Beef Au Vin

Recipe: 3 lbs. beef roast, rib-eye or sirloin 2 carrots, large dice 1 onion, large dice 6 stalks celery, large dice 4 mushrooms, quartered 4 slices bacon, chopped 1 bottle of good red wine 1 oz. cooking oil 4 oz. flour 2 oz. Worcestershire sauce and 2 oz. Dijon mustard 3 cloves garlic, minced Salt and pepper as needed Rub roast with Dijon mustard, garlic, salt and pepper until coated on all sides. Brown the roast in a roasting pan with oil. Add wine after meat is browned. Add Worcestershire sauce and cover in roasting pan. Bake in oven at 400 degrees for approx. 2 hours or until beef is tender. In a separate pan, saute all vegetables with bacon until bacon is done. Remove roast from oven and set aside for slicing. Mix flour with cold water until a smooth paste is formed. Whisk the paste into the wine and juices left in the roasting pan. Pour in the sauteed vegetables; cover pan and place back in oven for 20 mins. to make sauce. To serve, slice and ladle sauce over top. Serves 6.