Sunday Round Up and Stew
It is Sunday 7 December 2014 and it is 4 degrees outside - warmer than last night! Its been a busy old week with one thing and another and am back to work this week. Today has been a pottering sort of day getting stuck into outstanding jobs of which there is a whopping pile still to work through - never mind tiz just the depth that varies! We have had simple plain tasty fare to eat today. I cooked a large pan full of potatoes, the idea being that we would have them as mash and then as a topping for a cottage pie, but best laid plans of mice and men and all that - I am going to have to make new mash for the cottage pie. We had simple tasty stew tonight, softening onions until translucent then adding stewing steak (2 packs of) then carrot and redcurrant jelly, stock, pepper a dash of Lee and Perrins a couple of stock cubes and water and then adding a pre-prepared casserole stew pack, bringing to a simmer then putting the pressure cooker lid on and cook...