America's Best Slow Cooker Recipes [Paperback]

Donna-Marie Pye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 7, 2000

Imagine coming home from a long, tiring work day only to find a delicious aromatic stew waiting for you. Or enjoying a day on the slopes and arriving to find mulled red wine already prepared and simply waiting to be poured and savored. By using a timesaving slow cooker, you can have a hot meal or warm drink ready and waiting when you are, without any fuss.

In the last five years, slow cookers have enjoyed a huge increase in popularity. By simmering food at a constant low temperature, slow cookers create food that enjoys a flavor and texture not normally found in stovetop or oven cooking. Ingredients need only be prepared in advance, then tossed into a slow cooker and the results are an easily prepared but satisfying meal.

America's Best Slow Cooker Recipes features over 125 newly developed and tested recipes. Banish the winter blahs by making 'Beef Goulash Soup with Red Wine' or 'Comfy Maple Baked Beans.' Busy families will enjoy the 'Chicken and Broccoli Casserole' or 'All Day Mac & Cheese.' When entertaining dazzle your guests with a 'Hot Crab, Artichoke & Jalapeno Dip' followed by a tantalizing 'Pork Roast with Peach Chutney.' Sensational recipes for desserts such as 'Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cake' and 'Caramel Peaches' can also be created in a slow cooker. These are recipes for today's tastes and today's homes.

As well as including fabulous recipes, America's Best Slow Cooker Recipes contains useful information on the type of slow cookers available, food safety, tips for success, adapting favorite recipes, and leftover hints. Recipes for accompanying delicious side dishes are also included.

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About the Author

Donna-Marie Pye has spent many years as a home economist and professional recipe developer. She currently freelances and has two young children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Robert Rose (October 7, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778800229
• ISBN-13: 978-0778800224
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #912,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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67 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Crockpot Cookbook, September 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: America's Best Slow Cooker Recipes (Paperback)

I have been using a crock pot for years -- but this is the first crockpot cookbook that I have come across that has such simple recipes and instructions, and very helpful hints. Everything I have made so far is wonderful, and I love being able to prepare the recipes the night before. I started with the "Comforting Shredded Beef" (without the brandy and with red cooking wine)which was a real winner with my family, especially with my oldest son who is an extremely picky eater (he can't wait for me to make it again). I just can't get over that something with so few ingredients could taste so good. I served it on toasted sausage rolls with melted motzeralla cheese. I never had a chance to try the Philly Beef Wraps because my (picky) son kept eating the leftovers every day after school as a snack. Next I tried the "Chicken Stew with Rosemary Dumplings." (I used boneless-skinless chicken breasts.) The chicken was absolutely wonderful. But make sure the broth is bubbling when you add the dumplings - I was too impatient and the dumplings looked like pancakes (but they still tasted good). And yesterday I tried the "Southern Barbecued Pork on a Bun." And it was another winner (with the whole family)! I have just put together "Rich Vegetable Broth with Meatballs" and can't wait to try it tomorrow. To have everyone agree that a dinner was great is a miracle - and I've had three miracles in the past ten days (since I received this cookbook). I just want to keep trying recipe after recipe. Unfortunately, I can only try one recipe at a time in my favorite crockpot (a large oval that looks like a roaster). I hope that if you read this that you have as much luck has I've had. I wish to thank the other reviewers because this is why I decided to purchase this cookbook.

72 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They Really Are the Best Slow Cooker Recipes, December 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: America's Best Slow Cooker Recipes (Paperback)

Slow cookers really do make great food and they allow you to manage your time and your life, but if the recipe doesn't work then you've just wasted 6 hours of cooking. I've tried easy cabbage roll casserole, texas-style barbecued brisket sandwiches, savory orange turkey breast and roast pork with tangy cranberry sauce-they were all easy to make and tasted great. But best of all were the desserts-I've made baked lemon sponge and cranberry apple cobbler. My family ate it faster than I could serve them. All the recipes I've made worked and my family loved how they tasted. This is a book I would recommend to all of my friends.

65 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comfort Food The Slow Cooking Way, April 29, 2001

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Carole (Suwanee, Georgia (suburb of Atlanta) United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: America's Best Slow Cooker Recipes (Paperback)

There are so many mouth-watering recipes in this book that when my husband and I sat down to read "food poetry" to each other recently, this was one of the books we used. We both enjoy cooking and eating good food, so naturally we collect a lot of wonderful cookbooks. Besides reading a cookbook for a recipe, we might also read one as if it was a novel or a book of poetry. (If you have a significant other and love good food, try reading "food poetry" to each other...you might like it.)

Ever since I was a young adult when "crockpots" first came on the scene, everyone had a copy of Mable Hoffman's "Crockery Cookery". Slow cooking has always been a part of my cooking life. I still consider Hoffman's cookbooks the standard by which all other slow cooker cookbooks are compared. With this book, however, Donna-Marie Pye is giving Mable a run for her money.

Recently I purchased yet another slow cooker...this time a really BIG one. Of course when I purchase a new kitchen "toy", I have to buy a new book to go along with it. As I perused all the slow cooking books on the bookstore's shelf, I pulled Hoffman's newly revised "Crockery Cookery" book out by instinct. I looked over it and thought it was, as expected, very good. Then I reached for Pye's book. "Mmmm, this one sounds really good too" I mumbled. After much comparison, Pye's book won out and came home with me that day.

As the above title suggests, there are a lot of "comfort foods" in this book. That's one of the beauties of slow cooking. But there is more than this in Pye's book. She has put a lot of creative thinking into these recipes, giving slow cooking more versatility and flavor than ever before.

Slow cookers and crockpots are not just one of those "gimmicky" kitchen appliances, as some have suggested. It is here to stay thanks in part to people like Donna-Marie Pye.

Mable, I still love you too.