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Slow cooker lamb shank meat with oven cooked kale sprouts and vegetables

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Another day working from home with the slow cooker working hard.

Slow cooker lamb shank meat with oven cooked kale sprouts and vegetables

Slow cooker beef cheeks and red cabbage coleslaw

#covidlife #workfromhome

So there was a little work today but I managed to get in a couple of nice walks.

Slow cooker caramelised onion pizza

#meatfree

It’s Friday and I worked from home today. The last few Fridays I’ve been making a pizza for tea so I thought I would try to keep this going. Given I was home I figured I’d caramelise some onions in the slow cooker.

Slow cooker rolled boneless lamb shoulder with green vegetables

You can find the full recipe at Yummy Lummy. This is just a summary.

Slow cooker boneless rolled lamb shoulder with peas, beans, and broccoli. Served with gravy and mint sauce.

Slow cooker beef short ribs with pan-fried mushroom, eggplant, zucchini and strawberry jam

It was a –3 °C morning in Canberra so I got the slow cooker out.

I cross-posted at Yummy Lummy
Check it out here.

Mayver’s crunchy dark roast peanut paste slow beef Thai red curry with red cabbage

I’ve already blogged this at Yummy Lummy but because Facebook has still banned me posting links from Yummy Lummy I’m repeating the link here so I can share this on Facebook.

Good Friday beef cheeks

It feels like an age since I last wrote here on Random Yummy. I think it’s been longer on Yummy Lummy. I even missed last week on What I think, eat, listen to, and watch each week (the diary blog).

It’s Good Friday and I’ve been working from home writing papers and answering questions and trying to add some value to my current work commitments.

Unlike the accepted wisdom, I don’t usually have fish on Good Friday, I have red meat, specifically, beef.

Slow cooker beef cheeks with potato mash and gravy served with peas and corn. Gary Lum. — Slow cooker beef cheeks with potato mash and gravy served with peas and corn.

While I was working I had the beef cheeks in the slow cooker.

Recipe

Ingredients

Beef cheeks
White onion
Carrot
Celery
Red wine
Beef stock
Whole black peppercorns
Potatoes
Butter
Cream
Peas
Corn
Capsicum

Instructions

Unwrap the beef cheeks from the plastic packaging.
Heat up a frying pan and sear the beef cheeks to get a good caramelisation on all the surfaces.
After searing the beef cheeks, move the cheeks to a plate and add some chopped onion to the frying pan to sweat.
While the onions are sweating, slice some carrot and celery and then add the carrot and celery to the sweating onions.
Cook the onions, celery, and carrot until each has soften.
Deglase the frying pan with some red wine and beef stock.
Add the onions, carrot, and celery to the cooking vessel of the slow cooker.
Pour in the red wine and beef stock.
Add the seared beef cheeks to the slow cooker cooking vessel.
Seal the lid of the slow cooker and cook for six (6) hours.
When the six (6) hours of complete, remove the beef cheeks to a plate and then decant the cooking juices to a saucepan.
Bring the cooking juices to simmer and puree with a stick blender.
Reduce the sauce to a thick gravy.
Add some cream and then butter to finish the gravy.
Make potato mash by boiling potatoes and then mashing them with iodised salt and butter.
Cook some frozen peas, corn, and capsicum in a frying pan until soft.
Add the potato mash to a dinner plate and add the peas, corn, and capsicum next to the potato.
Lay a beef cheek on the potato mash and pour over some of the gravy.
Grind the whole black peppercorns in a mortar with a pestle and season the potato mash, beef cheeks, and vegetables.