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<blockquote data-quote="gorillamark" data-source="post: 599281" data-attributes="member: 103445"><p>OK so recipes for one that can easily be expanded to two and recipes for two. And recipes to deal with three adults. Spicey no pork or shellfish.</p><p>Will do give me a day or two and I'll post a few recipes for slowcooker and pm you.</p><p></p><p>I'll do a separate one for pastry </p><p></p><p>I'd get a good cheap one to start off with <strong>I regularly cooked for four in a 3.5 Litre one still do use both my 3.5 litre ones a lit</strong> and the brand I've standardised on is Von Shef. Dirt cheap at Amazon and in my experience good quality. As a bonus I got a little cookbook with my shef slow cookers as a freeby it's a bit conventional but quite good as a start point and inspiration although obviously I have to do things like substitute turnips for spuds. </p><p></p><p>Link to: Amazon UK search <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=a9_asi_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Avonshef+slow+cooker&keywords=vonshef+slow+cooker&ie=UTF8&qid=1406619741" target="_blank">"Von Shef:slow cooker"</a></p><p></p><p>There are heaps of slow cookers around again a search on Amazon: Link to Amazon UK search <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=slow+cooker&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aslow+cooker" target="_blank">"Slow cooker"</a> </p><p></p><p>And you can buy them pretty well anywhere I use Amazon because I live outside the UK but you can buy them in Tesco, Lakeland, and so on. Digital ones are handy but its not essential. </p><p></p><p><strong>Other varieties: </strong>You can get ones that the ceramic pot it uses can be put on the hob for browning and <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-Flavour-Savour-48784/dp/B003922VIU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1406621255&sr=8-3&keywords=slow+cooker+browning" target="_blank">morphy richard have ones that you can saute in directly first</a>. To be honest I now rarely bother browning stuff though having seen a Jamie Oliver program in which he said it wasn't really necessary. After years of browning everything I was dubious but tried it and he's right I almost never brown stuff if it's going into the slow cooker I just bung it in .Once you're happy with it you might want to get a big one say 6.5Litres for roasting larger birds - slow cooker roasted chicken is amazingly juicy and tender. and and a small one for soups and so on. But a cheap 3.5litre one as a starter you really can't go wrong.</p><p></p><p>Recipe postings in a day or so. I'll send you a PM when I put them up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gorillamark, post: 599281, member: 103445"] OK so recipes for one that can easily be expanded to two and recipes for two. And recipes to deal with three adults. Spicey no pork or shellfish. Will do give me a day or two and I'll post a few recipes for slowcooker and pm you. I'll do a separate one for pastry I'd get a good cheap one to start off with [B]I regularly cooked for four in a 3.5 Litre one still do use both my 3.5 litre ones a lit[/B] and the brand I've standardised on is Von Shef. Dirt cheap at Amazon and in my experience good quality. As a bonus I got a little cookbook with my shef slow cookers as a freeby it's a bit conventional but quite good as a start point and inspiration although obviously I have to do things like substitute turnips for spuds. Link to: Amazon UK search [URL='http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=a9_asi_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Avonshef+slow+cooker&keywords=vonshef+slow+cooker&ie=UTF8&qid=1406619741']"Von Shef:slow cooker"[/URL] There are heaps of slow cookers around again a search on Amazon: Link to Amazon UK search [URL='http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=slow+cooker&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aslow+cooker']"Slow cooker"[/URL] And you can buy them pretty well anywhere I use Amazon because I live outside the UK but you can buy them in Tesco, Lakeland, and so on. Digital ones are handy but its not essential. [B]Other varieties: [/B]You can get ones that the ceramic pot it uses can be put on the hob for browning and [URL='http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-Flavour-Savour-48784/dp/B003922VIU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1406621255&sr=8-3&keywords=slow+cooker+browning']morphy richard have ones that you can saute in directly first[/URL]. To be honest I now rarely bother browning stuff though having seen a Jamie Oliver program in which he said it wasn't really necessary. After years of browning everything I was dubious but tried it and he's right I almost never brown stuff if it's going into the slow cooker I just bung it in .Once you're happy with it you might want to get a big one say 6.5Litres for roasting larger birds - slow cooker roasted chicken is amazingly juicy and tender. and and a small one for soups and so on. But a cheap 3.5litre one as a starter you really can't go wrong. Recipe postings in a day or so. I'll send you a PM when I put them up. [/QUOTE]
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