using up: smoked trout, a bulb of fennel We like risotto; sometimes I make it in the oven, and sometimes I stand over the pot, ladling in stock. Whatever, I know my 5oz of rice to 1 pint of liquid works. Today, I thought I’d try the slow cooker. I did a bit of Googling,…
Month: February 2009
duck fail
Last weekend, Sainsburys were doing whole Gressingham ducks for £7 each – a bargain, I’m sure you’ll agree. I hate supermarkets, and only visit one every few weeks, so I felt this offer was most timely and bore a brace of ducks home in my fair trade bags. One went in the freezer, and one…
red cabbage and apple
We’re big fans of red cabbage – it goes so well with stews, and sausages, and cold meat, and roast goose, and and and.
I normally make it in a Le Creuset pot, and cook it in a very low oven, but I thought I’d give it a whirl in the slow cooker, and it was great!
vegetable and flageolet bean soup
About five carrots, two sticks of celery, and a leek, chopped up small. About a mugful of flageolet beans, soaked in boiling water and left for about six hours. The remains of last week’s soup – about half a pint of tomato and lentil. All hurled in the slow cooker, topped up with cold water,…
moroccan meatballs with sweet pepper sauce
As I said in the spag bol post, I had about a pound of mince left over. In fact, when we weighed it, it was 1lb 7oz!
Pete set to making the meatballs; he ground cumin, coriander, allspice, fennel seeds and cinnamon, finely chopped a shallot and some garlic, and mashed it all together. It made 18 walnut-sized meatballs. He left out salt, but we realised before it was too late …
spag bol
Pretty much everyone (apart from vegetarians, I guess) loves spag bol, and most people have their own tried and tested recipes. We had a load of mince in the freezer, and a slow cooker needing to be experimented with, so what could be better? …
I haz slow cooker!
Bought on eBay for almost exactly the sum I sold some Russell & Bromley loafers! Been thinking about one for a while, and thought it was worth a go.
I shall be posting recipes for it (if they work!). At the moment, we are testing it with some Indian dhal thus:
leeks with parma ham
I found an unopened packet of parma ham slices in the fridge left from the festering season. It was a couple of weeks past its sell by date, but hey – it’s vacuum packed, it’s preserved …
This is a take on a Jamie Oliver recipe – I missed out the wine, and some of the butter. Fed two hungry people …
this week's soup 11 feb 08
Bit late with this, as first we finished last week’s soup, and yesterday we had -shock horror- Tuscan bean soup from the Co-Op, as I have a cold and hadn’t made any and wanted soup. The Co-Op was selling bags of “stew pack” veg reduced to 99p – a bunch of carrots, a swede, a…
aubergine and chickpea curry
the makings of aubergine and chickpea curry, originally uploaded by ramtops. using up: aubergines, a sweet potato I bought some aubergines from the farm shop last weekend – they were a bit tired, but when I looked at them on Tuesday they really did need cooking. So I bunged in some chickpeas to soak, boiled…