I try where possible to take a positive out of any situation and the positive of having an oven for a while that only cooks at 200 degrees Celsius means that I …
Spicy Slow Cooker Lamb
This Spicy Slow Cooker Lamb recipe is a great one for when you want to be able to put a meal together quickly in the evening. You can prepare the lamb and …
Slow Cooker Beef Stew
This is a stew I created using ingredients I had on hand and wanting to make it paleo friendly. The apricots give the stew a lovely sweet taste and the spice was …
Slow Cooker Balsamic Beef With Roast Pumpkin Salad
This balsamic roast beef recipe is one that gives you a great result for minimal effort. You do most of the work ahead of time, it tastes amazing, it makes a lot …
Slow Cooker Chicken Chilli Con Carne Cups + Menu Planner Update
This is my version of Chicken Chilli Con Carne – it has no beans in it! Am just not a fan of beans. This recipe makes A LOT (36 cups)! So if …
Slow Cooker Mexican Style
This recipe is in some ways just a slow cooker version of one of the most popular recipes on the blog – Mexibake. The bonus is that I can quickly whip it …
Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken
I was inspired to put together this Slow Cooker Lemon dish after seeing Nigella Lawson’s Slow-Roasted Garlic and Lemon Chicken (not a slow cooker recipe). I just thought the flavours of chicken …
Slow Cooker Beef Casserole
While I made this Beef Casserole in the slow cooker, you could easily follow the steps and cook it in the oven for two of hours at around 160 degrees Celsius. It …
Slow Cooker Butter Chicken
The first time I had made Butter Chicken in the slow cooker was when we had Mr I’s nana over for dinner and I thought I would do something different to what …
Beef Goulash and Dumplings – Slow Cooker Recipe
As I served up a helping of Beef Goulash and Dumplings to my 12 year old for dinner, he looked at the cook book and said it “even looks like the picture!” …
Slow Cooker Risotto
I love risottos, but unfortunately my kids do not. I have noted on the blog before that they don’t like the “mushy rice”. We had additional left overs on the weekend which …
Using A Slow Cooker
Now the weather has turned cooler and I have been featuring slow cooker recipes on the blog, I have had a number of questions about using a slow cooker. So here are …
Slow Cooker Spaghetti Bolognese
I usually make a super quick and super plain version of Spaghetti Bolognese. I have been looking for awhile for a slow cooker recipe for spaghetti bolognese, because I have heard the …
Slow Cooker Rogan Josh
This was one of the dishes I made in advance before I headed away on my own! Although I didn’t have a full serve of this dish, I did taste it and …
Slow Cooker Roast Beef
After having no red meat roasts all year, I have now cooked two in two weeks! This is definitely a personal record in the kitchen for me. I again used the slow …
Slow Cooker Roast Lamb
A few weeks back my lovely friend Cath had a fab guest post here on Planning With Kids – Slow Cooked Roast Lamb. In this recipe Cath cooked the roast lamb slowly …
Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup
Don’t you love it when you make something new and it is (a) easy and (b) the kids come back for seconds???? That is exactly what happened with this slow cooker chicken …
Slow Cooker Tomato Soup
One of my goals for 2010 was to make sure that we stayed in touch with my and my husbands Nana’s more. We are both so lucky to still have a Nana …