Real Beef Stew, Not Polictically Correct.

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• salt
• pepper
• cajun seasoning
• 2 lbs beef stew meat
• 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 stalks celery, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 whole bay leaves
• 4 cups beef bouillon
• 1 cup red wine (port will do)
• 2 tablespoons hot sauce ("tabasco green pepper sauce" the hot sauce can be adjusted to taste. i have have found 4 tbsps to be)
• 6 whole carrots, 1/2 inch thick slices (peeled or unpeeled,scrubed)
• 6 whole potatoes (i prefer "yukon gold potatoes. peeled or unpeeled,scrubed, quartered and each quarter halved)
• 3 large onions, halved and quartered or 15 boiling onions
• 8 ounces sliced mushrooms

Recipe

• 1 season flour with salt, pepper and cajun seasoning to taste.
• 2 after cutting beef stew meat into 3/4 inch pieces, dredge meat in seasoned flour.
• 3 in a large stew pot, brown meat in hot olive oil.
• 4 add beef broth, sugar, celery, garlic, bay leaves, wine and hot sauce.
• 5 bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for one hour.
• 6 taste and season to your choice.
• 7 add carrots and potatoes, simmer until vegetables are tender.
• 8 add onions of choice and mushrooms, simmer until onions are tender.
• 9 remove bay leaves.
• 10 note: watch liquid level while simmering, add water if needed, when the stew is completed the the liquid consistency can be thickened by adding instant potatoes if desired.