Food & Drink Recipe Thread

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Sounds bloody awesome mate!!

so easy

 

[Ticky009]

Okay all. Since we've been doing some discussion around slow cooking - perhaps people might like to post a link or the recipe for your favourite slow cook

Slow Cooked Lamb Shoulder:

Ingredients:
1 Lamb Shoulder (bone in) 1.3 to 1.5kg
Sprigs of Rosemary
Garlic 3-5 cloves (quartered or halved depending on their size)
Olive Oil 1/2 tablespoon
Red Onion: peeled & quartered
Carrots: 3 to 4
Potatoes: 4-5 medium (peeled & halved)
Beef Stock: 500 ml
Salt & pepper per taste

A few glasses of red wine at the end while doing final prep

Method:
1: With a sharp knife make incisions in the lamb and stuff them with the quartered/halved garlic & Rosemary. Make it deep enough to get the garlic clove in there good and proper. You're going to have to make sure they stay in there. Why? Because you don't want them falling out when you brown the shoulder.
2: Season well with salt & pepper
3: Add stock to slow cooker. Throw in the cut vegies. Note: at this point the recipe calls for adding the potatoes to the slow cooker. But I've never liked how it turned out. So I cook the potatoes in the oven instead.
4: Turn on slow cooker.
5: Add the oil to a pan - and brown the shoulder. This is where you'll know if you've placed the garlic & rosemary in well enough
6: Add shoulder to slow cooker. I keep it on low and cook for about 6 hours.
7: Pre-heat the oven to 200c.
I transfer lamb shoulder oven for the final hour to give it a nice skin. So after 6 hours - take the should out and put it into the oven.
8: Whack your potatoes in knowing you've got about an hour for the shoulder in the oven as well.
9: When you're ready to serve & your lamb is out sitting for about 10 mins - make your gravy using a cup of the stock from the slow cooker.
10: I also serve up the carrots & onion.

Note: If you've got enough left overs I shred the lamb while its still hot. Pack it away and use it the next night to make Shepherds pie & I also throw in a bit of the left over gravy. Delicious


Original recipe can be found here:

Slow Cooker Roasted Shoulder of Lamb with Garlic & Rosemary and Lamb Gravy

This is another tasty recipe using a cheaper cut of meat. I really like lamb, but it can be quite expensive. The shoulder, however, is very reasonably priced and tasty. I really like slow cooked me…

cookingwithcorinna.wordpress.com

 

[Mister B]

Try this for dessert.

Chocolate Mud Cake

2 eggs
350g castor sugar
140ml vegetable oil
210g plain flour
11g baking soda (bi-carb soda)
75g cocoa powder
225g sour cream
240ml milk
1. Preheat the oven to 160˚C. Grease a 22cm square cake tin and line the base and sides with baking paper. If the tin has a removable base, it is a good idea to place this tin on a baking tray as the batter is very runny and may leak out during cooking.
2. Whisk the eggs, oil and castor sugar together until pale in a large bowl.
3. In a medium sized bowl sieve together the plain flour, baking soda and cocoa powder and mix together so they are combined.
4. Place the sour cream in another bowl, and slowly pour the milk onto the sour cream while whisking and continue to whisk until completely combined. This should help to avoid any lumps of sour cream.
5. Alternate the wet and dry ingredients as you mix it into the egg/sugar/oil mixture, finishing off with the milk. Mix until completely combined. The mixture will be very runny.
6. Pour batter into the prepared tin and bake in oven for approximately 75 minutes. You will know when the cake is ready, as a cake tester inserted into the middle of the cake will come out clean (or only a couple of crumbs).
7. Allow the cake to cool in the tin for about 20 minutes and then take out of the tin, remove the baking paper and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
The cake is usually quite high in the middle as it comes out of the oven. This will flatten out as it cools.
Chocolate Ganache
100g thickened cream
30g unsalted butter
200g dark chocolate
1. Chop chocolate into small pieces and place in a heatproof bowl.
2. Bring cream and butter to the boil in a small saucepan.
3. Pour the boiling cream over the chocolate and mix quickly until all of the chocolate has melted.
4. Pour some over the top of the cake and use a spatula to smooth out the top and sides.
5. Garnish the cake with fresh strawberries (or anything else you like).

 

[Millky95]

I never want to bake a pie again

 

[Millky95]

Spoiler: Pre Bake

Spoiler: Post Bake and Now Cooling

Pretty sure I ****ed it in like 4 different ways but will see how it tastes in like 4 hours when it's cool

 

[Mister B]

Spoiler: Pre Bake

Spoiler: Post Bake and Now Cooling

Pretty sure I f’ed it in like 4 different ways but will see how it tastes in like 4 hours when it's cool

Looks ok. I'd eat it.

