Pot Roasting Chicken in a Slow Cooker

Rather than think of a whole chicken cooked in the slow cooker as a poor imitation of an oven-roasted chicken, see it as a different dish. You can very succe...

Meat in the Slow Cooker: Should You Seal It First?

For many people that use a slow cooker, or are thinking about getting one to add to their collection of kitchen gadgets, it’s all about saving time. It’s...

Meat Stews from Around the World

When we think of meat stews, we often remember the boring and greasy stews of our childhood school dinners, but around the world there are fantastic recipes...

Buying Meat in Bulk: How to Store and Use it

There are two ways of buying meat in bulk – purchasing a side of meat and either asking your butcher to cut it for you, or butchering it yourself, or buyin...

Fantastic Fowl: Cooking Goose for a Celebration Meal

Goose has long be a traditional Christmas dish, but in the 1950s, it fell out of favour: there were two reasons for this, the first was that during the Secon...

Barbecuing Meat: Hints and Tips

When you’re choosing meat for a barbecue, you can’t afford to skimp. Cooking over coals or gas is unforgiving if you have poor quality materials to start...

Questionnaire: What's Your Barbecue Style?

Barbecuing has become one of the most popular ways to cook meat in the past twenty years. The development of gas grills and the craze for turning gardens int...

Questionnaire: What Kind of Meat Eater Are You?

There is probably no food that has been so misunderstood in our modern diet as meat. Since the 1950s it’s become an almost daily occurrence for one meat or...

Slow Cooking Pork: Safety Rules and Tasty Recipes

Pork is one of the most versatile meats for slow cooking, not just because it is tasty but because even processed pork meats such as sausage and bacon taste...

Slow Cooking Beef and Lamb: Using Cheaper Cuts

Learning to cook with the cuts of beef and lamb that are traditionally used in slow cooking can add some delicious dishes to your repertoire, as well as prov...