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Post by cheetham on Nov 14, 2011 20:28:43 GMT
oooh sounds good,do you brown your meat and vegetables in the frying pan before putting in the slow cooker?
i am very new to slow cooking.have you all had a slow cooker and used it before?
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Post by Julie(luke3) on Nov 14, 2011 20:29:54 GMT
mm are those jelly things better than normal stock cubes? x
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Post by Julie(luke3) on Nov 14, 2011 20:30:31 GMT
oooh sounds good,do you brown your meat and vegetables in the frying pan before putting in the slow cooker? i am very new to slow cooking.have you all had a slow cooker and used it before? I use my aga as my slow cooker cheetham xx |
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Post by haggismarmite on Nov 14, 2011 20:34:59 GMT
You don't have to brown it first if you don't have time to, I try to if I can but it doesn't make much difference to be honest.
Just remember you need a lot less liquid than if you cook it in an oven as it doesn't burn off as much. I find you need a bit more flavour in the slow cooker as it retains the liquid more.
Loads of lovely stuff to cook - where to start!
Gammon in coke, beef bourguignon is one of the best, beef brisket is lovely. Slow cooked lamb yummy, chilli with chocolate, soup the list is endless!
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Post by Julie(luke3) on Nov 14, 2011 20:36:44 GMT
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Post by cheetham on Nov 14, 2011 20:41:35 GMT
thanks guys... good web site lukey.thankyou.
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Post by dazycutter on Nov 14, 2011 21:03:54 GMT
Evening all
WC. Hope it's not my 2 keeping you busy! LOL. Breezy looked very chilled... Bless her
Poor schmichael. Little chesney's face. :-(
Had to fight and argue today to get a TOIL day after doing silly hours at work last week. Don't think much of my new functional manager. Grrrrrrrr
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Post by viking on Nov 14, 2011 21:10:15 GMT
Time to get the slow cooker out again.
Its a Winter thing in our house.
Have often wondered about a chicken with no liquid, but I see there's a recipe that does it like that. I thought some liquid was always necessary.
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Post by daizylindsay on Nov 14, 2011 22:16:29 GMT
I too have a slow cooker and love it, I only really use it in winter. I live sausages in cider and tend to be quite experimental.
I made a lovely lemon and banana cake today I'm quite proud of it!
Hope everyone is ok, I need to start thinking about the dreaded C word! I think I may be cooking this year as I have no excuse with my new kitchen!
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Post by Milliesmum on Nov 14, 2011 22:25:33 GMT
Sorry, just catching up, no I don't brown my meat before cooking, and yes those jelly stock pot things are lovely!!! They do different ones for different meats, but I tend to keep the vegetable ones in as you can put them in anything! Oh and those giant yorkshire puddings are handy to have in the freezer as well you can fill them with all sorts out of your slow cooker.
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Post by brindlerainbow on Nov 15, 2011 8:27:02 GMT
Viking I often put a whole chicken in my slow cooker with no liquid and it comes out perfect!!!!! Having liver and bacon in mine today  |
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Post by sageandonion on Nov 15, 2011 8:33:35 GMT
I am having chicken thighs, shallots and mushrooms in a nice thick gravy. You use very little liquid with the Slow Jo. I would use the chicken jelly cube but I only have beef in the cupboard so its the old OXO cubes thickened with cornflour. I put a good slug of Lea & Perrins, seasoning and a hancful of mixed herbs and leave it to it.
Tomorrow I am having steak and kidney with the rich beef jelly thing (some people find the rich a little strong but I love it), the Lea & Perrins, etc. I am also going to throw in half a bag of that frozen casserol veg mix so probably no water at all needed.
I have used packet sauces but everyone in my house prefers the home made version, the juices of the meats and vegs really flavour in the slow cooker.
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Post by daizylindsay on Nov 15, 2011 8:45:17 GMT
Morning all! I haven't braved putting no liquid in my slow cooker yet but you lot are persuading me! Brindle what's the benefit of doing the whole chicken in it? Do you not lose that lovely roasted taste? I'm intrigued! Hmm thinking of what to do for dinner tonight now!
