you mean fumble around for 20 minutes then leave it disappointed as you roll over and go to sleep
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you mean fumble around for 20 minutes then leave it disappointed as you roll over and go to sleep
Farneyman
Tour Winner
Haven't used mine for a bit but have spatchcocked a few chickens lately and cooked them with sweet chilli and they are very tasty in a wrap with some grilled veg. Also lovely in nice fresh homemade rolls.
I will be doing a ham in mine for Christmas for sandwiches and general picking at over the festive period.
Must take a reread over this thread for some other inspiration with the SC.
I will be doing a ham in mine for Christmas for sandwiches and general picking at over the festive period.
Must take a reread over this thread for some other inspiration with the SC.
Piece
Tour Winner
It was bingo! Yum.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Same here but I'm struggling to find ham joints in the supermarkets, they only seem to do gammon.
AMcC
Journeyman Pro
Just trying the gammon and coke today, well caffeine free diet pepsi to be exact as I can't have anything with caffeine in it.
I work from home so will have to put up with the smell pervading through the house, it's going to be a long day
I work from home so will have to put up with the smell pervading through the house, it's going to be a long day
Rooter
Money List Winner
you may need to add some brown sugar to the top to get a nice finish, the coke is great due to the sugar content....
AMcC
Journeyman Pro
Cheers, will look at that later Ta :thup:
Rooter
Money List Winner
no probs, if its done but not got a nice caramalised finish, stick it under the grill (watch it like a hawk!!!)
GB72
Money List Winner
sure I read that it was a really bad idea to use diet drinks in this recipe. The chemicals do not react well to the cooking process and the taste is awful. May be wrong but could swear I read this when looking for the recipe online.
Rooter
Money List Winner
Dunno how the artificial sweeteners will react if im honest. My angle was just on the caramel side of things.. It should still work i reckon...
Farneyman
Tour Winner
I have done the ham in coke already but decided to try it with cider for a change and then glaze it.
Ham about £8 sized chunk
Morrisons own brand cider x 2 pints
half dozen cloves
Slow cooker at low for about 8 hours
Remove from slow cooker and put on oven tray
Mix 2 spoons of olive oil, mustard and honey and brush over the ham
Stick in the oven for about 90 mins at 160ish
The nicest bit of ham ever!
So simple with very little work required and very tasty.
Anyone else have any great successes over the festive period?
Ham about £8 sized chunk
Morrisons own brand cider x 2 pints
half dozen cloves
Slow cooker at low for about 8 hours
Remove from slow cooker and put on oven tray
Mix 2 spoons of olive oil, mustard and honey and brush over the ham
Stick in the oven for about 90 mins at 160ish
The nicest bit of ham ever!
So simple with very little work required and very tasty.
Anyone else have any great successes over the festive period?
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Did something similar yesterday but without the cloves, bloody lovely.
Piece
Tour Winner
Did gammon and coke on Xmas Day. Good result but I think it could have been better?
Farneyman
Tour Winner
Made that a couple of times and although it tastes nice I think its nothing compared to the cider version. Worth a try if you haven't already.
Scotty Cameron
Head Pro
Sweet or Dry ?????? might try this on New Years Day for tea
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Sweet or Dry ?????? might try this on New Years Day for tea
Dry for me.
JohnnyDee
Tour Winner
Rich Beef Casserole:
Serves 4
1.5lbs rump steak cubed
2 Large onions finely chopped
1/2 Large swede cut into medium sized cubes
1 Large carrot sliced into thin discs
4 - 5 Medium potatoes (King Teds or Maris Pipers) sliced thinly
1.5 pints of good quality beef stock
1/4 cup of good quality red wine
Lots of salt and pepper.
Parsley to garnish
Brown meat in 2 tbsbs of oil then remove and set aside.
Add onions to pan and fry until translucent.
Transfer to slow cooker and add all the other ingredients.
Season liberally with salt & pepper and check seasoning during overall cooking time.
