French Beef Stew

On Monday and Tuesdays I nanny for my music teacher and his wife while they teach lessons, and today I made this awesome Crock-Pot beef stew. The kids loved it! It's a low carb meal, so a serving only has 6 carbs. We put it over brown rice which also had quinoa in it. (that's around 30 or so carbs) It's a super easy recipe to follow, and you can go about your day while it cooks! Hope you find it as delicious as we did!

Serves 4-6

Ingredients:

2 t olive oil

4 slices of bacon, chopped

2 onions, finely chopped

2 carrots, diced

1 celery stalk, diced

3 c beef broth

2 c red cooking wine

1/2 t thyme

1.5-2.25 lbs cubed beef stew meat

1/2 c chopped parsley

Cooked Brown Rice

Instructions:

Heat oil in dutch oven over med-hi heat. Add bacon; cook, stirring often, until crisp, 3-5 min. Add onions, carrots and celery; cook, stirring often, until veggies are tender, 8-10 min. Add broth, wine and thyme, Bring to boil, place beef in Crock-Pot. Pour hot veggie mixture over beef. Cook on low 6-8 hours. Serve over rice; sprinkle with parsley.

I also added a little pepper and salt, which I thought was weird the recipe didn't call for those...