What's for supper?

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Steeeeeewwwwww.

Onions
Lamb shins
Carrots
Baby potatoes
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Pumpkin (lots of that ... it makes the best "sous in 'n potjie")

For flava:

Spices
Castle Milk Stout
Box red wine

EDiT: My colleagues are going to glare at me with envious eyes tomorrow.
 
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Picard, the beer and wine will react to form bitter phenolic compounds due to the presence of catechins and tannins and their reaction with wheat proteins iirc.

I'd say pick one of those and stick with it - my choice being the wine, as milk stout on its own will also leave a rather bitter result. Additionally, your broccoli and cauliflower are going to cook to the point of disintegration before the lamb shin is cooked properly. Not only will they be like mush, but their phytonutrients will release an incredible amount of sulphur which is not pleasant. Additionally, the phenylthiocarbamide present in both cauliflower and brocolli will also contribute towards the bitterness.

So your ingredients, from a scientific perspective are prone to making a very bitter concoction...
 
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Picard, the beer and wine will react to form bitter phenolic compounds due to the presence of catechins and tannins and their reaction with wheat proteins iirc.

I'd say pick one of those and stick with it - my choice being the wine, as milk stout on its own will also leave a rather bitter result. Additionally, your broccoli and cauliflower are going to cook to the point of disintegration before the lamb shin is cooked properly. Not only will they be like mush, but their phytonutrients will release an incredible amount of sulphur which is not pleasant. Additionally, the phenylthiocarbamide present in both cauliflower and brocolli will also contribute towards the bitterness.

So your ingredients, from a scientific perspective are prone to making a very bitter concoction...
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I haven't chucked in the broccoli and cauliflower yet. Nor the beer and wine. The other stuff have been cooking since about 18:45.

Because I respect your advice I will refrain from blooming vegetables and the beer.

It's now 19:09. I'll add more things at 19:30.

Let's see how it goes.

EDIT: **** I forgot the grated garlic.
 
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By all means cook the flower veg, but chuck them in 5 minutes before you're ready to serve. The only issue is that at that heat, they will continue to cook, so your leftovers will be rather sulfurous and a little bitter. Dinner should be good though.

I'd also temper the wine flavour with a little stock, instead of straight wine. With straight wine you need to cook low and slow for many hours to get it to a decent, rounded flavour. Or you need to be making a wine sauce separately by reducing it...
 
DJ... said:
By all means cook the flower veg, but chuck them in 5 minutes before you're ready to serve. The only issue is that at that heat, they will continue to cook, so your leftovers will be rather sulfurous and a little bitter. Dinner should be good though.

I'd also temper the wine flavour with a little stock, instead of straight wine. With straight wine you need to cook low and slow for many hours to get it to a decent, rounded flavour. Or you need to be making a wine sauce separately by reducing it...
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The flower vegetables always goes in later on.

And I forgot to say I also utilize a stock cube ... (cringes at your expected reaction).
 
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Yeah, you're not having much luck with Scooters lately. I'd "steer" clear if I were you...
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Picard, I note that you are always (and I mean ALWAYS!) making one-pot dishes. I understand that it seems easier to you than to utilise 3 pots and a pan or whatever in your dinner preparations.

Since you are intent on this, why do you not invest in a one-pot dish cookbook? There are many of those on the market and you will have the benefit of tried and tested recipes.
 
kingrob said:
Blu, I think all the milk stout makes him see three pots on the stove. :)
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Last night he posted a thread that appears to have been deleted called "Check out these mad quitar skills" - but he forgot to link to the actual quitar/guitar clip. He then logged on later to apologise but had forgotten what he was watching, so nobody but Picard knows about these supposed mad 'quitar skills'...:D
 
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