In my slow cooker today.... part 2

Sparklyfairy

sb44 wrote: »

Water!

Our lounge bay window which isn't double glazed had ice on the inside this morning as it was -11 last night.

I filled it 3/4 full using 2/3 cold water and 1/3 boiling water from the kettle and turned it on high.

It is unbelievable how much heat it is kicking out, it's de iced the windows, kept me warm whilst I am on the PC and it is costing less than 1p an hour according to me smart meter.



It would have been better if I had food in it but I forgot to take something of the freezer this morning and I don't like defrosting meat in the microwave as it always tends to start cooking it.

Oh dear!:o You could add some cinnamon to it & it'll at least smell nice? Really good idea to defrost the windows, though!

shepherdgirl

Cooking mini xmas puds in the slow cooker today - not sure how long to leave them tho. (asked about this on a thread on the christmas section, no replies yet - LOL)

Got me thinking about using the slow cooker for steaming other things - (mi-jardin mentioned spotted !!!!!! - ym yum)

But how do you work out timimgs ?

Not good at these sort of things and my slow cooker runs a bit/lot high !!!!!!!!!! just like flikkerty mentioned in an earlier thread.

tia

shep

sb44

Sparklyfairy wrote: »

Oh dear!:o You could add some cinnamon to it & it'll at least smell nice? Really good idea to defrost the windows, though!

That's an idea, off to see what I have got to chuck in right now.

Ta.

HowlinWolf

Rice pudding for a nice warming after tea treat

marmiterulesok

shepherdgirl wrote: »

Cooking mini xmas puds in the slow cooker today - not sure how long to leave them tho. (asked about this on a thread on the christmas section, no replies yet - LOL)

Got me thinking about using the slow cooker for steaming other things - (mi-jardin mentioned spotted !!!!!! - ym yum)

But how do you work out timimgs ?

Not good at these sort of things and my slow cooker runs a bit/lot high !!!!!!!!!! just like flikkerty mentioned in an earlier thread.

tia

shep

I've just seen your post.I've also made Christmas pudding in the slow cooker,400ml ones.

The recipe said to add 2 hours to the cooking time and it worked fine (6 hours in all).It was from this website:

www.thepinkwhisk.co.uk/2010/11/grandmas-christmas-pudding.html

I've done two and I'll do another one this week.I also thought about doing a spotted !!!!!!.

Have you made one?

Happy 'baking'.

23rdspiral

a whole chicken, a couple of inches water, pepper, mixed herbs, 2 chopped carrots, 2 chopped celery stalks, 1 onion... actually it's not in the slow cooker anymore, we (2 of us) ate about 1/4 of the meat for dinner! and the rest is cooling before freezing in portions with the stock it made. nom nom.

dotchas

NEWBIE ALERT!:eek::eek::eek:
My first attempt!

Mixed cubed veggies and potatoes and some cubed beef with stock and added herbs.
The stock mixture comes about 2 thirds up the meat etc , does that sound OK?

It seems too simple:rotfl:

chaosweddings

i have boneless pork leg, carrots, onions, leeks with a veg stock cube and a little water.

i left it to cook on low for 5/6 hours, once the pork was falling apart i took it out and add 1 tb spoon of flour and some hot water, i added 2 pink lady apples and left to cook for 1 hour.

i use my hand held blender on the apple gravy then put through a sieve, and it smells gorgeous

HoneyBee83

Nothing today but planning on making up a batch of my bolo/lasagne/cottage pie mince tomorrow.
Also tempted to do a roast chicken in there soon,will report on how that goes.

moonpixiewitch

chunky beef chilli
1 kg AA beef skirt chopped in to chunks , 2 carrots not peeled and chopped into chunks , 1 onion, chilli flakes , tom puree, tin toms, water , stock cube , 1 leek chopped into chunks, handful frozen mushrooms, chilli powder . will add tins of cannellini , red kidney and borlotti beans when i get back from work later