Rev. Peanut's Guinness & Mushroom Pie

Guinness and Mushroom Pie:

Necessary Items:

2 bottles of original Guinness. Not draught, not Nigerian export. Original.

250g Oyster Mushrooms (Not oysters)

250g Button Mushrooms (Not buttons)

250g Shitake Mushrooms (Not shit)

1 large onion

3 cloves of garlic

2 cm of ginger

3 or 4 chillies

½ litre of passata

2 tablespoons of Worcester Sauce

1 teaspoon of chopped fresh rosemary

1 sprig of fresh thyme

1 bay leaf

Salt and pepper

2 potatoes

2 carrots

1 head of broccoli (remove arms, legs and torso)

2 tablespoons of olive oil

Some peas

Puff pastry lids

How to do it:

• Open 1 bottle of Guinness and pour half into a glass.

• Roughly chop the onion, mushrooms, garlic, ginger and chillies

• Heat the oil and sautee ½ the onions in a large saucepan until browned. Drink half the glass of Guinness.

• Add the rest of the onions and sautee for a couple of minutes.

• Add the garlic, ginger and chillies and continue to sautee for a couple more minutes.

• Add the mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes stirring occasionally. Drink the other half of the glass of Guinness.

• Open the second bottle of Guinness and pour the rest of the first bottle into the glass. Chop the potatoes and carrots into 1cm cubes.

• Add the thyme, rosemary and bay leaf to the saucepan. Drink half the glass of Guinness. Add the Worcester sauce and ¾ of the second bottle of Guinness to the saucepan and top up your glass with the rest.

• Add the potatoes and carrots, passata and salt and pepper.

• Cover and cook over a low heat for an hour, stirring regularly.

• Roughly chop the broccoli. Drink the rest of the Guinness.

• Add the broccoli and the peas for the last 10 minutes of cooking. Remove from the heat and leave covered until tomorrow.

• Try to figure out why you only had 2 bottles of Guinness

• Reheat the next day and simmer for 15 minutes. Serve with a puff pastry lid.