got my slow cooker, now what do I cook in it?

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cant believe I have to wait until tommorow to use it. options are sausage casserole or lemon chicken. then on friday the otehr of these or ham and cherry coke. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I brought one about 2 years ago and have never looked back, I cook everything in it from casseroles to curry, chilli. I experiment all the time, hope you love yours as much as I love mine.

In this weather it would be sausage casserole for me

do you have to brown the sausages firrst?

I cook loads of things in mine too; sausage casserole, chilli, curry, lamb with lemon, garlic, anchovies and white wine, beef in red wine, macaroni cheese.... I also cook my mince, gravy and veg for a shepherds pie in the slow cooker first then put it in a baking dish after with the mash. It stops the mince from being squeaky IYSWIM. With sausages it's just down to preference with browning them.

any veggie dishes anyone know of?

ooo they sound like nice dishes. by the new year I am hoping to do three dishes a week in it (how many days I will be working)

I've done the BBC Veggie sweet potato and spinach dhal in mine today- its beautiful- no Browning no fuss and delicious six hours later, although I needed more spice added its perfect for dc and I can add extra cayenne to mine
I add water by eye though, just to cover, as following recipe would leave it too watery.

minestrone is also nice, just add pasta to slow cooker when you get home, thirty mins later dinner is done.

That dahl sounds lovely pregnant

Sausage casserole :) don't forget to do dumplings too :)

How do you make macaroni cheese in a slow cooker? Do you have to cook Pasta first??

You don't need to fry or brown anything first.

Get a piece of lamb, a shoulder (or half) just put the meat in, switch on and leave - you will never cook lamb in an oven again.

sausage casserole is in, dinner done at 8am, got to love that.

Am just about to do a sausage casserole too I brown my sausages off but its a personal choice really.

Hope you enjoy it tonight

pregnant the Veggie sweet potato and spinach dhal sounds fab, just looking for link x

I did brown them in frying pan as its quicker. looks weird but I am very excited to try it.

Im sure it will be lovely dita

Lamb with lemon sounds interesting, can you share the recipe?

Hi bigbad. I usually use shoulder of lamb. I pop it in the slow cooker, add the juice of 1 lemon, 1 glass of medium-dry white wine, 4 whole garlic cloves, a sprig of rosemary and then lay the (tinned) anchovies over the top of the lamb. It is delicious.

Oh and meant to add for BakingNovice, the mac cheese. Throw a whole packet of uncooked macaroni pasta in the slow cooker, 150g of melted butter, 2 beaten eggs, 2 pints of skimmed or whole milk, 200-250g grated cheddar, 1tsp of paprika and pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for 4 hours.

I would have been so up for the mac and cheese last week, we had it sat night for the first time in ages, it was lovely, then dd2 threw it up all over her bed at 11.30 at night, gone right off the stuff now.
Casserole is smelling gorgeous.

that was delicious

Oh Dita, nothing like it for putting you off a dish for life. I can't eat salami any more.

pregnant i was trying to look for that recipe, and i can't find it!do you know where i can look, please? ii'm really keen to try it!

Pulled pork is great.

did lemon chicken today, chicken pieces, cut up lemon, honey and orange juice, semlt n ice, was probably the worst tasting thing i have ever put in my mouth.

BBC good food website have the dhal- I cant link I'm on phone. It isn't and actual slow cooker recipe, I just did it in the slow cooker , if you search sweet potato dhal in goodfood website it comes up.

Another nice slow cooker dish is pork belly and chorizo stew- BBC goodfood again. its delicious.

and noone has suggested rice pudding yet! yuk yum in slowcooker