Tender slow cooked corned beef, cooked in spices and broth with root vegetables and cabbage makes a perfect winter meal. Just prepare everything and place into your slow cooker over night and next day it your corned beef will be tender and delicious. Slow Cooked Corned Beef and Cabbage Ingredients: 1 piece of corned beef 1.5-2 kg 3 parsnips, peeled and cut into pieces 2 … Continue reading Slow Cooked Corned Beef and Cabbage
This pie is a variation on the classic egg and bacon pie with the addition of oven roasted vegetables – potatoes, two kinds of cabbage, leeks, caramelised onions, bacon and roasted capsicum. Half of the baked vegetables will make this delicious pie and the rest of the vegetables can be eaten alongside the pie or later, for a tasty accompaniment for meat. Roasted Potato, Cabbage, … Continue reading Roasted Potato, Cabbage, Leek and Bacon Pie
This soup is cooked slow and long and is rich in vegetables and herbs and full of flavour and hearty goodness. Hearty Vegetable and Bean Soup Ingredients: Borlotti beans, fresh, canned or dried beans that have been soaked and cooked 2L vegetable stock 1 stick celery, chopped 4 potatoes, cut into wedges 2 large carrots, chopped 1 large onion, chopped finely 2 rashers of bacon, … Continue reading Hearty Vegetable and Bean Soup
Growth habits and planting needs Cabbage is a hardy annual cool-weather crop that is easy to grow and is an important vegetable, protective against cancer and for lowering cholesterol when cooked for a short time or eaten raw. In fact, the humble cabbage is one of the oldest known vegetables and was known to the Ancient Greeks and Romans. If your garden is small you … Continue reading Growing Cabbages
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