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Seeing as I am leaving my flat today for pastures new, I decided to use up a few bits and bobs.
So I'm cooking a steak and ale pie. Will it turn out well? Probably not, my only real experience of cooking is sticking a pizza in the oven, but I'll give it a stab.
Unfortunately I have a practically non existent set of utensils (think of a saucepan with no handle with a spoon with a hole as a means of holding it steady), and I don't have all the ingredients but ah well!
Okay, to get started, a quick overview of all the ingredients. The puff pastry is massively out of date, I freezed it a couple months ago, but I can't be arsed to buy new stuff.
First off, chopped up the 2 carrots, 4 mushrooms couple sticks of celery and three cloves of garlic. Chopped up 3 red onions and cried like adele watching mcdonalds close.
I then realised I should preheat the oven, so stuck that on (Gas mark 5) and sat around with a Guinness (1 can down!).
I then gently heated some olive oil in a saucepan and tossed in the red onions. Kept the heat low and cooked away for 10 mins. After that I threw in the garlic, celery, mushrooms and carrots and gave a good stir.
After that I realised that I had bolloxed up and that I didn't have rosemary. So I threw in some dried italian mix (oregano, thyme etc), it will have to do. With that I threw in some salt and some pepper, along with the beef. There was far too much beef, but meh, meat is tasty.
By this point another can had been consumed for the sake of good Christian folk everwhere, or more honestly because it is very tasty.
Turned the heat to the top, the gas roared nicely, hitler would have been proud. I gave it a good stir for a couple of minutes.
Then came the heartache, I had to pour a can of my Guinness in.
Can went in with a cheeky pour of my own, so it filled to the top. I then stirred in a couple teaspoons of flour. Stirred it all and left it to simmer.
I then covered it with something that didn't fit very well and had a hole in the top
/) and stuck in the oven where it will languish for an hour and half. (been in there 45 mins now).
Sat here waiting with some more Guinness, til the time is up, and I stir it, before leaving it for another hour and doing all the other aspects need to be done.
So I'm cooking a steak and ale pie. Will it turn out well? Probably not, my only real experience of cooking is sticking a pizza in the oven, but I'll give it a stab.
Unfortunately I have a practically non existent set of utensils (think of a saucepan with no handle with a spoon with a hole as a means of holding it steady), and I don't have all the ingredients but ah well!
Okay, to get started, a quick overview of all the ingredients. The puff pastry is massively out of date, I freezed it a couple months ago, but I can't be arsed to buy new stuff.
First off, chopped up the 2 carrots, 4 mushrooms couple sticks of celery and three cloves of garlic. Chopped up 3 red onions and cried like adele watching mcdonalds close.
I then realised I should preheat the oven, so stuck that on (Gas mark 5) and sat around with a Guinness (1 can down!).
I then gently heated some olive oil in a saucepan and tossed in the red onions. Kept the heat low and cooked away for 10 mins. After that I threw in the garlic, celery, mushrooms and carrots and gave a good stir.
After that I realised that I had bolloxed up and that I didn't have rosemary. So I threw in some dried italian mix (oregano, thyme etc), it will have to do. With that I threw in some salt and some pepper, along with the beef. There was far too much beef, but meh, meat is tasty.
By this point another can had been consumed for the sake of good Christian folk everwhere, or more honestly because it is very tasty.
Turned the heat to the top, the gas roared nicely, hitler would have been proud. I gave it a good stir for a couple of minutes.
Then came the heartache, I had to pour a can of my Guinness in.
Can went in with a cheeky pour of my own, so it filled to the top. I then stirred in a couple teaspoons of flour. Stirred it all and left it to simmer. I then covered it with something that didn't fit very well and had a hole in the top
/) and stuck in the oven where it will languish for an hour and half. (been in there 45 mins now).Sat here waiting with some more Guinness, til the time is up, and I stir it, before leaving it for another hour and doing all the other aspects need to be done.
