Our kitchen is about to be ripped apart for 3 weeks. We’re going to set up a camp kitchen in the garage, with a gas stove etc., so we won’t starve.

I also have a slow cooker, which seems perfect for this situation.

There must be some budding, lazy cooks out there with some great ideas for ‘chuck it all in, wait 8 hours, eat’ recipes.

Chillis, curries, stew, whatever you’ve got that works well… Let’s have ’em.

Cheers,
Dave

cubed stewing steak
diced onion
diced carrots
stock cube
bottle of beer
throw in some cornflour mix just to thicken it up a little at the end

Bosh!

pulled pork

lasagne

stew (as above but I coat the cubes of beef in cornflour)

My wife’s slowly, and deliciously, working her way through most of https://www.facebook.com/slowcookerrecipes

How does everyone cook a whole chicken in these things?

B.A.Nana – Member

How does everyone cook a whole chicken in these things?

Water to cover entire chicken with added herbs etc. The added ingredients will increase the water level so that should be fine. If you want to make soup out of it then add more water.

Then let it slow cook.

I’ve a fair few pork shoulder joints… i just stick the joint on a trivet made of carrots and turn it on – no liquid added. pork is a lot fattier than chicken though.

i take it out and stick it in a hot oven for 30 minutes at the end to get the crackling nicely crispy

Big piece of beef brisket, cheap red wine (not british wine obviously), onions, carrots, etc. Cook for ages. Serve with mash potatoes.

Just taken a whole chicken out of mine. No extra liquid, add random veg in the bottom. Cook for half a day, remove with a spoon and add bones back in to make stock with some extra water. The stock is amazing for risotto.

Add a punnet of ripe cherry tomatoes, 1 tsp cumin and tbsp of minced ginger and garlic. 10 sliced mushrooms (to keep this a vegan meal) or any meat you fancy.

Stir and slow cook for 5 hrs.

I kid you not this is exceptionally good. Being a family of philistines we serve this with spicy potato wedges and a cold beer.

You peeps actually use recipes!? 😆

Whole chicken, bottle of cider, lemon cut into 4 pieces, large onion cut into pieces, carrots, mustard, 2pints of chicken stock and some tarragon then cook for 8 hrs on medium. As mentioned above thicken the stock at the end to make gravy. Delicious

To those using onion, do you not find it rather rubbery if you don’t fry/soften it before putting it in the slow cooker?

We don’t fry onions here at STW… We sauté the onions. 😆

I always fry them, I mean sauté. 😉

I’m French. I can call it frying while still being more authentic than you sautéing them 😉

We set up a camp kitchen in in our garage when we replaced ours. We had a microwave and a camping hob with grill.
Sometimes we would go out to eat on a Saturday as we had spent the whole day working hard.. or we would go to Sainsburys as they heated a pizza (that they made)for a £1.
New potatoes now have microwave instructions on the back.
We did not have a slow cooker but I use mine to make
pulled pork
carrot and lentil casserole
steak & kidney for pie fillings
Lamb shanks
Irish stew
Mind you can make Mexican fajitas in 1 pan, curries require 2 generally, you will be a whizz by week 3 of generating meals. Look also for camping recipes as they usually only require a couple of pans.
I think the first thing I cooked with the new oven was Yorkshire puddings.

beef or lamb
1 large onion
garlic
ginger
2 tbsp medium curry powder
salt
1 tin tomotoes
1 tin coconut milk
chopped apricots
chopped almonds

10 hours later you have a passable tagine – but with only 10min prep time, as opposed to the usual 3 or 4 weeks with other recipes i’ve tried.

Chicken& Chorizo Casserole

Its been in since this morning. The smell of that when I walk in through the front door, out of this shitty horizontal sleet. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 😀

If i’m cooking a whole chicken with veg then only a cup full of water as the veg will release a load of water while cooking.