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What's in your Slow Cooker 2019
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I used up some rather boring apples and made apple butter.
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Oh apple butter that sound tasty, does it go out of date quickly?
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tboo said:Oh apple butter that sound tasty, does it go out of date quickly?3
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beef casserole in mine again today! The weather has turned really miserable this afternoon. I have been cooking and freezing plenty meals in my prep freezer too.
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Rice pudding made with coconut milk, ordinary milk, raisins and some left over creamWill see what it taste like in half an hour“You’re only here for a short visit.
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some more carrot and chorizo soup to blend up for the freezer. plus tomorrow I plan to make some rice pudding to use up the last of the milk my partner uses as I drink my coffee black.
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I have a small one person one. Haven't used it much at all - how long does it take to do basic things - like just cook carrots and other veg, or maybe do brown rice? Never came with a proper booklet and I am at home so don't need it on low for many hours and can use on high.
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Brown rice is best off just boiled on the hob. Or microwave.
Vegetables vary massively in terms of texture and cooking time anyway, and personally I would do vegetables on their own on the hob, say steaming or boiling.
For slow cooker meals, think first of all of what you might put in a casserole. If you browse the internet and find recipes for larger slow cookers, scale down the ingredients (you want to aim for the slow cooker to ideally be between 1/2 and 2/3 full for liquid based recipes) but the cooking times will be similar no matter what size of slow cooker.
If it's a 1.5 litre slow cooker, here's a manual:
https://www.breville.co.uk/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-breville-uk-Library/default/dw32bf1e67/documents/instruction-manuals/VTP169_Rev4.pdf
Soups work well, and you can reduce the amount of liquid so you are only cooking the base in the slow cooker (think like a can of condensed soup) so for example you could make 6 portions in the slow cooker, so you could freeze 5 of the "base" portions. Then for each, add hot water and heat in microwave for each portion to serve
If you want to get creative, you can also cook breads and cakes and even biscuits in the slow cooker.
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Filled the slow cooker with beef,onions and mushrooms.
Making some pies for the freezer.0
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