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Morphy ‘Innovators’ Review (and recipe) – Rosie Scribble, Flavour Savour slow cooker

By Tom Craik | 28.11.2011 | Posted in Morphy 'Innovators', Product Reviews, Recipes

Rosie would be the first to admit she’s not a natural whizz in the kitchen, but she’s been cooking up a storm with our Flavour Savour slow cooker and has even tried out one of the recipes from our slow cooker cook book.

You can check out the recipe she tried out, and her thoughts on the product, below (or click here to read the post on her own blog)

Slow cooker Greek-style butter bean and potato casserole

I’m not known for my cooking skills, but even I have managed to successfully produce this Greek-style butter bean and potato casserole from the new Morphy Richards slow cooker cookbook. It takes just 15 minutes to prepare the ingredients, and then you just leave it to cook for four hours. It’s a great recipe for a cold winter evening and great with a chunky bread roll. (Serves 6).

Ingredients

4 tbsp olive oil
1 mild Spanish onion
4 garlic cloves, crushed
200 ml red wine
400 g white potatoes, diced
2 x 410 g cans butter beans, drained and rinsed
2 x 400 g cans chopped tomatoes
Pinch of paprika
1 bay leaf
2 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley

Method

1. Heat half the oil in a large saucepan over a high heat and cook the onions for about 5 minutes. Stir in the garlic and add the red wine. Let it bubble for a few minutes to deglaze the pan. Season and transfer to the slow cooker. Add the potatoes, turnip and butter beans.

2. Add all the remaining ingredients and mix. Season and cook for 4 hours on the high setting and 8 hours on the low.

The recipe is so simple that your children will be able to help, which is an added bonus. We cooked the dish in the Flavour Savour Digital Slow Cooker that we were sent as part of the Morphy Richards Innovators Scheme.

It is incredibly easy to use and with a capacity of 4.5 litres it is large enough to cook a meal for the whole family. It has three cooking settings – browning, fast stew and slow cook, which are all accessible via its digital interface. I particularly liked its digital countdown timer plus the fact that it is easy to store, especially as we do not have a large kitchen. I was also impressed with its keep-warm function which keeps food hot in the pan for up to 2 hours. The pan is also hob-proof so can also be used on gas or electric cookers. It comes with a clear lid with cool-touch handle so you can peer inside and check on your cooking with the minimum of fuss.

I absolutely love the product and simply can’t fault it. It retails at £89.99.

Are you a dab hand in the kitchen? Do your friends compliment you on your home-cooking skills? Can you prepare wholesome, nutritious food on a budget? Then why not enter the Home Made Cook of the Year 2011? Morphy Richards are looking for some ‘Home Made Heroes’ and there are some great prizes on offer. Visit Home Made Cook of the Year 2011 for further details.

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Morphy ‘Innovators’ Review, Flavour Savour Slow Cooker, Are we nearly there yet mummy?

By Tom Craik | 25.11.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Morphy 'Innovators', Product Reviews

This month, our Innovators have been going slow cooking mad, trying out all sorts of wonderfully warm winter recipes to feed up their families.

We sent Laura (Are we nearly there yet mummy?) a Flavour Savour slow cooker and a slow cooker recipe book for some inspiration and we’ve managed to change her opinion of slow cooking. Yes…that’s right, it’s not just for stews, there’s a whole world of recipe possibilities out there!

You can read her thoughts below or click here to read her the original post.

We were sent a Morphy Richards Slow Cooker. I’ve always thought that slow cookers were only useful for big hearty stews.

The ingenious Tom at Morphy Richards knew that I needed inspiration. He sent me The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cookbook which has totally changed my view of the versatility of slooooow cooking.

The Flavour Savour slow cooker has 3 functions, which means you can seal, fast stew and slow cook. Do you know you can cook a whole chicken in it? A WHOLE chicken, with nothing else in there, for hours … for the most tender and juicy chicken.

I made a bolognese on Sunday for a family meal. I am convinced it was one of my better bolognese sauces as were the family. It was packed full of flavour and the meat just melted, it was so tender. Delicious.

I am a lazy cook so the slow cooker is perfect. Bung all the ingredients in, leave to cook and go out (for up to 8 hours!), return and dish up.

Next week we’ll be dining on szechuan braised belly of pork! You can get the 4.5 litre Flavour Savour here for £89.99 … for another £10.00 you can get the 6.5 litre version which is great for family meals and/or if you want to freeze batches.

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The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book – A must for the slow cooker fan!

By Chris Bennett | 03.11.2011 | Posted in Kitchen

Here at Morphy Richards, we’re passionate about all things slow cooking, so much so that we’ve brought out our own cook book – The Ultimate Slow Cooker Cook Book. The book, published by Ebury Press and written by Cara Hobday features over 100 delicious fuss-free recipes from family favourites to dishes for a dinner party.

The book also features hands tips and advice about using your slow cooker. Throughout the winter months, we’re going to bring you extracts from the book as well as several tasty recipes. If you like what you read and you want a copy for yourself; the book can be purchased from the Morphy Richards website (£5.99).

Today we’re going to bring you a series of top tips for cooking in your slow cooker:

Spray the pot with an oil spray or coat the bottom with oil before you put anything inside it as this prevents the contents sticking

If your recipe calls for a high amount of dairy products, such as milk, cream or yoghurt, there is a possibility they will curdle if left to cook for a long time. To avoid this, stir in the dairy products during the final 15 minutes of cooking, or substitute with evaporated or dried skimmed milk

One complaint against slow cookers is that meals can taste very similar. For this reason it is important to brown the meat and the vegetables first, to draw the maximum flavour out of each ingredient. This also seals the meat, which prevents it drying out. When time is short, you can bypass the browning stage, but the taste of the finished dish might not be as flavoursome. Always brown minced meat over a high heat to kill any bacteria before adding to the pot.

