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Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
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Product Description
The slow cooker is perfect for today's lifestyle, in which everyone is time- and energy-conscious, economy-wise, concerned about nutrition, and demanding of great flavor. This book offers a way of traditional cooking that's new and fresh.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #5143 in Books
- Brand: Harold Imports
- Published on: 2005-01-25
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
According to the authors, 80% of American households own a slow cooker. This whopping collection of 350 recipes is reason enough to unearth that Crock-Pot from the attic or invest in one of the new high-tech models. The title, however, is a misnomer, and not just because the book includes a recipe for "Mom's Beef Stew." Much of what Hensperger (The Bread Bible) and Kaufmann (coauthor, with Hensperger, of The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook) present is exactly the kind of comfort food typically associated with childhood snow days or family gatherings. To use the word "hearty" in describing these recipes is to state the obvious. There are more than a dozen oatmeals and porridges, ranging from Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal to Creamy Cornmeal Porridge. Soups include Vegetarian Split Pea, French Onion, and White Bean with Bacon. Twenty-four types of baked beans are mere prelude for the 14 chili options, including "Senator Barry Goldwater's Arizona Chili" (which gives new meaning to the phrase "bowl of red"). Other recipes are for poultry, meat and fish dishes, and New and Old World dishes are plentiful. The only letdown is the "Not-from-the-Slow Cooker Accompaniments" chapter, with its uninspired choices like Baked Rice, and Mixed Green Salad. But the concluding pages, full of puddings and fruit desserts, atone with sinful treats like Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cake and Rum-Butterscotch Bananas. (Jan.)
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Library Bookwatch
A treasure trove exploring all the potential available in a slow cooker pot.
San Francisco Chronicle
A wide range of sound recipes and advice for every meal . . . A comprehensive and multicultural guide back to slow food.
Customer Reviews
A Little Disappointed
My husband and I agree this book is lacking in the recipe department. There are lots of good tips, but not enough "normal" cooking recipes to rate it above average. How about a plain ol' pork sholder? Nope.
Good as a resource but you'll grow beyond it quickly
I like cookbooks that explain how to do the basics well, how to make the most of leftovers and how to substitute ingredients when my cupboard is bare.
More often than not, these cookbooks inject a bunch of specialty ingredients I wouldn't normally stock or couldn't find at a local supermarket if my life depended on it.
This book is a fair resource for beginners. Consider it a starting point. You'll develop your own stable of recipes and probably ignore the other 80% of the recipes in this book. That doesn't mean this isn't worth purchasing though, especially if you haven't used a slow cooker before.
Good Recipes and Tips
I bought this cookbook after checking it out briefly from the library mostly because it had a lot of recipes, none of which involved using cream of whatever soup, whole bottles of salad dressing, or onion soup mix. I was looking for healthy recipes that I could make in my slow cooker and I was having trouble finding good recipes that use what I consider 'real' ingredients. I have tried several recipes and they have been very good and very healthy. I look forward to trying many more. There is some prep involved with many of the recipes which I am willing to live with since I insist on using fresh ingredients. I usually chop everything I can the night before and it takes me no more than 10-15 minutes in the morning to put it all together. I do use a programmable slow cooker since I am often away for longer than the food needs to cook. It cooks for however long I tell it to and then automatically switches to a warming mode. For me, this has drastically changed the quality of the food that I get (no more overcooked, dry or mushy food). Basically, if you want a slow cooker cookbook using non-processed, healthy ingredients with a wide variety of tasty recipes and you don't mind a little bit of prep work, this is the book for you. If you want a cookbook for 'dump some junk in a slow cooker in less than five minutes' recipes, this is probably not the book for you.
