Slow Cooker Chatter #19

[Olive]

glad im not the only one!! this one i have added about 2 cups of water to it!

[alioops]

i grated vegies into spag bol a few weeks back as DH likes his with just meat and he noticed!!

Jols, DH notices if they are grated, not if they are pureed I can add pretty much anything now!

[~kellie~]

i am getting a slow cooker for my birthday and I can't wait.. definitely going to check out some of the recipes mentioned in here!

[Netix]

Christy, how do your lamb shanks turn out in the sc? When I made them once in my sc, they weren't very nice at all. The meat didn't fall off the bone or anything like that, unlike when I have done them in the oven, and I cooked them on low.

I am cooking a silverside in the sc at the moment, with the recipe off thread #1 I think. But I didn't have any peppercorns or bay leaves to put in it! So it will probably be a bit bland. Oh well, guess I'll have to make a sauce or gravy or something like that to go with it instead.

Does anyone know what sort of differences in time and whether should be cooked on hi/low in the sc for things that are normally cooked on the stove, like in a big crock pot or in the oven? If that made any sense

[~kellie~]

Just used my slow cooker for the 1st time, I made a beef, mushroom and tomato casserole - yummo!!!!! I cant wait to use it again!

[briggsy's girl]

we've just set two slow cookers going for overnight cooking - vegie soup in one (with home grown pumpkin base) and braised lamb chops with lots of veg in the other

always do huuuuuuuuuuuge cook ups when we cook - so DH can take nice (and healthy) food with him when he goes away. poor freezer was looking a bit sparse the other day...

[Hollybolly]

Last night I made chicken korma - put it on at 9.30am and Luke & I ate it at 7pm... OMG it was yummo

DH had it later when he got home, and by then the chicken was so tender it just fell apart... he loved it

Served it with rice, and cheesy garlic naan... hhhmmmm!!!

By the end of winter I swear I would have put on so many kgs due to what I'm cooking in the slow cooker!!!!

[minimatron]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how tothicken my sauce? I have been cooking lamb shanks today with parsnip, carrot, onion, garlic and I put in 2 cups of vegi stock and a can of crushed tomatoes....now its like soup....help

TIA

[Netix]

I read in my sc cookbook before (looking for ideas for beef), and it said to add a tablespoon (I think) of flour and turn it to high for the last hour of cooking. I hope its not too late.
I forget what the difference is between using ordinary plain flour and cornflour. I also read you can use rice flour, which has some other benefit in itself, above the other two.