a fifo wife {fifo life: whats for dinner: pulled beef}

I made this pulled beef after defrosting a roast and making a last-minute decision to head to the city to make it through the rest of the weekend. Weekends that we need to make it through are weekends when dad is at work because there is no other way to describe them we need to be treated gently on these weekends especially come Sunday. So after googling what I could do with a blade roast without actually being here I came up with this. The original recipe is here the only thing altered apart from how to cook it {essential I guess} was the meat cut also essential I suppose but brisket which is what they have used I have never seen here. So kids biting at my heels the cabin fever making me more frantic I threw it all in the slow cooker turned it on low and away we went.

We returned home that Sunday afternoon the kids exhausted {mission accomplished}  to a an aroma of food swirling around the house that only a slow cooker full of comfort food can bring I think. So whilst the kids completed the last of the orders of showers and pj’s I placed the slow cooker along with four bread rolls onto the table with some left over slaw and dinner was complete. My pulled beef my last minute throw together dinner was met with this is good stuff mum can I have it for lunch tomorrow to? Devine. We ate and talked about the day and what the next week would bring and so with that it finally brought the dreaded weekend to an end.

 Salt and freshly milled black pepper

 30ml/2tbsp olive oil (omit for a slow cooker) 

 2 medium onions, peeled and chopped

 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed

 1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes

 100ml/3½fl oz prepared barbecue sauce

 30ml/2tbsp runny honey

 60ml/4tbsp Worcestershire sauce

 300ml/½pint good, hot beef stock

 10ml/2tsp smoked paprika powder