OK enough of this cook for 6 hours nonsense!!

15 minute stew (assuming you have a pressure cooker)

brown a few well chopped onions
add some mince (approx 500g... not good with figures.. just bung in enough)
brown mince
add a few chopped carrots
add about 6 peeled and chopped spuds
add water/ beef stock / guinness / red wine... whatever(enough to 3/4 cover the meat and spuds in the pot)
add herbs to taste
dash of worcester sauce
stock cubes / gravy powder (depending on what liquid you used)

bung the lid on and cook for whatever length of time it needs to cook spuds (approx 7 mins with mine)

take off lid and attack with a Cheatle (wooden musher thing) or potato masher.. and mush until it looks like stew.... I like mine with recognisable potato lumps....

slainte

alison