Slow Cooked Beef Stew

1/2 Cup Flour
1tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
2 1/2lb beef stew meat
2T oil
2 envelopes Lipton beefy onion soup mix
1 14.5oz can chopped tomato's. With the juice
1tsp dried thyme
1 bay leaf
6 med red potatoes quartered
6 med carrots cut into 1" chunks
1 lg onion chopped
2 3/4 cup water
1 beef bouillon cube
1 cup frozen corn


1.In a ziplock bag mix together the flour,salt and pepper. Toss the beef chunks in the mixture until coated.
2.Heat oil in pan and brown all sides of the beef chunks set aside.
3.In the slow cooker add the potatoes,carrots,onions top with the browned meat and then add the tomatoes,onion soup mix packets,thyme,bay leaf.bullion cube and water.

4.Cover and cook on low 7-8 hours or until all the veggies are fork tender.
5.Add the corn the last 30 min of cooking.

6.Top with sour cream and salt and pepper to taste (optional)



* I love the slow cooker. Nothing is better then just throwing a bunch of stuff in there in the morning and not having to worry about dinner the whole day. This was great and so simple we just served it with some bread and a green salad and have a yummy simple dinner. I am sure that I would make this again sometime. I give it a 4 1/2