What happens when I don't follow my meal plan: Savory Mince

Welcome to the first post of "What's Cooking?" also known as "What on earth can I do with these two mushroom, half a tomato, a zucchini and some salami?".

Before starting this blog, I want to point out I generally have a sort of well stocked pantry/freezer.  At any one time is it rare to find my kitchen without kidney beans, tinned tomato, cous cous/pasta/rice, frozen veggies, some form of frozen meat, flour and yeast. This isn't to say that I sometimes don't have them, but more often then not I do.

I also have a lot of additions like sun dried tomatoes, olives, picked onions, pickled carrots and other random stuff sprinkled through out the pantry and fridge.  My advice before anything else, if you know there are a couple of tinned staples you and your family will happily eat, stock up on them! With a tin of kidney beans, tinned tomatoes, some spices and some cous cous or rice, I can put a really basic, but still reasonably tasty Chilli Con Carne type dish together very quickly.

So on to last night's dinner!

This post is what I'm dubbing "When I don't follow my meal plan".  We were supposed to have hamburgers for dinner last night, but honestly, I could be bothered making them.

 So we had Savory Mince with Rice.

(I appologise profusely for image quality. I was taking these photo's on the phone.  Hopefully I'll find my camera soon!  I also don't know why the image is sideways.)

 

So  basically what makes up this dish is-

Onion (diced)

Garlic 

Mince

Mixed frozen vegetables

Tinned tomatoes

Beef Stock (1 cup)

Flour

Salt & Pepper

Rice to serve.

1.  Brown onion and garlic in a pan, and add mince.  Cook until mince is done.  

2. Chuck in tomatoes, frozen veg and beef stock. Let cook until the veg is done.

3.  Mix approx 2 Tbs flour with water to make a paste, and then add to the mince mixture.  Allow to thicken (should only take a couple of minuets).  Season to taste.

BAM! You're done!

And so ends the first post of "What's Cooking?".