Beef stew for tea nom nom nom

With dumplings and crusty bread to dip?

Dumplings

This thread is useless without spoons for tasting 🙂

i did a chicken and risotto rice thing last night, having it tonight, seems to have come out well…

Stew always tastes better the second night .

Stew always tastes better the second night .

True

My best slow cooker recipe at the moment is beef and carrots cooked in ale, absolutely wonderful!

Sausage and bacon casserole was last nights comfort food, slow cooker effort. It was lovely. Mmmmmmmmmm dumplings 😀

chicken chasseur last weekend

ace to sling it all in the pot, go for a ride for 3 hours in the icy cold, then get back to a house that’s smelling fantastic.

might do a beef one this weekend.

I’ve got chicken and garlic thing awaiting my return from work. 😀

Throw a couple of chilli’s in to round it off nicely. For some reason this has become our “it’s missing something” ingredient over the last couple of years (growing your own helps)

MMMmmm herby dumplings (maybe a chilli in there too)

Beef stew for tea nom nom nom

Same here. Put it on Auto, so hope it’s ok!

2 cloves garlic
1 red onion
1 green chilli
Lidl’s diced beef
Passata
red wine
Bayleaf.

Must remember to get the garlic bread out!

Throw a couple of chilli’s in to round it off nicely.

their already in 🙂

I made pumpkin and apple butter in ours last week. Very good.

following a tip or 2 on here a couple of weeks ago,

beef and sweet potato, with more than ‘a bit’ of rosemary.
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i’ll be doing something with lamb this week, any more tips?

Bought a cheapo Breville ITP137 4.5 Litre from Argos for £19.99 down from £29.99 yesterday, then put a whole chicken in to cook … chicken disintegrated this morning. Now, it’s chicken soup. 😆

This one …

Tips? an unrolled lamb shoulder, a whole bottle of young’s double chocolate stout, a touch of rosemary, onion and carrot.

The chocolate stout is the ingredient of gods (and kicks the arse off chemical tasting cooked down guiness, blegch)

Listen you lot. You can;t go showing off about your slow cookers unless you’re posting or linking to recipes, mmkay 👿

ourmaninthenorth – Member

Listen you lot. You can;t go showing off about your slow cookers unless you’re posting or linking to recipes, mmkay

😆

Mine is very simple.

1. Chicken
2. Chinese herbs … tree bark like.
3. dried goji berries.
4. Some other Chinese herbs …
5. Ophiocordyceps sinensis. <- look a bit like maggot so I eat you.
6. Five small bowls of water. No additive.

Phowrrr … I will get stiffy tonight … 😆

So are you just chucking the raw ingredients in or are you browning/etc first?

Call that a cheap one chewkw? My mum got one free off some catalogue, that’s what I use 😀

Listen you lot. You can;t go showing off about your slow cookers unless you’re posting or linking to recipes, mmkay

A couple of chopped onions
A chopped Carrot
225g dried split peas
1 smoked Ham Hock
a few bay leaves
Cover with boiling water

12 hrs on high.

The best Pea and Ham soup you’ve ever had.

clubber – Member

So are you just chucking the raw ingredients in or are you browning/etc first?

Nope. All raw ingredients. Just maximize heat boil then put on auto. The purpose is to collect the essence from all the ingredients. Phowaaarrr …

DezB – Member

Call that a cheap one chewkw? My mum got one free off some catalogue, that’s what I use

Whhhhaattt! 😮

I think it’s cheap because it looks very simple and not even double wall steel. But it does heat up the room a bit which is good. 😆

Oh my, the stew (recipe above) was fantastic! Leftovers tomorrow 🙂

warton – Member
i did a chicken and risotto rice thing last night, having it tonight, seems to have come out well…[\QUOTE]

Sounds interesting…recipe please!

Nope. All raw ingredients. Just maximize heat boil then put on auto. The purpose is to collect the essence from all the ingredients. Phowaaarrr …

Do you not find that onions end up a bit rubbery done like that? They taste fine but the texture isn’t great.

You are chopping the onions aren’t you? Not just bunging it in whole. 😉

ourmaninthenorth – Member
Listen you lot. You can;t go showing off about your slow cookers unless you’re posting or linking to recipes, mmkay

Some good suggestions on here:

Slowcookertrackworld

bruneep – Member
You are chopping the onions aren’t you? Not just bunging it in whole.

😀 Yes!

Two linked recipes

Beef Brisket
Lump of beef – rubbed in a little cayenne, salt, pepper, paprika, cumin, brown sugar and left overnight
Chopped onion (fried off gently until translucent)
Full fat coke
BBQ sauce (smokey flavoured is best)
left on low for about 8-10hrs
Pulls apart with a fork

Reduce down the cooking liquor a bit and set aside half (can be frozen)

Chilli
Beef mince (browned off then some flour mixed in and cooked out in the frying pan)
Onion and carrot (fried off gently for 10mins)
Can of chopped tomatoes
Beans (Kidney etc.)
Whatever other veg you want
Then whack in the cooking liquor from the brisket and cook out for 6hrs on low

The BBQ style cooking liquor from the brisket makes the chilli taste amazing