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!