Saturday, September 20, 2014

Slow Cooker Boats


I have been watching this phenomenon for about a week and just had to jump in.

The boats are actually stand and stuff soft taco shells, recently released here.

The concept is simple, fill them, place in slow cooker on high for around 90 mins to cook.

First up is a quiche mix:
Combine 2 eggs a dash of milk, cream and or sour cream and whisk

Chop ingredients and place on bottom of shell
Could include onion, capsicum, shallot, ham, bacon, mushroom, cheese  etc

Por the egg mixture over the ingredients

Put in a sprayed slow cooker lined with baking paper

Set on high for 1.5 hrs approx. Cover and cook

Monday, September 15, 2014

Cooking beans and lentils

This site has some great links for cooking these two staples.

Slow Cooker Beans



Cooking Lentils

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Mexicana (slow cooker)


In your slow cooker combine

2 sliced brown onions
2 red capsicum
8 tomatoes quartered
5 celery ribs sliced
2 diced carrots
1 kilo of beef mince
1 400gm tin of kidney beans
1 can of chilli's in adobe sauce
season with 2 tbs coriander/cumin, salt and pepper
4 cups of beef stock

Slow cook for 8 hours and serve on a bed of rice
Garnish with grated cheese and sour cream
I serve with corn chips.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Slow Cooker Potato Bake


Ingredients
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
200g smoked cheese diced

100 grams grated chedder
1 diced red capsicum 

1 diced brown onion
8 cups cubed potatoes
Method:

1 Spray slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. In medium bowl, combine soup, sour cream and cheese; mix well. Gently stir in capsicum
 
 2 Arrange half of potatoes in sprayed slow cooker. Top with half of sour cream mixture; spread evenly. Top with remaining potatoes and sour cream mixture, spreading evenly. Do not stir.
3 Cover; cook on low setting for 3 to 5 hours. (was not ready so longer or some pre cooking of potato)

Substitute condensed cream of celery soup for the mushroom soup if desired

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

CARAMEL FUDGE

CARAMEL FUDGE
2 blocks dream chocolate
2 pots jersey caramels
1 can condensed milk
1Tbs butter.

- Pre heat slow cooker on high for at least 10mins
- Put butter in and then the rest of ingredients
- Cooked this on high for 1 n half hours stirring every 15mins
Note: May be worthwhile melting jersey caramels in microwave or stove top first as they take a whirl to melt.

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Baked Chicken on Corn


This is not a fancy recipe but simply a new approach.

We feed our birds lots of fresh corn so what to do with the left over corn cobs.

Try placing them in a baking dish and add water .

Now place the chicken pieces on top of the corn and oven bake as usual.

I used several chicken thigh cutlets with skin on, seasoned with a mixture of Cajun spices and oven bake at 180c until golden and cooked through.

"If you want more just give me some corn."
Chilli Willi