It’s currently turning a duck carcass into stock, without me having to rush down every now and again and check the heat, check it’s not boiling over, etc. And then there will be Duck Soup for lunch at the weekend. Or possibly a Night at the Opera, or Even a day at the Races.
Tag: slow cooker
three pig stew
Or, I suppose, a sort of goulash 🙂 The transfer of contents from one freezer to another has brought forth some nice things. There’s a whole Gressingham duck defrosting for today’s Easter feast, and there was also a couple of nice pieces of belly pork, and some uncooked chorizo sausages. I skinned a piece of…
chickpea and vegetable tagine
Sorry for the lack of posts – too much work, combined with end of year accounts and VAT return due – and the new freezer due for delivery at the end of this week (hurrah!) has meant that we are eating out of the freezer, mostly. It’s stuff we’ve cooked and frozen, but not very…
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…
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…
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…