try and gather more crock-pot recipes especially since it is only going to be getting hotter and HOTTER here in AZ and any chance I can cook with out heating up the house sounds really good to me. I thought it would be fun to try and collect some more recipes and start a blog focused on easy delious meals. I will also focus on freezer meals and food storage ideas as well. If you have any recipes or tips and ideas you'd like to share please email them to me and I will do a blog post about it. I'm excited, I think this will be fun.

Here's the Stew recipe:
Slow-Cooker Beef Stew
2 pounds beef stew meat, cut into 1 inch cubes
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 clove garlic, minced
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 onion, chopped (of course I left this out!)
1 1/2 cups beef broth
3 potatoes, diced
4 carrots, sliced
1 stalk celery, chopped
Place meat in slow cooker. In a small bowl mix together the flour, salt, and pepper; pour over meat, and stir to coat meat with flour mixture. Stir in the garlic, bay leaf, paprika, Worcestershire sauce, onion, beef broth, potatoes, carrots, and celery.
Cover, and cook on Low setting for 6-8 hours. (mine was done in about 5, but my crock-pot must get really hot! Just check it every so often and when the veggies are soft, it's done.)