Oven Baked Stew

This is a recipe, shared by friends, that I served at our Quilt Circle Holiday Party a couple weeks ago. I baked it in a large roasting pan and it made about 20 servings.

Ingredients

• 2 pounds beef tenderloin steaks diced (I used stew meat and marinated it in the V8 juice overnight)
• 8 potatoes, peeled and diced
• 4 (12 ounce) cans of V8 juice
• 3 cups diced carrots
• 1 cup diced celery

• 1 onion, diced
• 3 tablespoons tapioca
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
2. Stir beef, potatoes, V8 juice, carrots, celery, onion, tapioca, sugar, salt, and pepper together in a roasting pan; cover.
3. 
   
4. Bake in preheated oven until beef and potatoes are tender, about 5 hours.

My notes: I baked it more like 7 hours and I added 2 bay leaves and 2 t dried rosemary. I served it with home baked dinner rolls. Now, that's comfort food.