16th June 2020 / Prue Fletcher: Open Homes: Easy Slow-Cooked Dinners

You've had a long, hard day at work, raced home to get your open house ready and still have to run the kids around to their individual sporting commitments before finally getting a handle on dinner!

When you pull in the driveway at 7.00 pm, you have every intention on preparing a healthy, nutritious meal – but you just can't seem to muster enough strength or motivation to even think about cooking.

UberEats wins again and we can all relate to the above scenario.

We want to inspire and help make it easy for you to prepare a wholesome meal, which would usually add on a good hour at the end of a long day, but with a little thought and preparation the night before, can be served up in just minutes!

The good old fashioned crock pot, or as we more commonly know them as a slow cooker, have become the answer to easing the stress placed on many families schedules during this busy period of their lives. So whilst you're off living, the devout slow cooker will stew your delicious dinner all day long in the background doubling as that perfect homely scent for any prospective buyer to fall in love with.

Here are our top 5 recipes, tried and tested, to enjoy and help you escape that pressure cooker environment:

• Slow Cook Minestrone
• Family Slow Cook Roast Beef & Vegetables
• Slow Cook Honey Garlic & Chicken
• Slow Cooked Lamb Shanked Soup
• Slow Cooked Beef & Vegetable Curry

Bon Appetite!