Yam And Beef Stew - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs stew meat
2 large yams
3 large carrots
1/2 white onion
4 garlic cloves
1 teaspoon rosemary
1 teaspoon hickory smoke salt or 1 teaspoon liquid smoke
1 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon ghee
2 teaspoons bouillon (beef flavor, 'better than bouillon' brand)
2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 cup hot water

Preparation

Place meat in crockpot, add 1 teaspoon of the salt and add all of the hickory smoke salt, pepper, and bouillon. Add water until just covered. Cook on high 4 hours.
After four hours, peel and cut carrots and yams into bite size pieces and set aside.
Heat up butter in a medium fry pan on medium heat.
Mince garlic and chop onion.
Add garlic and rosemary and 1 teaspoon salt to the butter and saute for about 3 minutes.
Add onion and saute again for about 3 minutes.
Put garlic mixture and vegetables into the crockpot and cook on high another 2 hours.
About a half hour before serving, mix cornstarch and water together until dissolved and then stir well into the crockpot. This will thicken it up, and it totally optional.