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we put the whole chicken in on high and it is beautifully tender and falling apart after 4 hours, usually a large chicken, skin is obviously not brown and crispy but dont eat it anyway, beautiful with garlic and onions, or lemon and herbs delicious

Do you put any stock/fat with the whole chicken, or sit it on a bed of onions or anything?

dont put any stock or liquid in it makes enough of its own, surround it with onions and garlic if i want garlicy chicken if not just salt and pepper

Thanks for that, I had a go on Saturday and think I overcooked it this time, the chicken virtually fell apart! I'm gradually getting the hang of it, did lamb shanks in red wine this afternoon, went down well with OH. ;D

will rice cook in there?

Boston Beans

2lb belly pork cut into bite sized pieces and browned. Add 3 tins of baked beans, 2 medium onions and 2 large spoons of dark teacle.
Add half a BB tin of water half way through cooking if needed

Cook for 7 hours and eat with basmati rice.

Pork with apples

1 joint of pork, any will do. 2 medium onions, 2 apples and 2 cups of cider. Salt and black pepper to taste, add at the end. Cook slowly for approx 7 hours.

Serve with butter and herb mashed spuds

Steak and kidney pudding
675g/1½lb chuck steak, cut into 2.5cm/1in cubes
225g/8oz ox kidney, cut into 2.5cm1in cubes
1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped
large pinch celery salt
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tsp fresh thyme leaves
2 tbsp plain flour (to thicken)
150ml/¼pt fresh beef stock or beer

Leek and ham pudding
1000g/2lbs leeks chopped into 'rounds'
500g/1lb gammon
1 small onion
2 tbsp plain flour
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper
150ml chicken stock

Vegetable pudding
250g cheap mushrooms
250g carrots sliced
250g leeks sliced
250g parsnips sliced
100g sweetcorn
2 medium onions
1 tbsp lemon sage
2 tbsp plain flour
150ml veg stock

Throw everything into a 2pt pudding basin then cover with the pastry lid.
For the Suet pastry:
400g/14oz self-raising flour
200g/7oz beef or vegetarian suet
½ tsp salt
freshly ground black pepper
290ml/½ pint cold water

Mix all the dry ingredients together then gradually add in the liquid until it's a pastry.

Add a little water at the bottom of the slow cooker and cook on high for 5 hours then low for 2.

Eat with minted new pots, veg of choice, a good wine  and friends.

Pea and ham soup

2 ham hocks

2 packets of dried peas

2 large onions sliced

water to cover

Cook on low for 7 hours then remove the hocks and strip the meat off and cut into bite sized pieces, salt if needed.
A large 'dollop' of butter at the end enriches this.

Eat with home made crusty bread.

Grey squirrel stew

3 large greys, skinned, quartered, head, feet and tail removed.
Remove stomach and discard, retain kidneys, heart and liver for later.
2 cloves wild garlic or 200g wild garlic leaves
200g nettles and/or young beech leaves
½ pint of hedgerow wine, red if possible
Add all ingredients and cook on slow for 5 hours and then turn to high, add heart liver and kidneys and cook for a further 1 hour. Salt as needed.

Eat in a tent sitting on a log

;)

sorry double posted :(

Quote from: Ishard on April 29, 2008, 17:27:05
Grey squirrel stew

3 large greys, skinned, quartered, head, feet and tail removed.
Remove stomach and discard, retain kidneys, heart and liver for later.
2 cloves wild garlic or 200g wild garlic leaves
200g nettles and/or young beech leaves
½ pint of hedgerow wine, red if possible
Add all ingredients and cook on slow for 5 hours and then turn to high, add heart liver and kidneys and cook for a further 1 hour. Salt as needed.

Eat in a tent sitting on a log

Throwing up now..... :-X

There is now top restuarants using squirrel meat :)

Quote from: littlebabybird on April 26, 2008, 23:12:49
will rice cook in there?

It's not very successful.  You can add rice to soups or stews if you want, but if you try to cook it by itself or to create something like a paella, it sticks badly IME. 

Quote from: Ishard on May 01, 2008, 01:02:57
There is now top restuarants using squirrel meat :)

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel then.

Lol that squirrel recipe was put there as a joke  ;D but yes we have a problem in the uk with grey squirrels killing our native reds so its fashionable to eat grey squirrel and very 'organic'.