Home and Garden World » The Kitchen — Home and Garden World

Speckled Hen Collection from Emma Bridgewater

Home and Garden World — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:30:45 +0000

This is just a selection of a beautiful collection from Emma Bridgewater featuring hand sponged hens and pale blue spots.
Guaranteed to brighten up even the dullest morning.

Nigella Lawson Collection

Home and Garden World — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:00:47 +0000

These lovely measuring cups, salt and pepper piglets and mixing bowls are part of the Nigella Lawson collection at John Lewis. Combining beauty and practicality they will be a joy to display in your kitchen after they are used. Available in cream, pink or black they will easily fit into any kitchen colour scheme.

Nigella Lawson's Living Kitchen Living Kitchen Egg Cup - Cream
£7.49

Nigella Lawson's Living Kitchen Living Kitchen Milk Jug - Black
£6.99

Nigella Lawson's Living Kitchen Living Kitchen Milk Jug - Cream
£6.99

Nigella lawson bread bin
£65.00

Nigella Lawson Brushed Steel Mezzaluna
£12.50

Nigella Lawson Shopping List Red
£10.00

Nigella Lawson's Living Kitchen Living Kitchen Cake Stand - Black
£16.99

Nigella Lawson's Living Kitchen Living Kitchen Cake Stand - Cream
£16.99

Nigella Lawson Melamine Meas Spoons Red
£7.00

Slow Cooker Comeback?

Home and Garden World — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:54:49 +0000

Once touted as a ‘must have’ in the late seventies early eighties kitchen slow cookers have been making a comeback in recent years. Whether it is the recession busting energy saving or the desire for a home cooked meal after a long working day, modern slow cooker manufactures are doing their best to shrug off the “squat brown pot lurking in a forgotten corner of the kitchen” image. Kitchen Science have a range of modern slow cookers to suit every purse.

There is a plethora of websites out there with recipes for slow cooked delights promising to make a delicious meal out of the toughest, cheapest cuts of meat. Being a recent slow cooker convert myself I can attest to this and have found slow cooking a very forgiving cooking technique. There is no need for vigilance, skill or precision! The magic of putting all the ingredients in, putting the lid on and leaving it to do its thing for eight hours or so and then being rewarded with a delicious meal is wonderful. Cuts of meat which would have you chewing like a camel for 10 minutes with normal cooking techniques, are transformed into tender and melt in the mouth morsels.

Here's example of a simple recipe:

Cut braising steak into chunks, or buy the ready cut version. Toss the pieces in seasoned flour. Brown in a frying pan along with onion. While the meat is browning pop whatever vegetables you want into the pot, chopped carrots, parsnips, mushrooms, peas, small potato, in fact whatever you think will be tasty. Place the meat over the vegetables and then add stock to just below the level of the meat. Cover and leave for 8 hours on low setting and that’s it! So easy even I can do it and produce something delicious!

Crock Pot Slow Cooker SCV400W-IUK Slow Cooker, White
£19.55

Morphy Richards 3.5L Ecolectric Slow Cooker
£29.39

Compact Stainless Steel Slow Cooker
£19.95

Slow Cooker Thermometer
£8.99

Sainsbury's Slow Cooker Stainless Steel
£19.56

Maison essentials cream slow cooker
£20.00

Crock Pot 4.7 Litre Saute Slow Cooker BRAND NEW & BOXED - DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER - 1 YEAR WARRANTY
£52.33

Crock-Pot® 4.7 Litre Saute Slow Cooker
£39.99

MINI SLOW COOKER SC150
£14.99