Savory Pumpkin Beef Stew With Raven’s Original™ Pumpkin Butter - I Feel Like Cooking

Ingredients

• 1 pound good beef stew meat chunks
• 3 C water with 1 beef bouillon cube dissolved into it
• 1/3 of a medium sweet onion diced
• 2 large unpeeled russet potatoes diced
• 2-3 very large carrots diced
• 1 large stalk celery sliced
• 3 large cloves of garlic sliced thinly
• 1 T fresh oregano leaves
• 1 T fresh thyme leaves
• ¼ C tomato paste
• 1/3 C Raven’s Original pumpkin butter
• 1 t kosher salt and ½ t black pepper. More if tasting yields the need to add additional.
• 2 T vegetable oil