Slow Cooker - The Recipe Collection

purplecatlover

ok next question, i fancy making a carrot and corriander soup. am i right to assume i can just bung everything in the slow cooker and cook it for a few hours?

Jorgan_2

I discovered that we had a slow cooker the other day, so I've been driving the other half mad all week with SC recipes. So today I cooked a gammon with water & brown sugar and it tasted fantastic. Sandwiches for lunch tomorrow have been made from it, tomorrow's tea is sorted & its gammon soup on Saturday. Don't you just love it here?

lbt_2

Hi Jorgan

I cooked gammon a few weeks ago and wasn't impressed but I didn't put any water in the SC. How much water and brown sugar did you use?

Thanks

Jorgan_2

lbt wrote: »

Hi Jorgan

I cooked gammon a few weeks ago and wasn't impressed but I didn't put any water in the SC. How much water and brown sugar did you use?

Thanks

This is a first, me giving cooking tips.:D

I added half a cup of water & spread a tea spoon of brown sugar of the top of the gammon. Cooked it for 6.5 hours.

EDIT: soaked it for 24hrs first & changed the water three times.

jasmine33

I cooked gammon today with an inch of water in the bottom of the slow cooker and it is lovely. Sandwiches with the leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

squeaky

purplecatlover wrote: »

ok next question, i fancy making a carrot and corriander soup. am i right to assume i can just bung everything in the slow cooker and cook it for a few hours?

Yep

Although... since the carrots are a root vegetable, and these take longer than pretty much anything else to cook - you'll get better results if you boil them (or lightly fry them in butter) for ten to fifteen minutes before adding them to the pot.

purplecatlover

thanks squeaky ill stick them on to boil first then. (and try to remember not to let them boil dry and burn).

Maddie

Hi, I'm using my slow cooker for the first time tomorrow to make some sort of stew/casserole for my engagement part - got about 30-40 people coming eek!

I plan to buy a joint of meat (prob lamb) then add lots of random veg, carrots, potatos, swede, courgette etc.

I've also got brocolli, cabbage & cauliflower, can i add these or will it just make a soggy mess?

Also, I'm a bit confused, the book says to ensure its all fully covered with water, but if as i've read above the veg releases water - isn't this going to be too wet?

SallyUK

After having read through ALL the pages of this thread, I've decided that as a full time working Mum I need to get myself organised better and this sounds like a good start.

So I've been looking at different sizes of slow cookers and see Amazon have a 6.5L one for around £16.99 at the moment - do you think this size is ok for a family of 4 - (two adults, and nearly fully grown kids - lol)

I'm obsessed at avoiding food poisoning though and would be a bit scared about cooking some things, is there a chance that I could poison us all if I do something stupid?

I'm really a hopeless cook and need everything to be simple and straightforward, and I'm not very imaginative either when it comes to putting together some recipes! lol

Also, I'd be scared in case something went wrong and it ended up burning the house down when I was at work??!


OK, I'm being irrational, I know, - it due to me being pre menopausal - honest! lol

Sal

shandypants5

SallyUK wrote: »

After having read through ALL the pages of this thread, I've decided that as a full time working Mum I need to get myself organised better and this sounds like a good start.

So I've been looking at different sizes of slow cookers and see Amazon have a 6.5L one for around £16.99 at the moment - do you think this size is ok for a family of 4 - (two adults, and nearly fully grown kids - lol)

I'm obsessed at avoiding food poisoning though and would be a bit scared about cooking some things, is there a chance that I could poison us all if I do something stupid?

I'm really a hopeless cook and need everything to be simple and straightforward, and I'm not very imaginative either when it comes to putting together some recipes! lol

Also, I'd be scared in case something went wrong and it ended up burning the house down when I was at work??!


OK, I'm being irrational, I know, - it due to me being pre menopausal - honest! lol

Sal

Haha..you sound like a bit of a worrier..:rotfl:

We just got the same cooker from Amazon and the size is good (you will need to fit a chicken in it. YUUMMY) we are 2 adults and 2 small kids..

Dont worry about it burning the house down it is quite safe, if you think about it you leave a lot of things on in the house all day/night,
central heating boiler is always on even when not heating, sky/cable boxes on standby..(I may be worrying you more now:rolleyes: )...the slow cooker is probably one of the safest things to leave unattended.

As for food poisoningI dont think it is any worse than normal cooking, it still actually simmers the liquid, so a bug that can last that long in that temperature would have to be pretty tough..

Hopeless cook part is not a prob either... you can pretty much chuck anything in and it will come out scrummy... but there are a LOT of recipies in here to get you started..http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=131302
We did chicken with a lemon inside it last week for 8 hours and it was SO nice..

I say buy it... its a bargain at that price, and will last for years...