What's in your Slow Cooker 2019

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Beef and pepper caserole in mine, maybe some for freezer.

Gintotmelinda

What joints of beef do you cook in your slow cooket? I used brisket last tome but it was a bit fatty. Would topside or silverside work?

muvvahen

The yogurt works like a dream Tink. I did try bread once... not to be repeated!!!

Also not to be repeated is no.1 daughter's pasta bake from last night. She was adamant that it would work. It didn't. So I would not recommend putting all the ingredients for a pasta sauce (onions, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, passata, seasoning) into the SC along with the dry pasta... it turned into a horrid congealed mush! The poor waste bin was very heavy when I put it out last night

dumpling

Gintotmelinda wrote: »

What joints of beef do you cook in your slow cooket? I used brisket last tome but it was a bit fatty. Would topside or silverside work?

I bought a joint of beef from Sainsburys which was marketed as suitable for slow cooking. I think it might have been brisket but it was so lovely, not fatty at all.

CRANKY40

dumpling wrote: »

I bought a joint of beef from Sainsburys which was marketed as suitable for slow cooking. I think it might have been brisket but it was so lovely, not fatty at all.

Thank you dumpling. I was intending to ask the same question as Gintot

Cappella

I have sweet and sour pork in ours today. I’m out all day visiting MrC in a hospital miles and 4 bus journeys away so it’ll be good not to have to start cooking when I get in and will stop me snacking on rubbish. Leftovers will make 3 more frozen “ready meals”.

Need2bthrifty

After talk about baking beetroot and potatoes in the SC, I tried doing some whole onions today and was very pleasantly surprised how tasty they turned out, nice and sweet.

I peeled off the papery skin leaving the root end intact, cut out a dimple in the top (a bit like cutting the core out of a tomato) squashed half a chicken stock cube into some room temp butter with a fork and put a blob on each onion, sprinkled them with a little salt & pepper wrapped them individually in foil twisting the top securely.

I started them on high to get them going but forgot to turn the temp down and they were ready when I went back to check 2-3 hours later.

Open them carefully to save the butter juices that come out.

I had them with some cauil cheese & green beans but they would make a nice side veg with a roast or a steak.

cheerfulness4

That sounds delicious, need2b.

We've just had a rice pudding in ours. Flavoured with grated lemon zest and a pinch of nutmeg. 5 hours on medium and it was yummy.

MrsCD

Update on the 'chicken bones' stock...
I made leek and potato soup with it and it did give a different flavour to the soup. Very nice.
On Wednesday I put a pack of 5% fat minced beef, a jar (! I know) of tomato and basil sauce, a tin of chopped tomatoes, a few chopped mushrooms, a finely diced carrot, a piece of chopped up green pepper, and two beef oxos in the pot and cooked on high for 3hours then turned it down. Did spaghetti with it and a little grated cheese on top. Lovely! Took some soup to dad's earlier in the week and spag bol today, and they both got the, "Not bad" from him. Praise or what!!

cheerfulness4

Did you pop the pasta in the slowcooker?

I was wondering if pasta such as orzo would be ok cooked in with the mix, thinking along the lines that rice pudding works beautifully.
I'd love to be able to cook meatball, sauce and pasta all in one go in there.