Slow Cooker Chatter #15

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HERE is where we left off

Hehehe... I know :)

I can't see Dach's or Keen's or Tulip's posts either!
I can see their name, join date and all of that but not their posts. What the?

Weird Deb, must have some bug happening there.

Just as long as you can see mine. I'm very important you know ;)

Hehehe... yep.. that's the important thing!
I've posted in the forum help. Hopefully it's just a glitch.
I'll have to wait in suspense to read Cailin's yummy recipe!! ;)

Deb, I can help you out with that :)

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OMG! I made the best greek lamb EVER!

One easy carve lamb roast.

In a bowl mix dried oregano, rosemary, parsley, lemon pepper, garlic powder, salt (to your tasting but enough of a mix to coat the whole lamb) mix the herbs with olive oil to make an oily herby paste (it made up about 1/8th cup of mix). Then coat lamb all over. Put in SC on foil balls and cook as you would normally. We put ours in for 3 hrs on high and 3 on low.

Then I made a traditional greek salad with tomato, lettuce, kalamata olives, purple onion, cucumber and fetta. I added the meat (all chopped up) and mixed it all together. I would have added some greek dressing but we didn't have any and it still tasted FANTASTIC.

So SC's can DEFINITELY be used to make summer goodies. This lamb tasted as good as a nice gyros.

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Cailin

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OOo thanks, Trish!!

OMG... that sounds so YUM Cailin... I love Greek food.

See I am useful :D

Mmmmmmm I agree that Lamb sounds delish.

I did my whole chook on Saturday and OMG was it delicious. Stuffed it with a lemon which I cut in half, and basted it with sweet chilli sauce and chicken spices and garlic. Put it on an upside down saucer and put it on high for about an hour and a half and then added veggies and turned it down to low for about 5 hours. It fell apart, the "gravy" tasted of the lemon slightly and the chicken had absorbed the lemon taste and was very good. We still have leftover veggies which will go down a treat this evening for supper. DH very happy I have the SC. Planning to try spag bog this week. :)

Oh yum, Kim! Glad it turned out so well. There's just so much you can do with a whole chook yet it's so simple!

I've got a beef curry on the books for some stage this week (another new recipe for me to post if it turns out ok). We're having friends over for dinner tomorrow night but I don't think she likes curry... so I may have to save it for Thursday.

I made my potato, leek & bacon soup last night... yum! I had a big day with appts at the hospital & work and realised I wasn't going to be making dinner anytime in there so luckily I remembered at lunch time & chucked it all in.... I love having a SC!!!

Kim I love the idea of stuffing the chook with a lemon.... I use a honey mustard maranade sometimes so the lemon would go really nicely with that...mmmm.

Cailin's lamb sounds beautiful!!! I do a lamb salad but I use the BBQ for the lamb generally... good to know it would be sooo tender in the SC!!

Ooo, potato, leek and bacon soup, now that sound Yum.
Making spag bog on wednesday, it's good for when you don't have time to cook and you have to have something to eat before going to meetings. I'm trying your recipe Cailin. Quite excited really. Just one question though, here in sunny shouth africa we don't have big red tomato soup, could I use the cream of tomato soup instead?

Kimi, that would be fine. It's effectively the same thing, condensed tomato soup.

I have a massaman curry slowly cooking away at the moment. I have had a craving for it for about two weeks now. I only had topside in the freezer which I haven't done in the slowcooker before. Do you think it will work ok? It didn't look like it had much fat in it which I thought you needed when cooking for a long time? I have done lots of chicken recipes before a bit new to the beef ones in the SC.
Thanks

I have used lean beef in the SC and as long as there is heaps of sauce, like in a curry it usually turns out fine. In a roast it comes out dry if there isn't much fat on it.

I have updated the recipe thread again.

I have snausage casserole on again today! *LOL* Even Maddy loves it... :)

'lo.... i found a great website for slow cookers, it has everything even desserts. You just have to adjust some quantities to metric .... good stuff
I have also done a massaman beef this week with lean beef ... it fell apart but tasted yumo!
anne

Just to let you know, I made my spag bog, and it was delish. I went mostly with Cialin's receipe but used white wine rather than red, didn't have red. It was delish, and there was enough left over for another 4 night's worth of meals. all frozen into portions now for a lazy day :D
I definitly need to try the sausage casserole. Do you use beef or pork sausages? We also get chicken ones, would they work?

I reckon any kind of sausages would work, Kimi. We just use the regular beef ones.

I made a beef curry the other day and it didn't turn out all that great. Neil reckons it tastes ok but he's barely had any so I know he's fibbing ;) It was a recipe designed for the stove-top so it was far too liquidy (even tho I reduced the amount of liquid). Ah well... ya win some, ya lose some, hey?
I think from now on I'll use the vegetable curry recipe that I posted and just add meat to that...

