I'm already tired cut up red taters, Onions, Celery, Carrots, Frozen peas added later..Cleaned and trimmed the Deer stew meat, mixed the flower, sea salt, coarse pepper, Thyme , Rosemary, 3 garlic cloves diced, garlic powder and mixed it before adding to the stewed beef in a bowl..Fired up a pan with olive oil and butter..Browned the meat added it to the crock pot and deglazed pan with red wine...Added that to the pot with two heaping tbs of tomato paste, bay leaves 3, Worcestershire sauce 2 tbs and 1 pack of Lipton onion soup with 1 can of Beef broth...Set crock to 6 hrs then stir and continue on low for another 2 hrs...