Grandpa Offer used to cook up a can of Dinty Moore beef stew for us when we were kids, and we loved it. I tried a can as an adult, and I hated it. Too greasy.

I had my stew for dinner, and it was terrific. I bought turnips at the farmers' market for the stew. When I cut them up, they looked very red, but I'm not all that familiar with turnips. Turns out they were beets. Lord knows where my wife put my turnips. But hey, they were really good in the stew.

Mostly, I used the recipe from the Rival Crock Pot cookbook:

Insert in pot, in order:
3 carrots, cut up (I used a pound of "baby carrots")
3 potatoes, cut up (I used a 3-pound bag of Yukon Gold potatoes, quartered
2 pounds beef chuck or stew meet (I used flank steak because it was on sale)
1 cup beef stock (I used 2 cups beef buillon, because 1 was too dry)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce (I was generous)
1 clove garlic (I was generous)
1 bay leaf (I used 2)
Salt to taste (I used none, but the bouillon was salty)
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon paprika (I was generous)
3 onions (I used 1-1/2 very large onions
1 stalk celery with tops, cut up (I used more)
Added:
And the unintentional beets.
And one teaspoon bourbon to level out the taste.

I cooked it on high in the crock pot for about 5 or 6 hours, and it was good.

-Joe-