Steak pie

 Folks-

After our trip to Europe a few weeks back, I decided to make something good for a winter evening that's more inspired by the food we had there. Tonight I fixed a Steak Pie and School Cake with Custard for dessert. I'm not ready to post the recipe for the School Cake with Custard yet... that's going to take work. The Steak Pie though was a hit.

I started with a recipe from Taming Twins (which crashed my Kindle) and - you guessed it - modified it,

Here's my non-crashy version of a Steak Pie recipe!

Ingredients:

1.5 lbs beef stew meat

1-2 tbsp vegetable oil 

1/4 cup flour

4 carrots, peeled and cut into large chunks

3-4 celery sticks cut into smaller chunks

1 large onion chopped into large chunks

2 1/2 cups beef stock

2 tbsp Worstershire Sauce 

2 tbsp Tomato Ketchup 

Salt and pepper to taste

A pie crust or puff pastry

In an electric pressure cooker, sauteed the stew meat in the vegetable oil until nicely seared. Stir the flour into the meat drippings and use some of the beef stock to degraze the pot. Add in the vegetables and the other ingredients and make sure they are evenly distributed in the bottom of the pot. Seal the pressure cooker and cook on high for 20 minutes. Allow to depressurize naturally and cool to warm, not hot. Prepare the crust in a 9x13 casserole pan or two 9" pie pans, then fill with the beef stew, top with another crust, then bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.