Holiday Home Cooking

I've just been on holiday this week in Kent in the UK. We packed a whole lot of cooking stuff to take with us, but one of the best things we took was our slow cooker.

You go out for the day and come back to a home cooked meal. We used ours twice to do a casserole and a roast chicken. Yes, you heard that right - a roast chicken!

To roast a chicken you need to brown it in a frying pan first. This is the tricky bit and involves a bit of spitting fat (not something my husband likes) and juggling the bird with two spatulas.

When you are happy with the colour of the bird, add it to the pot along with some onion and carrot and seasoning. Some recipes add water, not not all. Then leave to cook.

We left ours with water and seven hours later, the meat fell from the bone. We had enough stock for chicken soup and enough meat for two meals. (We made a curry later in the week.)

Absolutely delicious and highly recommended.