I bet Mrs FJ will offer you her recipe for a nice stew. She did us all a wonder cottaging pie yesterday.
In fact that reminds me there are a couple of pheasants for a stew in t'freezer
"beef stew
but brown the beef off in chopped chilli before you add the other ingredients
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Nice one ,an i just found a guinness stew recipe too , that i can add to it
Cheers