Classic Beef Stew - Fresh Fork Market

Ingredients

• 2 lbs beef stew meat
• Salt and pepper
• High heat oil (coconut, canola, etc.)
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 carrot, diced
• 2 ribs celery, diced
• 4 cloves garlic, sliced
• 1 large leek, white and light green parts only, finely chopped
• 1/3 cup button mushrooms, chopped
• 3 oven-dried roma tomatoes in their sauce, chopped (~1/4 cup if using another kind of sun-dried tomato)
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 tsp thyme
• 1 tsp oregano
• 1/2 cup red wine
• 2 cups tomato sauce (use either simple tomato sauce, or purée 1 pint of frozen chopped tomatoes)
• 3-4 cups beef broth, warmed
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 red potatoes, scrubbed and cut into bit-sized chunks
• 1/3-1/2 cup chopped flat parsley leaves