Cook for 5 hours on low setting stirring occasionally.
Thicken sauce with cornflour mixed with a little cold water as necessary.
Garnish with parsley.
Serve in warned bowls with optional rustic granary buttered bread.
Serves 4
1.5lbs rump steak cubed
2 Large onions finely chopped
1/2 Large swede cut into medium sized cubes
1 Large carrot sliced into thin discs
4 - 5 Medium potatoes (King Teds or Maris Pipers) sliced thinly
1.5 pints of good quality beef stock
1/4 cup of good quality red wine
Lots of salt and pepper.
Parsley to garnish
Brown meat in 2 tbsbs of oil then remove and set aside.
Add onions to pan and fry until translucent.
Transfer to slow cooker and add all the other ingredients.
Season liberally with salt & pepper and check seasoning during overall cooking time.
Cook for 5 hours on low setting stirring occasionally.
Thicken sauce with cornflour mixed with a little cold water as necessary.
Garnish with parsley.
Serve in warned bowls with optional rustic granary buttered bread.
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GB72
Money List Winner
Actually got a new slow cooker for Xmas. Got some leftover venison stewing in it at the moment
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
Not followed all this thread but bought a Schwartz packet mix for pulled pork. Looking forward to having this.
Farneyman
Tour Winner
Decided to stick as many of the ideas from this thread into one post for ease of reference and to help me create my shopping list 
Some cracking ideas here to try out over the holidays.
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I like doing a nice casserole in mines. No recipe, just bung things in, but here's an idea.....
Stewing steak (browned off, oxo cube sprinkled over it)
Shallots (a few off, peeled, unchopped)
Carrots (couple of right big uns, chopped up)
Cellery (couple of stalks chopped up)
Peppers (red n yella, chopped up)
Mushrooms (good handful, quartered)
Tomatoes ( tin might work, but I quarter about 5 of them) they melt to nothing but give a good flavour.
Bay leaf
Few herbs (varies, depending on what I fancy chucking in)
Stockpot (beef one)
Salt pepper
Some water to mix up the stock pot thing.
Think that's what I throw in from memory.
5 mins to throw together and it tastes delicious.
You can do that recipe with some chops too, even bung in a few spuds with the chops if you like.
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Sausage Stew.
Stick some spuds cut up to a size you like into the cooker and let them start cooking.
Packet of sausages (any you prefer but higher meat content holds together better) cut them into ether 3 or 4 pieces each depending on the size and fry them off until brown along with an onion (and mushrooms if you like them).
Fire that into a slow cooker filled with the spuds, peas, chopped carrots, 2 or 3 stalks of celery chopped some mixed herbs and black pepper and a little salt. Let it simmer until the spuds are fully cooked and add gravy granules and let it simmer without the lid on to thicken up a little.
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Get a joint of lamb on the bone, salt and pepper, rub it with mint sauce. Then wrap it in tin foil and cook for 8 hours. The meat will fall off the bone. Perfect for a Sunday dinner
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A joint of pork or lamb on the bone, flash fry in a pan to brown. Slice up some carrots, onions, mushrooms and any other veg you fancy. Drop them in the slow cooker, put the meat on top and pour in a bottle of your fav beer. Put the lid on, switch on and then go and enjoy a round of golf or two. The meat will be fall off the bone melt in your mouth soft when you get back.
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Chopped left over chicken bits
Can of tomato soup
Fry off an onion
Sliced potatoes [par boiled first]
Salt/pepper
Slow cooker for 4+ hours
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Try beef brisket slow cooked in onions and stock (I add celery and carrots and one clove of garlic).
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In slo cooker, chuck in good quality sausages, a tin of toms, tin of cannellini or butter beans, chopped onion, some slices of chorizo.
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I do gammon slow roasted in coke in mine.
Boil the gammon for 5 mins to get rid of the excess salt, stick it in the slow cooker, quarter an onion, cover with full fat coke, and that's it.
