Mom's Beef Stew

Ingredients: (measurements are not exact, and do not need to be)
Flour
Salt and pepper
Olive oil
Beef chunks
Tomatoes, canned and peeled, 2 medium size cans
Carrots, sliced, bit sized
Onions
Potatoes
Thyme
A bay leaf

Directions:
1. Dredge chunks of beef bite sized pieces in a mixture of salt pepper and flour and then brown in olive oil in a iron sauce pan until brown on all sides, leaving a floury scummy stuff in the frying pan.
2. Peel potatoes and onions. Hard boil the potatoes for a little, not all the way, and that gives you a stock
3. Then take tomatoes and put then in the pan you friend the beef to de-glaze the pan with the tomatoes. Add the beef back in and add carrots. and then you add that to the potatoes and onions.
4. If that dries out a little, add some of the potato onion water, if its not thick, add some flour.
5. Cook it all until the veggies are cooked.

Recipe Source: From my mom, from her mom (so from my grandmother).

AMENDMENT: Be careful to keep mixing this or put it on a raised burner or trivet when simmering as the bottom may burn and it can affect the taste.