Blogmas, Day 14 The Perfect Winter Comfort Food

Since it's winter and the weather is getting ridiculously cold, I've decided to cook up a batch of my favourite comfort food; beef stew! I absolutely love stew!!! I love that you can put anything in it and it would always taste good.

I bought a slow cooker two years ago and I have only used it once to make pulled pork. So, it was the perfect opportunity to bring it out and slow cook a stew. 

Ingredients

400 g beef 

2 sticks of celery, diced

2 stalks of leek, diced 

2 onions, chopped

1 carrot, chopped

5 pieces of garlic, finally chopped

A handful of mushrooms, chopped

A handful of cherry tomatoes, halved 

1 tin of baked beans

A few leaves of cabbage, chopped

2 beef stock cubes mixed with 800ml of water (or enough to cover the ingredients)

Method

1. Prepare all of the vegetables as mentioned above. 

2. Throw it all into a slow cooker. 

3. Set the slow cooker on high for 8 hours. 

The thing about stew is that it is super easy. You can put anything you want in it! I didn't put any salt or pepper in, because I'm not a big fan of it. 

What's your favourite winter comfort food? 

Happy Blogmas,

Kelly