Five Hour Beef Stew - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lbs lean stew meat
3 carrots, diced large
3 stalks celery, diced large
2 potatoes, diced large
1/2 green pepper
1/2 onion, diced large
1 (14 1/2 ounce) can tomatoes
0.5 (14 1/2 ounce) can water
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoons pearl tapioca

Preparation

Mix ingredients well in dutch oven and cover.
Bake at 300 degrees for five hours.
Do not peek.
(I confess I do peek at about four hours to see if it's tender and thick enough!).