Week 7: PIES!!!!!

So Week 7, and I was hungry again (just about regained appetite after the giant burrito!). So I decided to make pies (from scratch). I like meat and potato pies, so I made meat and potato pies :)

 Started off by covering the beef in flour and frying til browned.

 Chopped up some veggies.

 Split them up between 2 casserole dishes.

 And cooked on a low heat for a couple of hours.

I then pulled out most of the meat and potatoes and reduced the gravy with them to make the filling.

 Any juices which were left I reduced again and made into an awesome gravy.

 Shortcrust pastry I made by hand and then forgot to take any pictures, but I promise I did do the whole kneading the lard and butter into the flour thing, the mess which was left across the kitchen could testify to that, as can the mostly still full bottle of fizzy water I have in the fridge still.

And so I made 12 meat and potato pies, perfect for snacking on, which I did, for the rest of the week with a dollop of gravy on each. An endeavour I will certainly repeat!

Week 6: Go to a Metal Battle of the Bands

First of all, apologies for falling behind with these blog posts. But I can confirm that I have been keeping up to date in terms of doing the challenges.

So on week 6 I got to go to a 4 band Metal competition at Grand Central Rock Bar in Manchester, the winner of which would play at Bloodstock.

I was there supporting my friends in Bloodyard who without being biassed were awesome!

  Bloodbus!!!

They really put on a show AND were technically good. A really impressive feat especially considering the heat in the room was insane.

Slightly different band promotional photo!

Unfortunately Bloodyard didn't win but reaching the final was an impressive achievement none the less and is part of a series of vast improvements for them over the last year. Really had a fun night!

Week 5: Attempt an Eating Challenge

So for those you follow me on twitter and or facebook you will be aware that last week I allowed you to choose what I was doing from:

Skinny Dip
Eating Challenge
Ride a Spacehopper on a Train
Skiing
Rock Climbing

It was a close race.

In third place: Skinny Dip (Thank you ladies :p)

In 2nd place: Ride a spacehopper on a train

And so in 1st place: . . . with no preparation . . . Eating Challenge!!!

Go Burrito was the place to be to take on their Sink The Titanic Challenge, a humungous Burrito surrounded by nachos. I feared for my life.

But I dug in, and motored on through getting roughly a third of the way through within 5 minutes. But lack of preparation told and I was forced to concede. If you really want to watch the pain, agony and disgusting tactics I used then here you go : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltVtNmiJMMs

 

 

Remnants

So Notes:

1) Prepare: Eat loads, stretch out the stomach for the week/month beforehand. Then minimal eating on the day before. Also heavy exercise beforehand.

2) DON'T try to this whilst slightly hungover

3) DON'T play football an hour afterwards

OOOPH!!