PistonHeads Cooking Competition #30. ONE POT MEALS!

[captainzep]

Right all, inspired as I was by Ffuxake's pan of Scouse in the previous competition, the next theme will be 'One pot' dishes.

No one likes washing up and we're still in the depths of winter needing comfort food.

So, the rule is that your dish must have been cooked in one pot. You can plate it up with a dollop of mash, a pile of rice, pasta, chunks of bread whatever, but the main part of the dish must have been cooked within it's own sauce and fellow ingredients in one pot.

Casserole/Curry/Stew/Goulash whatever, get out your slow cooker or big pan. The real challenge given we can't taste the final dish will be to capture imagination with your interesting ideas and ingredients and make it look the most alluring. From Pixel Snapper's previous rules:

THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT ARE AS FOLLOWS

*One entry per person, must be cooked within competition time frame.
*No more than 3 photos to be entered unless stated by the theme setter.
*Food must be prepare by yourself as much as possible IE not putting a pre packed goat curry in the microwave.
*The competition will run until the last Sunday of the month (24th Feb), once the new theme has be set by the last winner.
*The poll will commence asap preferably the Monday and voting will last for a week.
*We'll try to sort a workable poll system during the course of the competition.

Post your entries here.

[Pixel-Snapper]

Nice one Zep cracking idea as well should get a few in again.

The sloooooow cooker recipe thread been gathering pace in the last few weeks.

thinking cap on.

[madbadger]

Good topic.

Hmmmm. Thinking cap on.

[Vieste]

Right then Pirates Pie it is

[Dan_1981]

Good Choice.

I have guests coming over for a slow cooked wonder meal a week on Friday.

[Ffuxake]

I've finished!!!

[Gretchen]

I have some questions...

Can we brown the meat first?

The other questions may follow.

This is an idea I had thought of as setting should I have ever won. But judging by entries in the last one I don't think it'll happen. I did make a lean steak slow cooker 12 hour Cottage Pie for the last competition, but was away at the weekend & forgot to post it! It was delicious though.

[Shaw Tarse]

Ffuxake said:

I've finished!!!

[captainzep]

Gretchen said:

I have some questions...

Can we brown the meat first?

I've spoken with our legal team. Their interpretation of case law pertinent to this enquiry suggests that browning of meat would be seen as a preparatory step rather than cooking and as such the death penalty would not apply.

[Gretchen]

Ffuxake said:

I've finished!!!

How can you have finished in an hour? Have you made an omelette?

[captainzep]

Gretchen said:

How can you have finished in an hour? Have you made an omelette?

He's been to his freezer.

[Mobile Chicane]

captainzep said:

Gretchen said:

I have some questions...

Can we brown the meat first?

I've spoken with our legal team. Their interpretation of case law pertinent to this enquiry suggests that browning of meat would be seen as a preparatory step rather than cooking and as such the death penalty would not apply.

[mattdaniels]

Gretchen said:

Can we brown the meat first?

That shouldn't prevent you from using one pot to cook in.

[Pixel-Snapper]

mattdaniels said:

Gretchen said:

Can we brown the meat first?

That shouldn't prevent you from using one pot to cook in.

Have you tried browning meat in a slow cooker?

[Pixel-Snapper]

Decided I'm going to go with a dish that I've been wanting to cook for a while but never got round to it.

Better get going though as it takes 3 days to make it into it's best!

[mattdaniels]

Pixel-Snapper said:

mattdaniels said:

Gretchen said:

Can we brown the meat first?

That shouldn't prevent you from using one pot to cook in.

Have you tried browning meat in a slow cooker?

Hangon, competition theme clarificationage required.

The theme says "ONE POT MEALS" not "SLOW COOKER MEALS".

I have casserole dishes that are hob-safe. Meat can be browned off in the pot on the hob, then you throw in the rest of the ingrediants and bung it in the oven.

Is the competition for slow-cooker meals or one-pot meals?

[Vieste]

Bugger how can i boil potatoes in a casserole dish

[Pixel-Snapper]

mattdaniels said:

Pixel-Snapper said:

mattdaniels said:

Gretchen said:

Can we brown the meat first?

That shouldn't prevent you from using one pot to cook in.

Have you tried browning meat in a slow cooker?

Hangon, competition theme clarificationage required.

The theme says "ONE POT MEALS" not "SLOW COOKER MEALS".

I have casserole dishes that are hob-safe. Meat can be browned off in the pot on the hob, then you throw in the rest of the ingrediants and bung it in the oven.

Is the competition for slow-cooker meals or one-pot meals?

You seem to have missed my point there. I'm not implying that its a slow cooker only comp but if you where to use only a slow cooker as your one pot, you would not be able to use said slow cooker to brown the meat off.

You see?

[madbadger]

Pixel-Snapper said:

mattdaniels said:

Pixel-Snapper said:

mattdaniels said:

Gretchen said:

Can we brown the meat first?

That shouldn't prevent you from using one pot to cook in.

Have you tried browning meat in a slow cooker?

Hangon, competition theme clarificationage required.

The theme says "ONE POT MEALS" not "SLOW COOKER MEALS".

I have casserole dishes that are hob-safe. Meat can be browned off in the pot on the hob, then you throw in the rest of the ingrediants and bung it in the oven.

Is the competition for slow-cooker meals or one-pot meals?

You seem to have missed my point there. I'm not implying that its a slow cooker only comp but if you where to use only a slow cooker as your one pot, you would not be able to use said slow cooker to brown the meat off.

You see?

But if I use a frying pan to brown off meat then it is not suitable for then going in the oven. If I use a casserole then I could do it in ..... one pot!

Is a slow cooker the pot of choice for a one pot competition?

[Pixel-Snapper]

madbadger said:

Pixel-Snapper said:

mattdaniels said:

Pixel-Snapper said:

mattdaniels said:

Gretchen said:

Can we brown the meat first?

That shouldn't prevent you from using one pot to cook in.

Have you tried browning meat in a slow cooker?

Hangon, competition theme clarificationage required.

The theme says "ONE POT MEALS" not "SLOW COOKER MEALS".

I have casserole dishes that are hob-safe. Meat can be browned off in the pot on the hob, then you throw in the rest of the ingrediants and bung it in the oven.

Is the competition for slow-cooker meals or one-pot meals?

You seem to have missed my point there. I'm not implying that its a slow cooker only comp but if you where to use only a slow cooker as your one pot, you would not be able to use said slow cooker to brown the meat off.

You see?

But if I use a frying pan to brown off meat then it is not suitable for then going in the oven. If I use a casserole then I could do it in ..... one pot!

Is a slow cooker the pot of choice for a one pot competition?

Judge! Jury! and Executioner!

captainzep said:

Gretchen said:

I have some questions...

Can we brown the meat first?

I've spoken with our legal team. Their interpretation of case law pertinent to this enquiry suggests that browning of meat would be seen as a preparatory step rather than cooking and as such the death penalty would not apply.