Morphy Richards Slow Cooker

I recently started a new job which has longer hours so by the time I got home i was starving and the last thing i wanted to do was spend ages cooking. After living off ready meals for a while my mum suggested I got a slow cooker. I saw this one in argos on sale for £14 so i thought why not! I admit the first time i used it it didnt really work very well but that was my fault! I added cold liquid to it as i was running late when you are supposed to heat it up first. I also didn't quickly brown the meat or heat it all in a pan first, as i thought that kind of defeated the point of why i bought the thing in the first place! All this meant when i got home it wasnt ...

I have recently been trying to make more food from scatch and making a steak pie which ended up having quite tough meat made me realise I needed to invest in a slow cooker. So off I went to Argos, where I found the Morphy Richards Accents Black slow cooker on offer from its normal price of £29.99 at £19.99 so I happily bought it. This slow cooker has a capacity of 3.5 litres. This is perfectly adequate for one dish which could easily feed 4-6 people but there are larger slow cookers out there for larger families or for those of you who like to cook in bulk. My daughter and myself love steak pie and I was determined to make the filling ...

How many times have I heard someone say to me, "How do you do your cooking?" My normal response is if it can possibly be done in a slow cooker, than do it! I enjoy cooking and coming up with new recipes but sometimes I just want to sit and relax. Let someone (or something) do the work for me! When I was first married, one of our wedding gifts was a slow cooker. I looked at it and wondered what I would do with a slow cooker! It sat on my shelf for a couple of years until I broke it during a move so had to throw it out! A couple of years later, a friend had one and I saw how easy it was to use so we went out and bought one. From then on, we have ...