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Throughout the summer the barbeque is the king of dinner. As the weather cool the crock pot comes out and the beef stew start too cook.

This is just a basic recipe but it is easy enough to modify to suit your own taste. Once you have this basic version mastered you can change it up as you need to.

The first thing is to heat up the crock pot with some hot tap water. Fill the pot with hot tap water and start to heat it up. I don’t like to heat up the crock pot without liquid in it. I don’t want to crack it.

Then in a large saucepan add some oil to the pot and let it heat up add the beef and start to brown it. Seer the meat will lock in the flavor. Make sure all the sides of the cubed meat get browned. Keep an eye on the heat , you don’t want to burn the beef to the pan. I generally use about 6 on my stove. Cook the meat about half way and then remove from heat and set aside.

Add a little oil if needed and start adding your cut carrots, potatos and onion. Get everything moving around so everything gets covered in the oil. You also want to scrape off the bits left on the pan from seering the meat. Cooking Tip: There is a ton of flavor left in the “pan drippings”.

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