Amazing for a crowd this Christmas
Happy Christmas to my readers! I hope you are having a great Christmas holiday. For my Perfecting Patisserie entry for this month, I decided to make Stollen. Stollen is of course a Christmas fruited bread filled with marzipan and dusted with icing sugar, typical of Germany. […]
Its Boxing Day, there is food all around me, and a lot of booze. So my thoughts seem to turn to making a rich and velvety chocolate cake spiked with Baileys, with Baileys buttercream! It is the holidays after all I tell myself! My slow […]
So the time of year for making and receiving handmade edible gifts is nearly upon us again! In previous years I have made slow cooker fudge as gifts, and I decided this year I would make a new flavour, with some added booze for the […]
Following hot on the heels on from my slow cooker turkey crown is another Christmas recipe! My slow cooker mincemeat pudding is simple to make, can be made at the last minute if you missed Stir Up Sunday, and is full of festive flavours!
Just in time for your Christmas or Thanksgiving preparations, I’ve got the best way to cook your turkey for no hassle at all – in the slow cooker! My slow cooker turkey crown is a delicious way to cook your turkey and avoid the dreaded […]
Tasty slow cooker pastitsio – so easy to make and perfect for the family to enjoy. This Greek-inspired dish is full of flavour.
Seeing as there are so many pumpkins around right now, I decided to incorporate pumpkin in my latest bake, which is a delicious slow cooker pumpkin banana bread!
As I enjoy slow cooker baking so much, one recipe that I make over and over again is slow cooker fudge. It’s so simple to make, turns out really well, and most of all tastes great! Slow cooker fudge is idea to make for gifts, […]
Now it’s autumn it’s time to get back to basics with slow cooking, so I’m sharing my favourite recipe for slow cooker chicken casserole. I use chicken thighs in my chicken casserole, as they have so much flavour and also stand up really well to […]
Are you looking for a delicious way to serve beef brisket, that’s also really easy to make too? Step in slow cooker pulled beef with harissa! Harissa paste gives a gentle kick and cherry tomatoes and chopped green peppers add texture and colour to brighten […]
This weekend I decided to make slow cooker mac and cheese so I could make the dish earlier in the day and then forget about it, and so it would be ready for our meal later in the day. Find out how I got on […]
So my latest slow cooker cake was a slow cooker red velvet cake! Red velvet cake of course is a rich chocolate cake with a vibrant red colour, often with buttercream or cream cheese icing. My version has an easy vanilla buttercream icing which takes minutes […]
Mellow autumn has arrived with all the delicious apples and blackberries that have now finished ripening and so now clamour to be used in the kitchen. What better than to bake a blackberry and apple cake to make the most of them, and to make […]
The main reason I use my slow cooker so much is because it means I can do the food preparation in the morning or just earlier in the day, and then leave the food cooking all day so it is ready at dinner time. In […]
Right now if you have a vegetable patch or allotment, you might be trying to get through the courgette glut and having courgette in every meal. If not, courgettes are cheap in the shops right now as well so they are a great seasonal ingredient […]
Hello, thanks for visiting my blog. I’m Lucy, a slow cooking and baking addict! Have a look in my Slow Cooker archives to see all my slow cooker recipes at a glance, with loads of slow cooker desserts!
