My first slow cooker dish

Sausages with Apple and red onion

So I'll give you the recipe, then discuss it.

Ingredients (Serves 4):
1 tbsp oil
8 Sausages
3 tart apples
3 red onions cut into wedges
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tbsp all purpose plain flour
1 glass red wine
2 tbsp whole grain mustard
2 tsp tomato puree
1 1/3 cups hot vege broth

Method:
Prep and cook time: 7 hours

1. Preheat slow cooker if necessary

2. Heat the oil in a skillet and brown the sausages but don't cook. Transfer to the slow cooker.

3. Add onions to the skillet and fry for about 5 minutes or until soft. Add garlic for another minute.

4. Sprinkle flour over the onion mixture and stir. Add wine, mustard, and tomato puree. Stir in stock.

5. pour the mixture over the sausages.

6. Core the apples and cut into wedges. place in the slow cooker, making sure that they are covered by the liquid.

7. Cover and cook on low for 6-7 hours until the sausages are cooked and the apples are soft but not mushy

8. Garnish with fresh rosemary before serving.


ALRIGHT

First off. The recipe doesn't say what kind of sausage to use. I chose Chorizo pretty much cause I like it. No real thought process there. I only got 2 red onions. They were large and three seemed excessive.

I don't usually cry when cutting onions, but they were so incredibly potent I was crying and burning for ever. It was by far the most terrible experience with onions I've ever had. So I did everything that the recipe said pretty standard. Here's where the problem came in.

The apples were not covered by the stock provided. It clearly states that the apples have to be covered by the liquid. My apples were not. I ended up DOUBLING the liquid (another cup of vege stock and another glass of red wine) to just get it all covered. I was pretty curios about that when it all happened. Here's what it looked like before being cooked.

It looked pretty good, I thought. I also wonder why the recipe is 6-7 hours. Isn't the reason of having a slow cooker so you don't have to check on it? I set it for 7 hours and went about my business. My slow cooker (I found out, cause this is the first time using it) turns off after the time is finished which is good cause I didn't get to it until about an hour after it was done.

I'm actually a little disappointed with this recipe. It's not bad, but it doesn't really have any flavor. It even lost it's color. Here's what my plate ended up looking like...

Maybe I put too much liquid in? I don't know. It isn't a bad dish but it's definitely not the best I've made.