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I made "European Style Beef Stew" with slow cooker last week. My friend gave me this"William Sonoma" cook book (this certain book isn't available anymore), and this is the only recipe that I tried in the book. I changed here and there to fit our family size. I used, Half onion, finely chopped, 2 stems of celery, finely chopped, 3 or so garlic cloves, finely chopped, 1 lbs beef 2 slices of bacon 2 table spoon of flour one or two tomatoes Red Wine, (10 fl oz / 300 ml) Beef Stock 16 fl oz / 500ml) 1or 2 Bay leaves Thyme (dried herb) 1potato, 1 or 2 carrots, turnips as you like salt and pepper One table spoon of ketchup and Worcestershire sauce 1) Cut veggies, About 1 lbs and half beef, (this time was sirloin tip roast) salt and peppered. 2 slices of bacon, cut like this and sautéed until oil come out and slightly crunchy. Add onion and celery, sauté until the onions are soft. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the onions and ...

Working at night, kid's sports practice at night.. Busy parent's great helper, "Slow Cooker". When I was little, I read Ramona's series and that appeared every now and then. Slow cooker isn't used very much in Japan, even though almost every household own a rice cooker.  Anyway,  I have been pretty busy because I started doing waitressing at night few nights a week and I have been using slow cooker quite often lately. I made beef stew, I forgot to get red wine so I used sake. beef taco meat, pulled back pork, baby back pork ribs, shoulder pork ribs etc.. One time, somehow the glass lid broke but I carefully removed the lid and no glass was in there (Thank god) since then, I'm using other stainless lid from other pot I have. Even the cheap hard beef or pork will be tender and delicious!