Slow Cookers

[sherrardk]

Apart from stew/casserole meals, what else can you make in a slow cooker? Thanks.

[ClaryS]

Lyonnais/Dauphinoise potatoes come out really well, got the recipe from the Lakeland Plastics slow cooker book. Also rice pudding is nice but you don't get the skin on it.

[rockyracoon]

Clary, what's your recipe for rice pudding, I love it but hate the skin.

[wendilla]

when you do pork cut the fat off the top about 15 min before time is up and put it in with the roast potatoes to crisp it up. Would not be without mine and my table Halogen oven

[ClaryS]

rice pudding recipe for rocky:

200grms pudding rice, uncooked
1.25 litres full cream milk (or half milk half single cream (Yum)
110 grms caster sugar
1 vanilla pod or 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
optional nutmeg to taste ( I use 1/2 teaspoon)

Combine rice, milk, sugar, nutmeg if using, scraped vanilla pod or extract in slow cooker
cook on low 6 hours or until rice is tender.

Stir and add more cream if required serve with whatever takes your fancy. I like a dollop of homemade bramble jelly.

[rockyracoon]

That sounds lovely, thank you Clary :)

[society]

I wish I could use a slow cooker. I have absolutely no luck with them. Have tried several times but food never turned out good or cooked the way it was supposed to.

[coccinelle]

I cook things like chicken legs or duck legs in mine with spices rubbed into the skin. They come out delicious, so soft, after 5 hours on low.

[sherrardk]

I joined the FB page that fairycakes mentioned - good grief, they are obsessed with bloody slow cookers. About nine out of ten posts on my FB page are about slow cookers and timings, etc!

[shaneystar2]

I love my slow cooker.Best bit of kitchen gear ever invented .
We had one for a wedding present back in the year dot and I'm now on my fourth one .

[coccinelle]

society; what goes wrong? Slow cookers are just so easy to use.... bung in the veg and meat with a bit of stock and a few hours later you have a complete meal!

[Tilly2]

We've just eaten a chicken curry which has been cooking since 2.00pm and it was absolutely lovely.

[society]

Coccinelle, I don't know how or where I go wrong with the slow-cooker. I tried cooking rice pleau, pasta, even potatoes and they never cooked good. Rice was hard but soggy, pasta was similar and potato was not cooked. I had three or maybe four different slow-cookers and cooking end results were all the same. I have better luck with the microwave and the oven.

[humbersloop]

timings sherr? timings, For Funks Sake??

nooo, either as coccinelle says or sit joints on balls of scrunched up foil without any liquid or veg and go and do something else for a good while

[coccinelle]

Ah society: rice and pasta don't go down quite well in the slow cooker as they will become soggy (so makes good rice puddings). Potatoes when cut into quarters and added to the veg and meat should cook beautifully. Best results are obtained from 1 hour on High then a few hours on Low. SOME slow cookers have an 'auto' which switches from high to low automatically. However, I have recently ordered one for a present and the 'auto' is just a keep warm setting. I wonder if this is what you have had....

[paddywak]

Trish uses ours all the time and as already stated you can do just about anything in them.The thing Trish likes about them is you throw everything in,switch on go out for the day and come home to a ready for serving meal.The one we have is a 3L from Tesco,cost about £13.00p a couple of years ago and is ample for the two of us.