I celebrated my first Christmas with the company I'm working at. First, we threw a client party (for the clients, of course) then it was our annual Christmas party which was a Kids Themed Party. I don't know, I thought the 'Kids theme' was vague, kids nowadays just wear adult clothes but just in tiny sizes ( I mean that's how I feel ) So I decided to get a onesie instead together with Laura and Yu Ston. We all bought Unicorn Onesies!
The party was also a pot luck style kind of party so finally, I have a reason to cook! I don't really need a reason to cook but I just needed time. I picked the simplest dish to do - Beef Stew! I was thinking that it has been raining a lot and what's better than warming up bellies with a wholesome bowl of beef stew right? I took the recipe from Jamie Oliver - Beef & Ale Stew because he really has some quick fantastic dishes you know like the one I did!
This dish in particular was really simple to make, trust me on this. :)
All you need is:
3 fresh or dried bay leaves
500 gm Quality Diced Stewing Beef ( I used beef chuck )
500ml Guinness/ Beef Stock
2 sticks celery
2 sticks carrots
2 medium onions
Olive Oil
Garlic
1 heaped tablespoon of plain flour
400gm tinned chopped tomatoes
seasalt
ground black pepper
1) Slice up that vegetables of yours!
2) Saute your vegetables along with the dried bayleaves.
3) Add in the meat and flour, cook it some more!
4) Season lightly first because the sauce will get saltier as it reduces.
5) Add in your stock and tinned tomatoes!
Voila, it's as simple as that! I actually slow cooked mine in a crock pot over night, the results was awesome! The meat was so tender and it was all just pure awesome :)
One note tho, I never really follow the measurements stated the above. Yeah, I used that as a guideline but I trust my instincts more LOL!
*You can read it more here, if you don't like the way I explain it haha: Jamie's Beef & Ale Stew*
Back to the Christmas post, sorry, I side tracked a little bit. I can't help myself when I explain about food.
It was all pure fun, we had a Secret Santa gift exchange. I got my Santi a gift voucher from Boudoir by Soong Ai Ling. I thought it was the perfect gift for my Santi because this is really not your average mani/pedi parlour. This is the place where pampering your nails are taken to another level (my opinion) getting served with a glass of wine or even champagne and some tooth aching macaroons. What else can a girl ask for right?
Farah got me the Best of Sephora gift set and I really love everything about it. I don't usually put on much make up because I really suck in applying them to my face.So, I'm super happy when I receive things like blushers, lip stuff, mascara, eyebrow stuff and eyeliners.
I guess that's it for now! Yeap this post is way over due too. I was suppose to post it up last year lol but I'm always lazy to transfer pictures out from my phone to the laptop. So yeap, I'm just updating this while I'm sitting in the train.
The Blue Unicorn signing off!
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