Easy Beef Stew Over Rice Or Noodles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 large onion, chopped into strings
1/2 fennel bulb, and stalk with leaves chopped
2 celery, stalks chopped
3 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt and pepper
3 lbs beef steaks (i use pot roast cut into bite size chunks but sirloin or 3 lbs stew meat, work just as well)
salt and pepper, and flour to coat
1/3 - 1/2 cup sherry wine
1 (10 1/2 ounce) can beef consomme or (10 1/2 ounce) can French onion soup
2 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation

saute veggies in the 2 TB olive oil and a little salt and pepper in a larege pan until soft (10 mins) -
remove and set aside.
salt and pepper meat then sprinkle with flour to coat all sides.
Brown meat well on all sides in 2 T olive oil about 10 minutes,
deglaze the pan with the sherry- getting up all the bits,
add soup and vegetables and stir until bubbly.
serve over rice or egg noodles with green salad.