Thanks for the recipies, especially the rissotto one. i am very keen to try a rissotto or two and see how it turns out.

I am trying it out today - just a cassorole I would usually chuck in the oven. Will see how it turns out tonight.
Most of my regular oven based recepies I use whould be very easily adaptable for the slow cooker, it will just be a litttle trial and error in the interim.