Celebrate The Royal Wedding At Home With Authentic English Fare, Pt. 4

Celebrate The Royal Wedding At Home With Authentic English Fare, Pt. 4 Food is an essential part of our culture. In fact, many great ideas and deals are formed over a good meal. Most meals also come with a robust glass of wine. Food and wine go great together. There are people who go to school to learn how to pair the right foods and wines together in order to achieve culinary masterpieces. I am just starting to enjoy wine; however, I am trying to push my culinary knowledge into the wine arena. Therefore, I am going to attempt to pair different wines with different foods. There will be five timeless pairings that will be good for wine virgins. There will also be five wine pairings that could be viewed as daring. There is even wines that you can drink with Doritos and Twinkies.

Where I live, we have humid, hot, sticky summers where the last thing I want to do is turn on my oven or fire up my gas stove, much less spend time standing around them preparing meals! During the summer I don't crave meals like chicken and dumplings, lasagna, beef stew, or pork roast. I want light meals with little or no preparation so I'm not standing in a hot kitchen getting even warmer and stickier. So, I use my crock pot! Out of any of the cooking devices in your kitchen, it sets off very little heat and can allow you to put everything into the slow cooker slow cooked leg of lamb bbc good food in the morning (when your kitchen is cool) and spoon it up at dinnertime (when your kitchen is not).

Once a month cooking can really lower grocery costs. Once a month cooking is a method slow cooked leg of lamb cooking many meals at one time, freezing them, and then heating up in the microwave when needed. This not only saves money by only using what you need for one meal, but saves money on the electric bill by not heating up the oven every night.

You can line the crockpot with an oven cooking bag before placing the food in. This makes slow cooker leg of lamb clean up a snap. The cooking times are not affected, but the mess stays in the bag rather than on the pot. I usually find these bags on clearance after Thanksgiving or Christmas and stock up then.

Score the skin and fat of the pork, place in the marinade leg of lamb cooked in slow cooker drizzle with 1.5fl oz of soy sauce. Leave for 2 hours or preferably overnight. The pork can then be precooked for 3 hours on a low heat to save time later - on the BBQ it will only have to be cooked for a few minutes each side.

Finally, I certainly haven't cooked every recipe Drew has to offer. However, every one that I have cooked has been fabulous. They are all easy-to-prepare, easy-to-cook and they were very inexpensive. Oh yea, and they all tasted great! So, if you are looking for an easy alternative to eating out then Drew's book may be what you're looking for.