 

[Ticky009]

As it stands via the picture that pie looks pretty freaking damn good Millky95 . I would have gone the still warm with cream/ice cream route patience is sooo not one of my virtues.

And thanks for posting the pics mate. Baking is like a whole different kettle of fish to cooking and I for one certainly admire you for having a crack and tackling it.

 

[Millky95]

As it stands via the picture that pie looks pretty freaking damn good Millky95 . I would have gone the still warm with cream/ice cream route patience is sooo not one of my virtues.

And thanks for posting the pics mate. Baking is like a whole different kettle of fish to cooking and I for one certainly admire you for having a crack and tackling it.

Without having tasted it yet things I'd do differently:
- Keep the blades in the food processor as well as the grater to get smaller cuts of butter
- A bit less water
- Rinse the frozen blueberries instead of just letting them drip out

 

[Ticky009]

Without having tasted it yet things I'd do differently:
- Keep the blades in the food processor as well as the grater to get smaller cuts of butter
- A bit less water
- Rinse the frozen blueberries instead of just letting them drip out

One of the joys of cooking is working out the things they DONT tell you in the recipe/method. Or some times applying other tricks you've learnt.

 

[Ticky009]

Tagging BruceFromBalnarring, SwansProudly , Jewelsbon for your slow cooker recipes

 

[SwansProudly]

Tagging BruceFromBalnarring, SwansProudly , Jewelsbon for your slow cooker recipes

no slow cooker.

 

[Millky95]

Cut into it. I thought it was shit

Mum thought it was lovely.

So take that for what you will hahaha

 

[SwansProudly]

no slow cooker.

does an air fryer count?

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

Not a slow cook but chicken casserole tonight. Crock pot.

4 thighs cut up into casserole size bits
1 onion chopped
1 leek chopped
4 rashers bacon chopped
1 large carrot sliced
1 zucchini halved then sliced
2 cups chicken stock

Sweat off onion, leek and bacon on high stove
Add chicken and brown
Add stock and 1/4 cup flour
Add veggies
Bring to boil
Cover and put in oven at 180 for 1 hour
Uncover, stir, and give it another half hour
Serve on rice

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

does an air fryer count?

#dayoff

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

I should add that all my recipes that aren’t curries are adaptations designed around getting veggies into kids. Hopefully in a few years I’ll be able to add back some spices and be less bland. But that chicken one wins every week.

 

[Millky95]

I should add that all my recipes that aren’t curries are adaptations designed around getting veggies into kids. Hopefully in a few years I’ll be able to add back some spices and be less bland. But that chicken one wins every week.

I need to do that for myself ngl

 

[GotTheGoodes]

does an air fryer count?

I freakin LOVE my air fryer.

#gamechanger

 

[GotTheGoodes]

#dayoff

Oh....


SwansProudly do the honours... *winces*

 

[Nuggetz]

I freakin LOVE my air fryer.

#gamechanger

Bought a kogan airfryer that has a rotisserie. Soo good for making kebab shop style kebabs or smallish roast chicken.

 

[Ticky009]

Cut into it. I thought it was sh*t

Mum thought it was lovely.

So take that for what you will hahaha

Good on you for doing having a go, Millky. Not everyone gets it right the first time, you learn and decide whether you want to go again. I confess I've never taken to baking at all so massive kudos mate.

 

[Millky95]

Good on you for doing having a go, Millky. Not everyone gets it right the first time, you learn and decide whether you want to go again. I confess I've never taken to baking at all so massive kudos mate.

Thank you. I wouldn't give up on it but at the same time not super keen to try again.

Maybe a meat pie hahaha

 

[Ticky009]

Thank you. I wouldn't give up on it but at the same time not super keen to try again.

Maybe a meat pie hahaha

I swear baking is part alchemy part luck.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

I am a hopeless baker of cakes and in making pastries. However I have had success with the following recipe from Ottolenghi's Simple cookbook. I am gunna have another crack at it on Sunday.

Blueberry, Almond and Lemon Cake

Ottolenghi's simple yet irresistible Blueberry, Almond and Lemon Cake is an easy bake that won't fail to impress. With fresh fruity flavours, this classic loaf cake is the perfect accompaniment to your afternoon tea.

thehappyfoodie.co.uk

 

[Millky95]

Dad has asked me to attempt a lasanga this weekend