Beef & Ale Casserole tormenting me while I work
By 5th House
@5thHouse (1678)
Sheffield, England
September 27, 2016 8:31am CST
I feel very organised today. This morning I decided it was time I put the slower cooker (crock pot) to use again. It's rainy outside, has definitely got a little cooler, so it seems like the season for it. I've made a beef and ale casserole. It's run night tonight so I thought how nice it would be if we came back from the run and just had to dish up our evening meal, instead of starting cooking. Having to start cooking when you're tired is never much fun. So all I'll have to do is heat up some Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire puds, which take about 3 minutes -- yes, shock, horror I'm Yorkshire born and bred but I won't be making my own Yorkshire puddings. I probably ought to be expelled from Yorkshire right now and never allowed back.
This afternoon I'm transcribing a court case so I have this amazing aroma to taunt me while I work. Being able to choose your own hours and fit your other chores around your paid job is one of the great perks of working from home. One of the drawbacks is that it's very easy to get distracted, but I seem to have got a lot done today.
Hope you're all having a productive day. What's on the menu tonight?
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@5thHouse (1678)
• Sheffield, England
27 Sep 16
I do actually know how to make them but it seems an unnecessary waste of time when Aunt Bessie's are perfectly fine to just take out of the freezer and put in the oven for 3 minutes. I make my own Yorkshire pudding batter when I cook Toad in the Hole though.
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@CinnamonGrl (7083)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
27 Sep 16
It's still early morning here in California. I haven't planned dinner ahead, I just don't know what we're having. The corned beef hash was good last night, I just cooked peas to go with it, since I had a package of them going "use me.".
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@luisadannointed (4171)
• Philippines
2 Oct 16
Beef and soup that my mom cook for us before she left for work. Sometimes it is hard to cook really when you are tiued and sometimes I was not able to eat the my mom cook for me for dinner because I can't open my eyes once I fell asleep.
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
1 Oct 16
My tea was a microwave thai green curry - very nice though
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
2 Oct 16
@5thHouse the thai red curry is better but I don't mind the green - I prefer indian curries too
@5thHouse (1678)
• Sheffield, England
2 Oct 16
@arthurchappell I found it a strange culinary experience the last time I ate a red thai curry. My daughter and I were sitting there eating and each thinking, "This tastes weird. I'm not really liking this" yet somehow we kept eating it and even went back for more. It was as if we disliked it and liked it at the same time, and I've never had that kind of strange, ambiguous reaction to a food ever before. Perhaps it's just that anything a bit 'perfumed' in flavour seems odd at first (rather like those sweets we used to buy as kids, palma violets) yet it grows on you, the more you eat it.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49133)
• United States
14 Nov 16
I have never heard of a beef and ale casserole. I will look up a recipe.
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@Happy2BeMe (99390)
• Canada
27 Sep 16
Your evening meal sounds wonderful. I have no idea what we are going to have yet. Haven't really give it a thought. I am at work now and my sister and I are going shopping after work so we may just grab something while we are out.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
3 Oct 16
That is what is so nice with working from home . You own your time , and at anytime you can eat , specially when you already have sniffed the delicious smell of a beef and ale casserole .
Actually , i am salivating just reading that your crock pot is cooking that . 
@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
27 Sep 16
Your dinner sounds awfully good... as for us, have no idea. Darling daughter is puttering away in the kitchen as we speak!
@5thHouse (1678)
• Sheffield, England
2 Oct 16
It's nice when the kids cook. I seem to do the bulk of the cooking here and though I do quite enjoy cooking, it's good to have a night off now and again. My husband hasn't cooked for years. When we first met he cooked a lot, introduced me to a lot of different dishes, but over the years we have got more and more 'traditional' about cooking and that's one thing that always falls to me.
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
5 Oct 16
mmmm that sound lovely... the aromas from the kitchen can be motivating and distracting...lol's 
@FayeHazel (40246)
• United States
28 Sep 16
That casserole (called hotdish in Minnesota) sounds wonderful. I love crockpot cooking. Tonight it's chicken dumpling soup. Yum
