175 Essential Slow Cooker Classics [Spiral-bound]

Judith Finlayson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 9, 2006

A winning combination of best-selling recipes in a new concealed wiro-binding.

The success of Judith Finlayson's slow cooker cookbooks is spectacular. Since publication, sales have exceeded 400,000 copies. Thousands of home cooks now prepare these delicious and convenient recipes.

175 Essential Slow Cooker Classics includes 60 brand new recipes plus the best recipes from 150 Best Slow Cooker Recipes, Delicious & Dependable Slow Cooker Recipes and 125 Best Vegetarian Slow Cooker Recipes. The new wiro format with full-color photographs will make this book the ultimate slow cooker cookbook.

A sampling of recipes:

• Enticing soups like classic French onion soup, and minestrone with garlic-flavored crostini
• Hearty main dishes like beef noodle casserole with cheddar-crumb topping, and pork chops with onions in creamy mustard sauce
• Vegetarian delights like sweet potato barley risotto, and three-bean chili with bulgur
• Delightful desserts like maple orange pudding with coconut, and just peachy gingerbread upside-down cake.

These and other mouthwatering recipes ensure outstanding meals that can be prepared in advance with a minimum of effort. The wide range of recipes will satisfy anyone in the family for weekday meals and provide sensational ideas for entertaining guests.

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Editorial Reviews

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Many recipes that can be substantially prepared ahead and refrigerated... Cooks will appreciate the spiral-bound format. (Carol Anderson Escondido North County Times )

A perfect blend of tantalizing creations -- from every-day comfort foods to dishes that fit the bill for elegant entertaining. (Larry Cox Tuscon Citizen )

About the Author

Judith Finlayson is a food journalist and author with a lifelong love of cooking. The author of The Convenience Cook and 125 Best Rotisserie Oven Recipes, she lives in Toronto.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 320 pages
• Publisher: Robert Rose (October 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778801438
• ISBN-13: 978-0778801436
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 9.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Judith Finlayson is a food journalist and author. She began her career writing featured food articles and developing recipes for magazines. She is author of The Convenience Cook and 150 Best Slow Cooker Recipes. She lives in Toronto.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book!, January 28, 2007

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Silverstreak "Silverstreak" (Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 175 Essential Slow Cooker Classics (Spiral-bound)

175 Slow Cooker Classics by Judith Finlayson is a very good book for slow cooker users. It shows that the list of things you can make in your slow cooker is almost infinite. Using the recipes in this book you'll create meals that will soon become family favorites. Better still, producing such outstanding results requires a minimal amount of your attention.

In addition to producing great-tasting food, a slow cooker is an extremely effective time-management tool. Finlayson offers suggestions to maximize convenience and to get the most out of your slow cooker such as partially preparing a dish up to 2 days prior to cooking; do any additional chopping and slicing the night before you intend to cook to keep work to a minimum when it's less convenient; or cook a recipe overnight and refrigerate it until ready to serve.

You'll find recipes to satisfy everyone in your family in this book, for example: Minestrone with Garlic-Flavored Crostini, Easy Chicken Paprikash, Santa Fe Style Ribs, Risotto and Maple Orange Pudding with Coconut. All the recipes include make-ahead notes and tips.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, slow cooker meals that taste like real food, January 16, 2008

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This review is from: 175 Essential Slow Cooker Classics (Spiral-bound)

We previewed several slow-cooker cookbooks from the library before buying this one and another of Finlayson's. So far, every dish we have made had been delicious and tasted like real cooking.

Many other cookbooks feature food that is easier to prepare. And many others feature recipes that are harder to prepare and require more exotic ingredients.

Finlayson strikes a happy medium with easy-to-find ingredients that combine traditional preparation with the time and energy savings of a slow cooker. You can prepare elements of meals ahead of time and, if you plan several meals during one week, prep all the ingredients and store them until you are ready. Then, cook for a few minutes in the morning and come home to a hot -- and delicious -- dinner. What a relief.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent recipes; heavy on the prep. time., December 8, 2008

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This review is from: 175 Essential Slow Cooker Classics (Spiral-bound)

I got this book as a gift along with a new slow cooker. All of the recipes that I have tried turned out to be fantastic tasting, however most recipes require that you do a little pre-cooking the food before you put the ingredients in the slow cooker - kind of seems to defeat the purpose?? The first time I "pre-cooked" my veggies they turned out too mushy after the pre-cooking and then spending all day in the slow cooker. I decided to save time and ignore that step in all the recipes. So far it has not made a difference - everything I have tried has turned out perfectly cooked and tasty without all that. The only thing I have done is to brown the beef, like suggested in some recipes, but other than that I just throw all ingredients into slow cooker and let it do it's thing.