I made pies today.

I'm a huge fan of pies, but I don't eat the ones you buy in the shop too often, because well, they're too processed. I like to know what's going into the food that I eat.

If you want to make these at home, you'll need:
- 600-750g mince beef (I used 750 and ended up with quite a lot, so you could probably go as little as 600 grams).
- Pastry (I know nothing about pastry, I just pulled some out of the freezer.. Puff Pastry or whatever. I used 2.5 sheets)
- Four cloves of garlic
- 400ml red wine
- one brown onion
- salt and pepper
- a tablespoon or so of white flour
- one tomato
... that's just what I used, but they're pies, you could put practically anything in them. And it makes 12 pies, by the way.

Firstly, put some oil in a pan and heat the mince meat until brown.


Cut up your onion (finely), crush the garlic and add those to the pan along with the flour. Cook for a couple of minutes and then add the red wine. Once the wine has been added, let it simmer for a while. While it was simmering, I added a tomato (also cut finely), and some salt and pepper. So you want to let that simmer for a while, I think I had it simmering for 30 minutes all up, so that the liquid reduces.

I made pizzas for lunch today. Just smallish ones.

To recreate these little circles of awesomeness at home, you'll need:
- Two tomatoes
- BBQ Sauce (OR tomato sauce, I suppose, but I think BBQ sauce is the best for pizzas. If you're going to use tomato sauce, you need to get proper pizza sauce though, not just the ketchup stuff.
- One small onion (I went with brown, because that was in my fridge, but you can use red onion).
- Cheese (proper grated cheese, no plastic cheese like Singles Cheese or anything..)
- Pizza bases (I bought a 12 pack of small bases for about $4 from Woolworths).
- Yellow mystery spices.
- One chicken breast (or any other meat that you fancy).

Don't be tempted to put avocado on pizza. I'm a firm believer that avocado shouldn't be cooked, and I think it's gross on pizza. But it's awesome on just about everything else, of course.

Also, I should add my "I'm not a pig" disclaimer: Since the bases come in packs of 12, I usually make six of them at once, but I don't eat them all at once! I probably could, though.

Firstly, if you're using chicken, you can start it cooking while you do other things. I grill my chicken, I never really fry anything, because it's just so much healthier to grill, and it makes less of a mess anyway. I put some spices on my chicken. We'll have to refer to them as yellow mystery spices, though... I can't tell you what spices they are because my mum gave me a spice rack for Christmas and she put some spices in the jars but didn't label them, ha.


Next, I used the underside of a spoon to spread the sauce around the bases. I also put some cheese down as my first topping. Then, I chopped up some vegetables... I was planning to use capsicum, tomato and onion on these, but I passed on the capsicum because I had stuffed capsicums at my parent's house the other night.. capsicum overload. So it's just tomato and onion on these.

Then I put the cooked chicken on, then some cheese on top.

So today, for lunch, I made burgers.

To remake this wonderful feat of culinary delight at home, you'll need:
- A tomato
- Lettuce
- Cheese (optional)
- An onion
- One avocado (totally not optional)
- Some capsicum
- BBQ/Tomato Sauce (optional)
- Beef patties - I used lean beef burgers from the meat section in Woolworths.
- Bread rolls

Oh, just so you know, I almost always make everything in servings of two. And I don't eat both servings - one's for my boyfriend when he's around.

First of all, let me tell you about avocado. Avocado is the best vegetable/fruit thing ever. If you don't like avocado, you must be crazy, or perhaps you just haven't had proper, fresh, avocado - if you just had an avocado flavoured dip or something, that really doesn't count and you must try avocado sometime.

First of all, let me say welcome to anyone who reads this. I guess that if you are reading this, you're suffering with extreme boredom and/or procrastination. But thanks for coming, nonetheless.

So, tonight I made an outrageously complicated (read: "super easy, as I am lazy") stirfry.

If you'd like to recreate this masterpiece at home, you'll need:
- one largeish chicken breast
- soy sauce (to taste)
- capsicum
- spring onions
- udon noodles (I used two servings)
- peanuts

Firstly, I oiled the pan and threw in the chicken, cut into pieces. Once it was cooked a little, I threw in some capsicum and spring onions. But you could use any vegetables, I just used whatever was lying around.