I stuck the chicken carcass in the slow cooker (how I love that thing!) with just some water, and cooked it overnight to make stock. And then I cooked it again the next night, as I hadn’t got round to removing the chicken from it and stripping the last of the meat from the bones…
Tag: slow cooker
beef with clementines and ginger wine
There was a 3.75lb hunk of silverside in the freezer, and a tub of clementine mush (clementines that have been boiled and liquidised – I normally use them to make a cake with ground almonds). So diced and sautéed two big carrots, a courgette and two sticks of celery, together with a red onion cut…
meatballs
As my loyal reader will have noticed, we’re moving house in a few weeks. And we have to empty the freezers. We just about eaten our way through all the prepared meals, so now we’re starting to make inroads on the raw ingredients. For some reason, we had 3lbs of sausage meat in the freezer;…
lazy chicken team waste
So called, because it was cooked up with all the stuff left over from our camping trip to Wales with our friends. I had a pack of chicken thighs, so they were chopped up and browned off in some groundnut oil, then put in the slow cooker. Then I fried off some onions in the…
surprise breast of lamb
Why “surprise”? Because I thought it was a pack of sausages when I lifted it from the freezer, which rather dashed our plans for Toad in the Hole for supper on Monday night. I had to rush to the local CoOp and purchase sossidge; the Toad was gorgeous, thanks for asking. So there I had…
lemony coriander chicken
As I’ve mentioned before, our local CoOp is really not bad, and I always take a beak at the reduced section where they put the items that have reached their sell-by date. About three weeks ago, I picked up two packs of chicken thighs – 11 thighs for £3.30. I stowed them in the freezer…
moroccan style rack of lamb
Ages ago – a couple of years – we bought half a salt marsh lamb for Lots of Money. The meat was beautiful and it was worth every penny, and for some reason the rack remained in the freezer. We hauled it out on Saturday, with a view to roasting it for Sunday dinner, but…
sweet potato and cauliflower curry
The veg box brought us a pair of sweet potatoes, and we had a cauliflower left over. Not wanting to cook too much in the heat, I peeled the sweet potatoes and cut them into 2cm-ish chunks. They were simmered for about 18 minutes, and I put the cauliflower florets in the steamer basket for…
kabanos stew
Pete likes a kabanos sossidge with his lunch, and for years we bought packs of long ones (fnaar) from Costco. Of late, sadly, they have only had the shorter kabanos in stock, which simply aren’t the same, and thus they don’t get eaten. I opened the box in the fridge a few days ago, because…
when the off licence gives you rhubarb …
We have a wonderful off licence in our village – we go in there and order wine, they deliver it, we give them a cheque. Works beautifully. I popped in there last week, and they asked where P was – “planting a rhubarb crown”, I said. Which he was. At which point, they invited us…