What's For Dinner?

When my husband and I first got married I knew how to make 3 or 4 dinners.  Spaghetti, taco salad, breakfast, and stew. The first three seem incredibly easy as I look back, but where did I learn to make stew? I have no idea. But, as daunting as it may seem, it's actually incredibly easy. It has three main ingredients: meat, potatoes, and carrots. Since we've been married for a while my recipe has changed and developed into a delicious recipe and here it is:

Stew

1/2 lb meat (I use turkey or beef to make this stew)

2 cloves of garlic, minced

1 white onion, chopped

1/4 cup red cooking wine

4 - 5 medium potatoes

5 whole carrots

canned or frozen corn and green beans

2-3 cups Chicken (for turkey meat) or Beef broth

Directions:

1. Brown meat in the bottom of pot.  Add garlic and onion and saute with meat.  When bottom of pan starts to brown add the cooking wine and reduce by half (boil half of it out, I understand this also removes the alcohol). 
2. Wash and chop the potatoes into 1 inch cubes (sometimes I leave the skin on and sometimes I  remove it, you can do it either way depending on your preference), throw potatoes into pot and add broth until the potatoes are covered (about 2 or 3 cups).  
3. Peel and chop the carrots and add them to the pot.  Bring to boil, then reduce heat to low.  Allow to stew for 1 to 3 hours, you know it's stewed long enough when the potatoes fall apart as you're mixing it and the stew is thick. 
4. About 20 minutes before serving add 1 1/2 cups each of corn and green beans (or one drained can each). Sometimes I add extra seasoning like savory, but that's optional.
5. Makes 4 to 5 servings

Using the wine when browning the meat makes regular stew meat fall apart when you eat it, it's the best change I've made to the recipe. This stew also goes great with a loaf of homemade bread.