In my slow cooker today...

gettingready

Bluberrypie - thanks for that.
So dinner for Saturday planned,love Indian

stef240377

Some form of chicken casserole in mine today, added leeks, red onion, carrots, chicken breast fillets, chicken stock and later will add some dumplings. Should put a warm glow in daughters belly before she goes off to army cadets.

dixie_dean_2

I've had my SC a few months now and only ever really done meat stews. Can someone suggest another dish for me to try, ideally one that casn be quickly chucked together before work?

Thanks.

yummyhoney

did chicken legs in mine yesterday,,nothing today:(i dont even know what we hare having!!!

cooking-mama

beef n veg casserole,,diced beef with sliced,carrots,leeks,onions,turnip and parsnips,water and an oxo cube.will add some sliced mushrooms and small potatoes later.

dizzybuff

Nothing today , but putting pate in to cook overnight and then tommorrow chicken catchatori . nothing Saturday and the three bird roast sunday for our pre xmas dinner with a very close and dear freind .

zippychick

blueberrypie wrote: »

The reason you're not supposed to open it is that the temperature will drop - the same is true of an oven, of course, but with an oven, it's usually still hot enough, even after losing some heat, to keep cooking the food. But when you get to near the end of the cooking time, the food is mostly cooked anyway, and you're just keeping it warm, so taking the lid off for a few seconds to add something then won't make a big difference.



You get almost no moisture-loss with a sc, so you need very little liquid. Added to your 250 ml water, you'll have the juices from the meat and veg. So I wouldn't worry about the liquid. Eight hours on high does seem quite a long time to me, but I suspect it's because of the potatoes being on top - things like potatoes and root veg take the longest to cook in a sc, which is why they're usually placed on the bottom, closest to the heat.

Do you not think 8 hours on high would be too high for too long?

I have bacon ribs in mine today :j To be glazed later (and thrown in the oven) with maple syrup, brown sugar and orange juice. MMMMMMMMM:j

waddy80

Right second christmas pud has come out (I did have to taste it, and it was good!) so onto todays tea.
I'm out tonight and tomorrow night for christmas do's, so thought I would do something that will hopefully last hubby a couple of nights.
Tesco yellow stickered meatballs (25p), browned in a frying pan with some onion and a little garlic. Chopped tomatoes with olive oil and garlic, some cherry tomatoes from the bottom of the salad drawer, some basil (fresh yellow stickered in tesco to 10p then chucked in the freezer) and some dried herbs. An hour on high, then I will leave it ticking on low.
All hubby will have to do is boil some pasta, he can manage that can't he?

deebee

Onions, carrots, leeks, a stock cube and a pack of Linda McCartney veggie sausages, gonna add a colmans beef & ale casserole mix, mmmmm

furndire

dixie_dean wrote: »

I've had my SC a few months now and only ever really done meat stews. Can someone suggest another dish for me to try, ideally one that casn be quickly chucked together before work?

Thanks.

you might find something on here

http://www.slowandsimple.com/index.php

There's certainly loads of "beans" recipes