I was on my way home from a night shift, excited about spending the afternoon in the kitchen. Looking forward to breezing through the market on the way home for some inspiration for the afternoon. Needless to say I was slightly disappointed when leaving work to find the summer dress I left home in the day before was now wildly inappropriate. Ahh, London in the summer time. Yesterday lovely sunshine, today howling winds and horizontal rain.
All dreams and aspirations I had had for the afternoon had now gone out the window. The only thing on the menu was to be warm winter stodge. I was reminded of the last time I experienced such harsh wintry weather. . . sailing off the coast of the Isle of Wight. The only thing to warm my cockles that weekend was the slow cooked beef ribs devoured at a local pub.
So inspired by the memory of warm cockles, I set off to my local butcher for some ribs. It seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea at the time, it wasn't till 8 hours later that I realised my very dainty lady like plates were no match for the cockle warming dish.....We ate dinner from serving plates that evening.....but it was well worth it.
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| Holy half a cow batman! |
SLOW COOKED BEEF RIBS
* Beef ribs - one per person
* Carrots
* Celery
* Potato
* Parsnips
* Half a bottle of Sherry - we were mysteriously out of red wine
* Garlic
* Chilli
* Angostora Bitters
* onion
* vegemite
* anything else that takes your fancy
* just throw the whole lot in a melting pot
* put it in the oven on 120* for the rest of the day, the meat will just fall off the bone by the end of the day, so juicy and tender
* put your feet up - perhaps with some of that sherry
* when hansome man gets home, mash some spuds and serve on the largest plate you have
* warm your cockles
