In my slow cooker today...

lbt_2

Plus ... the knob has just broken on my slow cooker

i_wanna_save_money!

I have rubbed fajita mix over a HUGE turkey drumstick, and have put it in my slow cooker with some chopped red and yellow peppers, onions and a carrot with a bit of water in the bottom. It smells lovely - hope it tastes good - and I am serving it with rice.

moanymoany

Just cooked chick peas. Started doing it overnight on auto, but at 6.30 they weren't cooked. Put them on high for 3 1/2 hours and they are the best chick peas ever, smooth and soft.

I'm quick soaking some pinto beans and I'm going to slow cook them later this afternoon.

http://cgi.stanford.edu/~group-synergy/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HowToSoakBeans

Pink.

I have lamb in the slow cooker today. As it’s the first day back at school for my boys and it’s yucky weather I wanted to make comfort food for tea.

Fry one onion then chop three carrots and three leeks and add to the pan. When they begin to colour add garlic and rosemary. Put the veg into the slow cooker with two lamb stock cubes and two tins of value chopped tomatoes. Rinse the pan with a little boiling water and add the juices to the slow cooker to get every last bit of flavour. Cook on high for two to three hours. Brown the lamb (shoulder chops, but any cut of lamb would do) to melt the fat then pop it into the slow cooker and give it all a good stir. Leave for another two hours and serve with a pile of mashed potato.

Pink

Olliebeak

On Saturday I made Carrot and Butterbean Soup for the first time and, though I say it myself, it tasted very yummy. Now decanted into large margarine tubs and frozen.

Yesterday I removed three chicken carcases from the freezer and cooked them for about 6 hours. I also put some soup and broth mix in to soak until midnight. Then spent the evening picking over the carcase bones to get as much meat as possible from them.

I had a large bag of carrot peelings, leek trimmings and green bean trimmings sitting in the freezer for just such an occasion. The soup and broth mix got drained and rinsed and the whole lot put back into the SC overnight along with a couple of onions, some dried mixed herbs and celery salt. This morning the veggies have been 'whizzied' and added back in with a chicken stock cube. I've had a taste and it's 'very substantial'.

Now cooling down and will join the other soup in the freezer - and all mostly from what I would have previously thrown away! Thank you MSE and OS for the inspiration .

FairyElephant_2

This morning I battled with a Turkey Drumstick for 10 mins to get it to fit in the slow cooker :eek: - and made myself late for work so had cold toast for breakfast (I get it made for me in work - a lovely luxury, unless I am late!).

How do you normally make them fit? This is the first time I have tried one, and I am thinking that if we like it I will have to get the hacksaw out next time and saw off the bone end.......:rolleyes: .

I put about a pint of water in the bottom of the cooker (with a chicken noodle packet soup mix in it - needed using up!) , so most of the drumstick is actually above the liquid - will this be OK???? I usually use the SC for casserole-type stuff & soups, this is the first time I've cooked a 'lump' of meat in it.

I'm planning on serving it with Vegetable rice - Hope it's OK as there's nothing else for tea tonight (shopping tomorrow night) and I have to go to a meeting so need it to be ready quite early.

Olliebeak

As you can cook a whole chicken in the SC, with a small amount of water, the turkey drumstick should be fine. I've cooked one in mine, but it fitted in the bottom OK.

The only problem with the turkey drumstick is that they can be a bit fiddley when it comes to cutting them up - appear to be lots of long sinewy bits right the way through the meat. But the meat itself is lovely.

I buy diced turkey thigh meat (on a tray) from Asda and use it for casseroles/curries/chillis - any recipe that calls for diced chicken in fact. When doen in the SC it's always a great success.

mumoftwo

In my slow cooker today: minced beef 1kg, lentils (quite a lot) stock, carrots, potatoes, leek, onion, It smells fantastic

Burp_2

in mine ...

800g minced beef
grated carrot
2 red onions
red wine
500g bolognaise sauce
sun dried tomatoes


in the other side:

beef
carrots
1 white onion
mushrooms
colemans beef and ale sachet

kellitots

Right now my slow cooker contains potatoes and lovely stewing beef with a packet (sorry!!) stew mix and some water (I had to...got no onions or anything to flavour with! It's a skint skint month).

It will go on at 9am on low..then at about 6 I shall put some frozen veg in and just before 7 put some yorkies on to eat with it!

Yum yum I am drooling already!