{"id":2183,"date":"2013-06-08T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2013-06-08T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T10:46:18","slug":"slow-cooker-eland-tomato-bredie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2183","title":{"rendered":"Slow cooker eland tomato bredie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being the first of two completely coincidentally very similar recipes.<\/p>\n<p>The basis for all of this is some eland shin (skenkel), off the bone. I bought half an eland cow from a friend, and while having a freezer full of eland is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/G\/Good-Thing.html\">Good Thing (TM)<\/a>, we also have to eat most of it before I can fit some gemsbok in there.<\/p>\n<p>To defrost the meat, I soaked in in water (with a bit of vinegar added) for 24 hours. This draws out the blood, makes the meat less &#8220;wild&#8221; apparently. Then I basically followed <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/recipe\/tomato-bredie\/\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grouprecipes.com\/77858\/tomato-bredie.html\">standard<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picknpay.co.za\/picknpay\/content\/en\/recipe-search-results?oid=65446&amp;sn=Detail&amp;pid=10931\">recipe<\/a>,\u00a0 i.e. dusted the cubed meat in flour, browned it in the black pot, stuck it in the slow cooker along with tomatoes and a bit of chili and spices and Worcestershire and so forth, and let it go all day on low.<\/p>\n<p>Got home, diced some potatoes quite small, separated the sauce with a slotty spoon and boiled the potatoes in the sauce until done, then recombined the whole lot. I might have added some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bokomo.co.za\/products\/view-brand\/maizena?\">Maizena<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the first of two completely coincidentally very similar recipes. The basis for all of this is some eland shin (skenkel), off the bone. I bought half an eland cow from a friend, and while having a freezer full of eland is a Good Thing (TM), we also have to eat most of it before I can fit some gemsbok in there. To defrost the meat, I soaked in in water (with a bit of vinegar added) for 24 hours. This draws out the blood, makes the meat less &#8220;wild&#8221; apparently. Then I basically followed the standard recipe,\u00a0 i.e. dusted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}