Tonight's random thread... Slow cooker

Thought with dark night here, this would be a good one.

Well where do I start.

How amazing is a slow cooker, easy to do no messing and she loads on meals to cook.

So whose got one and what's the best meal to cook.

Tonight is stew and tomorrow night is a chillie ( living the dream)

 

Fab aren't they . £10 of stew meat and fill the rest wi seasonal veg and theres 5/6 wholesome freezeable meals: combine wi a few Aunty Bessie puds/froz chips and jobs a good un.

 

Yorkshire puds and roast spuds tonight (yummy)

 

Bet you have a weight problem

 

We've had 2 goes with ours and the meat has tasted horrible both times, no idea what we are doing wrong!

 

Didn't think you could go wrong, even r lass use ours and makes a half decent job.

 

Hubby's the cook in our house. No idea what he did but we threw the food out both times.

 

Oh that's odd. Well I fry the meat first on a high heat for a few mins to seal it. Think you need to get the pot hot first too. Dunno what else to suggest. If I can do it it's more or less fool-proof.

 

Christmas present for the hubby, cookery course ?

 

He cooked it as a whole joint. Can you not do that?

 

We've done pork, beef and gammon in ours,

 

Did pulled pork the other week in ours. Cost a small fortune in spices we never had in, but should be stocked up now for a few years.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1173...px?o_ln=SimRecipes_Link_1&o_is=SimilarRecipes

 

Oh yes. Had brisket for Sunday Dins yesterday . Far more flavour and tender than the usual supermarket beef roast . Just need a bit of juice in the bottom of the cooker.Can't think what's going wrong. Google it?

 

Will let you know what I think in the morning

 

Ham cooked in coke, (the soft drink variety). Bang ham in and pour a 2 litre bottle a full fat coke on, draws out the salt and gives a light sweet taste and really succulent. Also i do a cracking braised beef chilli. Like someone else said, you must brown meat off first for ten mins then bang it into a already heated pot. Cant go wrong for these dark nights.

 

Like to make a curry in mine, leave it in all day, meat is sooooooo tender and the curry taste fantastic.

 

Thai or Indian curries, soups, chili, pulled pork/chicken... i could go on. Love it.

My favourite is whisky ribs. Mix Jack D, cola, ketchup and barbecue sauce and leave them for a day. Stick em in the oven for an hour afterwards with more bbq sauce on top to dry em out. Amazing.

 

Mrs wilkojohnson uses the slow cooker for lots of meals - try a whole chicken - the meat so tender & juicy

 

gammon joint, bit of sugar on top leave it 6-8 hours. beautiful.

or

nice bit of braising steak, some shallots and button mushrooms filled with a bottle of either guinness, riggwelter or old peculiar.

lovely

and easy

 

I often whack a joint of gammon in, just put it on low and leave it all day whilst I'm at work and it does it a treat.