In my slow cooker today.... part 2

pink_princess

faerie~spangles wrote: »

The stock from yesterdays ham hock. The meat is in the fridge the fat is in an onion bag in the garden for the birds and the bones are in the bin.

Now to decide what to make with the meat ...

How about a nice chicken & ham pie, or carbonara? I would have to have some served with a nice fried egg on the top

gallygirl

I have nothing in mine as trying to eat out of the freezer .

Will be making some soup later but it comes out better on the stove top .

In fact, I'm going on holiday in 9 days and, having meal planned, I think it only be used once before I go, and not for very long - doing an Xmas curry with leftover pheasant and lamb during the week

ms_night_ryder

Got steak and onions in mine, was on high for 2 hourss, now on low for it to break up and thicken, put way too much liquid in so had to take alot off, ut looks better now and smells great.

MunniMuncha

Hi All - I have my chicken carcass in my slow cooker to make chicken soup and have now got rid of the carcass and left with the rest. Loads of chicken has come off the carcass (surprised how much I would normally have thrown away!!) and have added potatoes, carrots, mixed herbs, salt and pepper (chicken to add before serving). My question is this: the soup is very watery and even though I have blended is down to a sort of pulp/lumps what can I do to make it more, well, appealing? I know my kids will take one look at that and say 'yuk' - which I can't blame them as it looks like something from Dickens times (even tho it is flavourful)

Any advice/help would be greatly received - thank you very much

PinotGrigio41

I had a chicken curry in mine ( yesterday !) Bit thrown together, diced chicken breasts, half a jar of korma sauce, onions and water. Then decided it needed padding out so tipped in a tin of green lentils and sliced a few pots. add the end I dolloped in some left over cream and voila ! went down a treat !

Not sure what to do today thoguh

Sunnyday

MunniMuncha wrote: »

Hi All - I have my chicken carcass in my slow cooker to make chicken soup and have now got rid of the carcass and left with the rest. Loads of chicken has come off the carcass (surprised how much I would normally have thrown away!!) and have added potatoes, carrots, mixed herbs, salt and pepper (chicken to add before serving). My question is this: the soup is very watery and even though I have blended is down to a sort of pulp/lumps what can I do to make it more, well, appealing? I know my kids will take one look at that and say 'yuk' - which I can't blame them as it looks like something from Dickens times (even tho it is flavourful)

Any advice/help would be greatly received - thank you very much

You can add more potatoes and then blend, also more carrots then blending would make it more of a warming colour. Cornflour mixed with a little water would thicken it too.

HTH

SD

StartingAgainKayla70

Hi

I have used my slow cooker for only beef/chicken casseroles. I want to do spag bol/curries and maybe puddings:eek: my main question is if I was to make spag bol/curries surely from 8am - 5pm it would dry out? How would you stop this if your out at work?:o

newroadahead

I managed to get some whoopsied stewing lamb:) so I browned it off and have added veggies , mushrooms, onions, potatoes and some
water with gravy granules.

It smells nice so hope it will be ok for tomorrow nights dinner.

NRA

faerie~spangles

pink_princess wrote: »

How about a nice chicken & ham pie, or carbonara? I would have to have some served with a nice fried egg on the top

Carbonara it is, Gave the OH a choice of a few dishes and he opted for that :j Easy peasy, no effort dinner tonight :beer:

junior_j

My first time using the slow cooker today and there is a sausage cassarole bubbling away which has been cooking for about 4.5 hours now! Thought fluffed up on the stock ... xx