Be careful not to use too much water as the sauce may not be thick enough in the final dish. Remember that no water is lost from the pot during cooking, and a lot of moisture comes out of the vegetables, which means that it won’t boil dry.

For added liquid I use hot stock so that the slow cooker heats up more quickly. However, over a cook time of 8 hours, this is not essential and will not noticeably change the finished dish.

As well as using the recipes in this book, a wide variety of others can be adapted for use in a slow cooker. When adapting a recipe the main thing to remember is to use up to 50 per cent less liquid than you would when cooking a dish in the oven or on the hob. This is because a slow cooker is sealed and does not lose any liquid during cooking, unlike oven or hob cooking. As a general rule of thumb, use around 600ml of liquid in a dish for six servings, although this does vary between recipes. If there are a lot of vegetables, for example, less liquid is needed, as the vegetables release their own water into the sauce. All the recipes in the book have been created for use in a 3.5 litre slow cooker with a ceramic cooking pot so if you are using a larger capacity machine or Flavour Savour, remember to tweak the recipes and cooking guidelines accordingly.

Although pies, with their crusty pastry, cannot be made in the slow cooker, pie fillings are very successful. All you need to do is fill a pie dish with the slow-cooked filling, top it with pastry and finish it off in the oven.

You can even use your slow cooker for dishes you might never think of trying. For example, you could cook your porridge in the slow cooker over night for a ready-made hot breakfast in the morning.

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Morphy ‘Innovators’ Review – The English Kitchen, Flavour Savour

By Chris Bennett | 02.11.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Morphy 'Innovators', Product Reviews

Now that the clocks have gone back by an hour, we’re well and truly into slow cooker season. Last month, several of our ‘House Proud Innovators’ were sent a Morphy Richards Flavour Savour to review. The first ‘Innovator’ to review this slow cooker was Marie who blogs at ‘The English Kitchen‘, you can visit her original blog post here.

A Slow Cooker with a wonderful Difference and some tasty Meals!

In October as a part of the Morphy Richards House Proud Innovator scheme I was sent a lovely 4.5 litre Flavour Savour Digital Slow Cooker. As a House Proud Innovator I am encouraged to put the appliances I am sent through their paces and to really give them a good work out, something which I am always happy to do.

I am no stranger to slow cooking. I often use my slow cooker and in fact have two sizes already, both Morphy Richard’s as well. I use them most often on Sundays and will cook a meat dish in the larger one and then a side dish in the smaller one.

The new Flavour Savour Digital Slow Cooker though is a machine with a big difference. You can use it in three different ways, which makes it very versatile and useful for more than just slow cooking. The Flavour Savour has 3 in 1 cooking functions, meaning you can seal, fast stew and slow cook all by using the one machine. The pan heats to around 200 degrees giving you an excellent sealing functionality, which means that you are able to brown any meat you are cooking without having to use a separate pot for that purpose. You can now brown and slow cook in the same pan. That is one function that I really loved with this machine.

It has a beautiful glass lid, which means that you are able to look inside and see what’s going on without lifting the lid, with cool touch handles which makes it very easy to transport from one location to another. With the older models that have a ceramic insert, this just isn’t easy to do. The cooking pot is also dish washer safe, which is a real bonus!

I found the instructions very easy to follow, which is also a bonus. I find that as I am getting older I often have a difficult time understanding instructions . . . blame my menopausal mind! I had no problem with this. The instructions were clear and concise.

Here it is plugged in and warming up to brown some meat in the cookpot. That function worked really well. I was well pleased.

The first dish I cooked in it was a proper slow cooking recipe, using pieces of chicken and a sauce, called Crock Pot Barbeque Chicken. As you can see it turned out quite deliciously scrummy! This I served with rice and a vegetable on the side.

*Crock Pot Barbeque Chicken*
Serves 4
Printable Recipe

Tender, sticky delicious chicken. You can use only breasts or a combination of breasts and thighs. Delicious.

4 to 6 pieces of boneless, skinless chicken
1 bottle barbeque sauce (I used the Jack Daniels one)
1 ounces white vinegar (1/4 cup)
1 tsp red pepper flakes
2 ounces soft light brown sugar (about 1/4 cup)
1/2 tp 1 tsp garlic powder

Place your chicken pieces into the slow cooker. Stir together the barbeque sauce, vinegar, pepper flakes, brown sugar and garlic powder. Pour this over top of the chicken and give it a stir. Cover and cook on low for 4 to 6 hours.

The next recipe I tested on it was for a Crock Pot Beef Dip Sandwich. I love Beef Dip Sandwiches. It was always one of my favourite things to order when I lived in Canada and we would go out for supper. I remember having a particularly delicious one in Winnipeg Manitoba back in 1977 whilst we were waiting to board a train for Calgary. (You know something is good when 30+ years later you are still thinking about it!)

This recipe is one I found online (forgive me as I can’t remember where right now). The meat turned out deliciously tender and we both enjoyed this very much. I will make again. It was almost as good as that one back in 1977, and I loved that I could brown the roast a bit first by using that function in the Flavour Savour.

*French Dip Sandwiches in the Slow Cooker*
Serves 6 to 8
Printable Recipe

Easy to make and oh so delicious with meltingly tender beef tucked into a soft roll, topped with cheese and then served with a beef broth for dipping.