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Post by haggismarmite on Nov 15, 2011 9:21:37 GMT
Beautifully sunny here now but boy was it foggy again this morning.
Nasty crash on the road at the end of our lane again today, it's chaos out there. Somehow an old boy was on the wrong side of the road and hit our bus head on - written off the car and the bus was in a shocking state too, poor old guy. He seemed to be relatively chatty and conscious considering he was cut out of the wreck.
I hate that piece of road, can't tell you how many nasty accidents there are along there, at least once a month someone writes their car off but they still won't lower the speed limit or put in a camera, only one of those useless ones that flashes to the speed limit if you're going faster but it's in the wrong place and no-one notices it.
Oh dear, hope he's OK, and the poor bus driver and passengers as well, totally not their fault but he must be in shock.
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Post by viking on Nov 15, 2011 11:30:57 GMT
That sounds nasty Haggismarmite.
Hope everyone comes out of that OK.
Thanks Brindle. Think I shall give the dry chicken a try. I expect it makes plenty of liquid of it's own in the cooking process. Do you brown it off in the oven? I imagine it comes out quite white?
Liver and bacon sounds excellent. Haven't had that for ages. Will give it a go once I can get around the shops again. I like to inspect liver fairly thoroughly before I buy it, and don't want to leave that little job to OH. At the moment he's doing all the shopping!
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Post by dazycutter on Nov 15, 2011 13:31:31 GMT
afternoon all..
liver and bacon.. uuuurrghghghghg been inspired, so got my slow cooker out today and doing pork caserole.. yum yum.....
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Post by sageandonion on Nov 15, 2011 13:35:26 GMT
Whats your receipe for pork casserole dazy? I have a pork fillet and a pork hock (what possessed me to buy that  ) in the freezer and I am wondering what to do with them. Will that pork hock go in the slow cooker? Is it going to be everso fat? In which case, could I let it go cold and scoop the fat off the top and reheat, or would it go hard? The pork that is. |
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Post by starlight on Nov 15, 2011 13:45:15 GMT
afternoon all
haggis hope your ok
cheetham i to have just invested in a slow cooker.... love it, my husband thinks i have been posessed by the body snatchers as usually hate cooking but with this cooker am happily being a domestic godess lol
Dazy glad you managed to get a day back for all the time you have done recently xx
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Post by cheetham on Nov 15, 2011 14:17:36 GMT
afternoon all,
how strange you all know about these slow cookers, i thought they were a new thing..
nice and sunny here today...
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Post by dazycutter on Nov 15, 2011 14:44:35 GMT
Whats your receipe for pork casserole dazy? I have a pork fillet and a pork hock (what possessed me to buy that ) in the freezer and I am wondering what to do with them. Will that pork hock go in the slow cooker? Is it going to be everso fat? In which case, could I let it go cold and scoop the fat off the top and reheat, or would it go hard? The pork that is. well Sagey.. it is very complicate... bung in pork bung in veg bung in potatoes add one of those colemans sachet things for pork casserole. now for the tricky bit.. turn it on.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by brindlerainbow on Nov 15, 2011 15:07:46 GMT
DL I like to bung a whole chicken in as it can cook while im out and about, it does come out quite white and isnt all crispy and roasted but it still tastes lush. My OH loves a roast but thinks the chicken tastes better from the slow cooker!!! Havent tried pork in it but might do.Didnt put my liver in the slow cooker in the end so its now bubbling away on the Rayburn with some carrots in it also going to roast a couple of parsnips |
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Post by viking on Nov 15, 2011 15:21:22 GMT
Roast parsnips! Great vegetable, yum. |
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Post by brindlerainbow on Nov 15, 2011 15:26:38 GMT
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Post by amumwithapony on Nov 15, 2011 16:41:57 GMT
