roast meat - just stick it in and switch on.
Chicken pieces, tin of condensed mushroom soup, carton of creme fresh - I put this in my small slow cooker, you might need to double it.
Also great for steaming puddings.
Get a pyrex or ceramic dish that will fit inside (actually you could use plastic if it's heat resistant)
steak and kidney or chopped steak and chopped mushrooms
flour
stock cube
boiling water
seasoning of choice
pour boiling water in to the slow cooker - about 2in deep.
grease the dish
make suet pastry, reserve 1/3 for the lid, roll out pastry and line the dish.
roll the meat in seasoned flour and pack in to the pudding add the mushrooms if using.
crumble a stock cube over.
roll out the lid and fit over the pudding
make a hole in the centre with your thumb or a knife
put the pudding in the slow cooker then pour boiling water in to the hole until it spills out
leave for 4-8 hours