In my slow cooker today...

flissh

Oooooo, so pleased. Just bought a Sainsbury's slow cooker. Got low high and warm on it. 4.2 ltr capacity only 17 pounds. Got a huge chilli in it right now. Am going out for dinner so will turn it off when we get in and freeze all the portions.

Woodyrocks

Shall be making some Welsh Cawl (might use chicken instead) tomorrow. Just batch froze the Bolognese sauce I made yesterday.

Shall also be making Mango Kulfi but not in the SC lol

Really loving this new found domestic streak of mine!

blueberrypie

madcook wrote: »

Russell Hobbs do a 2 Section Slow Cooker. So you can cook two different things at once. It has lots of good recipes in its instruction booklet, worth the download. Couldn't seem to post any more detail because of spam rules.

Its the Dual Pot Slow Cooker.

I've had this slow-cooker, and I wouldn't spend the money on it again. You get some crossover of flavours between the two sides, but my main complaint is that mine died - the digital controls broke - and although it wasn't very old, and had only been used a handful of times, and although this is a known issue with this model (I googled), Russell Hobbs were completely unhelpful. They wanted me to return it to them - at my cost - so they could examine it, and they said that *if* they decided there was a fault (rather than wear and tear or damage), they *might* offer me a discount off a new one. And if they decided there wasn't a fault, they'd return it to me and charge me for checking it. Really not good enough, and has put me off buying anything made by RH again.

bunty109

Big chilli was made today and now I have a chicken carcass in making some stock so lots of use!!

CAT££

Hello

Has anyone got a recipe for a beef curry in the slow cooker?

champys

Today I made..... osso buco.
Possibly the best thing that has come out of the SC so far. Even better that we could eat it out in the garden, as the weather has been fabulous the last few days.

Sublime_2

champys wrote: »

Today I made..... osso buco.
Possibly the best thing that has come out of the SC so far. Even better that we could eat it out in the garden, as the weather has been fabulous the last few days.

Could I have the recipe, please. I haven't made this before.

jo1972

katycocoa wrote: »

beef curry - 2 packs of beef, 2 peppers, 2 onions, 5 tomatoes, 5 mushrooms, garlic, ginger, balti paste, 2 jars balti sauce.

I'm giving katycocoa's recipe a go today, in fact it should be on so better dash!!

champys

Sublime wrote: »

Could I have the recipe, please. I haven't made this before.

Hi Sublime - will explain how I did it:
In the bottom of the SC, I put 2 medium chopped onions, 3 or 4 carrots (also chopped) , a minced clove of garlic, a piece of lemon zest and a slice of celeriac (cubed). The recipe specifies celery, but I didn't have any. I added a good slosh of white wine (about 100 ml) and liquid tomato - you could use a tin of chopped tomatoes, or passata - I used roast tomatoes from the freezer from last year's glut. I added a teaspoon of marigold bouillon powder, but I don't think it is essential.
Sprinkled with a little salt/pepper and a teaspoon of oregano - then placed 3 veal shanks on top (organic), which were seasoned on both sides. I cooked on 'auto' for 4 to 4.5 hours. Then made up a 'gremolata' by chopping some fresh parsley and marjoram from the garden with a small clove of garlic. Officially it has grated lemon rind in as well, but I had run out of lemons - it was OK without.
To thicken the sauce, all I did was whizz some of the cooked vegetables in the sauce with a stick blender - not all of it. I added a pinch of sugar to balance the acidity of the tomatoes. Then served the shanks in the sauce with the gremolata on top, and brown rice on the side. Really good!

jo1972

Champys, that sounds yum :drool: