It’s getting nippy out there. (It is November, incidentally.) And it’s time to start making those favorite meals that warm us up inside and out.

Try this great recipe for Beef Pot Pie. Your whole family is sure to love it!

Beef Pot Pie

(Serves 4)

1 lb package beef tips

1 Cup Red Wine

1 Onion, medium dice

½ Cup frozen corn

½ Cup frozen peas

1 Cup sliced mushrooms

1 Potato, diced and boiled

1 Carrot, medium dice

2 Celery stalks, medium dice

2 Tbsp. Butter

2 Tbsp. Flour

2 Cups Beef Stock

Salt and Pepper

1 12 inch circle of puff pastry

In a heavy bottom saucepan, sweat onions, carrot and celery in butter.  Add mushrooms and cook until done.  Add flour and cook until the flour taste is gone, about 5 minutes.  Add beef stock, a little at a time, stirring constantly.  Cook until thickened, about 5 minutes.  Add corn, potatoes and peas, season to taste and place in a pie pan. Cover with puff pastry and bake at 350 degrees for 2 minutes.  Remove from oven and let sit 15 minutes before slicing.

Photo courtesy of a-good-eye.blogspot.com.

Well, we have a new president-elect here in the United States. And guess what he did last night as he awaited the results from the polls???

HE ATE STEAK!

Whatever your politics are, even if you didn’t vote for him, if you didn’t already love him . . . ya gotta get on board now that you know this.

Here’s what the Associated Press had to say . . .

Obama awaits vote with basketball, steak dinner

By NEDRA PICKLER

CHICAGO (AP) — Barack Obama unwound by playing basketball and eating a steak dinner with extended family Tuesday as he awaited Election Day results that he hoped would send him to the White House with support from red and blue America.

The Democratic presidential nominee watched early returns in a downtown Chicago hotel room with staff, then went home for dinner with his wife, daughters and in-laws. He returned to the hotel after the 90-minute respite at home, with a suite designated for adults and another for children to gather while awaiting the race’s outcome.

I predict a very tasty future for this nation.

Can we all enjoy a little steak now?

YES WE CAN!

Quote and photo courtesty of the Associated Press.

Happy Monday! I hope your Halloween was full of more treats than tricks.

I have found a cool little graph here that plots the choices of all who give their opinion on what the “perfect steak” might be. 

The graph goes from “bloody” to “chewy” and “like butter” to “burnt” and all points in between. You move the cursor to where your perfect steak would fall and then you get to see where all 4,000 others who have visited this site made their mark.

Pretty interesting.

Mine was in between “chewy” and “burnt.”  Mmmm, appetizing descriptions. But lots of fun!

Check it out here!