We were making numbers yesterday
and, including water and electricity, buying and cooking a ham yourself is around half the price than buying cooked one in the supermarket. And that's for the very cheap watery one.

At the pace I eat ham we're going to have to start raising our own pigs.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 26 Jul 2011, 12:33, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Seems to make a lot of sense
One thing I'm going to do soon is buy a chicken, have a roast, then use any scraps to make a stir fry, before using the carcass to make a stock, from which I'll make a risotto, or something. Hopefully, should make a load of meals for rather cheap.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 12:34, Reply)

I usually do that
add some bones to the stock (very cheap, if not free, from your butcher) and the it'll be much nicer.

We're going to make pea and ham soup from the stock of cooking the ham.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 26 Jul 2011, 12:38, Reply)

Ahh, shall do just that!
I'm also going to be buying a couple of things in the next few months to make cooking more interesting - A griddle, and a blender.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 12:41, Reply)

I couldn't live without either of them
Now, there is a great new thing that might look a bit too much, but it's great. It's a kind of roasting pan, but made with silicone, so you can cook stuff in the oven really easy, and it never gets dry or burnt. It has a little tray with holes on it, so you put all the spices and oils and stuff under it, then your chicken or fish or watever on top, cover and cook. Brilliant. And it can go straight to the dishwasher.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 26 Jul 2011, 12:51, Reply)

Hmm, I shall keep an eye out for that!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 12:52, Reply)

Here
www.paratucocina.com/tienda/product.php?id_product=166

I've seen it in England, but I don't know how you call it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 26 Jul 2011, 13:00, Reply)

A steamer.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 13:04, Reply)

+cleveland

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 13:06, Reply)

Far too easy, young man.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 13:08, Reply)

Far too patronising, old man etc etc

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 13:08, Reply)

But it's not just a steamer
is a roasting pan too!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 26 Jul 2011, 13:11, Reply)