1 medium brown skinned onion, peeled and thinly sliced
6 fluid ounces beef broth/stock (3/4 cup)
2 fluid ounces dark soy sauce (1/4 cup)
4 fluid ounces water (1/2 cup)
1 TBS Worcestershire sauce
1 TBS grainy mustard
2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
3 pounds beef roast for braising (I used a rolled brisket)
Salt and pepper to taste

To serve:
6 to 8 soft sandwich rolls
6 to 8 slices of provolone cheese, or an equivalent
amount of grated emmenthal cheese
one pint of beef broth (about 2 1/4 cups)

Rub the beef all over with some salt and pepper. Place the onion slices in the bottom of the crock pot. Stir together the beef broth, soy sauce, Worcestershire Sauce, mustard, garlic and water. Put the beef into the crock pot on top of the onions. Pour the broth mixture over top. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours until meltingly tender.

To serve, warm the rolls and cut open. Shred the cooked beef and pile onto the warmed rolls, top with some of the onion and a bit of the juice from the pan, along with a slice of cheese. Close over, cut in half diagonally and serve along with a small bowl of beef broth for each person to dip their sandwich in.

I then decided to test out it’s normal cookery function and did a tasty stew in it. I was able to brown my meat and vegetables perfectly and then proceed as per the recipe. At the end we were rewarded with a deliciously tasty Irish Lamb and Barley Stew.

As you can see the lamb was beautifully browned. Stews gain a lot of their flavour from the browning step. All those rich caramelized meat juices really add a lot of taste and colour to the gravy.

*Irish Lamb and Barley Stew*
Serves 4
Printable Recipe

A delicious stew that cooks either on top of the stove or in the slow cooker.

2 TBS olive oil
1 kg (2 pounds) diced lamb shoulder
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
2 medium carrots, peeled and chopped coarsely
2 sticks of celery, trimmed and chopped coarsely
1 large parsnip, peeled and chopped coarsely
1/2 small swede, peeled and chopped coarsely
2 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed
1 litre of chicken stock (4 cups)
1/2 litre of boiling water (2 cups)
200g of pearl barley (1 cup)
4 sprigs of fresh thyme
3 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped coarsely
1/2 of a small savoy cabbage, finely shredded
a handful of flat leaf parsely, coarsely chopped

Heat half of the oil in a large saucepan; cook the lamb, in batches until browned. Remove from the pan. Add the remaining oil and heat. Add the vegetables and cook, stirring occasionally until they begin to soften. Return the lamb to the pan, along with the stock, water, barley and thyme. Bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook, for 1 hour, covered. Add the potato and simmer for 20 minutes, uncovered, until tender. Add the cabbage and simmer for about 10 minutes longer, uncovered, or just until the cabbage is tender. Discard the thyme. Serve the stew ladled out into heated bowls and sprinkled with the parsley.

Note: if using the slow cooker, brown the meat and vegetables and then put them into the cooker along with the barley, hot stock and water and the herbs. Cover and cook on low for 4 to 5 hours. Add the potatoes and recover. Cook on high for 35 to 40 minutes. Add the cabbage and cook, uncovered on high for 10 to 15 minutes.

Finally I decided to try making some buttery toasted nuts in it. This is the time of year when these are really handy to have around. People will be dropping by off and on during the holidays which are coming up all too quickly and savoury nuts are a delicious little bite to serve along with a drink. (Next time I am going to try a sweet variety) As you can see they turned out fabulous in the Flavour Savour!

*Crock Pot Butter Roasted Pecans*
Makes 6 cups
Printable Recipe

Moreishly buttery and scrummy.

4 ounces butter, cut into pieces
1 1/2 pounds pecan halves
1 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Optional ingredients:
garlic powder
onion powder
dried herbs (savoury, basil, oregano)

Place the butter into a 4.5 litre slowcooker. Heat on high for about half an hour to melt the butter. Add the pecans and toss to coat with the butter. Cover and cook on high for 1/2 hour. Uncover and cook on high for another 2 1/2 hours, giving them a stir every 1/2 hour. (You want to keep an eye on them and stir them often so that they don’t catch as you are cooking them on a high temperature.) At the end of that time they should be nicely roasted. Spread out onto a baking sheet and sprinkle with the sale and pepper, and any optional ingredients you wish to use. Give them a good stir together and allow to cool. Store in an airtight container.

All in all I am very pleased with this machine. It has a lovely round shape which fits well into my kitchen. The cord is of a nice length and also stores very easily in the base when you want to put it away. I love that the cooking pot and lid wash up beautifully in the dish washer. I love that I can brown and stew with it, as well as slow cookin on a low, medium or high temperature . . . and I just adored the keep warm function, which means that it will hold your food for a further 2 hours at a warm temperature without over cooking it.

I would give the Morphy Richards Flavour Savour Digital Slow Cooker a full 10 out of 10 points for ease, looks and functionality.

Many thanks to Chris and the Morphy Richards people for having afforded me the opportunity to put it through it’s paces. I would highly recommend this machine to anyone, absolutely.

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‘Home Made Cook of the Year’ Recipe – Slow Cooked Brisket of Beef with a Medley of Root Vegetables

By Chris Bennett | 06.09.2011 | Posted in Home Made Cook of the Year, Recipes

Last week we launched our ‘Home Made Cook of the Year’ competition on ‘Home of the House Proud’. Along with our partners at the WI, Delia Online and Diabetes UK, we’re looking for the nation’s best homemade cook to walk away with this prestigious tittle and a heap of prizes from Morphy and our prize partners (Stoves, Roberts Radio and the WI’s Denman College).

From all of the entries that we receive, we’ll be whittling them down to three and our three shortlisted entrants will be invited to cook their dish for celebrity chef Brian Turner, who will select his favourite dish.

