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Books : 101 Things to Do with a Slow Cooker |
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Books : 101 Things to Do with a Slow Cooker |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5884 EAN: 9781586853174 ISBN: 1586853171 Label: Gibbs Smith Manufacturer: Gibbs Smith Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: August 08, 2003 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Sales Rank: 40575 Studio: Gibbs Smith Editorial Review: 101 Things to Do with a Slow Cooker! Call it a slow cooker, a crockery cooker, or your best friend, the popularity of these handy machines has exploded recently, and 'Mrs. 101' Stephanie Ashcraft has stepped up to the plate (or bowl, or serving tray) with an amazing collection of timesaving recipes. From South of the Border Pot Roast to Hearty Vegetable Soup to Cherries Jubilee, now anyone can make hearty, healthy dishes for the whole family the 'throw-n-go' way-simply throw several ingredients into the slow cooker, get on with life, and come home to a kitchen filled with the aroma of real home cooking. 101 recipes for main courses, side dishes, desserts, and more are included, along with suggestions for how and what to serve with each dish, time-saving meal preparation tips, and easy modifications to fit your families tastes. Stephanie Ashcraft, New York Times best selling author of 101 Things to Do With a Cake Mix, is a full-time mom who has created and collected recipes for years. She also teaches a monthly cooking class for Macey's Little Cooking Theater. Janet Eyring's interest in learning how to cook healthy, inexpensive meals without living in the kitchen inspired her to write a cookbook that relied on the ease of the slow cooker. She also teaches cooking classes at Macey's Little Cooking Theater. Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Crock Pot PrimerFirst, "slow cooker" is the generic term for a Crock Pot®, as "photocopier" is the generic term for a Xerox® machine. Second, this is a great book to cut your teeth on if you want to sink your teeth into slow cooking. I found an old one in my house--the landlord ended up with it in the divorce--so I began experimenting. My meals came out so-so, and I was glad I got this and 101 More Things to do with a Slow Cooker as Christmas presents. If this sounds roughly familiar, then buy this book. As others have noted, the recipes are "dump and go." But that is the fun of a crock pot. You get great tasting meals with few ingredients, the only drawback being foresight and planning. Come on! We use the microwave way too much. The slow cooker reminds us of what cooking was like when we were kids. This is a beginner's book, so ignore the complaints about the recipes not being up to Wolfgang Puck's standards. Even Shakespeare had to start with "goo-goo." Right now that's my level . And I love that recipes have about five or six ingredients--some even fewer--with the soups being a bit more complex. Most of the dishes run under $5.00. There is even a dessert section, with a recipe for a triple chocolate devil cake. I tried it, and yes, you can cook a cake in a crock pot. They suggest that you leave it in 6 hours, but I found that 4 hours was fine for me. I can't wait to try the pineapple upside-down cake. I appreciated the Helpful Hints on pp. 9-10, and would have liked a nice conversion table--ounces to cups, cups to liters, etc. The cover is slick and it has a spiral binding like a college notebook, so it is built to withstand their rigors and messes of kitchen work. Rating:  - Good for BeginnersThis is a good little book to keep on your shelf if you're just getting into crock-pot cooking. The book is divided into categories: recipes with beef, recipes with chicken, soups, recipes with pork, etc. The recipes are VERY easy and fast prep. which I really like. However, with that being said, we tired of the recipes quickly. A lot of the recipes are repeated throughout the book: for example, several of the recipes use the same ingredients, you just replace the chicken with beef. And because of the simplicity of the recipes, most of them are very plain in flavor. But if you have some imagination you can add your favorite ingredients and do your own variations. As I said before, a great little book for starters. But if you plan on using your crock pot more than once a week, you'll tire of these recipes quickly. Rating:  - I so wanted to love this book...I wanted to love this book because I needed it to be every bit as good as I imagined it to be. It's not. What is it? It's heavy on the salt, preservatives and other ingredients that abound in pre-packaged mixes and bottled sauces/dressings that you should avoid, anyway. To my way of thinking, a slow cooker is for the preparation of healthy meals that you can toss together and find finished when you get home from work instead of using a feast of chemicals found in those boxes and bottles. So, when a recipe tells me to use an entire bottle of Teriaki sauce -- yes, an entire bottle -- then I have to say, NO WAY! This is just wrong. You might as well buy one of those awful frozen dinners from the supermarket and be done with it. I don't like to rain on any author's parade, but couldn't there be 101 recipes that include meat, fresh or frozen veggies, seasonings, wine, tomato paste, broth, etc. used creatively to make a quick and healthy meal? I hate to harp on the same thing, but my doctor would have a stroke FOR me if he heard I dumped an entire bottle of Teriaki into a slow cooker and served it up. It tastes awful and is awful for you. I am hoping for a revised edition of this book using more fresh ingredients without the chemicals and loads of salt. I'll have to do without using this book for anything I might eat. Not really recommended. Rating: - You might like some of itI tried two recipes - one good (easy taco soup p.43) and one too horrid to eat (chicken teriyaki p.87). The teriyaki recipe calls for an ENTIRE BOTTLE of teriyaki sauce. The result was disgusting and nasty. Many of the recipes are retarded in their cooking requirements. For example, you need to add soem ingredients in the last hour of cook time in a five hour meal. I did not buy a slow cooker so that I could babysit my food for half a day ... and many recipes have less than an 8-hour cook time, so forget leaving the cooker on and coming home from work to a fresh hot meal. There are a mix of recipes for different size cookers ... for the chef that keeps two of these things sitting around. Yeaaah. Keep your eyes open and some of the recipes are edible.
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