Doctor Beakers Kitchen

Brenda went out with the girls yesterday afternoon so I thought I’d give her a surprize and cook tea. The surprize was that normally when I’m left on my own the kitchen turns into a cross between Doctor Beakers Laboratory and an extension of my workshop, but with a sink ! The photo’s should be self explanatory

chucked this lot into the frying pan with some olive oil and seasoned it with black pepper, pink Himalayan sea salt, teaspoon Cayenne pepper, teaspoon of Nando’s and a couple of Oxo

Here's a tip open the Oxo cube foil ears then squeeze, then you can tear the top off and pour in 

 brown the meat onions and garlic with the spices in olive oil 

 then pour into a cast iron “podgy” pot

wash and thinly slice whatever veg. you have to hand, but I always try to have a Sweet Potatoe, here with Carrot, Parsnip, Cellery, and a Courgette

add them in layers starting with the longest to cook

I then made up some Beef stock with just enough boiling water to dissolve the cube then added half a bottle of Old Speckled Hen

poured it into the Podgy pot

and brought it up to boil then turned it down to simmer and put the pot onto a simmer ring with it's lid on, the idea being a long and slow cook, the wire hook is to lift the hot lid on and off

after abut one hour I sliced some mushrooms and added them as a top layer

lid back on and it had another hour and a half before Brenda landed back

made some, homemade bread, toast and butter

banged the triangle and shouted "Slop Up !"

I even did the washing up, just thought I'd share - cheers all Danny