Rowan
The professor?
Recently got a slow cooker for my birthday, it's really good I would definitely recommend. Everything is so easy to cook, it's essentially just mix ingredients up and put them in, then wait. Usually cuts down on washing up too, and it's easy to cook meat really nice. So far I have made with it fajita fillings, enchiladas, honey+garlic chicken, stuffed peppers and beef stew. only got a rubbish picture of the beef stew:
bad quality pic, and it doesn't look appetising on account of the fact it's a brown slodge, but tastes really nice and so easy - essentially just beef, potatoes, carrots, celery, onion with beef stock, some flour, clove of garlic, worcestershire sauce, a bit of paprika, a bay leaf and salt and pepper to taste cook on high for about 5 hours.
also today, bought some reduced price king prawns for cheap cos it was on the sell-by date, and decided to home make breadcrumbed prawns, chips and tartare sauce.
breadcrumbing and shallow frying is fun to do and easy as well, all you need is some flour, egg, breadcrumbs and some oil.
The chips I just chopped potatoes up into chip-shapes put them on a tray with olive oil and salt and put them in the oven for 50 mins. Decided not to deep fry them cos I was already wasting a lot of oil frying the prawns already, and the oven is less effort and healthier. I'd never made my own chips before but the shop had run out of frozen chips, so i thought fuck it I'll do it myself. I'm definitely going to be doing it a lot more from now on, they were really nice, though I'm wondering how to get the outside crispy yet leave the middle soft. Maybe it depends on the potato?
tartare sauce is also easy to do a quick version with mayo, chopped capers and gherkin (pickles to americans i think?), bit of lemon juice, salt and pepper.
I'm not good at making my food look pretty, but that's not important to me. I just enjoy making easy, tasty food.
bad quality pic, and it doesn't look appetising on account of the fact it's a brown slodge, but tastes really nice and so easy - essentially just beef, potatoes, carrots, celery, onion with beef stock, some flour, clove of garlic, worcestershire sauce, a bit of paprika, a bay leaf and salt and pepper to taste cook on high for about 5 hours.
also today, bought some reduced price king prawns for cheap cos it was on the sell-by date, and decided to home make breadcrumbed prawns, chips and tartare sauce.
breadcrumbing and shallow frying is fun to do and easy as well, all you need is some flour, egg, breadcrumbs and some oil.
The chips I just chopped potatoes up into chip-shapes put them on a tray with olive oil and salt and put them in the oven for 50 mins. Decided not to deep fry them cos I was already wasting a lot of oil frying the prawns already, and the oven is less effort and healthier. I'd never made my own chips before but the shop had run out of frozen chips, so i thought fuck it I'll do it myself. I'm definitely going to be doing it a lot more from now on, they were really nice, though I'm wondering how to get the outside crispy yet leave the middle soft. Maybe it depends on the potato?
tartare sauce is also easy to do a quick version with mayo, chopped capers and gherkin (pickles to americans i think?), bit of lemon juice, salt and pepper.
I'm not good at making my food look pretty, but that's not important to me. I just enjoy making easy, tasty food.