I've just put a casserole in the over.
Skirt of beef, coated with flour and hot paprika, fried off until golden. Next into the pan were roughly chopped red onions, with lots and lots of garlic. The onions were sweated off and transferred to the casserole dish. The pan was deglazed with a bottle of pale ale and some homemade concentrated beef stock. This mixture then went into the dish.
I've added lots of chopped tomatoes, carrots and celery, together with 'country vegetable' dried stew mix (which oddly enough seems to contain pasta) and seasoned it heavily.
It will cook away merrily for 4 hours or so at a low heat whilst we're off at the allotment.