[kezlou]

Hi everyone, just bought a slow cooker today.
Does anyone know / have any slow cooker recipes. Don't mind if they contain meat as my lot are animals.

Would love some stews / soup recipes what with it being winter an all.

Thanks for looking everyone!

[Novice but totally hooked]

If you'd like to send me an e-mail with your address I'll photocopy my slow cooker recipe booklet and send it to you.

[kezlou]

Thank you very much, i really appreciate it.  
Kerry

P.S just sent you a pm.

[Yorkie]

On a similar theme, can anyone recommend a decent (but not too fancy) slow cooking recipe book ?  

The one I have was donated by my mum along with the machine - and its print run date is 1981!  I've lost count of the number of recipes with brisket or tripe in ...  :roll:

[Skip]

G'Day

One of the best slow-cooker recipes you will ever try is my mother's own Polish Goulash. It whips the pants off any Hungarian version.

Cook it and enjoy!

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=19735&highlight=polish+goulash

[Aidy]

I do a sort of cassoulete. This is for myself tho it would do two but I dont like to share it. I cook this for my tea on fridays as the wife is at work and the kids at my sisters until 8ish so its to just walk in and sit down and eat it. kind of throw stuff in.
3 strips of pork belly
a cup full of chorizo
1 1/2 cups of dried beans (i use haricot, aduki)
3 shallots, 2 fine chopped, 1 sliced in half
2 cloves of garlic
4 cloves
2 toms chopped
ham stock
salt and black pepper to season
Pre soak beans over night, fry the belly pork to colour and add chorizo and chopped shallot garlic and fry for a couple of minutes. Boil the beans for 5 mins and add to slow cooker along with the meat. Push the cloves into the sliced shallot and add to cooker with toms, cover with ham stock until it tops the mixture, turn on and cook. check half way through and add a little stock if needed. When serving take the shallot with cloves out. I prefer it wet so I can dunk me bread in the gravy

[kezlou]

Thanks for the recipes i'll have to try them, just need to defrost some meat first.  :roll:

My kids love goulash and well anything meaty. They'll smell so good were coming at home at 6pm!

[Janeymiddlewife]

If you log onto money saving expert, there's a huge thread on slow cooker recipes - just use the search facility
Janey

[Poolfield2]

Now I would never have thought to look there for recipes but I will now, thanks.

[Yorkie]

Ditto, what an inspired idea!

A friend has also lent me a book by Catherine Atkinson which is great.  I think it may find its way onto a Chr***mas list ...  

[agapanthus]

I do a sort of cassoulete. This is for myself tho it would do two but I dont like to share it. I cook this for my tea on fridays as the wife is at work and the kids at my sisters until 8ish so its to just walk in and sit down and eat it. kind of throw stuff in.
3 strips of pork belly
a cup full of chorizo
1 1/2 cups of dried beans (i use haricot, aduki)
3 shallots, 2 fine chopped, 1 sliced in half
2 cloves of garlic
4 cloves
2 toms chopped
ham stock
salt and black pepper to season
Pre soak beans over night, fry the belly pork to colour and add chorizo and chopped shallot garlic and fry for a couple of minutes. Boil the beans for 5 mins and add to slow cooker along with the meat. Push the cloves into the sliced shallot and add to cooker with toms, cover with ham stock until it tops the mixture, turn on and cook. check half way through and add a little stock if needed. When serving take the shallot with cloves out. I prefer it wet so I can dunk me bread in the gravy

That sounds really tasty Aidy...will do that when we harvest the runner bean seeds!!

[kezlou]

Tried this one today, got it off the moneysaver website.

4 sausages, could easily just less tho.
4 odd shaped carrots ( prob about 3 meduim size ones )
3 small onions,
2 small hand fulls of red lentils
1 pint of hot water with beef oxo in,

Switched it on about 8am was ready by 6pm on the lowest setting.
Kids absolutely loved with some boiled potatoes, they was enough leftovers for another so shoved it in the freezer.

Trying this one later in the week.
Ham and Sausage Jambalaya

3tbls veg oil (you could use any)
2 onions, chopped
1 green and 1 red pepper sliced (i used Mr T frozen)
6oz long grain rice (I will probably use 10oz next time)
1 chicken or ham stock cube - 1 pint hot water (value cube)
pinch of tumeric powder (not even sure this is necessary)
2/3 cooked chicken breasts or 4 cooked sausages (chop into small bits = i used 2 leftover breasts)
4oz cooked ham (i used 2x pepperoni and 1/2 pack of chorizo)
3oz peeled prawns (optional - i added but won't bother next time)
Tin toms (would probably add extra tin next time if rice is increased)
salt and black pepper

Thanks donnajit. I do a very similar jambalaya recipe but in the oven. This feeds four and I too have cut down a bit on ingredients but I think mine is probably a bit cheaper.

I brown some chicken breasts (used to use one each but now use one between two or suppose could use pieces or left overs). Remove from the pan and add onion to soften. Then add rice and garlic and sliced peppers (I always keep an ongoing bag of bits of SP peppers in freezer). Fry for a couple of minutes and then add tin of toms (chopped or squashed) and 3/4 pt of chicken stock. Then I add all the veggie bits I have, usually a sliced courgette, a tin of carrots (I find they cook through better as fresh can stay hard), frozen peas, mushrooms etc. I also put in some sausages (cooked/frankfurter/hot dog) and a good teaspoon of dried thyme plus seasoning. Put the chicken back on the top or stir in if it's bits then in the oven for about 45mins to an hour.

[Aidy]

Slow cookers are great, it is very difficult to do owt bad in them. I did on saturday a Broad Bean and ham soup, I slow roasted the ham shank in the slow cooker before hand.

[kezlou]

Your right there Aidy,
Been using the using the slow cooker all week, putting it on about 8ish and coming back to the smell of home cooked food, its such a joy.
Surprisingly i even enjoyed the meals with meat in it, could never really eat meat before it used me to make feel me sick.
Strange isn't it , you try a different method and suddenly things you couldn't stand start to taste okay.

Going to have to try the ham recipe, sounds luvverly.

[Poolfield2]

I think that cos it's a long time from handling raw meat to eating slow cooked food it helps me to forget the feel and smell of the raw meat. I've eaten red meat twice in a week. To be honest I only ate a tiny bit and gave the rest to OH but it's more than I've eaten for years.