Great And Easy Stew - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 to 5 lb. cheap roast (chuck), cut into cubes
5 sliced carrots
4 sliced onions
3 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce
salt and pepper
1 sweet potato, cut in cubes
4 to 5 regular potatoes, cut in cubes

Preparation

Put cut up meat in a very large roasting casserole with carrots, onions, tomato sauce, salt and pepper to taste.
Bake, covered, at 250\u00b0 for 5 hours.
After 3 hours, add sweet potato and regular potatoes.
Cook until tender.
At very end, thicken with potato starch, dissolved in wine or water.
Mushrooms and pearl onions are an optional addition.