Game-y Whiney Pie

Ingredients:
Pidgeon, Rabbit, Venison, Beef totalling 750g
OR
Diced potatoes, carots, leeks, celery totalling 750g

A couple of -cooked- sausages/vegetarian sausages
Three large onions
Three tablespoons of black pepper, crushed
One tablespoon of salt
One glass of a strong red wine
One cup of beef/vegetable stock
A few cloves of garlic
Half a cut of tomatoes, skinned and seeded.
Two teaspoons of cornflour
A potato pastry- I made one but it is much easier to buy :D
An egg yolk
Oil
Lea and Perrins Sauce
Bay, Marjoram, Oregano.

Method:
Heat oil on a high temperature in a large pot. Dice the meat into 2x2cm cubes, brown the meat quickly and remove to one side.
Cut and add all three onions to the pan, stirring until caramelised. Throw in around a couple of teaspoons of each herb, and a slightly crushed bay leaf.
Add garlic, and when softened add the meat back into the pan with a few dashes of Lea and Perrins Sauce, the wine, the stock, the pepper and salt, the tomatoes and the sausages.
Using a little water, mix the cornflour to ensure no lumps before adding to the pot. Stir and cover.
Leave on a very low heat for an hour or so, taste and season accordingly. Remove from heat, remove bay leaf and place in as many ramekins as is needed.
Roll pastry out, cover ramekin and trim off excess. Brush with eggyolk and cook at around 190 deg C. The pie is done when the pastry is golden brown.


Vegetables do not need browning or removing whilst the onion cooks, instead they can be sweated off with the onions.
Lea and Perrins is NOT vegetarian, HP sauce is. It is an ok replacement but a little sweet, so more salt may be required.

Stilton and Broccoli Soup

Sofa, this is especially for you since you would LOVE this soup, it tastes like hot sex and I have some right now ;)
These are approximations, I cook by taste and make up my recipes as I go. I used a vegetable stock although a mild chicken stock really brings out the flavour of stilton alot better.

Ingredients:
Vegetable stock
Cider
Stilton
Broccoli
Salt and Pepper
One small onion
Cream

For the stock:
One Lemon
A half handful of thyme
One large onion
Skins, cut-offs and peels from onions, carrots, peppers, potatoes, fennel, celery and broccoli
Salt and Black Pepper to taste
One bulb of garlic
One glass of white wine
Water
Butter or vegetable oil
Sugar

Method-

Heat a large oven-proof pan on the stove, add a few tablespoons of oil or one tablespoon of butter.
Add a pinch of salt and pepper- after 20 seconds turn the heat up and and add the vegetable cut-offs. At this point shell the garlic, leaving the cloves to one side to add the outer bulb skins to the pan.
Dice the onion and garlic, add it and sweat everything off over a low heat for 10 minutes, until the onion becomes caramelised. Burning the garlic will result in a very bitter and unpleasant flavour.
Pour in the glass of wine, taking care not to drink any >_>. Add finely chopped thyme and the juice of one lemon.
When the alcohol has evaporated out of the wine, pour in the glass of water and plenty of salt and pepper. If the flavour is too sour add sugar, one teaspoon at a time until the sourness is gone.
Add another quarter litre of water and place the pan in the oven at around 200 deg C.
After a half hour remove the pan, strain the liquid and taste. Season accordingly but remember that stilton is a salty cheese and will permeate the flavour of the soup.
Return the stock to the heat once the flavour is balanced - it is soup ready :D.

Add all the broccoli florets. Once they are cooked, add a finely diced small onion.
Turn the heat off and blitz the mixture with an immersion blender.
Turn the heat back on, add six tablespoons of stilton and a tablespoon of pepper.
Once the cheese has melted, add a half cup of cream and serve.

Pure Mornings, Melancholy Dawning

So, how about that biology coursework... It's not happening now, and hasn't been for the past three months. I suggest I start it as it is due in last month, and all everyone wants is for me to just get through college. and all I do is shit in their faces. Well. Here's one more.

Don't Mug Yourself

I think drinking a pint of wine is not the best choice of breakfast cereal, but I have a Christian in my bed and a Mike on my floor, mushrooms do not work on me or I at least need three times more, and I am a pregnant college flunk-to-be. Not sure what to say? Nor are we. Except...maybe... that I have not used a single apostrophe in this blog post because when I press it I am hotlinked to something far far away..

Elaborate Escapades

So far, we've drunk champagne in a bath full of soapy bubbles, smoked zoots out of the window standing on the radiator, eaten raw amounts of pizza, escaped in to Cheadle to get alcohol supplies and hula hoops cheese ham bread and pot noodle, as well as vodka whiskey and tequila..and beer. Christian, due to eating nothing ever, is now drunk off one JD and coke. I went on AIR which was about 15 seconds of intense fun XD yes yes yes, and a few kids rides with Alex and Christian. Tomorrow we're getting fasttrack passes and fucking rinsing the scary rides :D And later today we're getting back massages and then going to dinner. Happy times. I'm going to come home eight times wider ^_^