Stay a Bed Stew
"This is the best Stew and so easy! Wonderful recipe for fall and winter. Wonderful for a working mother! This recipe came from my husbands family and I am so glad that my mother in law shared this with us! I serve this with tossed green salad and homemade rolls. Yum!"
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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8-10
ingredients
- 2 lbs beef stew meat, cubed
- 1 (15 ounce) can tiny peas (use pea juice also)
- 1 cup sliced carrot (lengthwise)
- 2 onions, cut up
- 1 -2 stalk sliced celery (optional)
- 2 (8 ounce) can sliced mushrooms (use juice) (optional) or (8 ounce) cans mushrooms (use juice) (optional)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 dash pepper
- 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can tomato soup, thin with 1/2 cup water
- 1 large raw potato
- 1 bay leaf (optional)
directions
- Put all together in large casserole dish.
- Pour soup and pea juice over top of ingredients.
- Make sure to have a good fitting lid for your casserole dish.
- Cook for 5 hours at 275 to 300°F.
- You may also use a crock pot to cook this on high for 5 approx hours or low for approx 10 hours.
Questions & Replies
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Does this recipe make the juices into a thick gravy or is the gravy watery or thin? Plz someone, answer asap, as we are tying to duplicate a lost recipe my mom used to make called stay in bed stew. The cooking time seems correct as well as the use of canned soup. Ty
Reviews
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This has a great flavor. I put it in the crockpot before I left for work and it was perfect when I got home that evening. I used tenderized beef stew meat (which just about melted in your mouth) and I left out the peas and mushrooms because of personal taste. I doubled the amount of soup to compensate for the juices from the peas and mushrooms that I left out. My husband raved about it (which means it is really good!) I highly recommend this recipe! -
This certainly is a great tasting stew and so easy to make. I used frozen peas and fresh mushrooms in mine and left out the celery. -
hi my name is nancy, the recipe came out in 1965 in the "the two too twins" book. i received the book from a friend when i had twins. the orignal did not have the mushrooms but i will try it with them when i make it this week. also i use a crockpot. this is the only recipe i have used for over 40 years. enjoy -
This is a nice tasting stew and easy to put together. Put some in the freezer and will see how it turns out after freezing. I will continue to use my favorite recipe from long ago, tho. Thanks for sharing.
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It was a very easy to make, great tasting stew. It is definately in my cookbook to keep. Thanks
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Beaner in Washington
Vancouver, WA
I have lived in Vancouver since 1987. I am a transplant from Minnesota. We have 3 grown sons, a wonderful daughter in law, 2 beautiful granddaughters,1 grandson 2 dogs (1 Border Collie named Molly and 1 Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix named Gulliver, that we rescued) . I am for now working in property management and still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. My job is interesting, but quite demanding! My DH wants me to quit, I would love to stay home and be his goddess. I love to be at the beach flying kites, sailing with our friends, billiards,cooking, grilling and entertaining friends and family. We downhill ski in the winter and enjoy our family and our animals . If I had a month off I would love to spend it with our family together at warm tropical destination. Just enjoy our grown children and our grandchildren. Then when that trip came to an end, I would love for my DH & I to spent some time somewhere warm and tropical all alone. I could become quite the traveler. We had some life changes last October, I lost my balance and fell. I had 2 spiral breaks in my leg, my tibia and my fibula and another small half moon break. I did have some surgery and have 3 plates and 16 screws in my leg until this coming spring in March, then I will have some hardware removed, hopefully. Had to give up some sports! But heck it could be a lot worse. My DH just started a new job! That's good news!
