Mediocre Mum

Category: Recipes

  • Slow Cooker Chicken and Couscous

    Thanks to the lovely Victoria Roberts (@starPS) who shared this slow cooker recipe with me.  She’s very keen to share no nonsense meals that kids will devour and my family did! ‘This one is a staple in my house,  my mates (and their various offspring) request it often…its my kids fave too!  Dead easy.’ Ingredients…

  • How to cook an ‘effing’ good steak Gordon Ramsay Style

    A few years back we saw Gordon Ramsay cooking steak on the TV.  My husband has now taken the recipe on as his own signature dish.  I think the trick is the glazing of the steaks!  Enjoy!  Serves: 2 Prep/Cooking Time: 30 minutes Medium Rare You will need: 2 good quality steaks Salt and Pepper…

  • Slow Cooker Thai Green Fish Curry

    Thanks to the folks at Youngs Seafood we have a plethora of fish in our freezer.  I’ve always wanted to try a fish curry so this was the perfect opportunity.  It was really easy to make and hubby loved it. Prep Time 10 min Cooking time 3 hours Serves 4 Ingredients 250g broccoli cut into…

  • Slow Cooker Chicken Stock

    I’m usually to lazy to make chicken stock as it always seemed like quite a faff, but someone suggested doing it in the slow cooker and it was so easy. Ingredients: 1 chicken carcass 2 carrots – roughly chopped no need to peel 1 tsp of celery salt (could use real celery) 1 onion –…

  • Slow Cooker Damson Mulled Wine

    This recipe originated from the BBC Good Food 101 Slow cooker favourites but I didn’t have any sloe gin and my neighbour kindly offered me some Damson Gin.  I’ve never seen a Sloe berry or Damson, but according to Google ‘Damsons are about twice the size of sloes and usually sweet enough to eat, like…