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Homemade stew in crockpot slow cooker

• 1lb to 2lb of stewing beef i did only 1 lbs i felt was plently but it did call for 2 lbs
• 6 medium potatos peeled and cubbed
• 3 cups of baby carrots
• 2 celery stocks cut up optional but i think it adds more to your stew
• 1 small white onion or a quarter of spanish onion cut up . Whatever flavor you prefer
• 2 10.75 oz cans of condensed celery soup
• 1/3 cup of water recipe didnt call for this either but it is needed in my opinion
• 1 cup of ketcup
• 1 tsp of paprika
• 2 1 oz pkgs of onion soup mix
• 2 tsp of garlic powder or more  i definetly did about a tbs but i know some people like less and this recipe didnt even call for it but i love garlic

Grab a freezer zip lock bag or a shake and bake bag or something along those lines and throw in your onion soup mix and paprika powder. 

Grab stewing beef and throw in bag along with seasoning and shake up until all seasoning is stuck to stewing beef.

Grease slow cooker with what you have on hand like pam ,butter, or margrine. I used pam.

Then put seasoned stewing beef all along bottom in a nice even layer.

Now put down your peeled and diced potatos, celery,onion, and baby carrots.

Grab a medium sized mixing bowl. Put in your 2 cans of celery soup, 3/4 cup of ketcup . Mix well and pour over top of  everything in slow cooker. Sprinkle garlic powder over top.

Set on low and put timer to 8 hours.

About a hour and a half in mix the rest of the ketcup with 1/3 cup of water and pour over top. Remember do not stir everything that stewing beef at the bottom cooking is making the pot liqor for your gravy!

Now with a hour and a half to 2 hours remaining stir everything together. It all just depends on how well done you like your meat. I like mine super well done with a crisp so i actually waited till last hour and it was exactly how i like it.

Husbands favorite that i have cooked so far. 

5 out of 5 for both of us.

Serves 8 to 10

Pinterest recipe series

Sweet and sour meatballs

Picture of how mine turned out

This is a recipe i tried from pinterest its so good but would make some changes which i noted below.

30 or so frozen meatballs of choice ( I used the ones from m&ms)

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2/3 cup Vinegar  i would change this to 1/3 cup
• 2 11 oz cans of pineapple tidbits (keep juice will need for sauce)
• 1 large green bell pepper 
• 2 tbs soy sauce
• 3 tbs corn starch
• Long white rice

This was a 4 out of 5 in my books only thing keeping it from 5 out of 5 was i think it called for too much vinegar so thats why i recomend to half the vinegar.

This is one of those recipes that when your cooking it your whole home smells divine! If any of you make this please let me know what you thought or if you guys did anything different that you enjoyed i would love to hear about it!

Set slowcooker on low and put in those frozen meatballs. Drain both cans of pineapples ,put the juice into mixing bowl and add the pineapples into the slow cooker. Put pineapple juice aside and now chop your washed green pepper into chunks what ever size you prefer and add those to slow cooker.

Now we work on the sauce . Add corn starch, soy sauce,vinegar, and brown sugar to bowl with pineapple juice abd whisk well until everthing is perfectly mixed. Now pour mixture over top of everything already in slow cooker mix everything well make sure meatballs are all in sauce.

With my slow cooker i did 3 and half hours on low and then 2 hours on high. I stirred every half hour when on low and every 15 minutes when on high.  Now put on top of bed of cooked white or brown rice and enjoy also rewarmed the next day and was also very good!

I have decided to change my blog up a little bit. Instead of makeup and beauty being the forefront, i want to include everything that in enjoy in life like recipes i have tried and enjoyed and lifestyle items that i feel everyone should know about and just stuff that helps me out being a mom. I will still post about makeup but my blog will be more diverse and will have little tidbits of information that i think everyone can enjoy .

This was one of the first bars I bought and it went straight to my sister after being in my warmer for around 15 minutes and I'll tell you why. It is extremely floral which I do tend to like but not at this level. It is a very strong scent probably the strongest I have tried so far . So if you are a die hard lilacs and violets fan this is for you if not stay away from this bar. I'm pretty sure this one got discontinued when they brought the fall winter catalogue out but I'm sure they will bring it back sometime or ask your local consultant she or he may have some in stock.

Strength of scent is a 5 out of 5
How much I like this scent is 1 out of 5

• Benefit porefessional
• Boscia thermal cleanser
• Buxom moxie lip gloss
• Loccitane hand cream
• Smash box blemish control primer
• Fresh rose face mask
• Chloe perfume

Redeemed some points for