Chilli & chill

Aaah what an amazing day. Woke up hungover but that was OK - kind of expected after insisting on Cafe Patron shots yesterday. I decided that I wanted to cook something in the slow cooker, so I strolled over to Morrissons to buy some breakfast and ingredients. 

I decided to to cook something that would be as if a chilli and pulled beef had a baby. A perfect little spicy meat baby. I used my father-in-laws famous chilli recipe as a guideline but I don't really like to cook after recipes (too impatient) so I ended up just throwing stuff in and improvising.

I thought at first that I shouldn't bore you with the recipe but then I realised that if I post it here I can look back next time to remind myself. So here's the shopping list Helena:

• Big chunk of meat - sear before placing in the slow cooker! Crucial.
• 2 onions
• 2 celery sticks
• 2 carrots
• 5 cloves garlic
• 5 bird eye chillies
• A squeeze of BBQ sauce
• 1 tube tomato pure
• 1 tin chopped tomatoes
• A splash of balsamic vinegar
• LOTS of salt and pepper (I used smoked salt in this batch)
• Chilli powder & paprika
• 2 sweet potatoes
• 1 tin chickpeas
• 1 tin broad beans
• 1 tin kidney beans
• 2 beef stock cubes
• 1 litre of water
• 1/3 of a bunch fresh coriander
• Dash of red wine

I think that's it. So basically - chop everything and place in the slow cooker, with the seared meat in the middle. Don't have a slow cooker? Lame!

As you can see it looks absolutely stunning. This i before I added all the sauces and spices by the way, I decided this was more photo friendly heheheheh...

So, what did I do the rest of the day? This:

Life. Is. Tough.

I tried to cosy up our roof terrace as well - how amazing is this?