We’re delighted to report that we’ve received our first entry from Karen Booth, who’s submitted a delicious recipe for Slow Cooked Brisket of Beef with a Medley of Root Vegetables. In keeping with the rules, the dish cost less than £7.50 (£7.28) and feeds a family of four.

Ingredients

1.5kg/3lb 5oz beef brisket joint

1x Teaspoon English mustard powder

4x Onions, peeled and sliced into thick rings

6x Carrots, peeled and cut into thick discs

1x Small swede, peeled and diced into cubes

2x Large parsnips, peeled and cut into large discs

1/2 Turnip, peeled and diced into cubes

150ml (1/4 pint) wine or ale, or water mixed with half a stock cube

1x Teaspoon anchovy essence/sauce

1x Tablespoon mushroom ketchup

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

Season the beef brisket generously with salt, black pepper and the mustard powder, rubbing it in well and all over the joint

Place all of the root vegetables in the bottom of the slow cooker

Place the seasoned brisket of beef on top of the root vegetables; add the anchovy essence/sauce and mushroom ketchup to the wine/ ale or stock and pour it over the vegetables, being careful not to pour it over the seasoned beef brisket

Turn the slow cooker on to the “low” setting and cook for between 8 and 11 hours

Serve piping hot with the gravy juices and steamed greens and/or potatoes on the side

My meal cost me £7.28. I took advantage of a special offer on Brisket at Morrisons and also cooked this in my Morphy Richards Slow Cooker. My vegetables were home-grown and some were swapped with local allotment friends.

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Win a Morphy Richards Flavour Savour – ’75 Days of Morphy’ Competition

By Chris Bennett | 05.08.2011 | Posted in 75th Anniversary

As we’re nice folk here at ‘Home of the House Proud’ we thought we’d give our loyal customers and fans the chance to win a Morphy Richards Flavour Savour Slow Cooker this weekend thanks to our ’75 Days of Morphy’ campaign – a straight 75 days of competitions, promotions and exclusive voucher codes!

The Flavour Savour is one of the most stylish slow cookers on the market and with the colder months edging ever closer (unfortunately), this great item is sure to be a superb addition to your kitchen.

Flavour Savour Digital Slow Cooker

Flavour Savour has 3 in 1 cooking functions, meaning you can seal, fast stew and slow cook in one product. The pan heats to around 200 degrees giving you the sealing functionality. After sealing, various foods including succulent chicken, tender beef and pork can be stew cooked taking approximately 11/2 hours. Alternatively you can slow cook your food allowing flavours to infuse.

In the video below, one of the ‘Morphys’ introduces the Flavour Savour and tells you everything that you need to know about it:

Flavour Savour Features:

4.5L capacity – Serves 4 -6 people
Browning function – Brown your meat in the pot prior to cooking
Fast stew – For speedier meals
Slow cook settings – Low, medium, high settings
Dishwasher safe parts – Stainless steel pot and glass lid are dishwasher safe
Compact storage – Store away your lid and plug

For a chance of winning this great prize, simply answer the following question in the comments box below: In what year did Morphy Richards celebrate its 50th anniversary?

We’ll announce a winner at 5:00pm on Monday afternoon (8th August 2011), the winner will be selected at random from all correct entries.

Good luck and have a fantastic weekend!

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’75 Days of Morphy’ – Day 19. Save 40% on a Morphy Richards Slow Cooker!

By Chris Bennett | 26.07.2011 | Posted in 75th Anniversary

Right then folks, this afternoon we’ve got something to not only brighten up your kitchen, but make healthy, wholesome, home cooked food! Today is the 19th day of our ’75 Days of Morphy’ campaign – 75 straight days of offers, promotions and competitions!

Today, we’re giving you the opportunity to save 40% on one of our slow cookers – the Accents Slow Cooker in blue (48736). We’re giving you the chance to walk away with this £34.99 product for ONLY £20.99 - a right old bargain!

The Accents blue slow cooker is oval shaped and easy to use. A slow cooker can be left safely cooking while you go about your busy daily routine, so you can enjoy freshly cooked meals without being tied to the kitchen. Once you find out what it can do for you, you`ll never look back… versatile, convenient and healthy dishes. 3.5 litre capacity makes it ideal for families and cooking for one.

To take advantage of this super offer, simply quote the voucher code: HB7340 at the checkout stage on the Morphy Richards website.

Product Features:

Translucent blue

Reflective blue slow cooker

Oval shape

Ideal for joints of meat as well as casseroles, curries and chillis

3.5 litres capacity

Full to brim, which has a working capacity of 2.5 Litres which serves 3-4 people

3 settings : low, medium, high

Low, medium and high to suit different cooking times and recipes

Removable ceramic pot for easy cleaning

Ideal serving dish

Toughened and insulated glass lid

To view cooking without letting heat escape

Dishwasher proof

For easy cleaning

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’75 Days of Morphy’ – Day 17. Win three Morphy Richards Accents Products of your Choice!!

By Chris Bennett | 24.07.2011 | Posted in 75th Anniversary

Happy Sunday everyone! Today is the 17th day of our ’75 Days of Morphy’ campaign and we’ve got a cracking competition in store for you – arguably the best so far!

As we’re sure you will be aware by now, we’re celebrating our 75th birthday/silver jubilee by running 75 days of EXCLUSIVE promotions, competitions and offers! Make sure you keep visiting ‘Home of the House Proud’ every day to see if there’s something you want to take advantage of or get involved with!

Today, we’ve got three products up for grabs from our Accents range; our lucky competition winner will be able to choose three of the following items in either blue or green from the range: kettle, toaster, slow cooker or filter coffee maker.

The Morphy Richards Accents range is perfect for injecting some colour and style into your kitchen, not only do the products in the range come in a range of different colours, but each product is stylishly designed and would certainly brighten up arguably the most important room in your home.

