Day Two Hundred and Thirty Eight - The Freezer Challenge

Dear all,

After a long day at work, I was very excited to get back home excited as to what we would conjure up for my daily challenge.

Finding a hungry Darren eager to starting cooking up a storm gave me an idea: What about a Freezer Challenge? Find random items [that clearly need eating up {hence the need for a freezer challenge}] and make a meal out of them. **Note: And then eat it.


So, off to the freezer we went! And this is what we found:
1. Onion Rings
2. One packet of ground Veal
3. Sweetcorn
4. A Tupperware container full of a undisclosed' meat item' that we had made in to small 'patties' and then frozen. A more indepth study of the specimin revealed that the meat in question was in fact Bison.

Darren took on the challenge like a Barbarian and immediately asked to me to hunt down any miscellaneous veg I could find. I managed to track down 5 potatoes, 2 bags of mini potatoes [in their skins] and several bag of [semi] mouldy carrots.

I got to work boiling up the potatoes whilst D skillfully cut through the mush to find a plate full of healthy looking carrot.

We got the veal cooking in a pan and also started pan-frying the bison burgers next door. Darren made up a meat-juice made up of a 3-pepper rub, a variety of herbs, cream, orgasmic onion seasoning (of course) and garlic. We poured this onto the Veal and kept it bubbling away.

In the other corner, we prepared the casserole dishes for their imminent food invasion! We layered the veal and bison burgers on the bottom and then placed the carrots and corn on top. Darren then layered on the onion rings and finally the {now mashed} potato layer.

Darren lobbed a good knob of butter onto the pies and we popped them in the oven! The freezer challange was a success!

Here are our wonderful shepherd's pies about to go into the oven! Three for the price of one!

What a success! And all down to Darren and his culinary expertise. We ate and ate until we were both passed out on the sofa in a freezer challenge food coma. And we have left overs for days!

Note to all: This recipe is a one-of-a-kind, the details of which would be impossible to recreate.