Just the weather for stew

here there are some good beef ones.

here there are some good lamb ones, and

here there are some good chicken ones.

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Homemade soup is also great once the weather turns nippy. During the winter we have "Soup of the week season". From Oct until Mar I have to make one soup a week without duplicating a recipe. They can be really filling. French Onion is delicious with a slice of french stick dropped in the top, covered in grated cheese and popped under the grill.

My favourite winter warmer soup is apple & parsnip. It's yummy.

This is my favourite "casserole". I put it in " " because it's not a casserole in the traditional sense.
Sausage & apple "casserole"

You need:
Sausages - Any type. Whatever your favourites are/what's on BOGOF
Apples - Any. I use Braeburns or Coxs. Allow 1/2 to 1 apple per person, cut into wedges.
Onion - red or white. Again cut into wedges & allow 1/2 onion-ish per person
Chicken oxo made up into about 2 pints with big spoonful of wholegrain mustard & another of cranberry sauce stirred into it. Looks vile.

Use big/deep frying pan or casserole dish for this.

Fry off the sausages. When nearly cooked add the onion wedges, then the apple wedges. Allow to cook for about 5 minutes then pour the stock/mustard/cranberry mix over the top. Let it cook til the stock reduces down to a nice sticky gravy.

I serve it in giant yorkshire puds.

Just call me Delia!!  

It's really quick to make (especially if you have it with those frozen giant yorkshires that only take 4 minutes to heat up), no faffing about with fiddly chopping of ingredients & you can make it all in one pot.

Here's a challenge then - anyone got any vegetarian casserole recipes that can be done in a slow cooker?

And... for extra bonus points, no Quorn please as I'm allergic to it. Any other meat substitutes are fine.

Waiting hopefully and dusting the cobwebs yet again off my Prestige crockpot - it's all I ever do to it! (Given up trying to make my husband turn into an ex-veggie ).