Day 3 - Chicken Curry in the Jamie Oliver Homecooker

Once again i decided I wanted to use the homecooker, but didn't have the right ingredients to make anything in the book....so I improvised.

I turned to the recipe book, for Creamy Chicken Korma


So, no korma paste (or other mild curry paste) so i used sweet chili sauce!  While I waited for the the homecooker to heat up (which actually took a lot less time that it took me to prepare the next part)  I chopped the onions, crushed the garlic, opened the jar of ginger, looked in the garden for my coriander...turns out it has gone to seed so I got out the jar of dried coriander leaves and the jar of sweet chili sauce (this is homemade from my homegrown chillies!!)

I then chucked all this into the homecooker, turned on the stirrer and set it for about 20 minutes or whatever the book said...but came back after about 10 minutes, because I couldn't be bothered waiting
NB.  Am starting to enjoy the convenience of the Homecooker machine, I could just set it and then go and fold the piles and piles of washing I am getting through after 2 weeks of camping!...so anyway

Added the chicken (I don't like chickpeas so I just left these out anyway!)

Just after the chicken is tipped in

I then tipped in a can of evaporated milk (because I didn't have coconut cream) brought to boil...didn't come back straight away... almost overflowed... caught it and turned it down to 110 and then set the time for about 20 minutes, seemed fine.

Served over brown rice (yes feeling all healthy!!)  that was cooked separately in the rice cooker.
That was the disappointing thing, I definitely felt like the advertising hype implied that you could cook the whole meal in the one machine, ie, chicken curry and rice all together.... or spag boll where you cook the pasta and the mince together, but it looks like it's really just one or other.

I forgot to take a pic of the final cooked meal!  But it tasted fine, didn't look that great as the evap milk separated in the cooking.  I will do some grocery shopping in the next couple of days and then I will make sure my recipes are planned and ready for mr homecooker!!

Meal Plan and Shopping list for the week

In an ideal world I will include some recipes with this so you can use a similar meal plan if you so desire.
It is Sunday night and I plan to go shopping on Tuesday.  I still have a fair amount of meat and other meal bases in my freezer, so hopefully I can do a relatively small shop and fit it in the bottom of the pushchair and walk home after mainly music!  (hopefully that thunder storm comes another day!!)

Meal Plan
Monday:  Mexican Meatballs (Destitute Gourmet $15 meals book, pg 52)
Tuesday: Sausage + something + roast veges Pie (left over sausages and roast veges)
Wednesday: (Paul going out)  Chicken Stew with Spicey Sausage and Dumplings (DG $15 pg. 55)
Thursday: (Paul Elders Meeting) Pulled Pork on buns with coleslaw or maybe with mash potato (pulled pork in freezer given to my by a friend when I was sick, but she made far too much...sucker!?!! ;) )
Friday: Sausage Loaf with mash potatoes etc (I have leftovers that my sister-in-law brought to a potluck dinner...and then left behind!! Sucker! )
Saturday: (Me out probably all day) Lunch - Fam should come and buy sausages from Bunnings
Dinner - Nachos (left over taco mince in freezer, just add tomatoes and beans)
Sunday: (Paul and I both involved in Church Service) Lunch - Hot Dogs
Dinner -Chicken and Camembert Pie (left over cooked chicken, flakey pastry sheets in freezer and left over camembert)
Monday: Spag Boll (left overs in freezer, use up wine)

Last week of school before holidays.  Have a fair amount of birthday party food lefts overs to get through.  A little for lunches, a little for afternoon teas, a little for desserts.

Plan for holidays...
-"tramping 1 night"
-"Trains weekend"
- Working 2 or 3 days - easy no prep meal for those nights
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Shopping List:
Franks
Hotdog buns
Sour Cream
Fetticini
cabbage

SO that's the plan for the week...can I stick to it... probably, I think it looks pretty easy.  Not too much cooking from scratch actually.  I wonder where I am at with the grocery budget this month anyway!