Crock pot cooking is easy. Add a condensed cream of mushroom soup can to cubed gravy beef, I think?

Rezept: kuechenlatein.com/ossobuco-rinderbeinscheiben-in-rotwein-...

Find the recipe at crockpotladies.com

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I decided that from the start of the New Year I would try a few new recipes.

Today it's Beef and Ale Stew.

Yes I know that a Schwartz slow cooker mix is not the best way to start but I'm hoping I will improve.

I have onions, carrots and beef plus the packet mix.

I'm also trying to use my newest gadgets.

Last week I used the tagine for a Moroccan dish.

Sunday 13th January 2013, Essex.

www.taste.com.au/recipes/1071/pork+prune+and+port+casserole. (I used port, not the alternative of prune juice, of course!)

My friend Norman sent me his 2-quart slow cooker, so I'm using its maiden voyage chez moi to make "chicken in a pot." Glamorous name, eh?

What is it:Crockpot Indian Chicken Curry Recipe

Recipe from:Stephanie O'dea's blog crockpot365.

It smells so good! Another 3 hours till it is ready. I hope this time around it turns out delicious. I made some alterations to the recipe. I added 1T more of curry powder, 1t Cayenne Pepper (for that kick), one can of Sweet Potatoes (drained, couldn't find any fresh), 1 1/4t of Salt and 1t pepper.

Here's my recipe: www.vintagevictuals.com/2009/01/guinness-beef-stew.html

I *heart* avocado.

Here's my recipe: www.vintagevictuals.com/2009/01/guinness-beef-stew.html

Going into the slow cooker

Adapted from the recipe in "Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker: 200 Recipes for Healthy and Hearty One-Pot Meals That Are Ready When You Are" by Robin Robertson. A fantastic book!

Pictures for a future blog post with greater details.

Rice made up of leftover lunch tomato sauce with added beans (pre-cooked in slowcooker) and brown rice with added chilli sauce more mushrooms and peppers and beer (think drunken beans). Mango + onion + tomato + cumin and coriander. Thinly sliced preserved lemon added to both.

Kicked off the crock-pot season with a nice little bottom round, pearl onions, potatoes, celery, carrots, garlic, onions and...beer...for the sauce.

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Made for friend's birthday. It was a whole chicken, though eight hours of slow cooking made all the meat fall off the bone immediately. Maybe should add less salt and add carrots next time. Overall, tasty and everyone enjoyed the dinner.

I give up.

In 6.5 hours it will be perfect.

i asked for a 4lb brisket when i ordered it. it turns out this piece is 5lb. i really wish they sold things in kg here lol i had no idea it woud be so big!!

i cut him in half and saved half for another time, and another flavour.

2.5lb fits perfect in my baby slow cooker =)

Recipe and story here!

Trying to actually use some of these recipe books piled up in the corner. More or less Robin Robertson's recipe (subbed some dry sherry for some of the stock). Page 36 'Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker'.

This started out as thick pork steaks but became so tender it turned out more like diced pork! An interesting flavour fusion of pork together with kumera (sweet potato), spanish onion, orange, cardamom, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, fennel seeds, sweet sherry and stock.

I served it with rice, mainly because of the Szechuan chicken being served at the same meal which really required rice... it probably would be better with polenta or smashed spud. :-)

or, to be more precise, hungarian smoked beef braise. this is from our favorite slowcooker cookbook, and it was really really good. grub is our cow and the garlic and a can of tomatoes i canned this summer. but i figure there's only 18 more meals to go, so surely i can eke out something grubby in all of them, right?

This was a disaster

Steel-cut oatmeal, made in the slowcooker all day yesterday and saved in the fridge for later consumption, with a bit of vanilla soymilk and some slivered almonds. Mmmmm.