Slow Cooker!!!!!!!!

[steelsy]

We've just moved into a new house and bl**dy oven is broken! Grr! As a temporary (very temporary) measure we have gone out a purchased a slow cooker - has anyone got any good recipes they can share - otherwise we'll be having beef stew every night! ha ha!!!

[shirlthegirl43]

Try this site - I use it all the time

http://southernfood.about.com/library/crock/blcpidx.htm

[steelsy]

Brilliant! Thank you!!!!!!!! (and a huge thank you from spencer the boyfriend as well!!)

[shirlthegirl43]

And there is also this one which is rather nice for a Sunday roast alternative

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ht=shirley%27s

[Sue]

Steelsy
My cooker broke down two months ago and I'm using "temporary methods" of cooking till I can empty six large bookcases to allow access to get a new cooker in and the old one out - don't ask...
I also got a single ring that can be used on the kitchen top from Lakeland, about £15 and has proved most useful.
I've used my slow cooker to cook pasta and potatoes and also poach fruit so you can have "afters". Otherwise I've given up using special recipes, just cook something stewlike and bung it in till cooked.
Sue

[JennieAtkinson]

Just today I bought a slow cooker cookbook by Catherine Atkinson (good name!). Its an absolutely great book, recommend it to anyone. It was only 4.99.

Tonight we had the sausage casserole - fantastic. There are recipes for cakes, puddings, soups, and all manners of things that I didn't know you could do with a slow cooker. Can't wait to try out something else.

[steelsy]

I had a quick look on amazon for some books and stuff and didn't realise that you could do pddings and stuff - it's all quite exciting!!! ha ha!

Thank you ever so much for everyone's posts - much appreciated!

[shirlthegirl43]

Once you get into using it you will wonder how you got along without one. I find it invaluable if we are off out for the day - can come home to a wonderful meal ready to eat as soon as you get in. Makes wonderful stock too as it doesn't boil too hard

[Dobby]

slow cookers are great you can just bung everthing in
we got The slow cooker recipe book by Catherine Atkinson ISBN 1844773760
you can even do cakes in it

[HeyWayne]

Slow cooked chicken, mmm.

Lamb is also really nice slow cooked. Just think Moroccan, or Greek.....

[Winged one]

I don't have one yet, but it's on my list of desirables when the kitchen gets finished. I have seen some lovely recipes on the flylady website: http://www.flylady.net/pages/FFT_SlowCook1.asp

[Two_Sheds]

I noticed Aldi have slow cookers this week, about £15 I think. Gert big stockpots for soup too.

[TPeers]

Got two! One was a wedding gift with a lovely china crockpot, the other is a muti thing, does steaming, rice cooking and slow cooking.

I use the new one for rice and some steaming but the old one is a better slow cooker.

Lamb in redcurrent is fantastic - wonderful with really fresh crust bread.

[NSB]

My sister quickly browns of a whole chicken and then puts it in the slow cooker. The meat just falls off. Delicious

[bubblewrap]

Slow cooker? It takes me hours to cook dinner!