Slow cooker meals

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/18/meatball-recipe-rachel-roddy-a-kitchen-in-rome

This for meatballs, one of the comments said you could make it in a clow cooker.

Thats for next week

Simmered the meat on ordinary cooker, I mean.

I've just made a lovely beef casserole in my slow cooker. I dug it out of retirement after reading this thread! As I was late starting, I put the cooker on "high", simmered the beef in stock for 40 mins, then put it in the pot with diced veg. The meat was nice and tender. I will be using the slow cooker more now.

Thanks charleygirl will do that

A joint of pork with some brown sugar or drizzled honey and some smoked paprika. Great with a jacket potato day 1 and with coleslaw day 2
Beef brisket on a bed of carrots and onions with water and stock cube
Stewing beef with carrots parsnips onions muschrooms water and stick cube. Add pasta 15 mins before serving.
You can also make rice pudding easily and cakes too, Google has lots of recipes
I'm sure you will soon be making great food ?

Thats seems a nice simple way to do something

Please do not forget that every time the lid is opened during cooking one loses around 20 minutes cooking time.

Sheilasue do not make the mistake that I made. I bought a slow cooker that cooks 1-2 meals and I thought great, that will sort out today and tomorrow, as I live on my own. A couple of months later I decided as I am doing all this I may as well make enough to freeze so I bought a larger one from Lakeland so now have at least 3 portions for the freezer as well as feeding me for a couple of days.

Maybe look on Amazon and you will get the reviews from people. That is where I bought a couple of cheap recipe books- one I think was for students going to university because I cannot be bothered faffing around with loads of ingredients, most of which I do not possess.

I haven't got a slow cooker want but want to buy one any suggestions as to what is a good one please. Some of the recipes sound lovely

Put joint brisket on bed of onions 2 oxo dissolved in pint hot water.put on high for about 5 hours turn occasionally.lovely and tender.

I made a really tasty beef and tomato stew in mine on Sunday. This is how I did it!
Coat cubed beef in flour. Put in the slow cooker with one small onion chopped, 2 medium carrots cut into chunks, one small can of chopped tomatoes. Cover all with 1 vegetable stock cube and one oxo cube. No need for any salt as the stock cube is salty enough. Set slow cooker on low and away you go.
I left mine cooking for seven hours. It was delicious.

Pork shoulder steaks cut into cubes, cooking chorizo, onions, garlic, chick peas and a tin pf tomatoes and a pork or chicken stock cube makes a really tasty stew - you can add celery & squash if you want.
I always brown the meat and fry the onions for extra flavour but it's not necessary. Don't forget you won't lose any liquid so be cautious how much you start with - you can always add some as it cooks if you think it looks dry.
Wishing you and your wife lots of enjoyable meals

Porridge, rice pudding, soup.

A tin of Campbells chicken soup - ONLY Campbells will do as it is concentrated - poured over chicken pieces and onion, carrots or whatever you have in the fridge makes a lovely casserole and easy!. I also add a little water at the beginning too.
Campbells mushroom soup can also be used or added to diced beef and vegetables. The soup makes a great stock / gravy and you can thin it down with water according to how you like it.!

In a hurry I have been known to throw frozen chicken breasts, large chunked onions, a punnet of mushrooms, a bouquet garni (teabag) and a mug of wine in the slow cooker. It was thickened with a dessertspoonful of cornflour mixed with some of the red wine which I stirred into the pot with the other ingredients. Then I left it on very slow for 12 hours. Ridiculously delicious for something that literally takes five minutes to prepare.

My best suggestion for the easiest way to cook chicken - just put a whole chicken in the slow cooker, salt and pepper on it if you like, but absolutely nothing else, and leave all day on low - it comes out beautifully moist and the liquid in the bottom can be popped in the fridge and then the jelly (throw away the fat on the top) can be used to make gravy, or frozen, or used for making soup the next day with left over veg liquidised into it. Eat the chicken with your normal veg, but so easy a child can do it.

Some of the Slow Cooker recipe books tell you to cook off some of the dishes before putting into the slow cooker but I ignore that and put chops, turkey /chicken breast steaks straight in with whatever veg I am cooking with it.It tastes the same and I just add a stock pot for extra flavour near the end of cooking.

Hi! There welcome to the wonderful world of slow cooking, if your go to your supermarket, the aisle where they sell dry sauces, eg. Colmans, swartskof specially for slowcookers, all ingredients is on the back. There is also a book: Everyday slow cooker recipes, retails for £4.99. Brilliant
My son is 24 and I'm his carer, it frees up alot more time. Slow cooked food is delicious ?. Good luck to both of you

My daughter in law is American and they have loads of recipes for use in a slow cooker - have a look on a US website www.thekitchn.com/search?type=all&q=slow+cooker&time=all

Don't worry about the measurements being in cups - my daughter in law tells me that a US Cup is 240ml (or 8.45 imperial fluid ounces) but says as long as you use the same cup/mug for every ingredient measured it shouldn't be a problem !

Try putting some dried beans into your slow-cooker stews. You'll need to soak them overnight first. Just a handful or 2.

Butter beans are best (I think so anyway.)

Makes amazing rice pudding. Yum.

If you use Facebook, there is a very good page called Slow Cooker Wonders. Lots of recipes in the files. It is A very active page at this time of year, with lots of recipes and tips.

A half shoulder of lamb is good too. Chop a couple of onions, put lamb on top and add some peeled potatoes cut into chunks. Put enough boiling water over lamb to make approx a cm of liquid in pot. You don't need to prebrown the lamb and it will cook all day. The liquid will make good gravy, but you may need to pour off ahead of time and put saucepan in fridge so the fat congeals on the top and can be removed.
If you are cold lamb lovers, you can do this with a whole shoulder, if your slow cooker is big enough. Good luck!

For lots of inspiration and recipes try www.pinterest.com

If all else fails supermarkets sell slow cooker "mixes" which you add to meat/veg/stock following the packet instructions. These might help until you get your confidence. Good luck!

sorry for the bad typing I really should be in bed !!