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Kris_90

Kris_90

Kris_90

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Hi all,

I'd like to start cooking all my meals from scratch as I'm eating too much processed food but I'm not sure where to start. I cook the odd meal from scratch such as a Sunday roast or spag bol and things like chicken breast and jacket potatoe but that's about it.

Can you recommend recipes that you use a couple of times a month? I have a slow cooker and am only cooking for myself so any batch recipes would be great.

Cheers
 
There are tons in this forum. Just read through the last few pages and you'll find a plethora of guides and recipes ranging from simple to complicated :)

Obvious slow cooked recipes are stew, chilli and the like. Another good one would be pulled pork - there's quite an active thread on this (platypus' thread is the latest one I think).
 
Got a quick turnaround tonight so need to do something quick - going to try Nigella Lawsons's pea-pancetta-pasta risotto. Not my usual 'from scratch' dish but was intrigued when I saw it on Nigella Bites.

Plenty of great recipe sites online but was chatting to someone last night about cooking from scratch and the only advice I have is start with something simple but something that you like eating. I started of with curries and went from there - as I knew what a good Indian meal tasted like I knew what I was aiming for. Now I would say my usual curries are as good as my local but have perfected rice the way I like it... which is what I think cooking is all about.

With slow cooker then you could always do BBC's chilli con carne - bit time consuming but really isn't difficult at all.
 
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Thanks for the replies and advice. I'll start off with stews, chilli etc and go from there. That jambalaya looks lush, will definitely be trying that.
 
Ribs are great for freezing then thawing and chucking in oven to heat and crisp up. Then serve with what ever, coleslaw, jacket potato, cornbread or whatever.
Several guides on here for ribs, just search ribs.
Use dry rub Then oven cook in the oven over water and sealed with foil, for a few hours. Then take out paste with bbq sauce and back in the oven on high heat for 20mins, then freeze.

Ratoulli is a great side dish for freezing.

Meatloafs all freeze well.
 
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Glaucus said:
Ribs are great for freezing then thawing and chucking in oven to heat and crisp up. Then serve with what ever, coleslaw, jacket potato, cornbread or whatever.
Several guides on here for ribs, just search ribs.
Use dry rub Then oven cook in the oven over water and sealed with foil, for a few hours. Then take out paste with bbq sauce and back in the oven on high heat for 20mins, then freeze.

Ratoulli is a great side dish for freezing.

Meatloafs all freeze well.
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Cheers, I love ribs so I'll definitely give them a try.
 
Get DcDs pulled pork (no offence to platypus whose winter warmer threads were very good) as that is extremely good. I've done it a few times and for a large group, admittedly using a couple of tweaks, and it went down a storm drawing favourable comparisons with Bodeans.
Also saw pork shoulder joints on offer in morrisons today.

Nuff said.


E: DcD posted a recipe in the slow cooker thread I started. Also do chilli in slow cooker too :)
 
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