Grilled shrimp, fried crawfish tails, jalapeno poppers filled with crawfish/catfish filling. Chased it with a Bud.

Made a whole bunch of Shepherd's pie for today and for meals next week.

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Originally posted by Mikito:
Made a whole bunch of Shepherd's pie for today and for meals next week.

That is a winter favorite.

I had corned beef with carrots, brussel sprouts, onion, and sweet potato.

Inaugural use of the Instapot was corned beef and cabbage.

One Newcastle Brown Ale in the pot with 3 cups of water, 4 pound corn beef, pickling spices. The corned beef was rinsed before it went in. Set the Instapot for 85 minutes, high pressure and allowed to naturally come back down to pressure.

Took the corned beef out and covered it in aluminum foil. Strained the liquid and put it back into the pot along with cabbage wedges, cut up red potatoes, carrots, and some onions. Set Instapot for 4 minutes and did instant release at the end.

Very tasty. We made one mistake. I mentioned to my wife that she needed to put the thing that goes in the bottom of the pot in before she put the corned beef in. She said she did. About twenty minutes into the cooking, she holds up the thing that goes in the bottom of the pot and asks me what it's for. 13 years today we've been married. The bottom of the corned beef was a little tougher than the rest and would have been perfect if we had used the thing.