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A wee curry recipe for your slow cooker. Courtesy of the beebs good food website.
Ingredients
4 tbsp sunflower oil
800g/1lb 12oz beef braising steak, cut into 2.5cm/1in pieces
2 onions, finely chopped
4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 chillies, finely chopped, plus extra to taste
2.5cm/1in piece fresh root ginger
4 tsp ground cumin
4 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp ground turmeric
2 x 400g/14oz can chopped tomatoes
2 tsp garam masala
200g/7oz natural yoghurt
small handful fresh chopped coriander
Preparation method
Heat half of the oil in a frying pan and fry the beef pieces for 4-5 minutes, or until browned all over. (You may need to brown the meat in batches.) Tip the browned meat into the slow cooker.
Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan and fry the onions for five minutes, then add the garlic, chilli and ginger and fry for another 2-3 minutes. Add the spices and fry for another minute, then tip the mixture into the slow cooker.
Add the chopped tomatoes to the slow cooker, then fill one of the empty cans with water and add the water to the slow cooker.
Stir everything together, pressing down so that everything is covered in liquid and cook for 8-10 hours on low.
About 30 minutes before serving, stir in the garam masala and yoghurt and season to taste with salt and a little more chilli. Cook for a further 30 minutes, then stir in the coriander.
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diced beef
onion
garlic
carrots
swede
beer or red wine
stock cube
dust the beef with seasoned flour, fry in the pan (little oil) with the onions and garlic until browned. (about 5 minutes work)
Put all the other ingredients in the pot, switch on low and leave for 8 hours.
If you really fancy being posh, make some dumplings (half suet to plain flour, add some salt and mixed herbs, bit of water and voila!) dump them in about 45 mins before serving.
Done, one pot cooking. You could serve with some green vegies, mashed pots etc or just have a bowl of stew!
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If you want to be uber lazy, whole chicken.
Get a whole chicken, take out of wrapper. put in slow cooker. couple of tablespoons of water. turn on. Cook on low for about 4-5 hours. That will be the most moist roast chick you ever had!! (if you are a fatty, you could stick in a high temp oven before serving to crisp the skin, but my body is a temple and dont eat the skin)
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Made a lamb tagine yesterday using Tesco's pre-made powder.
Diced lamb
Tin of tomatoes
Tin of chickpeas
Water
Shallots
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Doing an overnight apple, cinnamon and oat dish for tomorrow's brekkie. No doubt the smell will drive me nuts until the morning!
http://www.365ishpins.com/day-224-ap...the-crock-pot/
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If you fancy a change from curry, bolognaise etc I make this Hungarian Goulash in ours
cubed beef / pork or venison (venison is best)
4 onions - quartered
handful of spuds - cubed
Tin of chopped tomatoes
500ml water
as much chilli powder / chillies as you wish to put in
couple of tablespoons of goulash paste or tomato paste
1 oxo cube
as many cloves of garlic as you like
fry the meat, onion and garlic, add it to the slow cooker, sprinkle the chilli and oxo cube over it, add the rest of the stuff, stir it together and set the machine away on low for 8 hours - lovely to come into after a cold day at the match or on a golf course
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Well my slow cooker has just been switched off for the first time in about 48 hours!
Cooked a whole chicken in there.
Took all the meat off and returned the carcass and juices to the pot, along with onions, celery, broccoli stalks, carrots, peppercorns and topped up with water. Cooked that for about 24 hours.
Strained the stock, returned with more onions, garlic, a butternut squash, red peppers and a chilli. cooked that for about 5 hours, blended and its an amazing soup to go with my home made bread!
LOVE my slow cooker!! 2 amazing meals for the family for under a tenner too! (in fact prop enough left over chicken for a curry for the kids)
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Did pork belly with ratatouille. Cut the skin of the belly, quickly fried onion, pepper, corgette, garlic, added tin of toms and a bit of red wine, then checked the lot in the slow cooker for 10 hours. Was really really good. Safe to say it will be seeing a lot more action.
