Fix-It and Forget-It Lazy and Slow Cookbook: 365 Days of Slow Cooker Recipes

by Hope Comerford (Editor)

“What’s for dinner?” It’s the question every parent dreads. It’s a daunting challenge to put a meal on the table every evening—never mind one that’s healthy, economical, and that the whole family will enjoy. The Lazy and Slow Cookbook: 365 Days of Slow Cooker Recipes is the first in a new series of cookbooks for the lazy—or busy—cook in the household. For every week of the year, there’s a menu featuring seven dinners, along with a shopping list. As a bonus, QR codes allow cooks to load the list directly to their smart phones. The first recipe for the week is a slow cooker meal that’s large enough to yield leftovers that can be incorporated into the recipes for the next 2–3 dinners.

Enjoy a roast chicken (made in the slow cooker) on Sunday evening, individual chicken pot pies on Monday, and chicken and vegetable soup on Tuesday! Suggestions for side dishes are also included, as well as special menus for the holidays, birthdays, and other celebrations. You’ll also find slow cooker desserts, such as mango-coconut pudding and chocolate-almond bar cookies.

Having dinner with the family has never been easier! There’s no reason to spend hours in the kitchen when you can let your slow cooker do most of the work for you. And there’s no reason to spend your weekend planning menus when author Abigail Gehring has done it for you!

Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food, Reference

456 pages, Paperback

Published January 3, 2017

About the author

I'm a wife and a mother to a beautiful 7 year old and active 4 year old . I love to cook, but as crazy busy as my life is, the slow cooker is my life-saver! My passion for developing recipes started at a young age when my grandma taught me and my cousins to cook. During my college years, I began to experiment on my own and as I entered the work force, my creativity really developed. My second cookbook, The Gluten-Free Slow Cooker will be released on Oct. 1, but it available for presale wherever books are sold now. My first cookbook, Slow Cooker Recipes 10 Ingredients or Less and Gluten-Free is available for sale online. In addition to writing cookbooks, I teach Elementary Music, I'm a Young Living Essential Oils Educator and a blogger. Am I crazy busy...or just crazy? Yes, but I love living my life the way I'm living it!

Reviews

[Meg McGregor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has 365 recipes for the slow cooker! I found 15, that I thought my husband and I, would enjoy!

I gave the book five stars because it contained beautiful photographs!

I really liked that she included a shopping list for each week! What a time saver!

There is a recipe for every day of the year! This surely benefits home cooks, either beginners, (like me) or cooks who can prepare very advanced meals!

My favorite recipe was for Low-Fat Glazed Chicken! (MMMM!) I have included the recipe below.

INGREDIENTS:
6-oz. can frozen, concentrated orange juice, thawed
1/2 tsp. dried marjoram
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
8 skinless chicken breast halves
1/4 cup water
2 tbsp. cornstarch

PREPARATION:
1. Mix orange juice concentrate, with marjoram, nutmeg, and garlic powder.
2. Dip chicken breasts in sauce. Place in slow cooker.
3. Pour remaining orange juice mixture over chicken.
4. Cover and cook on LOW 6 hours, or on high 3-4 hours.
5. Remove chicken from slow cooker and keep warm on a platter.
6. Pour remaining liquid in a saucepan.
7. Mix the cornstarch in water, and pour into saucepan. Cook until thickened, stirring continually.
8. Pour sauce over the chicken.

[Bree · Rating 2 out of 5]

Notes:
packaged flavor mixes and canned soups dominate

[Cosette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book - contains recipes that my kids will eat made with ingredients I already have. An added bonus: some instructions include precook prep. I totally skipped that jazz and still ended up with edible meals. Prep-free! Yay!

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars. Pages n Pictures are very Good. Bonus part of this cookbook is the Shopping List Page for each week. The cookbook is divided into sections for all the seasons. I really enjoyed it n marked recipes to add to my Recipe Binder.

[Ericka · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nope. World of nope. NOPE ROCKET TO THE MOON!

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one made me look forward to fall time / crockpot season! There were a few yummy and clean recipes I want to try.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I usually browse the cookbooks, skimming and hoping that maybe, just maybe there will be a recipe worth wanting to try. Well, I checked this book out not just once, but twice. I am even thinking of buying it too! There were quite a few recipes that I saw that would work for my family, and I loved the break down of what was needed at the store for the week.
It is definitely a cookbook that I would highly recommend!!

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I check out cookbooks from the library all the time and I don't usually like any of them. Most of the time there are off-the-wall recipes with unusual ingredients. But this book is set up to show each season with weekly recipes. It also has the shopping list of items needed for the week. This is a cookbook that I will have to buy so I can try the recipes and they look like great recipes.

[Kristal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really loved book. There are so many great ideas. I also love the layout. Its broken down first into seasons and then into weeks. But what I loved most was all the recipes of what to do with the leftovers. I struggle sometimes with what to do with leftovers to make them as interesting as the first time. The only real issue I had was there aren't enough pictures of the final dishes.

[Monica Willyard Moen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This cookbook is full of easy and delicious recipes that my family would actually eat. Lots of cookbooks say they have recipes for easy days, but they contain things my family won't eat. I have made several of the recipes and I'm very happy with the results.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good slow cooker cookbook for the regular cook. Good if you just started using a crockpot. Might have to give a couple a try.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found some interesting recipes to copy from here, but also some recipes that I thought were too difficult to even attempt. Still, this provides a little something for everyone.

[Tess]

Plans out recipes for the week and gives a grocery list breakdown for the week. I found that each week there were recipes that I did not want and it became difficult to separate them out.

[Kristy Lieberman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good recipes, but is really for the weekly menu planner which I'm not.