[clarebear]

Hello

I got a slow cooker for Christmas. I have searched online for recipes but I can't find very many.

Does anyone here have any tried and tested recipes that they would like to share.

Thanks

Clare

[DD.]

Hello

I got a slow cooker for Christmas. I have searched online for recipes but I can't find very many.

Clare

?? One of my first Google hits has 1400 recipes!


1400 Crockpot Recipes


Don't forget slow cookers are also known as crockpots.

[DD.]

David - topic hopefully split as requested. As one of your posts overlapped the two topics, I've put the overlap back in here as a quote.

I bought my wife one a short time ago, and started this thread when looking for recipe books:

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=9873

But since then we (mainly her) have found quite a few slow cooker recipes/pages/threads on the web and will put links on. No need for books!

A great piece of equipment. Although it's only supposed to use the power of a lightbulb, ours goes on overnight on Economy 7 tariff (tenth of day rate) and we try to use it wherever possible in stead of the oven/hobs for sousing mackerel, stews, casseroles, curries, steamed puddings (incl Christmas pudding this year) and stewing fruit prior to the final stages of making jams/jellies (cuts down risk of burning). And we are learning more all the time.


And it only cost £10! Too many people get one of these 'Eco Cookers' and don't bother using it. My MIL got one from us for Christmas, has just cooked venison in it and is delighted with the results.

[David.]

DD you didn't split this bit this board:

The thread my wife found most useful was:

LINK

Which being a UK forum thread (now 56 pages), rather than a list of US recipes, was far more useful.

[DD.]

Sorry - at least it's there now!

[Sally A]

It's not just stew and casseroles, it also cooks chicken fillets, chops etc in about 4-5 hours.

In summer, I'll bung in some chicken fillets and top it with sliced peppers, garlic, mushrooms, courgette (but they go gloopy), herbs, and anything else that would go, and call it mediterranean chicken.  

dish up when needed with a cous cous.

hardly any prep. almost no standing by pans etc.