SheilaO wrote:I would welcome any unusual recipes using a slow cooker ( now chaps I know I'm asking for trouble, I really don't want to know how to boil my shoes, or cook my hat..honest )
This one is not particularly unusual but it is fairly easy with a nice result. We have to cook for 6 and as I work from home and the current Mrs H doesn't, I often get lumbered so this beef pie is just the job. I get a beef topside joint from Aldi which at about £6 for a kilo joint is only pennies more than chicken and also buy a roll of puff or short pastry. I dice the beef and dump in a bowl of flour, salt and pepper, then fry in oil in a pan to seal. I dump it into the slow cooker. I then fry some onions in what is left in the pan and chuck those in too (sounding like Jamie Oliver now). Last, I put in about 750ml of boiling water mixed with a couple of stock cubes and a splash of Worcester sauce. Put the cooker on (this is usually at lunchtime) and let it do its thing until I finish at 5pm. I then put the meat and some of the gravy in a dish and bung the pastry on top - usually a perfect fit in my oblong dish, brush the pastry with beaten egg and put it in the oven until brown. Delicious with a few bits of veg to go with it.
Not that much work but when placed proudly on the table I then get greeted by "not this again". ;-)
It's grim up North...