Meal ideas with no oven? :)

milliemonster

My oven blew up on Boxing Day, thankfully it wasn't xmas day when I had to feed 14 people:eek:

Anyway, I have had no choice but to add to the debt to buy a new one, needs must, but it means I am without an oven until 3rd Jan when the new one comes and is installed.

I still have my hob, microwave and slow cooker, loads of leftover meat (gammon, pork, beef and turkey), has anyone got any ideas of meals I can make over the next week that I can cook without using an oven?

Barneysmom

Ah wow you've got gammon - I'm round to your house!

You can do the gammon with chips and beetrot/salad, just bung it in the slow cooker. Then the leftovers you could do with pasta/cheese sauce.

Toonie

Sorry to hear about your oven, I'm sure you'll get loads of ideas, but how are these for a start...

Stews, especially with this cold snap.

How about fried potatoes (par boiled first) with cold meats, or even slice up the gammon and chuck it in with the potatoes and add a few halved cherry tomatoes.

I love eating cold pork and turkey with hot apple sauce and mashed potato.

Barneysmom

We're having cold pork and turkey with chips and gravy today;)

milliemonster

yum, I am salivating now, please keep them coming!

Barneysmom

Beef is the hard one, unless you leave it in the freezer till the new oven arrives?

You could slow cook it with a load of carrots and onions in gravy? I usually put a big teaspoon of dried fine herbs in with mine when I do it that way. And you can get 2 days out of it if you pack it with veg and red lentils. :cool:

hotcookie101

Leftover beef-retro style curry (I use curry sauce recipe from dairy book of home cooking) and chips and rice
Although saying that, if we ever had leftover roast beef, I only ever want to eat it cold!

Barneysmom

Yes, I love that too hotcookie! Cold beef and tomato sandwiches are the best!

hotcookie101

MMM roast beef, horseradish and watercress sandwiches..... :T
Or just eaten in great big chunks with no bread
I LOVE cold roast beef, its just with only me and OH its rare we get to have it-no point roasting a small joint-its impossible to get it rare enough!

Tightwadways

I really, really sympathise with you...our cooker went wrong about a month or so ago, and we decided through choice not to replace it. Our in laws bought us a Remoska as our Christmas present, and we make use of our slow cooker and hob as well. Havent looked back since, as the Remoska/slow cooker alternative works really well for us. We have the Grande version for 4 of us.

It may be worth your while asking on your local freecycle group for a cooker/slow coooker or remoska, to tide you over until you either got yours repaired or whatever...