Nothin' beats home cookin'

Yep. There's no denying that homemade food is best. Since the arrival of Alex, Tash and I have gotten somewhat lazy with eating. Alex is not a great sleeper (as I have mentioned before) and as such we are both often very tired in the evenings and get lazy with the cooking. Enter the Slow-cooker. What a wonderful invention. We can prep dinner in the mornings when we tend to have more energy and simply drop it all in the cooker. Set for "Low" and leave it to do its thing for the day. At the end of the day I'll simply make some roast potatoes or something equally nice and serve. Beautiful. Corned Beef, roast chicken, beef or lamb, stews, casseroles, etc. Simply delicious and packed full of veggies.

Yesterday we realised that we had some porterhouse steak in the fridge that had to be used. Neither of us were inclined towards a steak dinner so Tash suggested pies. We have a little pie-making device that Tash won years ago but that we haven't used in ages. So Tash seasoned the steaks and popped them in the slow cooker for a few hours. When done, they simply fell apart and tasted amazing (got to taste before using). Using the stock that was left in the pot, Tash brewed up some fantastic gravy and we cooked up some carrots, peas, corn, onion and capsicum. All mixed in with the shredded beef from the steaks and popped into pastry to make pies. Man they were good. They beat the cr@p out of anything you can buy in the stores. A complete meal encased in pastry. Oh yeah. My wife has the best ideas sometimes and man-oh-man can she cook. Gourmet meals and all that fancy stuff they show on things like "Masterchef" (bah!) are all well and good but simple and tasty home cooked meals are often the best. Duck L'orange and Souffle are nice and all but a lot of the time I just enjoy a simple home recipe like savoury mince, beef casserole or those wonderful meat pies. Yum.