Couple of weeks in

The choice of TV to watch is definitely becoming more important. Jamie Oliver has a special lockdown cookery show, I happened to have some cubed beef so was inspired to follow his beef hotpot recipe - it was delicious. 

Yesterday I started to watch a documentary about the Spanish flu pandemic. It was just too real life so I stopped after 1 minute. 

Recipe

Cut into 1 inch chunks - 2 carrots, 2 onions, 2 celery sticks (I added more carrots)

Add herbs (he suggested rosemary, I didn’t have any dominos added a bit of sage)

Fry them in olive oil

Add a heaped table spoon of flour and stir

Pour in a bottle of beer

Add a tin on tomatoes 

Fill the tin with water and add that too

Season

Put the raw beef in the pan

(I added 1 teaspoon mustard powder and a glug of Henderson’s relish)

Cover and put in 160° oven for 2 hours

Par boil potatoes in 1cm slices for 10 minutes

Place on top of beef stew

Brush with olive oil

Back in the oven uncovered at 180° for 40 minutes