In my slow cooker today...

squeaky

tiff wrote:

Carribean chicken and it smells gorgeous. Can post the recipe if anyone needs it but its the one in the MR instruction book that comes with the slow cooker. What would you serve with it, rice?

THAT DOES IT Grrrr!

To start with - yes please tiff.

second - there are recipes popping up in all sorts of threads and they're not really off topic since many cover stretching meals or quick simple and CHEAP recipes. So my question is - is there a proper recipes thread/forum here somewhere - or are we now at the time where there SHOULD be one?

Curry_Queen

Ticklemouse wrote:

Washing-up liquid and water

Snap!!!!!! :rotfl:


I will get round to washing it out when everyone stops posting on this forum so I can get off the PC

Tonights dinner is the mince concoction I made last night, and will probably make some rice to go with it. Haven't got anything out the freezer yet for tomorrow but the caribbean chicken sounds yummy so might defrost some chicken ... got no tinned peaches or pineapple either but I have got a fresh pineapple arrived today (knew I'd find a use for it LOL!) so will use that instead

Curry_Queen

rwsteele wrote:

THAT DOES IT Grrrr!

To start with - yes please tiff.

As Tiff appears to have gone offline at the moment I'll post the recipe for you

Caribbean Chicken

3 tbsp veg oil
2 large onions, chopped
4 sticks celery, chopped
3 carrots, sliced
500g mushrooms, sliced
2 red peppers, sliced
8 chicken joints, skinned
400g can sliced peaches
400g can pineapple chunks
10 tbsp cornflour
3 tsp paprika
3 tbsp soy sauce
3 tbsp worcestershire sauce
8 tbsp malt/wine vinegar
1 litre boiling water
salt & pepper

Fry onions, celery, carrot, mushroom and pepper in a pan.

Add chicken joints and fry until browned all over.

Drain peaches and pineapple, reserving juice, and add to pan.

To make sauce blend cornflour and paprika with soy sauce, worcestershire sauce, vinegar and reserved juice, add seasoning, boiling water and pour into pan.

Bring sauce to boil, stirring continuously.

Transfer all ingredients to slow-cooker, cover and cook 5-7 hours.


Forgot to add that these are the quantities to fill the large 6.5litre cooker so use half quantities obviously if you've got a smaller cooker or want to cook less

Lillibet_2

At the weekend I made a sausage casserole in mine but trebled the amount of veg, when done I scooped out 2/3 of the veg & made it the basis for a veggie lasagne : just added sliced pappers, Italian herbs & loads of garllic then layerd with ready made lasagne sheets & cheese sauce & it cooked in no time.

Pal

Queenie wrote:

I have stewing steak (couldnt' be bothered cubing it so I slapped it in hole and will trim it into 4 pieces when cooked) added sliced potatoes, chicken stock, tomato puree, white pepper and some mixed herbs (fingers X'd)

Beef cooked in chicken stock? Blurgh!

Also - why bother with white pepper given that the meal is dark anyway?

squeaky

Curry_Queen wrote:

As Tiff appears to have gone offline at the moment I'll post the recipe for you

Caribbean Chicken
etc...

Thanks very much. Printed and ready to go.

Now, lookit, you and tiff are clearly regulars here and I'm fairly new - but foodstuffs, cooking, and recipes turn up in all sorts of different threads and while they're not necessarily directly moneysavers they have a whole lot to do with how you _use_ a fair bit your money saving budget. So, my question is - is there a forum [zone?] for recipes, and if not, should we now have one?

Curry_Queen

What I tend to do when I come across a recipe in the the threads is copy & paste to wordpad then file them all in one folder for future use otherwise I'd never find them here again!!!

The problem is that in a lot of threads here we tend to wander off topic and things come up in discussion and recipes get posted that are relevant to that discusion, so while trying to post all on one place is an excellent idea, it's not always practical.

If you have a look at the sticky threads I think Fran collated a lot of recipes and food discussions in her food thread so it's worth having a look through there

squeaky

Curry_Queen wrote:

What I tend to do when I come across a recipe in the the threads is copy & paste to wordpad then file them all in one folder for future use otherwise I'd never find them here again!!!

The problem is that in a lot of threads here we tend to wander off topic and things come up in discussion and recipes get posted that are relevant to that discusion, so while trying to post all on one place is an excellent idea, it's not always practical.

If you have a look at the sticky threads I think Fran collated a lot of recipes and food discussions in her food thread so it's worth having a look through there

Yeah, I've been printing each as I find them - purely because finding them again among almost half a million posts now is not a simple process.

Yeah, thread drift I know. After all, I've been on line one place or another since 1980

Food thread? There's 40,000+ threads to choose from, but presumably only one fran - so I'll try that route thanks.

Queenie

Pal wrote:

Beef cooked in chicken stock? Blurgh!

Also - why bother with white pepper given that the meal is dark anyway?

:rotfl: Hey! Don't knock it until you try it!

White pepper is stronger than black pepper and has no effect on the colour of the meat, but gives a nice twang flavour overall.
The fresh chicken stock already had onions, leeks and celery cooked with it and I wanted those flavours imparted into the overall flavour of the concoction.

Glad

rwsteele wrote:

second - there are recipes popping up in all sorts of threads and they're not really off topic since many cover stretching meals or quick simple and CHEAP recipes. So my question is - is there a proper recipes thread/forum here somewhere - or are we now at the time where there SHOULD be one?

there is a thread with links to recipes here
it's a sticky at the top of the board
which probably just needs a little updating