Beef, Potatoe and Ale Pie.

I don't measure when I make my own recipes but here's the idea.

2 small potatoes diced to 1"
1 medium onion quartered and split
1 hand full of stewing beef in chunks.
A few mushrooms sliced thickly

Soften and slightly brown onions in oil/butter
Soften potatoes in oil/butter
Lightly cover beef in flour and brown.
Add 1/2 pint of stock or stock cube and water to beef.
Add a splash of red wine (optional)
Add Half a glass of tasty homebrew.
Mix 1 heaped table spoon of corn flower with small amount of water and add to pan.
Season to taste. (I add a little salt, pepper and a bit of thyme)

Put in a casserole dish add mushrooms top up with a little stock/water to cover solids. Cook in a lowish oven for around 60-90 minutes until thickened.

You can line a dish with pastry and cook like a traditional pie or do as I do and just cover the top.

Turn oven up to around 200c and cook until pastry is golden brown.

See other thread for pastry.

That sounds pretty tasty, orfy.

I might use this as a base when I make my Sheperd's Pie again.

Yummy.

I have two in the oven as we speak.

I'll be over in.....9 hours.

It wasn't worth pouring half a glass of Old Speckled hen so I poured a pint and drank the rest.

Any on want to swap a pie for a corny keg?

I'm getting hungry.

I make something similar but I don't use a pastry topping, I prefer to do it with mashed garlic potatoes.

Orfy, i have a question.

Even when watching jamie oliver on the food channel and now hearing about your dish and those two fat ladies that used to be on the food channel............................why does food from the UK always seem so......i don't know..................tossed together. No colors, just kind of............brown.

Dont get me wrong, i love a good sheppards pie.