The Complete Slow Cooker Cookbook: Essential Recipes for Hearty and Delicious Crockery Meals, Menus, and More

by Wendy Louise

REDISCOVER THE JOYS OF FAMILY DINNERS AND TOGETHERNESS

Slow cookers are for more than soups and stews. Slow cooking is bringing thousands of families back to the dinner table for hearty, homey dinners that are delicious, nutritious, and easy to prepare.

The Complete Slow Cooker Cookbook is filled with more than 200 slow cooker favorites the entire family will love, with easy recipes for:

APPETIZERS BEVERAGES SIDE DISHES SOUPS STEWS MAIN COURSES HOLIDAY FOODS DESSERTS GARNISHES

Author and crockery connoisseur Wendy Louise also shows you how to revive recipes long buried in your recipe box and bring back memories of Grandma's cooking, with instructions for converting heirloom "from scratch" recipes into delicious slow cooker creations of your own.

Families love coming home to the aromas of these hearty, slow cooked meals that are a breeze to prepare with no mess and no stress. For experiences cooks and newcomers alike, The Complete Slow Cooker Cookbook is the perfect guide to the delicious world of family style, slow cooked crockery meals.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

"If you truly want to use your slow cooker regularly in your meal preparation, I feel this book would be an excellent choice for you. Enjoy it! I am."

"Quick to read, easy to make, great to eat. Now you can make more than just pot roast and potatoes."

"A surprising collection of recipes that will please anyone looking for new ways to use their slow cooker for some delicious meals."

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2008

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good but not great cookbook. There are a lot of simple recipes, but none that were really all that exciting. The recipes seem mostly submitted by non-professional cooks, which means most are pretty simple. However, the downside is that many of the recipes use lots of prepared or packaged ingredients, and I have an irrational prejudice against those in recipes.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This cookbook was okay, but there were no pictures. There were also several recipes that weren't for the crock pot. I might try the chicken & stuffing recipe, but many of the recipes called for soup mix packets and cans of soup and seem like they'd be loaded with sodium. There's no nutritional information.

[Jules · Rating 2 out of 5]

The majority of the recipes in here are the generic "dump a can of tomatos/cream of x on top of some meat, cook" crockpot recipes that you don't really need a cookbook to tell you about. The few that don't follow that format... Aren't slow cooker recipes. Disappointing, but the few non slowcooker recipes look OK and there's a couple recipes that are a little redeeming.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent crockpot cookbook that offers many of the standard recipes, as well as some fancy dishes and variations on non-crockpot favorites. I think that far too many of the recipes call for the all-too common cream-of-something soup as well as onion soup mix or italian dressing mix, but I liked that the book has a solid number of go-to recipes and doesn't try to be too fancy. Overall, it's a solid reference for everyday slow cooker dishes.

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Down to earth recipes, or at least not that fancy. I like that. Though I won't try but a few recipes in here, it certainly gave me ideas. I had never thought to put so many types of recipes in a slow cooker.