Seriously though, I hate wasting food, although I must admit not much gets wasted here, what with seven dogs, two pigs, sixteen hens and a cow. But with the increase of food wastage always in the news and yesterday Natalie Coleman (winner of Masterchef), was on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the afternoon, talking about her new campaign, 'Love food, Hate waste,' I always try and do something edible for us to eat with leftovers.
So tonight's leftovers being beef and it being Friday, well it had to be a curry - well sort of! I am renowned for not sticking to recipes's, so I put my own twist on this 'curry'. Michael likes lots of vegetables in his curries, not just a meat and onion curry with rice, so I raided the garden and collected - a large handful of french beans, a yellow courgette, a kohl rabi, one small carrot, half a dozen shallots, about twenty tomatoes and two chillies.
Collected from the garden
Plus, the already chopped tomatoes and shallots
I chopped all these up and placed them in a large casserole dish, along with the chopped up beef (minus any fatty bits - the dogs ate these!), added some water and a good shake of Bisto gravy granules, just to up the 'beefyness' and to thicken the sauce and put it in the oven for about an hour and a half.
and this is what it looked like when it came out -
It tasted delicious, you could taste all the vegetables and the beef was soft and succulent. The two chillies were enough if you like it quite spicy. I do think that this type of dish is best cooked in a slow cooker all day, left to bubble away and develop the flavours even deeper, it was a mistake not to do it with this I think.
Stats today -
Eggs produced = 9
Sales -
Nil
Expenses -
Nil
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