To enter today’s competition, we want to see your kitchens! Simply upload a picture of your kitchen to our Facebook wall or send us a picture via Twitter (e.g. TwitPic). We’ll pick a picture at random at 17:00pm tomorrow afternoon (25th July 2011) and announce our winner through Facebook and Twitter.

Good luck and we look forward to receiving your pictures!

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Win a Morphy Richards Slow Cooker with Delia Online

By Tom Craik | 04.07.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Recipes

This month, Delia Online are giving four lucky foodies the chance to win a fantastic stainless steel Morphy Richards Slow cooker as part of their monthly Morphy giveaway.

Just upload an imaginative recipe idea to the Your Recipes section of their website, and you’ll be in with a chance. They’ll be picking four winning recipes at random on 31st July, so spread the word and get posting!

Perfect for cooks on the go, the Morphy Richards Oval Slow Cooker can be left safely cooking while you go about your daily routine, allowing you to enjoy freshly prepared meals without being tied to the kitchen.

A 3.5 litre capacity means organising a family feast is just as simple as rustling up a meal for one and its oval shape is ideal for cooking joints of meat as well as casseroles, curries and other family favourites. There are three settings to cater for different cooking times and recipes, a toughened glass lid to make sure you don’t lose that precious heat and a removable ceramic pot so you can serve up your meals in style.

It also has lots of handy features to make your cooking experience that little bit easier. It’s fully dishwasher proof, has Cooltouch handles so you won’t burn yourself and non slip feet so it sits safe and secure on any surface.

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Win a Slow Cooker and Inject Colour into the Kitchen!

By Chris Bennett | 17.06.2011 | Posted in Kitchen

Here at ‘Home of the House Proud’, we’re aware that slow cookers are more synonymous with the winter than the summer. However, there are hundreds of delicious summery dishes that you can rustle up in a slow cooker. Check out our recipe bank, we’re pretty sure that the Baked Vanilla Cheesecake and the Lemon Chicken dishes will go down particularly well at this time of year!

Baked Vanilla Cheesecake

At Morphy Richards, we’re very proud of our range of slow cookers, particularly the Flavour Savour which we launched last year. However, if you’re currently making home improvements and looking to brighten up or inject some colour into your kitchen, look no further than our Accents range. We have kettles, toasters, filter coffee makers and slow cookers in a range of different colours, check out the entire range on the Morphy Richards website.

To help you on your way with injecting colour into one of the most important rooms in your home, we’ve got a blue Accents Slow Cooker worth £34.99 to giveaway to one of our lucky Twitter followers this weekend. Simply follow us @LoveYourMorphy and watch out for instructions. The competition will be run via a ‘Retweet’ mechanic and the competition will close at noon on Monday 20th June 2011. A winner will be selected at random from all of the ‘Retweets’ made. Good Luck!

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Flavour Savour Review – The Diary of a Frugal Family

By Chris Bennett | 06.05.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Product Reviews

Several weeks ago we approached the lovely Cass Bailey about trying our Flavour Savour and reviewing it for us. Cass is responsible for the ‘Diary of a Frugal Family’ blog so we thought that a slow cooker would be perfect product for her as slow cooked meals can be very cost effective as a result of the cheaper cuts of meat that can be used. Check out Cass’s review below (you can visit her original post here).

If you’re a blogger and would like to trial our Milk Frother (or any of our other products), give us a shout, either as a comment or by using the contact form.

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Jo’s Kitchen reviews the Flavour Savour and has a go at the ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge’

By Chris Bennett | 11.04.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Product Reviews, Recipes, £4 Slow Cooker Challenge

A big thanks to Jo who looks after the Jo’s Kitchen blog for reviewing the Morphy Richards Flavour Savour and for also having a crack at the ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge‘. Jo used her £4 to cook up a delicious Braising Steak Stew, although it only came to £3.21. Check out the review below and why not have a go at the recipe…

If you regularly use a slow cooker or think slow cooking sounds right up your street, we’ve got a tasty treat for you with our ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge’. You could win £200 worth of Morphy Richards items in our monthly draw. To find out more information about the challenge, click here.

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Sausage and Pepper Casserole – Slow Cooker Recipe

By Chris Bennett | 31.03.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Recipes

A big thanks to Jan Bennett who is responsible for the ‘Glug of Oil’ blog, Jan recently sent ‘Home of the House Proud’ a recipe for a Sausage and Pepper Casserole – we’ve tried this recipe here at Morphy HQ and it’s scrumptious, you really should give it a go…

Sausage and Pepper Casserole

To serve: Up to 4 adults and 2 Children

Ingredients

2x Large onions – peeled and sliced

2x Fat cloves of garlic – peeled and finely chopped

2x Celery stalks – washed and sliced

2x Red bell peppers – stalk and seeds removed and cut into chunks

1x Green bell pepper – stalk and seeds removed and cut into chunks

12x Good quality thick Cumberland sausages

1x Tablespoon of tomato puree

2x 400g tins of good quality tomatoes

1x tablespoon of smoked paprika

300ml Chicken stock made from a Knorr stock cube

Salt and black pepper to season

A little olive oil

Method

Get yourself a nice big frying pan and heat up the oil

Add the onions, garlic and celery and cook over a low/medium heat for about 10 minutes

Now add in the peppers and cook until the onions are nice and soft but not coloured

Stir in the tomato puree and cook for a minute over a low heat

Give it all a good stir and throw in the paprika, both tins of tomatoes including the juice and just 200ml of the stock

Stir it again and bring to the boil. Now tip everything into your slow cooker.

