Quick whinge before i get to the main meal....
Since when do we pay premium prices for de-boned meat like chicken thigh fillets or butterflied lamb shoulder only to have to trim and butcher it at home before cooking?? Not happy Jan. Luckily i have a dog who loves my weekly cookup day so no scrap is wasted, but my home recipes that require 1kg means i have to fudge 1200g just in case.
This week's cookup is a peasant meal from my ten pound pom Irish/Welsh roots - 1/3 boiled skin on quartered tatties, 1/3 chopped cabbage, and 1/3 chopped economy fatty bacon, onions and garlic.
Cook the bacon hot but lid on with onions stirring frequently, when transparent add the cabbage and when that cooks down a bit, add the potatoes.
Works well for filling teenage boys and Wolverine husbands.
You can add cumin seed, grated garlic and sauerkraut to taste for the more European peasant experience.
Roast butterflied lamb shoulder (1/3 off on short date score!) marinated in crushed garlic, ground coriander seed, ground cumin, and Zatar mix, then cooked in the turbo oven for 1 hour at 200⁰ and 30 mins at 125⁰ on the rack over onion, zuccini, black pepper and turmeric whilst sweet potatoes onions and carrots steamed in the slow cooker.
Chicken thighs will probably end up as my chunky slow cooker sweet corn and chicken soup because i CBF. Big work week ahead, five Lab retrievers alone booked in tomorrow.