To Experiment...

So I went shopping the other day at The Queen Victoria Markets here in Melbourne, like I always do the weekend I get paid.  Buying meat/fish/veges/deli & bread for most of the month.  I do go back every 2 weeks to get more veges.  I then take everything home and divide and chop and freeze what I won't be using over the rest of the weekend.  Lately I've gotten into the habit of easy meals on Saturday, and then firing up the slow cooker and the oven on Sunday to cook meals for the week.

So this past week I had bought a small leg of lamb on a whim, well that and the fact it was rather cheap.  I didn't have an idea of what I wanted to use it for, and thought about freezing it. that is until I got home and put everything away, only then realising I need a bigger freezer! It is currently chocka-block! So I needed to cook the lamb leg on Sunday.  As my last attempt at roasting only worked with another person in the kitchen, I decided to free style with the slow cooker again.

So here is what I did...

Recipe for Lamb Casserole...

Take one 1.5-2kg Leg of lamb, brown in pan to seal.
Place 2cm sliced pieces of potato in the bottom of your slow cooker. Use as may as you like, I used 3 medium sized spuds. Then slice an onion thickly and place on top on potatoes. I then had abut 2 sticks of celery already chopped and about a 1/4 of a red capsicum sliced thinly. I added those into the slow cooker too. About 2 carrots chunky chopped, but add more if you are feeding the family. Then place the sealed lamb leg in the centre of all that.  I then sprinkled about 1 teaspoon of Vegeta Vege Stock powder over it all and then poured a can of crushed tomatoes over.  Then added about half a can of addition water. Put the lid on and cooked on low for 8 hours.  Served it with steamed broccoli.

Experiment with it, after 8 hours the lamb fell off the bone, so I just broke it up in the mix.

I forgot to take a pic of the initial finished product, but will add one shortly of what is left...and below is the promised pic.