Le Creuset Casserole Dishes - Recipes please

[74Jamie]

excellent got a small one of these as a bday pressie - am chuffed as wanted it but now feeling a bit overwhelmed - need a collection of good recipes of stuff to cook in it as my recipes books etc are all still boxed up from my house move

Flour and brown some stewing steak in olive oil. When crusty, remove the meat and brown onions and garlic in a drop more oil. Remove the onions and adda large glass of red wine to the pot. This will bubble like crazy and you can scrap all the yummy stuck bits off the bottom whilst the wine boils. Add back the stewing steak and half a pint of stock. Salt, pepper, thyme and bay leaf plus whatever you fancy then chuck it in the oevn on a low heat for as long as you can, min two hours.

Whoever gets the bay leaf has to wash up.

Takes five mins and it's what's in the oven now.:)

I make a mean sausage casserole too.[/preen]

mm sounds good and is there enough liquid to do dumplings as well?, whts the sausage casserole recipe do tell.

We do something similar with cheapy pork stewing cut - brown the pork off in the casserole take it out whilst you fry up lots of onions with a bit of garlic. Then add a load of cooking apples - peeled sliced and cored and splash the whole load with a decent amount of dry cider. Shove it in a low heat for a couple of hours. Serve with mash and green beans.

Brown about 2 lbs stewing beef. Add some butter to the pan and fry a chopped onion, garlic, and lots of chopped leak until soft. Return meat to pan, pour over a bottle of red wine, crumble in an oxo cube or two and turn down low. Cook for 3 hours or so. Half an hour before it's ready, add 2 tbsp of horseradish to the pot. Yum!

That would be leeks of course (DD running for the loo must have got into my head )

bump as i'm going shopping tomorrow for the weeks stuff, teh pork and apple stew sounds great, ingredients on my list.

fab pork and apple recipe went down a treat in our house tonihgt both dh ansd ds had 2nds, thanks any more good recipes anyone for my one pot method - which i'm liking very much

er any casserole

Am crashing this thread as got a casserole dish and it's just sitting on the side looking pretty (well as pretty as a dish can look).

Any nice dumpling recipes . . . never made them myself . . . scared of ending up with bland stodge.