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CookieRaider wrote: »

Anyone used a slowcooker before? Got a Crockpot the other day and i'm going to break it in this weekend (just hope i don't break it) have tried to look for online tips but they are all different. It's stewing steak that i will be cooking, do i put all the veg at the bottom with the meat on top and do i brown the meat first do i cover it all with stock and how long i have read about 8hrs but is that on high or low and how do you thicken at the end? add bisto? HELP

Ive just done a beef stew this morning in my slow cooker, this is what I do..

I brown the stewing steak in a frying pan.
while thats browning, I put a tin of tomatoes, a tin of baked beans (optional) 2 oxo cubes, 4 small carrotts, an onion quartered and some frozen peas.
When the stewing steak is browned put it in the slow cooker (with the juices) with all the other ingredients and cover with boiling water..
cook on high (if you want it ready within about 6 hrs), otherwise turn it down to low once its hot.

I tend to thicken it up with a bit of cornflower about an hour before serving.

HTH xxxx

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Maybe everyone has read this & thats why its quiet

mharzuk

Morning everyone, isn't it quiet in here. HC if you are reading please come back, there is space for you on the couch

mharzuk

Did anyone else have a bit of a giggle about Tesco profits being down in the news? I did wonder if it has anything to do with us :cool:

Laura_Cello

been gone 4 days and there's a lifetime to catch up on here! Got back in the country, kids to school, and went to 'buy' milk courtesy of good old Uncle T, thanks to the JTD's that came through! now for a nice cup of tea and a good catch up.

Have a great day all!

tazmac25

Morning everyone - including our face lurker xxx
It does seem very odd in here today
Missed all the fracas yesterday as in work
Hope it all gets sorted out soon
Must admit to thinking ooo a glitch so many pages to read ....... Sadly no :-(
Xxx

zippydooda

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so if everyone could post a message (many have done so already) to say come back and highlight it in say blue, so 3dogs easily see it. 3dogs as i know you read every post can you then put it into a list. thanks. so come back happychappy we miss you.

mymerrywidow

mharzuk wrote: »

Did anyone else have a bit of a giggle about Tesco profits being down in the news? I did wonder if it has anything to do with us :cool:

we get blamed for most things, they have called us "martins mob" and a "cottage industry". at least they havent yet called us strippers :eek::eek:

kadison

mymerrywidow wrote: »

just popped out to some more supplies of xmas hulA HOOPS, in tesco they are £1.50:eek::eek:. nearly scream when it scanned at that. in saisnburys they are only 30p a tub. me and my baby car took a drive there. its very strange going to sainburys. the staff are so polite, and seem to actually want to be there. not even a hint of a trout. it was like a breath of fresh air.

I find that when I go to Waitrose too, people around actually looking happy to be working there. Very odd.

I worked for T's in Trowbridge for just over 6 months in 1998/99 and I loved it, mind you that was before all the stores got ginormous and out of control :rotfl:

xoAmyox

come back happychappy we miss you.