Last week the House of Punk Rock played host to an old fashioned Sunday family dinner with some friends of ours. Our room mates from the other house (You’d have to see this place for that phrase to make sense – its a strange little duplex that we share with some very good friends) acquired a ham which they cooked and then brought over to our house for dinner for two reasons:
We have a bigger kitchen table and there are no asthma attack inducing cats on this particular side which is completely irrelevant to what I’m saying.
Anyway, long story short, between six adults and two children we could not even put a dent in the ham. It was huge- huge and apparently pre sliced and pre cooked, but that’s another story. So we wound up with some leftovers. I’m going to be honest with you, I’m sick of ham, we have been eating ham sammiches constantly since the wedding at the end of July and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to buy more, so we could… eat more ham? What was I thinking? Cheap lunch meat is what I was thinking, sometimes there is a logical answer.
HAM!
geez.
So I decided to concoct some sort of a new way to eat slices of ham tonight and so far its working itself into some sort of a red stewy mass of … awesome. Speaking of Red and Awesome – you sincerely truly need to check out Baroness and their Red Album. Fucking amazing music, great for driving. Listen to it as you drive over to try this stew I’m making. Or listen to Baroness while you make your own damn stew, which is why I’m going to tell you how to now:
In this huge stew I’ve got:
5 Small Diced Potatoes
4 Diced Carrots
4 Diced Celery Sticks
5 Cloves Garlic
1/4 Diced Red Onion
A small freezer bag of diced and sliced HAM
Leftover mix of Quinoa/Onion/Bell Pepper (why the fuck not?)
1 Can Tomato Paste
1 Can Stewed Tomatoes (undrained)
2 Cups Broth
2 Cups Water
The spices, thrown in all willy nilly as usual are, in no particular order:
Chilli Spice
Paprika
Garlic Salt
Souvlaki Spice (Again, why the hell not?)
Cumin
Cock Sauce, not a spice but its spicy!
So far its been in the crock pot on high for 3 hours, 18 minutes. Everything is cooked except for the potatoes and when they’re finished I’ll be packing Mr Bastard his lunch and then going to sleep.
