Sunday 5th Feburary

A sweet beef and guinness stew, with a big plate of mash and some seasonal veg. You can’t go wrong on a Sunday evening with this sort of thing can you? My folks use a proper potato ricer for their mash (and I suspect the mustard is not Coleman's), which I’m sceptical about at first, but the end result works well and I go back for a second helping. We start off drinking beer, as is appropriate, then move on to some Californian plonk.