Wipe the frying pan out and brown the sausages. Remember they’ll have plenty of time to cook once in the slow cooker – all you’re doing is browning them nicely.

Once they’re nicely browned, pop them into the slow cooker

Cook on a low heat for seven hours. Before serving, have a taste and adjust the seasoning with a little salt if need and some black pepper. (Add the other 100ml of stock if you need to)

Serve with mashed potato. You can of course freeze in portions once it’s gone cold

If you’ve got a delicious recipe that you’d like us to feature on Home of the House Proud, we’d love to hear from you, please submit it here!

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Spicy Sausage Stew – £4 Slow Cooker Challenge Recipe

By Chris Bennett | 18.03.2011 | Posted in Recipes, £4 Slow Cooker Challenge

Here at ‘Home of the House Proud’, we’ve been contacted by Anna Aird from Caterbury in Kent. Anna’s got a delicious slow cooker recipe that she’d like to share with visitors to the blog. What’s more, the recipe costs less than £4 making it ideal for our ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge’. Check out the recipe below – a scrumptious Spicy Sausage Stew!

We all love this recipe in our family (probably something to do with our passion for spicy food!). We sometimes vary the vegetables, but courgettes are one of my favourites, so that’s what I have used this time!

Spicy Sausage Stew

Ingredients

8x Butchers’ Choice Pork Sausages (Tesco) £0.98

3x Kent Jacket Potatoes (Pack of 4)                  £0.79

1x Market Value Onion (Tesco)                         £0.27

2 xCourgettes (loose from Tesco)                   £1.13

1 or 2 tsps chilli powder (according to taste)

½ pint vegetable stock

Total cost of recipe = £3.17

Method

Peel and slice the potatoes and place in the bottom of the slow cooker

Chop each sausage into 3 pieces and mix with the chilli powder

Chop the courgettes and onion

Put courgettes, onion and sausages on top of the potatoes and add the vegetable stock

Cook on high for 5 hours

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Beef Carbonnade – £4 Slow Cooker Challenge Recipe

By Chris Bennett | 17.03.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Recipes, £4 Slow Cooker Challenge

A number of weeks ago, Cheryl who is responsible for the ‘Madhouse Family Reviews’ blog reviewed our Flavour Savour. Ever since receiving the product, she’s been cooking her family wholesome, hearty food. Cheryl has even had a couple of goes at our ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge’. We’re delighted to bring you one of her £4 recipes today, a tasty Beef Carbonnade.

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Chilli Con Carne – Slow Cooker Recipe

By Chris Bennett | 01.03.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Recipes

Whilst talking to our Twitter followers this afternoon, we struck up a conversation with the lovely Dawn (@The_Moiderer). Dawn is also responsible for the blog: The Moiderer and is a big fan of slow cooking, in fact, she’s so much of a fan that she has a whole section of her blog dedicated to it (and what’s more, she uses a Morphy Richards Slow Cooker!).

Dawn has very kindly allowed us to share her most popular slow cooker recipe with ‘Home of the House Proud’ visitors. The recipe is for a delicious Chilli Con Carne – it’s Dawn’s second most viewed blog post since she started blogging, it must be good!

Chilli Con Carne - For Illustration Purposes only, not actual recipe

Ingredients

Minced beef (amount to suit family size!)

1x Tin of chopped tomatoes

1x Large onion

1x Pepper (any colour but green works best)

1x Large tin of kidney beans

1x Sachet of Schwartz chilli mix

Balsamic vinegar

Ketchup

Worceseter Sauce

Salt

Method

1. Chop the onion and pepper. Fry off in a small amount of olive oil until onions have browned. Throw into the slow cooker

2. Brown off the mince and drain the fat.

3. Add the following to the browned mince in the pan and stir:

1/3 of the sachet of chilli mix. This gives it the flavour but very little heat. If you like it hot add more.

2 generous splashes of balsamic

1 generous splash of worcester sauce

3 very generous squirts of ketchup

salt to your taste

4. Throw the stirred in mixture into the slow cooker.

5. Add the tin of kidney beans to the slow cooker.

6. Add the tin of tomatoes to the slow cooker.

7. Stir it all in together.

8. Cook it on the highest setting for 2 hours.

9. Turn it down to medium and cook for as long as you want. Stir every hour or so for best results

If you’ve got a delicious recipe that you’d like us to feature on ‘Home of the House Proud’, we’d love to hear from you, please submit it here!

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Pea and Ham Soup – £4 Slow Cooker Challenge Recipe

By Chris Bennett | 28.02.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Recipes, £4 Slow Cooker Challenge

A big thanks to Sarah Allcoat from Kinross for sending us her favourite slow cooker recipe for Pea and Ham Soup, what’s more, all of the ingredients cost less than £4!

This is one of my much used recipes, filling, warming and easy for any day especially if you’re getting in late from work or been out all day walking in the hills. Served with a big chunk of seeded wholemeal it makes a perfect meal that takes possibly minutes to prepare in the morning and is ready to eat when you get home. It also is almost better re-heated the next day so no waste at all!

Pea and Ham Soup

Ingredients

1x Ham Hock, soaked overnight in cold water (£1.99)

2x Potatoes peeled & cubed (30p)

1x Onion chopped finely(23p)

3x Carrots peeled & cubed (30p)

1x tbsp cumin seeds ( 20p)

3x Pints of water

1x tbsp of finely chopped parsley

2x Bay leaves

350g Yellow split peas, soaked overnight and rinsed (60p)

Pepper to season

Total cost of recipe = £3.62

Method

All you need to do is chop the onion, carrots, parsley & potatoes and pop in the slow cooker with the other ingredients and cook on low for between 8-10 hours ( or 4-6 on high if you’re up late or about all day!!). Just before serving, remove the ham hock and bay leaves and take the meat off the bone and return to the soup. I often finish with a sprinkle of fresh parsley to serve and to add fresh colour and serve with chunky artisan bread (or GF bread since the recipe is totally suitable for a gluten free/ wheat free diet).

