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Slow spaghetti and fast foraging.

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I have an allotment which, now i’m semi retired, I can actually enjoy and get things done. But in order to spend enough time down there to do all the things necessary today, dinner will need to cook itself, so Spaghetti bolognese in my smart lid Ninja with its slow cooker setting it will have to be.  Spaghetti Bolognese I set the Ninja slider to Airfry/Hob and set the dial to Sauté to cook 500g pork mince, 2 onions and 2 garlic cloves. Adding a chopped carrot, celery stick and courgette. (As I still have soooooo many to use up courgettes are in everything I cook at the moment even cakes!)  After about 5 mins I added a tin of tomatoes, 300ml stock , 1/2 green pepper, dash of Worcestershire sauce, glug of port, 1 bay leaf, 1tbl oregano, and as we love spicy food I added come chilli pepper too.  A quick stir and set the dial to Slow cook, Hi, 4 hours. Well that was simple and quick for a slow cook.  We then stripped all the apples off the tree and stacked all the perfect ones carefully in