In my slow cooker today.... part 2

kittywight

Tomato soup in mine today

Suprised to see the slowcooker thread so far back, I thought everyone would have their sc on in this wet and windy weather

Pollycat

I've got some very nice braisng steak in mine, doing it very simply with sliced onions, mixed herbs, bay leaf and stock.

I'm serving it with mashed potatoes and savoy cabbage with lots of lovely gravy.

Own_My_Own

Nothing:(

When getting things together for a bootsale, my dd got it out of the cupboard.

'I'm not selling that, I still use it' I said

'I know, but nobody likes anything you cook in it !' she replied:rotfl:

Popperwell

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Nothing:(

When getting things together for a bootsale, my dd got it out of the cupboard.

'I'm not selling that, I still use it' I said

'I know, but nobody likes anything you cook in it !' she replied:rotfl:

Oh dear:(
Well, I ended up doing belly pork, vegetables and potatoes in mine and eating that in the early hours...

Pollycat wrote: »

I've got some very nice braisng steak in mine, doing it very simply with sliced onions, mixed herbs, bay leaf and stock.

I'm serving it with mashed potatoes and savoy cabbage with lots of lovely gravy.

Perhaps that is the trick to do some of a meal in the SC but combine it by adding some items cooked in another way. And again they call them slow cookers and yet often I find my meals(perhaps it depends on the quantity being cooked)are ready quite quickly.

Pollycat

Popperwell wrote: »

And again they call them slow cookers and yet often I find my meals(perhaps it depends on the quantity being cooked)are ready quite quickly.

I find this too.

I had one of the very first ones on the market (Prestige Crock-pot with an orange plastic base) as a gift from my MIL almost 40 years ago and loved it.
It really did take all day to cook a lovely meal, I switched it on when I went out to work and it was ready when I came home.

When it had cooked its last about 7 years ago, I was really sad.

I have 2 now, a small one and a large one and they do cook a lot quicker (and nowhere near as well) as my old one.
I alwyas look on car boots for one like it.

I'll switch my beef on about midday to be ready at 8pm.

Mrs_Arcanum

Will be a syrup sponge pudding later, complete with a lime stuffed in the middle.

41_and_i_know_it

I bought a prestige crockpot in january from tseco for about £15 in the sale, I remember seeing the ads in the 1970s and it sounded like a cauldron you magically make food in so i had to have one. We use it a lot well my partner does, I'm not a snob but the own brand slow cookers are usually more expensive and I am so proud to have one the design is not the retro one though.

Pollycat

This is the one I had:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Prestige-Crock-Pot-/120989354104?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Kitchen_Steamers_Cookers_PP&hash=item1c2b870878

Wish it was close enough to pick up.

Popperwell

Mine is a Tesco one I think it cost £12 and I picked a small one up for approx £10 in B&M(I already had the Tesco's one)but thought a smaller one might be big enough now I am single(alone is probably a better term, I didn't break up with anyone)and it uses even less electric. But I don't plan to get rid of the larger one. Hopefully, I will use both and work around them...

I do the same with the two microwave ovens I have(one is a combi and the other just an ordinary one)

outtawork

I use my large slow cooker to cook once & eat twice or 3 times, I also make Shepherds pie & Bolognese & divide it into meals for the freezer.Saving gas & time.