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(Mostly) Yummy Mummy and the ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge’

By Chris Bennett | 25.02.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Recipes, £4 Slow Cooker Challenge

After recently reviewing our Flavour Savour, (Mostly) Yummy Mummy has had a go at our ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge’ and has cooked up a delicious recipe of slow cooked beef and haricot bean stew, check it out below and why not have a go for yourself:

As you know, I love my new Flavour Savour slow cooker and I was happy to take up the £4 Slow Cooker Challenge over at Morphy Richards Home of the House-Proud.

The rules are simple, come up with a slow cooker recipe for a main meal (the main component ) to feed a family of four. You can’t spend any more than £4 when creating it but you are allowed a number of ‘free ingredients’ that don’t have to come out of the £4 budget, including salt, pepper, herbs, stock, oil and water (obviously!)

So here is my entry for the challenge..

Slow cooked beef and haricot bean stew

Ingredients

440g casserole steak (£2.75)

1 large onion (12p)

3 carrots (34p)

410g tin haricot beans in water – drained (44p)

1 1/2 pints beef stock (approx)

2 tablespoons of wholegrain mustard (approx 20p)

flour seasoned with salt and pepper

Roughly dice the casserole steak and coat in flour seasoned with salt and pepper.

Now peel and chop the onion and carrots and drain the beans.

Add a glug of oil to the pan and seal the beef and then add the onion and carrot for a couple of minutes to soften.

Now add some of the beef stock, pop in the beans, then add more stock if needed to make sure the ingredients are all covered. Stir, now leave to slow cook on the lowest setting, for the longest time.

Once the stew is cooked, stir through the wholegrain mustard and serve with fresh crusty bread or mounds of mashed potatoes.

Delicious! It couldn’t be easier and it (just!) comes within the £4 budget!

If you would like to have a go at the £4 Slow Cooker Challenge, once you’ve cooked up your dish you can send in your recipe along with a picture so Morphy Richards can share it with visitors to ‘Home of the House Proud’ along with your photo here or e-mail it to morphychallenge@finncomms.com. You need to state the cost of each ingredient when you submit the recipe and best of all, from all of the entries, each month they will select an entrant at random to win £200 worth of Morphy Richards products!

Good luck!

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Flavour Savour Blogger Review – Feeding boys and a Firefighter

By Chris Bennett | 22.02.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Product Reviews, £4 Slow Cooker Challenge

At ‘Home of the House Proud’, we’ve just heard back from another one of our lovely mummy/food blogger friends who has been reviewing the Morphy Richards Flavour Savour over the course of the past month. Katie Bryson, who is responsible for the ‘Feeding Boys and a Firefighter’ blog has also tried her hand at the ‘£4 Slow Cooker Challenge’, read her review and check out Katie’s recipe below:

Adventures with a slow cooker

Bunging a load of ingredients in a casserole and then leaving it to transform itself into a one-pot wonder, is my kind of cooking. It’s not glamorous but it’s highly practical.

There are so many plus points:

You can do the preparation hours in advance avoiding that stressful witching hour just before serving up a family meal when everyone is going insane with hunger and you can’t get the dinner ready fast enough.

It’s an inexpensive affair. Cheaper cuts of meat like shin and shoulder work best cooked long and slow as it’s this type of cooking that breaks down the connective tissue and gives it that unctuous fork-tender falling-apart quality.

You can cook LOADS of the stuff and freeze down the leftovers for another meal.

So when Morphy Richards got in touch to ask if i’d like to try out their Flavour Savour slow cooker, I didn’t hesitate.

I was expecting a 70s throwback appliance – in my mind I had white enamel pot emblazoned with some kind of floral embellishing. Instead a sleek, shiny and pleasingly compact model arrived.

So it looked good, but how would it perform? I was hoping it would be simple to operate as I quickly lose my patience with gadgets that require a qualification in instruction manual deciphering.

Luckily, after a quick scan of the booklet I could see my luck was in. You can brown your meat on one setting and then choose to cook it on a short or long setting, and away you go. There are only two buttons to press!

Here’s a quick run-down of the Flavour Savour’s four settings:

Seal/Brown: Exactly as you’d imagine, this function operates at a fairly high heat so you can brown off your meat before you start the longer cook. People argue over whether it’s really necessary to seal your meat before cooking a casserole, for me having browned meat looks more attractive than pasty looking meat bobbing about in the sauce. Others say it helps retain flavour and moisture.

1:30 Stew: If you haven’t got hours to spare, this is a nifty feature that allows you to cook your meal in a shorter space of time.

Slow Cook: You can choose to cook your food between 4 and 10 hours.

Keep Warm Function: At the end of your cooking time this function automatically kicks in and keeps your meal warm for up to two hours. Really handy if you’re not ready to eat the minute it’s ready.

Storage wise it’s great. The heating element fits inside the cooking pot and the plug and cable neatly fit into the base. It takes up no more room than a large casserole dish.

Morphy Richards also set me a challenge – could I create a meal for a family of four in the Flavour Savour without spending any more than £4? Well I didn’t doubt that it could be done, but would it actually be delicious and appeal to the kids was more the issue!

I couldn’t wait to get it fired up, so I embarked first of all with a very simple sausage casserole as a test mission.

I browned the sausages in batches and softened the vegetables all on the Seal/Brown function and then added the rest of the ingredients and let it bubble gently away for the afternoon (four hours)

The resulting casserole was very tasty, looked incredibly appealing, but I found the sausages were too soft for my liking… back to the drawing board.

