Osso bucco

Yummy Lummy slow cooker shin

Saturday dinner. Slow cooker shin with Brussels sprouts, pumpkin and sweet potato. #beef #ossobucco #shin #slowcooker #yummylummy
Saturday dinner. Slow cooker shin with Brussels sprouts, pumpkin and sweet potato.

Yummy Lummy slow cooker shin

Winter is here in the Southern Hemisphere. Winter for Yummy Lummy means bringing the slow cooker out from the Shelf of Shame (or off the floor).

Would you believe I rarely look up recipes? I like to just bung things together and see how they turn out. This is what I did today. When I went grocery shopping I saw a packet of Osso Bucco and thought the meat would be good for slow cooking and the shin (tibia) bone marrow would add to the flavour.

I figured rather than stock I’d use a cheap packet of French onion soup plus some red wine and hope for the best.

I cooked the meat with some sweet potato and pumpkin along with some Brussels sprouts because friends have been commenting that I’m not eating enough vegetable matter.

This is a Yummy Lummy original recipe.

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