Antony's Slow Cooking: 100 easy recipes for the slow cooker, the oven and the hob

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Antony has written numerous bestselling books, including Real Family Food, Fast Family Food and Antony Makes it Easy for Mitchell Beazley. Yet again, I find myself with lamb chunks ready to slow cook and a plethora of delicious recipes to choose from, so I was trying to find something different from my usual lamb stews bulked out with beans or grains. It's also a place I can add photos, thoughts and pictures of the cat that I can't file anywhere else! I find brassicas hard to grow and someone told me to stamp them in when you plant them, they don’t like loose soil. After a ‘sort of’ Facebook vote, we decided that life was too short, and cash too tight to invest in the time, food and equipment needed!

Jay (Antony’s wife) helps out too; she took a long time to get into it but is a good all-rounder and doesn’t worry about chipping her nails. Some pressure cookers have a quick steam release valve to reduce pressure quickly at the end of cooking; with the others, you need to either wait five minutes or run cold water over the pan. There is a book and AWT branded pressure cooker opportunity here, and I only expect a few thousand quids for the idea!With a slow cooker, the food you prepared before going out is now a mouth-watering one-pot family meal; with a pressure cooker, your raw ingredients are transformed into a flavoursome Irish stew within 15 minutes. The potatoes at the bottom were squishy with the onions, the ones on top had an edgy crunch and the lamb just fell apart. Once you have put the ingredients into the casserole, you just leave them to cook while you get on with. Butter the bottom of an over proof casserole with about 10g butter (a big chunk), I'm using a low cast iron one. I am on a plan which doesn't allow me to mix root veg with my chicken, so I was wondering whether I could put a whole chicken into the slow cooker WITHOUT liquid?

I think the older you get the more enthusiasm and time you get for gardening, I’m looking forward to spending even more time in mine. My mum in the past made the most amazing chicken in her pressure-cooker; is it possible in a slow cooker? The Good Housekeeping Institute assessed seven pressure cookers (using gas and electric hobs) and four electric slow cookers. We don't as a general policy investigate the solvency of companies mentioned (how likely they are to go bust), but there is a risk any company can struggle and it's rarely made public until it's too late (see the Section 75 guide for protection tips). Some of my favourite dishes are shoulder of lamb and belly pork – both cheaper cuts of meat which are fantastic when slow-cooked.I have no idea where this week’s book came from, who may have bought it, but I do know that Antony Worrall-Thompson and his recipes don’t often feature in my cooking or chosen ideas, so this will either change or confirm my opinions! All the recipes for the slow cooker can be prepared in advance and left to cook during the day, so when you get home from work there is a tasty supper waiting for you. I don’t think the flavours are strong enough to maintain interest for a large main course, although the OH said it tasted quite ‘meaty’, and I needed to add cheese to the top, as usual!

It was the kind of dish that looked terribly unpromising until I served it up, at which point the Eight Degrees boys went “more please! This seasonal non-departure puts a crimp in my counterspace, yet it increases my cooking options considerably.This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

I love runner beans and always pick them when they are young and tender; they are good with almonds or fennel seeds and bacon of course. Anyway, begin like this: Stir fry chopped leeks, sliced onions, garlic and cayenne until lightly browned and beginning to soften. Extremely comprehensive instruction book with quick-start guide, recipes, cooking and maintenance advice. My question is, why don't any of the celeb chefs recognise the sheer fantasticness of the 70's pressure cooker? There was little sauce/gravy to be seen, and it looked flavourless, however, this was a classic case of ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’: it was absolutely delicious.If I’m not careful, we’re going to end up with a glut of Jamies for the last third, so look out for some in the next few weeks. Halfway through cooking, heat the remaining oil and butter in a large frying pan and cook the mushrooms until brown. It was summertime, the weather was good, who wanted to be figuring out a new piece of kitchen kit – especially as it came without instructions – when there was gardening to be done?