So next I decided to try a chicken-based supper, and this certainly could be entered for the £4 challenge that Morphy Richards set me.

I got hold of some bargain chicken legs and thighs for all of £2 and the rest of the ingredients were all stuff I already had in but don’t add up to more than £2.

The key to making a successful slow cooked meal is to make sure your cooking liquor is bursting with lots of flavours. So after browning off my chicken and softening the onion and garlic I let it bathe for six hours in chicken stock, white wine, lemon zest and dried thyme.

It’s absolutely NOT going to win any prizes for looks, but it tasted gorgeous.

The sauce was so damned good it virtually begged me to mop it up with a slice of bread and butter.

There was plenty of food for our family of four and enough leftovers to make two generous portions of soup which I just blitzed with the stick blender, cooled and whacked straight in the freezer.

Lazy lemon and thyme chicken
Serves 4, plus leftovers to make soup

600g chicken thighs/drumsticks, take skin off but leave bone in and season
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 leek, sliced
1 large carrot, sliced
200g new potatoes, halved
500ml chicken stock
500ml white wine, the cheapest you can find
zest of 1 lemon
2 tsp dried thyme
cornflour (optional)

1. Brown the meat in about 2tbsps oil and set aside, then soften the onions and garlic, then add carrot and leek and once soft put the meat back in.

2. Add the stock, wine, potatoes, lemon zest and thyme. Stir to combine and place the lid on the slowcooker and switch to slow cook for six hours.

Tip: If you feel the sauce is too runny you can use cornflour to thicken it. Mix a tablespoon of cornflour with a little water until you get a smooth liquid paste and then stir it through your casserole and continue cooking. I did this approx half way through the cooking process.

Leftovers: Blend to make a delicious soup for another day!

I’ve decided I’m going to keep hold of the Flavour Savour – it absolutely fits with my kitchen ethos for cooking on a budget with minimum effort for a family of hungry boys. There are some gadgets worth making room for. I imagine it’d also work really well in a student house, or if you’re living somewhere that doesn’t have great kitchen facilities.

I’m going to try cooking my lovely beef and dark ale stew in it this week and perhaps tweak the recipe a bit to add some different flavours.

Thanks to Morphy Richards and Home of the House Proud for sending me the Flavour Savour to review. I was not paid to write this blog post and the views expressed here are both honest and my own!

***Exclusive Reader Offer!!!***

If you feel moved to buy a 4.5 litre Flavour Savour the lovely people at Morphy Richards are offering Feeding Boys and a Firefighter fans an exclusive saving of 35% on the Flavour Savour when they quote the voucher code: FBB8435 at the checkout stage on the Morphy website` (expires on 31st March 2011).

Here’s a link to the original post on Feeding the boys and a Firefighter.

If you’re a blogger and would like to trial our Flavour Savour (or any of our other products), give us a shout, either as a comment or by using the contact form.

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Kashmiri Butter Chicken – Slow Cooker Recipe

By Chris Bennett | 18.02.2011 | Posted in Kitchen, Recipes

Today’s featured slow cooker recipe on ‘Home of the House Proud’ is for delicious Kashmiri Butter Chicken. This mild, delicately fragrant curry has a rich creamy sauce that is sure to please all your guests, no matter what their preferences. Serve it with plain boiled rice or warm naan bread. Check out the recipe below:

Kashmiri Butter Chicken

Serves: 4
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 5–7 hours
Cooking temperature: low
Slow cooker size: standard

Ingredients

2x Onions, quartered

3x Garlic cloves

4 cm (1½ inch) fresh root ginger, peeled

1x Large red chilli, halved, seeds discarded

8x Boneless, skinless chicken thighs

1x tablespoon sunflower oil

25 g (1 oz) butter

1x teaspoon cumin seeds, crushed

1x teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed

4x cardamom pods, crushed

1x teaspoon paprika

1x teaspoon ground turmeric

¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon

300 ml (1/2 pint) chicken stock

1x tablespoon light muscovado sugar

2x tablespoons tomato purée

5x tablespoons double cream

Salt

To garnish

2x tablespoons flaked almonds, toasted

Sprigs of coriander

Method

Blend the onions, garlic, ginger and chilli in a food processor or liquidizer or chop finely.
Cut each chicken thigh into 4 pieces. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and add the chicken, a few pieces at a time, until all the meat has been added. Cook over a high heat until evenly browned. Lift the chicken pieces out of the pan with a slotted spoon and transfer to a plate.
Add the butter to the frying pan and when it has melted add the onion paste. Cook over a more moderate heat until it is just beginning to colour. Stir in the crushed seeds, cardamom seeds and pods and ground spices. Cook for 1 minute, then mix in the stock, sugar, tomato purée and salt. Bring to the boil, stirring.
Transfer the chicken to the slow cooker pot, pour the onion mixture and sauce over the top and press the pieces of chicken below the surface of the liquid. Cover and cook on low for 5–7 hours.
Stir in the cream and serve garnished with toasted flaked almonds and sprigs of coriander.

If you’ve got a delicious recipe that you’d like us to feature on ‘Home of the House Proud’, we’d love to hear from you, please submit it here!

If you’re looking for a new slow cooker, why not check out the Morphy Richards Flavour Savour! Flavour Savour has 3 in 1 cooking functions, meaning you can seal, fast stew and slow cook in one product. The pan heats to around 200 degrees giving you the sealing functionality. After sealing, various foods including succulent chicken, tender beef and pork can be stew cooked taking approximately 11/2 hours. Alternatively you can slow cook your food allowing flavours to infuse for between 4 – 10 hours.