Slow Cooker - 20 hours cooking?

[Lakitu]

If I switch my slow cooker on a low setting tonight when I'm going to bed (about 10 p.m.), will it be OK to stay like that for my dinner tomorrow night (about 6 p.m.). It's stewing steak and veg I'll be bunging in.

I'm a nightmare in the morning as it is, I highly doubt I'll remember to switch it on before I leave for work, hence my idea to do it as I'm going to bed the night before.

Thanks
:o)

[natalie_1982]

P.S. Well done Lakitu, I am glad you didn't get confuddled and put your sandwiches in the slow cooker and your steak in the washing machine.

Can I, too, brag that at 7am this morning I was chopping peppers for tonight's tea? I also stuck a load of washing in the machine that is due to start at 4pm and I put away the washing that I did yesterday, that dried overnight.


*smug grin* :-D

[Lakitu]

Awww, now you're just showing off with the 'putting away the dishes' part! :p

[4getmenot]

see alot of recipes you have to brown in pan first. I want a quick easy recipe you just plonk in pan with as little preperation as possible. have found some good ones now. xx

[Lakitu]

I don't brown my dark meat first, but I do chicken dishes x

[natalie_1982]

Most of the recipes say to brown the meat first but this is just to seal it if you were going to cook it on the hob / in the oven anyway, you don't have to - it shouldn't leave the meat undercooked in anyway.

My mum and aunty said the same as Lakitu, they don't tend to brown dark meat but they do with chicken.

[Sachs]

So! How was it? xxx

[Lakitu]

It was gorgeous, Sachs, practically falling apart on my fork it was so tender....well worth getting up 10 minutes early for :o)

I've taken my puff pasty out of the freezer to make a wee pie with the remainder tomorrow night.

I got a lesson on how to use a timer plug thingy today, so I won't have to go to extreme measures again ;o) xxx

[Sachs]

Good eh! No stopping you now! :0) xxx

[natalie_1982]

I put my spag bol in this morning - I was chopping onions at 6:45! I can't wait for my tea tonight..... :-D

[funnygirl]

Nat, won't that be extremely overdone??

Spag bol doesn't take long at the best of times.

[Lakitu]

Stop showing off in my thread, Nat :p

Funny, it will be OK in the slow cooker x

[natalie_1982]

I put it on low funnygirl, and didn't start it til half 7, plus Mr Nat gets home at 3:30 :-)

Well, in that case Lakitu, I did half an hour of yoga at 6am too.... let's see how long this "New Year, New Me" lasts....

[Lakitu]

Blimey Nat! You're not right in the head LOL. What a waste of perfectly good sleeping time :p

[natalie_1982]

I love the mornings, it's the only peace I get. Mr Nat gets up at 6.45am and mini Nat about 7.30am, so it's my quiet time :-)
I much prefer getting my sleep by going to bed early (8.30 the past two nights!) x