Synopses & Reviews
You probably own a slow cooker 80 percent of American households do. For more than thirty years, its unbeatable convenience and practicality have made it a staple of busy families, enabling anyone to return to a home-cooked meal at the end of a hectic day. Many slow cooker recipes, however, have relied on less-than-healthy convenience products.
Now, Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann's Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook takes a completely fresh look at cooking with this popular appliance. This comprehensive collection of 350 recipes combines the ease of slow cooking with the fresh, wholesome ingredients and exciting flavors of today's kitchen.
For days when there's just no time for prep, there's Orange and Honey Chicken Drumsticks or Country Ribs with Onions, Apples, and Sauerkraut. For (slightly!) less hectic days there's Tangy Tomato Brisket or Lentil and Red Pepper Soup. Stay out of the kitchen when guests arrive with Duck Breasts with Port Wine Sauce or wake up to breakfast with Hot Apple Granola Oatmeal. Hensperger and Kaufmann offer dishes for every time frame, without compromising on taste, quality, or variety. And Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbookshowcases the best of home cooking while taking advantage of a global melting pot of flavors so cooks can serve Chicken and Shrimp Jambalaya one day and Japanese Beef Curry Rice another. All the classic slow cooker recipes are here, plus many more adventuresome and innovative dishes. There is also practical information on the different types of slow cookers, their latest accessories, and what sizes are best for what purposes.
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"Hensperger and Kaufmann provide lots of tips and ideas for getting the most out of another of their favorite kitchen appliances." Library Journal
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"[G]ives slow cooking a hip new twist." Slow Cooking (Women's Day special publication)
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"One of the best...a compilation of recipes that is thoroughly modern, covering a wide flavor spectrum." Times Union, Albany, NY
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"From meatloaf to soups to desserts, this book might make your oven a storage space...The perfect companion to a Crock-Pot." Boston Herald
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300 tasty slow cooker recipes focusing on fresh ingredients and flavors. 50,000 first printing.
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The slow cooker is perfect for today's lifestyle, in which everyone is time- and energy-conscious, economy-wise, concerned about nutrition, and demanding of great flavor. This book offers a way of traditional cooking that's new and fresh.
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Not Your Mother's guide to 350 recipes for getting the most out of today's slow cooker.
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New slow cooker recipes from the wildly popular Crockpot365.blogspot.com and New York Times best-selling author Stephanie Oand#8217;Dea
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Slow cooker fans love their devices becauseand#160;they are easyand#160;to use andand#160;allowand#160;home cooksand#160;to buy affordable cuts of meatand#160;thatand#160;become fall-off-the-bone tender. The challenge is finding well-tested recipes, and thatand#8217;s where best-selling author Stephanie Oand#8217;Dea comes in, with her wildly popular website (crockpot365.blogspot.com)and#160;that attracts more than a million visitors a month. In addition, Oand#8217;Dea has made numerous nationaland#160;morning show appearances, including on Good Morning America.and#160;Fans have beenand#160;clamoring for a new cookbook, and this one ties directly to her website with 365 recipes. Every recipe is written with gluten-free options, so there is a large secondary audience for this book. Full-color photography will further entice slow cooker enthusiasts, making this a must-have collection.
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Mediterranean cooking using the slow cooker, with 125 recipes
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With the combination of tradition, innovation, and ease that have made her recipes so popular, Michele Scicolone gathers intriguing dishes from every corner of the Mediterranean and streamlines them for the slow cooker. The range is eye-opening:and#160;from simplified and freshened classics like Greek shrimp with tomatoes and feta, to Israeli sweet and sour meatballs, to Moroccan vegetable tagine, to coffee-caramel flan from Spain. But Scicolone also serves up a profusion of fascinatingand#160;lesser-known dishes: a creamy polenta lasagna, a port-braised chicken from Portugal, a spiced frittata from Tunisia, and Bandit's Lamb, as well as her own seductive creations, like Cannoli Cheesecake.
About the Author
Julie Kaufmann, a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has lived in California since 1979. She is an editor of the food section of the San José Mercury News. Before becoming a food editor, she wrote “Kids in the Kitchen,” a twice-monthly food column for kids, also for the San José Mercury News. She previously worked on West, which was the Sunday magazine for the San José Mercury News, and spent a decade on the paper's business section. In addition to her work at the San José Mercury News, Kaufmann has taught editing in the Communications Department at Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara, California. Until recently she co-wrote a monthly mystery novel review with her husband for the San José Mercury News. She is an avid home cook who has coauthored several books with Beth Hensperger. Kaufmann lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and two children. Web: NotYourMothersCookbooks.com; Facebook presence.
Table of Contents
Introductionand#160;1
Choosing a Slow Cookerand#160;5
Techniques and Tipsand#160;7
Slow Cooker Safetyand#160;9
The Mediterranean Pantryand#160;11
SOUPSand#160;19
EGGSand#160;37
SEAFOODand#160;77
POULTRYand#160;91
BEEF AND VEALand#160;121
PORK AND LAMBand#160;145and#160;and#160;and#160;
GRAINS AND BEANSand#160;177
DESSERTSand#160;201
Indexand#160;and#160;and#160;237