In my slow cooker today...

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mumslave

hello peeps, i am new, i hope you dont mind me joining in, I adore my slow cooker, it cost me a whole fiver from a car bootie, unwanted wedding gift...with no plug attached lol! Its now one of my most prized possessions, with three kids under 5 and one more due to arrive in the new year.

In my slow cooker today....braised bacon with tomatoes, one of our favorite dishes out of a slow cooking recipe book I have, all copy rights to it, if i could only remember its name, and get off my bottom to check.

Braised Bacon with Tomato

Ingredients
Gammon Joint, around 1kg smoked
Brown Sugar
Tomatos, skinned and coarsely chopped around 6-8
Onions, thinly sliced x 2
Black Pepper
Water 30ml
Button Mushrooms 100g
More water 30ml
Lemon Juice
Chopped Parsley

Method
1. Preheat slow cooker on high

2. Place joint in a saucepan, pour cold water around it and bring to the boil gently. Discard water, remove joint from pan.

3. Cut off the rind, snip any remaining fat at intervals. Sprinkle joint with brown sugar and brown/melt under a medium grill.

4. Layer slices of tomato in the bottom of the slowcooker, then the onions. Add first 30ml of water and season with the pepper. Place the browned gammon joint on the top. Cover and cook on high for 3-5 hours.

5. Around ten minutes before serving, cook mushrooms in the other 30ml of water and lemon juice, in a pan, for about 5 minutes. Use with the parsley as garnish for the joint.

Its fab with either mash or home made chips. Somerfield had gammon joints reduced from £6 to £3 the other week so i stocked up

Cat_Addict

They are a wonder aren't they mumslave? I never understand this whole "unwanted wedding gift" thing as though they were a weird kitchen gadget that you wouldn't use!

In fact, years ago I saw someone get given two for wedding presents and they were the lovely beige type with designs on and I secretly hoped they'd offer me one but they didn't!
I've now got two - the 6.5L and the 3.5L.

Thanks for the recipe!

Sublime_2

My new SC is a success. I only managed to fill it to just over a 1/3 today (mine used to be near the top before), so I can see myself using this loads.

Duck casserole recipe (which DD is demolishing); sliced duck breasts, carrots, parsnips, onions, garlic, tomatoes, blackberries (picked by DD), and pears (freebie), red wine, vegetable stock (using marigold powder), cayenne, cloves, cinnamon, honey, seasalt, and black pepper.

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Smlsave ~ I managed to burn some as well, yay me! :rotfl:

And yes, I meant mushy peas...:o

I put it on low for 9 hours. The SC is from Tesco, cost me a tenner. The good news is that I got myself a SC recipe book today so if I burn my meal again I'll have someone else to blame

Sublime_2

Hello Van, at least you keep trying. :rotfl:
I always manage to burn peas on the hob. I don't know why.

NJW69

Yesterdays ham in cola was lovely. When it was cooked I bubbled some of the liquid off on the hob, added extra salt and pepper, worcestershire sauce, some paprika and then stirred in some single cream. The ham was falling to bits and the sauce over the top was delicious. Served it with mash (when you've boiled the potatoes drain and leave to steam before mashing, then mash with butter, salt and pepper, white and black, allow to steam again and then put the heat back under it and stir like mad before serving. Makes it really fluffy and creamy), boiled sweet potato and steamed broccoli. Everyone loved it!

Today frying steak (wouldn't eat it like that as only like fillet!), onion, celery, carrot and some red wine. Left it all day and then stirred some gravy granules in and had it on crusty bread with chopped onion and mustard. Again really nice and good to walk in from work to. My old cat whose on her last legs enjoyed some as well.

jc2703

I've already posted about what was in my SC today..but going in it tonight is a chicken..nothing else - just chicken.

And I've just reserved the 6.5l SC that's on offer in Argos..We'll be a two SC family!! :-D

gizmo111

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Anyone point me in the way of a good SC recipe for pork fillets (the small kind).
Thanks muchly, and sorry if this has been asked a million times before!
x

I did some the other day, onions, celery, seasoning, 1 veg cube and 1 beef cube, slug of wine, apple, mushrooms left on for about 9 hours on low- it was lovely with new pototoes.

jc2703

Waking up on a morning to the smell of chicken cooking is a very odd - but not unpleasant! - experience. Haven't tasted the chicken yet but smells good, looks ok and i've about 1/2 a pint of stock after the fat's removed.

Today going in is browned mince, 1 onion, 1 red onion (to use it up) 2 stick of celery 2 cloves of garlic, 2 beef stock cubes 500ml of passata, 1 tsp sugar and 11/2 teaspoons of hot chilli powder. Will serve it with HM wedges and tortilla wraps and taco shells