Beef Pot Roast in Crock Pot / Slow Cooker
This is my first roast in a crock pot, I didn’t get to try this as I don’t eat red meat but the family enjoyed the beef and so did our dinner guest. I served it with Recipe #192237 and steam broccoli.
Perfect Rice Every Time We Cook It!
This “recipe” comes from a 40 year old cook book I inherited when I met Russell! “Entertaining with Kerr”. He was a pompus TV cook in Australia, and this is the only thing I’ve ever cooked out of the book. It’s also the ONLY way I enjoy my rice (and we eat a lot of that!)
Fried Chorizo With Garlic
Adapted from a recipe in ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly’s TAPAS antipasto mezze’. Chorizo sausage – surprisingly NOT in the Zaar Kitchen Dictionary – is a sausage of Spanish origin made from ground pork, garlic and chillies, so if you cannot get chorizo sausages that gives you the general idea: just substitute with a sausage you really like. The appeal of the dish is certainly going to be largely determined by your choice of sausage; and if you like a bit of heat in your food, either choose a spicy sausage or add something like red pepper flakes in step three. 680g? Well, 500g = 1lb; 750g = 11/2lb, and exact quantities are obviously not crucial here. 5mm? 3mm =1/8 inch and 6mm = 1/4 inch. Again, the exact size of the slices is not crucial, but be ready to decrease or increase your cooking time according to the thickness of your sausage slices. You can prepare this recipe to the end of step two earlier in the day (and have the additional ingredients ready) and complete step three just prior to serving.
Vegetable Stock
This is the stock used in a recipe I have just posted for Cashew and Leek Soup. It has been adapted from a book which I found today and just HAD TO BUY – ‘Green: modern vegetarian recipes’ by Australian cook Flip Shelton. I haven’t tried any of the recipes yet, but all the recipes in the book sound wonderfully healthy; and this recipe is really quite different from the other vegetable stock recipes already posted. If you are wanting to make your own vegetable stock, you may want to combine the ideas here with another recipe. It’s just that it could take a while to gather together the ingredients! As Flip says “It’s so easy to make your own stock – plus it’s a great way to use up things like vegetable peel (other than potato), carrot tops and bottoms, onion skins and the skinny inner stalks of celery. Start by saving well-washed vegetable peel in a plastic bag in the freezer. Keep adding to the bag until you have enough” to make this recipe. She doesn’t mention making this in a crockpot, but this is where I’ll be making it once I’ve got into the habit of saving the required ingredients!
Rissoles
A friend gave me this recipe years ago. I’m not sure where it orginally came from. The Australian rissole is generally made from minced meat and pan fried, without a pastry covering, but sometimes with breadcrumbs. This recipe is suitable to freeze and for OAMC. Thanks to Tish I have added the directions.
