Settle in for some seriously good slow cooking this week. Geoff Scott is stewing beef with red wine and mushrooms a la beouf bourguignon. Chicken casseroled with sausage and white beans is a good one for week nights and pickled pork with parsley dumplings and pineapple pickle pork is one of those surprise-and-delight dishes I am going to cook for a comforting night in with friends this weekend.
Warren is slow-cooking winter tomatoes to enhance their flavour and all the meals you incorporate them in to.
Many of you have entered your favourite slow-cooked recipes into our latest reader recipe competition and you can see a selection of them at bite.co.nz. You have until midnight Wednesday August 9 to enter. Your recipe may win you a new pressure cooker, see details here.
Ray is cooking with brassicas - some of his ideas are of the slow-cooked variety, others made in minutes to help you get a nutritious meal on the table quick-smart.
Having recently moved to the heart of Central Otago wine country (yes I am a bit cat that got the cream-ish) I am delighted to share a recipe from my neighbour, Carrick Restaurant. Chef Gwen Harvie has created this lamb stir fry with saffron quinoa pilaf using a packet of Silver Fern Farms Lamb Stir Fry - a product that definitely makes weeknights easy.
Also in Bite this week:
• Mikki WIlliden talks carb-free noodles
• Louise Thompson mends some fences