mmm, just found an easy Thai pumpkin and sweet potato soup recipe....excellent for autumn, and although I haven't tried it yet, it seems really easy to make. Will try it over the weekend and report back.....

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Really simple chicken recipe. Chop an onion (or fry some frozen ones), add a chopped breast and brown lightly in oil. Then add an oxo cube (or a maggi mushroom one) and some water, then some red pepper sliced and diced when it is cooked, put about a tablespoon of cream and a teaspoon of dried tarragon in. Voila. Dinner in about 15 minutes.

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Fondue! What could be simpler. I've got people coming for dinner tonight and on the menu is fondue, a pork casserole cooking in the slow cooker to go with crunchy roast potatoes and then a jar of yoghurt each.
That would be my favourite food cheat. Buy a slow cooker and leave it on all day with whatever meat you like in it and then freeze what you don't finish. Perfectly lovely to open the freezer door and find something you can defrost and warm up. Also, given the cost and quality of the meat on sale generally, you can make some very nice stews out of an old boot.

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Where does one procure such a cooker, the word round the campfire is that they are quite difficult to buy in Switzerland, as the lady of the house should be at home all day tending the stove...

ordinarily BigD

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Wow! Fondue and a pork casserole, you feed 'em well.

I've a Le Creuset "doufeu" which was the original slow cooker before electric ones came out. It's well seasoned and will be an inherited item. Everything that comes out of that pot is good.

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Slow cooker came from UK, tragically my parents seem to think that we are a family of 9 as they bought a 12 litre one for us. More stuff to freeze though. You could try using a le creuset on a very low heat in the oven all day. Simply bring your ingredients to the boil on the stove top and then bung it in on number whatever the lowest heat on hateful electricity is.

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The only one I found available here is the Solis.... am considering one as this lady of the house does not wish to tend a stove all day...

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Hi
I am looking for a frying pan, nonstick, induction.
Saw one in Manor for about 115chf, Kuhn or something, double coated with teflon type coating.
28 cm?, about 10cm high?

I need this to fry fried rice or toss some noodles, etc.

Any idea what other choice do I have? Online or in ZH kanton?

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PS: I want to surprise my missus...
ok ok, it is not a present...but she is sick of our old one....from COOP special, a bit scratched already.

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I feel that I should point out the fondue came from COOP, only the stew (or is it a casserole?) and veg are home made.
An acceptable short cut meal is strogonoff made of some steak and a can of mushroom soup. Cut the steak into smallish strips (I imagine veal would work just as well it probably wouldn't taste as good though) fry it with an onion chopped up and some red pepper chopped up and some mushrooms chopped up, pour a can of soup over the top, add some paprika, stir it in and bobs your knob. I can't remember the brand of soup but the one I used was condensed (possibly campbells) and I don't know how available itis in the good old confederation. This was made often in Thailand where 'western' food wasn't always easily available.

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A can of beef Goulash soup and a generous desertspoon of Patak's (or Magi's) Madras or Vindaloo curry paste.

It makes a piping hot mulligatawny soup ideal for cold winter evenings. It takes approximately 213s to make, depending on how good you are with a tinopener...

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