Slow cooker recipes!

[Relahni]

I'm right into my slow cooker - I just can't get enough of the thing! Prepare the food for around 15 minutes and that's your next two days dinners sorted! And blumming healthy to boot!

My favourite recipe is the vegetarian one - the one where you lob in loads of vegetables in - with some vegetable stock cubes.

Anyone else a slow cooking fan? Any nice recipes?

 

[Loki]

Two urbanites have already requested this recipe off me, it's a delicious soup tureen thing:

French Mushroom and Celeria Soup

1 large bag of shrooms (any type altho the regular white ones are cheapest)
3 or 4 meduim sized spuds
1 lump of celeria (it's slightly smaller than a bowling ball)
1 tub of regular or double cream
Garlic
Onion
Salt + Pepper
Vegetable stock
Any other veg you fancy (turnip, swede, carrots whatever - not necessary)
Optionallly add meat if you're not veggie (lamb is nice)
1 v. large saucepan

Peel celeria and chop into dice sized chunks
Same for the spuds
Chop the mushrooms as thinly as you can
Chop onion + as many cloves of garlic as you like
Chop whatever else you fancy adding
Bung it all in the saucepan
Add some veg stock if you've got it
Add salt + pepper to taste
Fill with water until it just covers the vegetables
Bring to boil
Turn down to lowest possible heat
Stir in the cream
Leave for a few hours to simmer (the longer the better), stirring occassionally

Yum!

The next day you can top up the remainder with more of the same or different ingredients, bring to boil, simmer again, and so on, day after day.

 

[rubbershoes]

It’s good for porridge too. I can’t be bothered making porridge in the morning if I have to go to work – it takes too long. But bung it in the slow cooker the night before and wahey

 

[Relahni]

Might try a fruit one sometime - guess I'll just lob in a load of fruit and leave it to stew.

 

[Wolfie]

I did braised beef in red wine with smoked paprika in the bottom oven of the aga (my equivelent of the slow cooker) at the weekend - that turned out very well:

Braising steak
2 chopped carrots
2 chopped sticks of celery*
1 chopped onion
half a dozen peeled shallots left whole
half a bottle of red wine
heaped teaspoon of smoked paprika
salt and lots of pepper ( I bung some whole green pepper corns in if I have them)

*(might need to leave these out if she is eating round at your place Relahni - I seem to remember she has an aversion to celery)

 

[moose]

I've yet to find any use for a slow cooker in a veggie household. If I put vegetables in before I go to work, I come home to a bowl of mush.

 

[Relahni]

I did braised beef in red wine with smoked paprika in the bottom oven of the aga (my equivelent of the slow cooker) at the weekend - that turned out very well:

Braising steak
2 chopped carrots
2 chopped sticks of celery*
1 chopped onion
half a dozen peeled shallots left whole
half a bottle of red wine
heaped teaspoon of smoked paprika
salt and lots of pepper ( I bung some whole green pepper corns in if I have them)

*(might need to leave these out if she is eating round at your place Relahni - I seem to remember she has an aversion to celery)

That sounds ace! Thanks Wolfie. Celery is great. She don't like it. Fussy she is! Blumming finickity.

 

[Wolfie]

I've yet to find any use for a slow cooker in a veggie household. If I put vegetables in before I go to work, I come home to a bowl of mush.

You could do your own baked beans moose.

Assorted dried beans - soaked
1 tin of tomatoes
1 pack passata
Chopped onion
herbs
worcestershire sauce
heaped teaspoon of bouillon powder
teaspoon of brown sugar
salt and pepper


I reckon some chopped carrot and celery wouldn't go amiss in that either (as long as Relahni's missus isn't coming round of course )

 

[Rollem]

she's right about the celery you know

moose, relahni seems to be able to slow cook so the vegies retain their 'bite'. perhaps i could lend him out to you

 

[Maggot]

I've yet to find any use for a slow cooker in a veggie household. If I put vegetables in before I go to work, I come home to a bowl of mush.

I don't know how long you work for, but it sounds like you're cooking them too long.

 

[moose]

Well yes, obviously - that's why I don't get the whole slow cook thing. If I can't leave it to do it's thang whilst I'm out, and I certainly can't be arsed slow-cooking anything when I get in, what's the point?

Maybe I could use it to melt leg wax or something.

 

[Loki]

she's right about the celery you know

Celeria is actually shitloads tastier than celery (as I've recently discovered)