You can find a recipe for a beef stew from a local book stores and superstores and newsagents and stationers. Alternatively, you can buy it online at www.Amazon.com and www.allrecipes.com
There are many cooking blogs and mom boards that contain a ton of easy slow cooker beef stew recipes.
One can find a recipe for beef stew in the cookbook that one received when the slow cooker was purchased. The Martha Stewart website also has a recipe for slow cooker beef stew.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Beef-Stew-I/Detail.aspx has a detailed and well explained slow cooker beef stew recipe. It is neatly organized which makes it very easy to follow. The best part is that it gives you the calorie count, the total fat and the cholesteral of what you're eating.
You can find a slow cooker recipe for Italian Beef online at websites such as All Recipes and Southern Food. You can also locate a recipe by purchasing a Crock-Pot cooking book at your local Barnes & Noble.
The best place to find a beef stew recipe is recipes.com. This website allows users to rate the quality of the recipe, the difficulty level, and ingredients needed.
It depends on the recipe that you find. For example Betty Cocker's St. Paddies Day Corned Beef Dinner uses a head of garlic, however it's slow cooker version does not.
Just about every recipe website on the web will have slow cooker recipes. Some good recipe websites to check out are allrecipes.com and cookinglight.com. You will find well over 100 slow cooker recipes between those two sites alone.
If you are searching for a beef recipe you can find one online in this site, you have just to click on this URL:http://allrecipes.com/recipes/meat-and-poultry/beef/
A good recipe for preparing beef italian style would be a simple Chicago-Style Italian Beef Sandwich. That recipe can be found at All Recipes website.
There are many websites out there where you can find slow cooker recipes. I don't have a favourite website in particular. You may be able to find one on allrecipies.com
One can find a traditional recipe for brisket of beef on various websites like BBQ and SimplyRecipes. Both websites offer a great variety of recipes, including a traditional recipe for brisket of beef.
There are literally thousands of different recipes for stews, checking a cookbook or a comprehensive recipe site like All Recipes will be a place to start. If one is looking for a specific type of stew, such as vegetarian varieties, or a stew with an ethnic flavor it is wise to search out cookbooks and magazines that focus on those areas.