So the pork recipe worked brilliantly :)

[beren_writes]

Slow cooked Pork Belly Stew

This is based on a recipe ihlanya gave me :).

Ingredients

• Stew pack of veg from Morrisons (small swede, large parsnip, 3 carrots, 1 onion) - but you could use anything you happen to have
  
• 2 large potatoes
  
• 1 belly pork joint (doesn't matter what size, just enough to feed however many)
  
• 1/2 bottle cider (~250ml)
  
• 3/4 pint

Comments

[ihlanya]

OOOOHHH I'M FAMOUS!!!!!

*twirls*

250ml of cider? Haha, I use about a litre and just crumble the oxos into it. No water added. Mind you, mine feeds about 5 adults.

But isn't the pork so amazingly tender and yummy? It's one of my favourite dishes and so easy.

[beren_writes]

LOL - I didn't have that much cider :)

Well I think mine would have fed at least four had it not been for the fact Rob was ravenous - he ate over half the pork all by himself.

Oh god, it's so good! I have the left overs for lunch.

[ihlanya]

You can buy these 2 litre bottles for about £2. I empty a lot of the cider in and then have a glass while I'm cooking.

See why I love my slow cooker? :D It makes my cooking look like I actually know how to cook!

You can make a gorgeous risotto in about 2-3 hours too....

[beren_writes]

I had a bottle of the more expensive type cider - they didn't seem to have much else in Morrisons (probably looking in the wrong place :)). I wasn't sure how strong it would be so I only used half ... and might possibly have drunk the rest ;)

Is that the risotto recipe in the booklet that came with it?

[ihlanya]

No, I bought myself a really good book but I can't find it on the net - I was going to share it with you because it's SO easy.

BUT! After some ferreting around, I have found it!

Slow Cooking Properly Explained - it has to be simple because I'm a simple squirrel who doesn't understand culinary stuff. And I just change some of the recipes more to my liking!

I've only once stuffed up a recipe and that was because I didn't brown the mince before putting it in and it tasted desperately awful.