The Ultimate Collection of Slow Cooker Recipes

Hi!

It's been a week, and a hectic week it's been.  What with school, nursery and work starting afresh, my new 6am work-out routine, a new slow cooker to get to grips with and the second in the 50 Shades trilogy to read, I've been busy, busy, busy!

This month I decided to have a pause from the out of the mouths of babes monthly linky and have decided to take the opportunity to collect and share the best slow cooker recipes out there instead.  Yes, I know I have a vested interest now I have joined the slow cooker club.  But it's my website, so I get to pick!

How will it work?

Here's what to do.

If you are here looking for slow cooker recipes, enjoy!  The list below should continue to grow so please feel free to pop back another time too to find plenty of recipes for you to try.  
If you are here shortly after publication on 7^th September 2012, there may not be many links listed below yet.  DON'T FRET!  Folk will add their scrummy offerings – you are just a little early!  Please, please, please pop your email address in the box on the right to subscribe to this blog.  Future posts will pop into your inbox and not only will you find useful parenting and beauty information, you'll also be reminded to pop back to this post to find a growing list of brilliant recipes!

Alternatively you can subscribe to 'comments' over on the right and get an up-date every time a fellow blogger adds their slow cooker recipe here.

If you are a blogger with a slow cooker recipe post you'd like to share click on 'click here to enter' below and add your link.

 

• Please try and give the name of the dish as the title. 
• If you could also add a comment below this post that would be great as it will automatically let other reader subscribers know that a new recipe has been added. 
• Finally, you don't have to, but it would really help if you could add the link of this post to your recipe post so that readers can get back to the main list.  I've added a button below.  Simply copy and paste into your post and check the link remains intact.
• If you are here with a link to share and the list has closed, then please comment, or email me, (tweet/facebook, whatever) and let me know.  If there are enough people interested in joining in I will make the linky a regular one.

Thank you all lovely readers!  I'll look forward to discovering a host of new recipes and will be trying them out and reviewing them in later posts, so make them good!  I might even pick my favourite for a special mention next month.

Look out for another out of the mouths of babes linky next month.

How to tell if your egg is stale before cracking it open!

The Egg Freshness Test

We love hard (or soft) boiled eggs in our house.  I hard boil and slice them for salads or sandwiches.  My youngest loves 'dippy egg' with toast soldiers.

But I found it hard to know whether the eggs were fresh enough before I boiled them.  Until I discovered this little tip:

Fill a bowl, or measuring jug with water.
Place the egg carefully in the bowl, on it's side.
Watch carefully.
If the egg tips up onto one end, it is slightly less fresh.  It is good for baking or hard boiling still. The quicker and higher it tilts up the more stale it is.  This is because the air sac inside the egg is very small when it's fresh, but increases in size and eventually very stale eggs would float.

If it sits happily on it's side then you have a lovely egg for lunch.

UTube clip courtesy of happyeggdelivery.com