Afternoon all We're having a ready to roast turkey joint from M & S (reduced to £3.00!) with stuffing balls from M & S (reduced to £1.00), roast carrots, parsnips and squash, with mashed spuds and gravy. And yorshire puds, yummy yummy. Sagey, I've never done a hock but MIL used to roast them I think? If its not big enough to justify roasting why not do a pork casserole and just shove the hock in for flavour. I do that with ox tail in beef stew and it makes fab, tasty gravey. Or you could boil it up for a nice stock if you don't fancy eating it (is a bit fatty and gristly I think). You could use your pork fillet in that, then whatever porky, veggy gravy is left freeze it and use it as a base for your next casserole or as a nice gravy on a roast pork or gammon dinner. You could probably get away with freezing the hock bone as well and using that again. I know hugh fearnley whatshis face recycles bones that way! Destruction of maggie dog so far today 1. Bin out when I got up this morning. Been having a lucky dip again but there was nothing in it apart from an empty kitchen roll tube (shredded) and a cardboard sleeve (also shredded). 2. Brown inhaler stolen from my handbag-chewed up 3. A biro from my desk- also chewed 4. Her rubber shoe toy-destroyed but thats fair enough 5. 2 packets of gillette razor blades  stolen from my handbag whilst on school run. Luckily its those impossible to get into packages, so just very chewed packets 6. OH's ciggies and lighter-stolen this morning from the kitchen table in the time it took me to go to the loo 7. Hair brush handle-chewed I wouldn't mind but shes was out this morning for 30 mins, then again when I got in from work with a ball down the garden for half an hour with me throwing it for her in an attempt to wear her out. Shes now flat out in her basket though, so I hope she is worn out! |
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Post by brindlerainbow on Nov 15, 2011 17:00:13 GMT
LOL that reminds me of when my Boxers were puppies they chewed the skirting boards,door mat, OH's glasses,phone charger,books,thier beds,shoes and several of my coats!!!! You gotta love em  |
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Post by Milliesmum on Nov 15, 2011 17:07:21 GMT
They do grow out of it, honestly. Think Millie was about 18 months before she started to calm down . . . . .
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Post by snapdragons on Nov 15, 2011 18:42:39 GMT
AMWAP you probably dont want to hear this but if i was in your situation.i would be investing in a very large dog cage ;D give her a nice snug bed down one end,paper at other end,her toys and a few treats and pop her in whenever she is "home alone" Most dogs will see the cage as their own space and be happy to go in it ....honest. When i have puppies they are never left loose in the house if i am not there its just not worth the agro. ;D
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Post by dazycutter on Nov 15, 2011 18:46:11 GMT
can you belelive it.. had the slow cooker on "keep warm" and my casserole is not cooked... oh well, red wine it is then
thrilled to bits today.. Breena has been DNA cleared for PRA RCD4 which is a new gene that causes PRA (Night Blindness) in dogs. So basically that means she can have babies in a few years time as the KC wont register any pups that are not clear.. woop woop.. I told her and to be honest, she wasn't that impressed at the though just yet...
so I have decided my social - work life balance is crap..so I am off out tonight..
with my 80 year old Mum and Dad to a pub quiz... I so need to get a life.. LOL
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Post by starlight on Nov 15, 2011 18:51:44 GMT
evening all AMWAP what a cheeky puppy... maybe she has been talking to Dazys Breena ;D Hubby on call for hospital tonight so home alone in the new house for the first time (kids here of course) feels bit spooky as house is up a dark drive with lots of tall trees around it.... hope everyone is ok, cheetham my slow cooker has been on for 6 hrs with beef, pots, carrot mushroom onion bit of garlic smells devine  |
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Post by Julie(luke3) on Nov 15, 2011 19:00:09 GMT
Evening all x haggis I hope everyone was ok from this morning xx amwap, what a naughty puppy!!!!! x dazy, that's great news for Breena Have a good time at the quiz(don't forget your dinner when you get home!!) starlight, your new place sounds lovely  Thank's mm, I will get some to try Evening cheetham |
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stolen from my handbag whilst on school run. Luckily its those impossible to get into packages, so just very chewed packets
