Just the weather for stew

lynzpower

stewing steak in the SC with potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, onions, peas gravy.

Serve with cup of tea, crusty bread and if you are feeling partic in need of comfort, a puff pastry Lid.

Perfect for rainy days, we will be having this a few times a week in autumn/winter :beer:

Dobie

pipkin71 wrote:

We had sausages in onion gravy done in the slow cooker tonight, with mashed potatoes and carrots. Both DDs cleared their plates as it was sooo nice.

Pipkin

My husband loves sausage & onion gravy, I didn't know it could be done in the slow cooker.
Please can you tell me how you do it?
Thanks
Dobie

singlehouseholder

You cannot whack a grit big pan of soup for the winter, my fave carrot and coriander with a handful of red lentils to pad it out....... You can put anything in a pan of broth, anything thats just about to "turn" or- you have surplus of.....
Or howsabout cooking some hm pies, and servinf with mash and beans or a big plate of steaming veg n gravy... Jacket spuds with beans and sausages.... hmm,huge hot bowl/plate of comfort food- I love winter!!!

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soups and more soups with a knobbly hm wholemeal roll. Don`t shape the rolls too much, I just pull lumps of dough apart and the rolls look lovely to the eye

Whizz the soup to disguise the pulses

ps a little tip I read re hm bread: I don`t add any fat until right at the end when I put a little splash of olive oil into the kenwood bowl. Wholemeal dough does seem to rise better that way. Oh I also add 1 small crushed vit c tablet to the flour

Icemaiden

MATH wrote:

I really like the change in season and Autumn is one of my fav times of year. I dust off my slo-cooker and soup pan ready for action.

So do others only use their SC in winter? I use mine all year round.

thriftmonster

Toad in the hole with onion gravy or those large yorkies (I use 7" sandwich tins - we have 4 for this purpose) filled with chilli or curry

wishingonastar_3

Icemaiden wrote:

So do others only use their SC in winter? I use mine all year round.

no, mines out all year too, we have lighter stock based soups in the summer, and its used for baked pots to go with cold meats or whatever, plus i use it to make up stews etc ready for the winter, cos on dark cold nights i never feel like cooking.

gingin_2

I don't have a slow cooker but I am very like you in that I like low fat meals but love hearty food. I tend to brown whatever lean meat I have, first in a little bit of olive oil and then remove that and cook a base of vegetables ( always including an onion and usually carrots, celery or leeks and some root veggies) in the same pan as the meat to keep the flavour and then add a little flour and stock and put the meat back in the pan and add what ever else I have lying around like a dash of worcester, a bayleaf, some dried herbs. Adding your potatoes into the same pan as your meat means they both bulk out the meal and take on the flavour of all the other ingredients without having to cook them seperately which in my case usually means with some sort of fat (i.e mashed or roast). I just let it bubble away until I am ready.

earwig

hi now the cold weather is on the way any ideas for meals that will warm you up dinners lunch puddings thanks

freda

Casseroles
Stews
Soup
Shepherd's pie
Meat pies
Lasagne
Pasta bake
Roast dinners
sausage, mash and onion gravy

Puddings:
Crumbles
Pies
Stewed fruit and custard
Baked apples with raisins, cinnamon etc down the middle
Mincemeat slices