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Summary: Perfect for young families!
Review: I received this as a gift and I am really loving it! Great layout, super recipes! Usually, I hate reading cookbooks because most are dull and uninspiring. But I found the layout of this cookbook to be so clean and open, making it easy to find recipes - not wasting 30 minutes of my life searching for the perfect meal! The recipes are easy, filled with variety and taste superbly! As a new mommy, I find this perfect for my family! I think it's a great cookbook for young people or families just starting out. The next housewarming or bridal shower I go to, this will probably be my gift of choice! Wonderful! :)
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Summary: Good if you like processed foods, I guess.
Review: I recently bought this because I was looking for slow cooker recipes and the reviews for this book seemed very favorable. Our family has disliked 4 out of 4 recipes we've tried so far. They all tast very 'processed', almost canned or from a jar. We usually cook all our meals from scratch (not fancy or anything though), so if you're used to frozen meals or canned or pre-processed foods, maybe you'd like it more. All three of my kids had trouble getting through the dinners, for what it's worth.
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Summary: More than pot roast & chili!
Review: I think that whether a person likes this book will depend some on his/her expectations when beginning to use it, and upon his/her experience w/ other cookbooks for slow-cookers.
I checked this book out of the library a couple of weeks ago. I own a couple of slow cooker books that I don't like much, and wanted to 'try before I buy'. I agree with other reviewers' comments that most slow-cooker cookbooks are a little heavy on pot roast and chili. While both are represented in this book, too, I was pleasantly surprised to see that recipes for 'sides' and grain dishes are *far* more numerous than in the other slow cooker books I've seen (=a lot). I was also expecting to see far more prepared foods on the ingredient lists than there turned out to be. (The number is greater than '0' and far less than 'all'. I use 0.) I made a recipe for pork shoulder with cider vinegar, sour cream, onions and mushrooms. I thought it was excellent; and it was a combination that I absolutely would not have invented on my own, even though in retrospect it seems like a no-brainer.
I renewed the book once from the library -- and have not seen it on the shelf since I returned it. Since I'd have to wait weeks to check it out again, I am just going to buy a copy in order to try the other recipes. It's not expensive, so it will be easily worth the price to have such an extensive book as a source for new ideas -- and after that pork shoulder recipe I have high hopes for the quality of a significant number of the other recipes I read through while I had it. I'm definitely *not* a good enough cook that I can toss together a bunch of random food, cook it for like 12 hours, and be able to count on an edible result. Based on my experience with it thus far, I'll be glad of the help offered by this book.
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Summary: Been Using this book quite a bit
Review: I use this book quite a bit and have enjoyed the recipies. I particularly like the veggie-friendly stew types of dishes and have made several of them. They work well even with the old slow cooker (it's avocado green if that's a clue to it's age :-)) that I have.
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Summary: A book for beginners
Review: I was so disappointed when I recieved this book after reading all the great reviews. The names of thes dishes are the best part. Please don't be fooled like me. The majority of recipes in this book are extremely old fashioned, so many of these recipes call for sour cream, cream cheese, processed cheese, half and half etc, and are so incredibly basic. I feel that this book is really more for the person who has just received a crockpot and doesn't know that you can add a "cream of" soup with some water to your chicken and slow cook it all day and have dinner. A lot of these recipes called for cream of mushroom, cream of celery, cream of chicken, etc. as well as a few recipes where you added catsup (for what? to make it red? it seems so 70's) I was looking for something more inventive, not a bunch of different spins on pot roast, and in my opinion, completely bland looking, homogenized versions of "Teriyaki", "curry" (?? adding curry powder doesn't make it curry!) and various "italian" dishes. Anyone can throw tomato sauce, green beans & chicken in their slow cooker but A) That doesn't make it "italian" and B) who wants to eat that? I barely glanced at the bonus section of one dish meals, but I too was mystified by the addition of those. The few one-dish recipes that I did glance over were completely basic and obvious too. I know there has to be a better slow cooker book out there, now i just have to return this one and go find it!
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Summary: Gourmet Crockery- WITH nutrition info!!
Review: Most slow-cooker books offer recipes for food you would find in a diner. Chilis and stews abound. This book is different. It's for the busy gourmet, and it's for the person who likes to cook up a big pot of something yummy on Sunday and then heat up portions for lunches and dinner during the week. Yesterday I made the Indian Curry Soup, and today for lunch I heated up a delicious, spicy soup filled with garbanzo beans, red potatoes, tomatoes, and tantalizing spices. The best part about this book is that it includes key nutrition info- fat, fiber, and calories... it's all there! Weight Watchers will love it, because calculating the point value of each dish is a snap. In short, a must-have for the career person who wants a home-cooked meal. My crock pot had been left abandoned in a cabinet, but now it's back on the counter!
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: The recipes in this book were just ok. I wanted a book on slow cooking and there are several chapters on cooking without the slow cooker. I have better recipes for things like that. I guess I will continue my search for a good slow cooker cookbook.
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Summary: DELECTIBLE SLOW-COOKED RECIPES
Review: There's just nothing like meat that's been slow-cooked for several hours until it's melt-in-your-mouth-tender. BH&G slow cooking book provides 416 pages of great recipes and slow-cooking tips to make some of the most mouth-watering dishes ever! A real favorite is the section on one-dish dinners that are so simple to make with five ingredients and yet so incredibly delicious.
Wonderful Soups, stews, roasts, ribs, even more exotic ethnic dishes can be found within the pages of this great book. You'll even find recipes for desserts, dips ,etc. Over 400 recipes in all.
Slow-cooking is not for everyone..it takes some ambition and some planning to prepare your ingredients and then let it "go" byt iteself for as long as 12 hours, but I guarantee you will love the results. My only complaint is not pictures in the book. That is one of my pet peeves about any cookbook.
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Summary: YUM!
Review: This book is awesome! I was looking for a crockpot book with a variety of recipes...but none too bizarre that called for a lot of crazy ingredients and required a lot of prep time...I mean let's face it--do you want to have to cook in a saucepan first? That is why you are using a crockpot--to avoid that! This book tells you to "throw" stuff straight into the pot--lowering prep time! This book is easy to use AND has nutritional values included which is definitely a PLUS! The only thing that I can say that I thought was strange about this book is the section that calls for 5 ingredient recipes...none of these use the crockpot!?! Other than that, I would DEFINITELY recommend this book! In fact, I used it tonight! =o)
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Summary: Tons of yummies!
Review: This book is the best slow-cooker cookbook I've come across yet! It doesn't have pictures (aww!) but otherwise the recipes are delicious, easy to make, and easy to follow. They also include nutritional values (yay!) so it's easy for those of us on Weight Watchers to plan out our points!
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