So, we've found a place for the slow cooker to live, nestled in a big deep drawer with the pasta maker and a selection of ice cube trays and I think we're getting the hang of it. We also seemed to have started a bit of a localised Stafford based slow cooker revolution but it seem people get a bit obsessed and cultish about them. My mum described it in a lovely way, like "having a mam in the kitchen leaving your dinner on the stove".
We've found it excellent for tomato based things, chillis and pasta sauces, Pete did a slow cooked Spanish omelet after a tip off from a friend at work, I've used it to cook a stewed fruit crumble filling, loving the fact that it frees up the rings on the cooker for more immediate things. I think I'll keep an eye out in charity shops for a more general slow cooker cookbook - The veggie one is good, if a little limited - but we're getting there on adapting recipes where we need to. I'm keen to try it as a Bain-Marie to make El Flan...
I've also been collecting exciting slow cooker related pins here
The problem remains we still work silly hours, so it's a bit tricky to plan ahead sometimes. We might dig out the lights timer we have kicking about to see if we cam rig a timer setting but I think it's more then proven it's worth so far - and more so I'm guessing as the nights draw in and the full force of winter approaches.
We've found it excellent for tomato based things, chillis and pasta sauces, Pete did a slow cooked Spanish omelet after a tip off from a friend at work, I've used it to cook a stewed fruit crumble filling, loving the fact that it frees up the rings on the cooker for more immediate things. I think I'll keep an eye out in charity shops for a more general slow cooker cookbook - The veggie one is good, if a little limited - but we're getting there on adapting recipes where we need to. I'm keen to try it as a Bain-Marie to make El Flan...
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| A Flan, like this one from the film Volver - I've got a mould and everything |
The problem remains we still work silly hours, so it's a bit tricky to plan ahead sometimes. We might dig out the lights timer we have kicking about to see if we cam rig a timer setting but I think it's more then proven it's worth so far - and more so I'm guessing as the nights draw in and the full force of winter approaches.