a weekend's cooking

We had already set aside Saturday evening to make a batch of Pete’s Wondrous Chilli – the beans were boiled and slow-cookered on Friday night, and we set to and made it yesterday afternoon.  4lbs of lovely Dexter stewing beef was turned into 10 really rather generous portions; we shall have  some for supper tonight,…

slow cooked breast of lamb

Still on the freezer clearout, we liberated a rolled breast of salt marsh lamb, and a cooked chicken breast.  This is what I did with the lamb. Put some haricot beans to soak overnight, then simmered them for 30 minutes. Browned the lamb in some groundnut oil. Into the slow cooker went: lamb, beans, one…

liquid egg

I don’t often post links on this blog, but this one was just too extraordinary to keep to myself. Designed, apparently, for people who are “too lazy to crack an egg”. I despair. Spotted on Nothing to do with Arbroath, a daily miscellany that’s well worth reading.

steak pudding

I would have preferred it to be steak and kidney pudding, but ‘im indoors won’t eat offal, so steak and mushroom it was.  I made a batch of steak and mushroom pie filling a while back, and put half in the freezer, where it languished until Friday night. The potential problem with a snake and…

tortilla-ish sort of thing

As our regular reader will know, we are desperate to reclaim some freezer space.  So, on Friday evening, I removed two tubs – one labelled “black bean tortilla mix” and one bearing the legend “beef and mushroom pie filling”.  And yesterday morning I fished out the packet of organic wheaten wraps that had been languishing…

beef fried rice

using up: the last of the beef rib, a couple of very dried up flat mushrooms We love egg fried rice, but are rarely organised enough to have cold cooked rice available. However, last night we did a double lot to accompany our south indian cabbage (a meal we love), so we were poised! Pete…

four meat soup

This week’s soup is a real amalgam. I marmalised  in the food processor: one leek, one parsnip, two sticks of celery, two carrots.  Into the slow cooker they went. In the freezer were two bags of chicken and peapod stock, to make ris e bisi, but we decided to sacrifice them to the soup.  So…

slow cooked beef rib

I usually do this in the oven, but being in slow cooker experimentation mode, I decided to try it in there. One rib of beef – not very big, probably only a couple of pounds.  Ours was a slab of Dexter, bought from the wonderful Mr Rawlings. I browned it in some groundnut oil, and…

fruity gammon

using up: half a gammon, some manky apples Continuing in the mission to make space in the freezers, Pete found a small rib of beef, and half a large gammon in the outside one yesterday.  The rib is for today’s dinner (yum), and I did this with the gammon: Put it in the slow cooker…

gingery chickpeas

More experimentation with the slow cooker, this. I started on Wednesday evening (i.e. 2 days before we ate this!), by putting some chickpeas (probably about 2.5 mugs full) to soak in cold water overnight. We do always have tins in the larder, but I like to used dried where possible, as they are so much…