Thinking of buying a SC- Are they any good for veggo recipes?

[littlemissmountain]

Yes, I have found the slow cooker excellent for vegie meals so far!

In the last week I have made pumpkin soup and a spinach/split pea dhal in the slow cooker and I was very happy with both. I have only been using the slow cooker for a few months, but really found that I needed to get a cookbook specifically for it, as it's quite different to using the oven for slow cooking. After looking at heaps of books I ended up getting the AWW Slow Cooking book, which has so far given good results.

Using stock is great and plenty of herbs! Some recipes are tomato based (tinned toms) too.
I hope this helps

LMM

[meow]

I did some research that said it wasn't so good. Because dried beans should be boiled it's not good to have them in the slow cooker and I really didn't want to have to preboil first- defeats the purpose of lazy cooking in a SC! Also vegetables are not the best slow cooked as they lose a lot of nutrients. So really, a slow cooked seemed best for meat so we haven't bought one as we're vegetarian too.