On Reddit I found a great little recipe for Mini Steak and Ale Pies.  These looked delicious, and also seemed pretty simple to do.  That being said, I am a lazy, lazy man and didn’t want to sit over the stove to cook it all.  So I took the recipe and modified it so I could make it in my slow cooker overnight (minus the baking part, but the cooking of the steak and the braising afterwards were all done in the slow cooker to save myself from standing over the stove and watching it).

I have included the recipe, which I tweaked slightly, below.

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Sigh.

It’s been a week.  I was going to follow-up on a previous post about Zabbix API and getting a working status display going, but either Dell or Pitt-Ohio threw a wrench in the works today.  We’re not sure who mucked it up, but someone mucked it up and we’ve spent the last two days cleaning it up.

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