re: Whats your favorite comfort meal?

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Rat's Mom's Pressure Cooker Stew

2-3 lbs stew meat (I like chuck roast)
flour, salt and pepper
water
medium onion
2-3 lbs large red potatoes
3-4 large carrots
cooked rice


Cut stew meat into large cubes (1" to 1 1/2"). Dust with flour, salt and pepper.

Heat a little oil in the pressure cooker to medium heat. Brown the crap out of the beef cubes. Do them in batches so you don't crowd the pot. When you think they're done, brown them some more.

When the cubes are all done, put all of them back into the pot along with a medium diced onion. Add water to cover. Cook meat 35 minutes. (My cooker cooks at 11.5 psi.)

While the meat is cooking peel the red potatoes and cut into large chunks. Peel and cut the carrots into very large pieces.

When the time is up on the meat, lower pressure and add the potatoes and carrots and water, if necessary.

Cook everything for another 15 minutes. Remove all the pieces and add flour to the pot to thicken up the gravy to your liking. Correct seasoning. Combine everything back together and serve over rice.