My husband begs for this hearty dinner on cold nights. The meat is so tender you don’t even need a knife. Just 4 ingredients for the best gravy ever.

On the coldest nights out here in the country, this is the pot I like to have bubbling away on the counter. These slow cooker 4-ingredient mushroom beef tips remind me of the kind of hearty church-supper dishes I grew up with in the Midwest: simple, thrifty, athe kind of recipe my husband asks for again and again when the wind starts howling and the fields turn brown.

Slow cooker beef tips in mushroom gravy beside a country-style dinner setting

Slow cooker beef tips in mushroom gravy beside a country-style