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March 22nd, 2009 · Posted by Skuds in Life · 2 Comments · Life

Jayne’s sister gave us a slow cooker that she didn’t want any more.  Today I am using it for the first time and I can’t really get my head around it.  The thing is huge: I bought a load of stuff for a stew yesterday in the quantities that would normally fill my old stew dish and it only half filled the thing so I had to shove a few more onions and a spud in there to make it up.

It just doesn’t seem natural though – cooking outside the oven.  And its slow, but the clue was in the name.  I like to put a stew on about 4 for a couple of hours then leave it on 2 for ages, and when you do that you can see it bubbling away.  This slow cooker seems to be doing nothing.

Smells good though – but that’s just the thyme.

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  • skud's sister // Mar 22, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    What about dumplings? It’s not worth doing a stew if you can’t do dumplings.

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    • Skuds // Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53 pm

      I did dumplings – my special ‘jazz dumplings’ (so called because I think Herby Dumplings sounds like a good name for a sax player)

      I was worried about them, not knowing how long they would take in a slow cooker. Turns out they need a bit longer than they do in the oven, so they were still a bit on the stodgy side by the time the spuds were ready. I’ll give them an extra 5 or 10 minutes next time I think.

      No complaints though. As you can imagine, we are not averse to stodgy food in this house…

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