In my slow cooker today...

davetaylor

Is two lamb shanks.

Here is what I did, I chopped up two carrots and chucked them in SC. I then gently fried off one chopped onion , garlic and one leek and added to SC. I then pan fried the two shanks to crispen them up and remove the fat and added them two the SC. I then poured over a tin of chopped tomatoes about a glass of red wine and some herbs.

I did not really follow a recipe and have no idea how they will turn out!

It smell nice though!

ispartacus75

First post in this thread but heres what was in our SC tonight.

Last nights left over KFC skinned and stripped off the bone
Potatoes
Swede
KFC sweetcorn stripped
Tesco Value frozen peas
Gravy granules

And it made a cracking chicken stew. Wife is taking the leftovers into work for her lunch tomorrow.

davetaylor

Well my lamb shanks were really gorgeous. The meat was so soft and tender and the sauce and veg it was cooked in was lovely and tasty. I will be doing that one again!

kanes_son

Not in my slow cooker, but I am making a mountain of beef stew to freeze up for those days when I'm in too much pain or too tired to cook.

It's my mum's old recipe which I recently remembered and it's just as wonderful as it once was.

Need to find more recipes now!

amanndajane

the beef came out beautifully, just popped it in with a little water, some red wine and a stock cube, left it for just under 6 hours, it was delicious, all the plates were licked clean!!

MrsMcK_2

Today I have a whole chicken in mine along with some onion and herbs. Will serve with roasties for tea tonight. Need some thing this tasty now the evenings are dark and winter is set in. Leftovers will be turned into chicken with rice. Hope you all have a nice day. x

Treacle_2-2

I've found a Waitrose recipe for mushroom and chestnut steamed puds and would like to do this in my slow cooker today - does anyone have any idea how long they'd need to be in there for please?

sarahpenny

Very interested in buying a slow cooker...but do you always have to brown meat off first? If you just bunged in a chicken (as someone did a few posts back) would it come out all peely-wally? Also, if you do have to fry things first, could you do that the night before? (so NOT a morning person!!)
Thanks for any info

sandraroffey

i always brown the meat and bring it to the boil in the sauce/gravy in a saucepan first, because the slow cooker never comes to a rolling boil in which case the nasty bugs dont get killed, they just keep multiplying.

new potatoes cooked in a curry sauce in mine tonight. yum.

FairyElephant_2

Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

...in my slow cooker today.. I have 2 turkey legs with onion, carrots, celery and herbs making a delicious stock for soups. I got 2 turkey legs from asda at £1.27 each and cut all the meat off (enough for a curry for the 4 of us) and the rest went in the pot. OH had to hack them down a bit with a hammer so they would fit in though!

LOL! I keep a little junior hacksaw (bought in a £1 shop) in my kitchen drawer to deal with the bone-ends of turkey drumsticks & the like - wish my SC was oval then it wouldn't be so much of a prob, but I have a really old round one which still works well, so no need to change it really.