Hmm...let me see if I can guess...

Beef stock
Beef chuck (or beef stew meat)
carrots
celery
woodear mushrooms (?) - either that or chantrelles
cauliflower
bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste

Something like that?

do you want the recipe verbatim? it's a little more complicated than that

We love to have your recipes bud, you should know that by now :B

basically I soaked the vegetables and the cubed beef (mushrooms and potatoes excluded) in a bottle of red wine in a bowl for two hours

then I took the meat out and cooked it separate in the oven until it had browned a little bit to keep it solid and infuse the wine into it for flavor so it wasnt boiled and bland

then I took a sprig of rosemary, handful of black peppercorns, and two bay leafs and put them in the crock pot with the vegetables, holding off on the meat so it wouldnt get too soft, waited a bit, then added the dried mushrooms and potatoes and a little of the wine the veg had been soaking in, like 1/3 of a cup, tiny drop of canola oil and then the meat

the veg are cauliflower, baby carrots cut in half, one pack of these http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EJ2MM14AL._SY355AA355_PIbundle-4,TopRight,0,0_AA355_SH20_.jpg, diced large white potatoes, 3/4 of a white onion, and two stalks of celery

the broth was made from boiling a portion of the beef separately, but it might have been better if Id bought it concentrated (i prefer my stew lighter)

total cooking/prep time five-seven hours

sounds amazing!

aw, than you

took forever because every stage of it takes a while to get the right flavor and texture going on

I bet! I'm kicking myself for not taking better notes on when I make-shit-up recipes, I made an amazing turkey a few years ago that was part brine part... something... idk... awww now I'm hungry ...

throughout the day, i'll get so hungry it will feel like I didnt even eat two hours ago, and I got tired of like pre-made and idk, realized the time and labor involved is nice for just curbing me eating so much so anything with method and time behind it is loved by me, especially if it takes two or more people to make it

a friend of mine used to have parties like that, which I always thought was kind of cool,sort of like a cook out or something

Mm I hear ya - I tend to make my breakfast and dinner since I am usually not just cooking for myself... lunch sometimes I 'cheat' simply because I can get SO wrapped up in artwork that I'll be hungry to the part of dizziness by the time I stop. I used to have a pot luck with friends, thinking I may start that up again!

those are always fun. I want to get in on something like that too. Right now it's just me and my neighbor making things out of high-end cookbooks

my big thing is collecting favorite recipes. My parents used to have like 50+ cookbooks lying around the place from like the 50's-60's and back to like their grandparents time

Hmm, I dont see the image I'm sorry to say :3

The better question to ask is, what KIND of mushrooms did you use :3

the ones below

crimini, oyster, Porcini, shittake, chantrelles, maitake, black trumpet, morel, woodear, matsutake, portobello, and lobster

Woof, thatsaloota shrooms bud *hugs*

yeah but theyre not in every pack of them. Theyre Fungus Amongus brand dried mushroom medley

sort of a coin toss what you wind up getting

Cool, I always like surprises...

Unless they put in the psychedelic shrooms, in which case, that would be a heck of a surprise to say the least :P

im actually tempted to try that someday, though they have a pretty rotten taste (would def have to cook them in something strong)