Jig's Supper

Before leaving for work Lynda started our dinner. Each hour you add something else to the pot and continue to let it boil - at the end you have a yummy concoction. So easy I don't think I can screw this up.

You start with a ham cottage roll.
Add turnip.
Then carrot.
Potato.
Onion.
Cabbage.
(roughly equal quantities of each except the onion; a little garlic is an option, too.)
Top up with water as needed; the cabbage goes in when you remove the meat to be sliced and needs only 15 or 20 minutes. Pour off the water (saving it if you wish for stock) and mash all the veggies. Actually by the time everything is ready the water has made itself into a nice gravy that can be poured over the whole shebang.

Just an hour and a bit to go before the feast begins. Woo-Hoo!!

With all the humidity in the air our fire alarm has been going off so the windows have been wide open all day. With the temp hovering just around freezing it's a crackling good fresh air day here inside.

We blame our east coast cousins - the Newfies - for this concoction but it likely has it's roots in our common English / Irish / Scots roots.