What’s in the crockpot today?

perfect crockpot weather today too... hubby broke my last one so i got to buy one last night from briscoes at 60% off, better get out of bed and put something in it....

Sorry I just came back in here to look up a recipe and realised I hadn't answered a question! Yes really Fliss (and Emma), you don't have to thaw meat before chucking it in the crockpot, you can just throw frozen chicken pieces (for example) in. The only caveat is that they need to be not all in a big lump iygwim (so a whole chicken or roast cut of beef or lamb would be out), and you need to cook it for an hour or two longer. In fact it's a useful trick if you need to put something on that would usually only take 6 hours or so but you need to leave the house for longer, if you use frozen meat then you can cook it for longer without it falling apart.

It was totally new to me, too, until I discovered the "Year of Crockpotting" blog I'm always linking to

Ok, crockpot virgin here!!!!!!

Actually not a big cook, but since I am currently a sahm, I think I better get started.

i want to do a sort of vege chilli thingy in the crockpot tonight, I have various veg, tinned toms, tom paste and some chick peas, oh and some chilli.

Anyone give me any idea where to begin, how long it takes etc...........

sorry that probably sounds really dumb!!!!!

Awesome, well I am so happy with my crockpot, we made veggie chilli and it was awesome did lunch for Dh for like a week and then someone lent me their crockpot cook book and I saw you could make cakes in them - who knew and I am much more of a baker, so today I am doing a raspberry and coconutty thing, will let you know how it goes.

Mmm I love crockpot weather. Yesterday I was going to do mushroom sausage casserole (from the Alison Holst book), but didn't have time to put it on early enough. Today we're having chicken catactore (however on earth you spell that), with lots of onion and mushrooms mmmmm. I used drumsticks.

I tried the chicken makhani, and added extra chilli as someone suggested. It was so good!

Does anyone know hwo to do a pot roast in the crockpot? I did one last weekend and it was very dry, even though I added about a cup of stock and cooked on low for about 8 hours... never had meat dry out in the crock pot before... so would appreciate any tips!

Beef whatever-I-had-in-the-cupboard Casserole today - 1kg of diced beef, a can of chickpeas, a sachet of gravy mix, worcestershire sauce, 1 cup beef stock, an onion, 6 potatoes, 3 carrots and a buttercup pumpkin. I'll throw some diced silverbeet in about 1/2 hour before dinner.

Don't have time to look through all the posts but does anyone have a good vegeterain crock pot recipe, maybe something with lentils in it?

Anyone know how to make soup with a bacon hock in the crockpot? Ive never used a bacon hock but my mum always used them to make soup when I was little so thought I would give it a try.
I put in a chopped kumara, onion and one of those king alphabet soup mix packets, then put the 1kg bacon hock on top of that and poured in water up to about half way in the crockpot. On high for 5 hrs- is this gonna work?!!

I have a chicken and kumara red curry in my crock pot today. Looking forward to dinner! Hope it turns out ok because it's the first time I have tried this recipe