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I hope you're right mate, bought a nice marbled bit of brisket last night for the princely sum of £6.50.
Stuck it in the fridge overnight in a marinade of water, S&P, brown sugar, worcester sauce, cayenne pepper, chipotle chilli flakes and bourbon
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Browned the sides first thing this morning then popped into the SC with some beef stock, shed loads of red wine, garlic and the usual veg ready for tonights tea, I'll report back later.
On another note, wtf am I doing cooking at 6 am
image: http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/images/smilies/rolleye.gif
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Gammon with Dr Pepper is the best
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Some cracking ideas here to try out over the holidays. _____________________________________________________________________________________
I like doing a nice casserole in mines. No recipe, just bung things in, but here's an idea.....
Stewing steak (browned off, oxo cube sprinkled over it)
Shallots (a few off, peeled, unchopped)
Carrots (couple of right big uns, chopped up)
Cellery (couple of stalks chopped up)
Peppers (red n yella, chopped up)
Mushrooms (good handful, quartered)
Tomatoes ( tin might work, but I quarter about 5 of them) they melt to nothing but give a good flavour.
Bay leaf
Few herbs (varies, depending on what I fancy chucking in)
Stockpot (beef one)
Salt pepper
Some water to mix up the stock pot thing.
Think that's what I throw in from memory.
5 mins to throw together and it tastes delicious.
You can do that recipe with some chops too, even bung in a few spuds with the chops if you like.
______________________________________________________________
Sausage Stew.
Stick some spuds cut up to a size you like into the cooker and let them start cooking.
Packet of sausages (any you prefer but higher meat content holds together better) cut them into ether 3 or 4 pieces each depending on the size and fry them off until brown along with an onion (and mushrooms if you like them).
Fire that into a slow cooker filled with the spuds, peas, chopped carrots, 2 or 3 stalks of celery chopped some mixed herbs and black pepper and a little salt. Let it simmer until the spuds are fully cooked and add gravy granules and let it simmer without the lid on to thicken up a little.
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Get a joint of lamb on the bone, salt and pepper, rub it with mint sauce. Then wrap it in tin foil and cook for 8 hours. The meat will fall off the bone. Perfect for a Sunday dinner
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A joint of pork or lamb on the bone, flash fry in a pan to brown. Slice up some carrots, onions, mushrooms and any other veg you fancy. Drop them in the slow cooker, put the meat on top and pour in a bottle of your fav beer. Put the lid on, switch on and then go and enjoy a round of golf or two. The meat will be fall off the bone melt in your mouth soft when you get back.
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Chopped left over chicken bits
Can of tomato soup
Fry off an onion
Sliced potatoes [par boiled first]
Salt/pepper
Slow cooker for 4+ hours
____________________________________________________________________________________
Try beef brisket slow cooked in onions and stock (I add celery and carrots and one clove of garlic).
______________________________________________________________________________________
In slo cooker, chuck in good quality sausages, a tin of toms, tin of cannellini or butter beans, chopped onion, some slices of chorizo.
______________________________________________________________________________________
I do gammon slow roasted in coke in mine.
Boil the gammon for 5 mins to get rid of the excess salt, stick it in the slow cooker, quarter an onion, cover with full fat coke, and that's it.
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A wee curry recipe for your slow cooker. Courtesy of the beebs good food website.
Ingredients
4 tbsp sunflower oil
800g/1lb 12oz beef braising steak, cut into 2.5cm/1in pieces
2 onions, finely chopped
4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 chillies, finely chopped, plus extra to taste
2.5cm/1in piece fresh root ginger
4 tsp ground cumin
4 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp ground turmeric
2 x 400g/14oz can chopped tomatoes
2 tsp garam masala
200g/7oz natural yoghurt
small handful fresh chopped coriander
Preparation method
Heat half of the oil in a frying pan and fry the beef pieces for 4-5 minutes, or until browned all over. (You may need to brown the meat in batches.) Tip the browned meat into the slow cooker.
Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan and fry the onions for five minutes, then add the garlic, chilli and ginger and fry for another 2-3 minutes. Add the spices and fry for another minute, then tip the mixture into the slow cooker.
Add the chopped tomatoes to the slow cooker, then fill one of the empty cans with water and add the water to the slow cooker.
Stir everything together, pressing down so that everything is covered in liquid and cook for 8-10 hours on low.
About 30 minutes before serving, stir in the garam masala and yoghurt and season to taste with salt and a little more chilli. Cook for a further 30 minutes, then stir in the coriander.
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diced beef
onion
garlic
carrots
swede
beer or red wine
stock cube
dust the beef with seasoned flour, fry in the pan (little oil) with the onions and garlic until browned. (about 5 minutes work)
Put all the other ingredients in the pot, switch on low and leave for 8 hours.
If you really fancy being posh, make some dumplings (half suet to plain flour, add some salt and mixed herbs, bit of water and voila!) dump them in about 45 mins before serving.
Done, one pot cooking. You could serve with some green vegies, mashed pots etc or just have a bowl of stew!
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If you want to be uber lazy, whole chicken.
Get a whole chicken, take out of wrapper. put in slow cooker. couple of tablespoons of water. turn on. Cook on low for about 4-5 hours. That will be the most moist roast chick you ever had!! (if you are a fatty, you could stick in a high temp oven before serving to crisp the skin, but my body is a temple and dont eat the skin)
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Made a lamb tagine yesterday using Tesco's pre-made powder.
Diced lamb
Tin of tomatoes
Tin of chickpeas
Water
Shallots
___________________________________________________________________________
Doing an overnight apple, cinnamon and oat dish for tomorrow's brekkie. No doubt the smell will drive me nuts until the morning!
http://www.365ishpins.com/day-224-ap...the-crock-pot/
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If you fancy a change from curry, bolognaise etc I make this Hungarian Goulash in ours
cubed beef / pork or venison (venison is best)
4 onions - quartered
handful of spuds - cubed
Tin of chopped tomatoes
500ml water
as much chilli powder / chillies as you wish to put in
couple of tablespoons of goulash paste or tomato paste
1 oxo cube
as many cloves of garlic as you like
fry the meat, onion and garlic, add it to the slow cooker, sprinkle the chilli and oxo cube over it, add the rest of the stuff, stir it together and set the machine away on low for 8 hours - lovely to come into after a cold day at the match or on a golf course
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Well my slow cooker has just been switched off for the first time in about 48 hours!
Cooked a whole chicken in there.
Took all the meat off and returned the carcass and juices to the pot, along with onions, celery, broccoli stalks, carrots, peppercorns and topped up with water. Cooked that for about 24 hours.
Strained the stock, returned with more onions, garlic, a butternut squash, red peppers and a chilli. cooked that for about 5 hours, blended and its an amazing soup to go with my home made bread!
LOVE my slow cooker!! 2 amazing meals for the family for under a tenner too! (in fact prop enough left over chicken for a curry for the kids)
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Did pork belly with ratatouille. Cut the skin of the belly, quickly fried onion, pepper, corgette, garlic, added tin of toms and a bit of red wine, then checked the lot in the slow cooker for 10 hours. Was really really good. Safe to say it will be seeing a lot more action.
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I hope you're right mate, bought a nice marbled bit of brisket last night for the princely sum of £6.50.
Stuck it in the fridge overnight in a marinade of water, S&P, brown sugar, worcester sauce, cayenne pepper, chipotle chilli flakes and bourbon
image: http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/images/smilies/tongues_out.gif
Browned the sides first thing this morning then popped into the SC with some beef stock, shed loads of red wine, garlic and the usual veg ready for tonights tea, I'll report back later.
On another note, wtf am I doing cooking at 6 am
image: http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/images/smilies/rolleye.gif
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Gammon with Dr Pepper is the best
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