I bought a slow cooker today ...

Yes it is, I love a bit of meat and veg in my soups, like a stew. How about you msolga, what's your favourite?

I'll have to refresh my memory, Caroline, but I think I've mentioned a few favourites on this thread already. (It's been going for a while now.)

(off the top of my head) I recall a spicy oriental shanks recipe which was absolutely delicious!

And soups! Any number of different soups! I love soup in winter!

Sounds nice. Yes I was going to say sorry if you have to repeat yourself but I didn't think you'd mind and I was right. Cheers. A slow cooker is real handy because you just shove it all in and leave it for hours, great in the winter to come home to nice warm soup.

Absolutely no apology needed, expected or required, Caroline!

It's just that this thread was a while ago & my memory is kinda rusty!

BUT, tonight I am cooking an "Asian inspired" vegetable curry.

I will report back!

Please feel free to add any recipe suggestions you might have, too!

Nice, thanks mate bon appetite.

Thank you!

You're welcome.

For us, the leaves are cilantro and the dried seeds are coriander.

We had beans made in the slow cooker last week. Lovely.

I've got something to post when I get back later today. It's from Cooks Illustrated, where they talk about how much better some results from the slow cooker are if things aren't just all put in at the same time. It was a good lesson (as Cooks Illustrated tends to be).

Yeah ok that sounds cool ya know I might just get me one of these slow cookers especially for winter and this recipe sounds good, look forward to it, cheers mate.

Reporting back: I made the vegetable curry yesterday, not the day I'd planned to, Caroline. (It was election night here & I got a bit distracted. Well, more than a bit!)
Anyway, it worked out fine. Leek & garlic, fried with black mustard seeds, cumin & garam marsala. Then thrown into the slow cooker with vegetable stock, light coconut milk & canned diced tomatoes. Along with some chopped kumara & carrots. Chick peas & brussels sprouts added in the last stages of cooking. Baby spinach leaves thrown in right at the very end. (Not cooked, wilted.)
Not bad at all, though I decided that it needed a bit more zing, so added some chili at the last stages.
I've never used Brussels sprouts before in a curry. A nice balance (along with the spinach) to the sweetness of the carrots & kumara.

Sounds lovely msolga, I might try that myself, yum!

... except I made way too much of it!
But luckily for me, my friend, C, dropped by on her way home from work tonight ... & I offloaded quite a bit of it onto her. Problem (almost) solved!

I suppose you cant freeze it?

Nope. Not with the coconut milk already mixed in.

Ok. Better to have more than not enough I suppose.

Perhaps.
But there's only so much vegetable curry that one would actually like to eat!
My next slow cooking effort will definitely be something freezable!

Lol Msolga, feast round your house then.

Something like that, Caroline.
Only one more dinner to go till I'm free again!

What do you mean? You're free to cook again or do you mean you get a night off?