Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever, by Diane Phillips, is an enormous collection of recipes for cooking in a crock pot. With over 400 easy recipes, there is something in this cookbook for every family. Crockpot, slow cooker, however this appliance is referred to, it makes cooking a breeze, especially for busy people. Now, finding the best slow cooker recipes is just as easy.
Why Use a Slow Cooker?
Anyone who works will appreciate the ability to assemble a meal in advance, turn on the slow cooker and know that dinner is ready later in the day. It is safe to leave the house while cooking, which is something that can't be said for stove or oven cooking. Inexpensive tough cuts of meat can be made tender in a crock pot, and side dishes can be kept warm for long periods without being overcooked. Crockpots are very useful appliances for all sorts of lifestyles.
The Slow Cooker Recipes
With such a large recipe collection, a slow cooker version of just about every type of food can be found in Slow Cooker. Chapters are categorized as follows:
- Soup & Chili
- Casseroles
- Chicken & Turkey
- Seafood
- Beef
- Pork
- Lamb
- Side Dishes
- Vegetables & Vegetarian
- Sauces
- Desserts
- Drinks & Party Fare
Summary
Slow Cooker is a large collection of crock pot recipes that are reliably good. Although the table of contents has cutesy chapter titles, which can be slightly annoying in a reference book, the content is high quality, and the beginning of each chapter has a breakdown of the recipes to follow which is very helpful. Beef, for example, is organized by round, sirloin, brisket, ground, flank, short ribs, veal and veal stews, making it easy to find a recipe for exactly is on hand. A very useful slow cooker cookbook.
Title: Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever
Author: Diane Phillips
Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2009, 543 pgs, $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8118-6657-6
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Recipe Excerpt:
Old-Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients:
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 4 medium Yukon gold potatoes, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- 2 cups baby carrots
- 4 cups cooked chicken, cut into bite-size pieces or shredded
- 1 1/2 cups frozen petite peas, defrosted
- 1 cup frozen white corn, defrosted
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Directions:
- Pour the broth in the insert of a 5-to-7 quart slow cooker. Add the thyme, potatoes, and carrots, and stir to combine. Cover and cook on high for 3 to 4 hours, until the potatoes are tender.
- Add the chicken, peas and corn and stir to combine. In a small bowl, stir the butter and flour and make a paste. Add the paste to the slow cooker and stir to combine. Cover and cook for an additional 45 minutes to 1 hour, until the sauce is thickened.
- Serve from the cooker set on warm.
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