Did you try thickening it at the end Deb with cornflour? I do that if I find something is too watery. Bugger though, did it still taste alright?

We had the sausage casserole last night, delicious as always :D

Nup I didn't Bec because I wasn't home for a couple of days (I cooked it and left it going so that Neil could have it that night).
Mmm sausage casserole. I was going to have that this week but went with beef strog instead... hmmmm strog.
I've just wrote the shopping list for Thai Green Curry and the strog.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, bugger. We LOVE the sausage casserole in this house, definitely a family favourite. Mmmmmmmm beef strog, another favourite here too. Might have to do that here soon.

You can use any flavoured sausages you like :) I reckon the fatter the sausage the better!

I need to get my SC out this week!

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Cailin

Hello all,

I am new around here - this is my first post! Straight to the food section - LOL!

I recently got a 3.5L slow cooker for a gift but was wondering if you girls (or guys) think that that capacity is big enough to do a roast chicken or a loin of pork or something? I have opened it but haven't used it. Wondering if I should try to do a swap for a 5L and pay the bit extra...Any thoughts? I have never cooked in a slow cooker and I'm pretty keen although my husband reckons I'll use it as much as I use the rice cooker i.e. not very often at all. LOL. I'm determined to prove him wrong. He also has 'issews' with me using the slow cooker to roast joints of meat...I'll show him!

Yum - this is the first time I have had a look in here and there are some delicious ideas that I am going to have to try.

Will have to keep an eye on this thread as I LOVE cooking with the slow cooker.

Familygirl - Welcome! I started with a 3.5 litre SC and I was able to do chooks in there (didn't try any other roasts). A lovely friend of mine bought me a 6 litre one recently... so I've been able to do large quantities. You can still do some decent thinks in the 3.5 litre one tho!

Welcome to you too, Jemima!

I'd pop some veggies in, so they can absorb some of the flavours, and serve rice on the side. then after it has finished cooking, thicken the "sauce" up with some corn flour afterwards :) Hope it helps...

Well it's too late for me to help, what did you do Theresa and how did it turn out?

I have Deb's beef and veg casserole with dumplings in today. But I improvised a little and added some potatoes and will add later peas and corn and mushrooms. I also added some season all and some moroccan spice, it smells heavenly and it's not even done yet.

Oo sounds good, Bec. How did it turn out?

I've got a chicken thai green curry going today. Neil's gonna make some roti to go with it.

It's not even 11am and just reading about what you're all cooking is making me hungry for dinner!

Thanks Debbie-Lee for your advice! I am happy with the 3.5 for now...It seems to be enough for me, DH and DD. Maybe if we add to the family, I'll need a bigger one...

Okay, another question girls ... I am doing a sausage casserole (if it works out, I will give you the recipe). Anyway I am using Cailin's sausage casserole recipe as a guide as to how long to cook for. I am a total novice so please excuse my ignorance. Cailin's recipe says to cook on Auto for 5 hours but my SC only has low, medium and high settings. What does Auto translate to on my SC? Sorry if this is totally obvious!

I'd say a couple on high (maybe 2 and the rest on low) Not a silly question at all!

Tonight we're having rissoles with red wine & rosemary gravy and sweet potato & potato mash...

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Cailin

Yep... I agree with Cailin, familygirl. You could probably do medium for the whole time if you're not gonna be about to turn it down?

Good thinking deb! Silly me! LOL!

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Cailin

Thanks girls. Talk about quick service!

Cailin, I'm sure all I'm going to be doing (at this stage anyway) are casseroles in my SC. Your meals sound so yummo and restaurantish-no wonder your DH is a fan of the SC! My poor 'ol DH will be eating casseroles til they come out of his ears. LOL.

oh goodness :( This is the first time I have been in here in AGES! Everytime I see the word "Slow cooker" my tummy turns! Mine is still in the bottom cupboard. I wonder when I will be game enough :confused:

I'm trying beef strog tonight but I'm not sure what rice to use since I've never eaten it before. I have basmati and jasmine, which would be better?

Dach - I have pasta with beef strog. Yum! However, I reckon Basmati would be nicer if you're dead-set on rice ;)

Awww Danni... the day will come when you'll be able to SC again. You'll need to so that you can get a heap of meals frozen for once bubba is here! I SO wish I'd had my SC when preggo with Gab. The frozen meals would have been perrrrfect!

Deb- Oh it turned out really yummy, couldn't really taste the spices in the end maybe should have added them when it was nearly done or added more than I did but it was sooooooooo yummy, Ben and Jonah gobbled it down too, we are having leftovers tonight.

That's great, Bec. Always good when your experiments work out really well! It's great when the kids love it too!