SLOWLY SIMMERED MEATS: Savory Pot Roast Brisket with Cranberry Gravy Pork Roast with Sherry-Plum Sauce Smoky-Flavored Barbequed Ribs Barbeque Beef Sandwiches
CAREFREE CHICKEN DISHES: Herbed Chicken and Stuffing Supper Creamy Chicken and Wild Rice Mexican Chicken with Green Chili Rice Thai Chicken
NO-ATTENTION VEGETARIAN MEALS: Cuban Black Beans and Rice Bulgar Pilaf with Broccoli and Carrots Spicy Black-Eyed Peas Lentil and Mixed-Vegetable Casserole
FIX-AND-FORGET SIDES: Scalloped Corn Hot German Potato Salad Red Cabbage with Apples Peach-Cherry Chutney Apple Butter
DRINKS, DIPS & DESSERTS: Wassail Mocha Cocoa Pizza Fondue Arichoke-Crab Spread Cheese-Beer Dip Hot Fudge Sundae Cake Blackberry Dumplings Chocolate Rice Pudding Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Pudding
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411 of 415 people found the following review helpful:
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In Love With My Crockpot,
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This review is from: Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook (Spiral-bound)
If you thought crockpot cooking was a bad idea from the seventies, think again. This fabulous book has a wonderful variety of recipes that are easy, inexpensive, and newly healthy for a nineties audience. Not only does it provide plenty of recipes to keep you busy, but it also explains how to adapt your own favorite fast-cooking recipes to the slow cooker. As a working woman, I can't emphasize enough how this book has brought healthy, easy, hearty cooking into my life. I highly recommend it to anyone who is busy, but wants to eat well.
177 of 179 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
My gosh, Betty Crocker goes beyond pot roast!,
By Debbie Lee Wesselmann (the Lehigh Valley, PA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (2008 HOLIDAY TEAM) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook (Spiral-bound)
I was reluctant to buy a crockpot, perhaps because I'm a little bit of a cookery snob. I'm not a pot roast and meatloaf person; I prefer recipes with a little more zing and originality. But when my friends insisted that recipes existed for much more interesting crockpot fare, I browsed through slow cooker books to see if they were right. This is the cookbook that convinced me I should buy a crockpot. Wow.The Thai Chicken and the Mango Chutney Chicken Curry recipes quickly became favorites in my house. There are also recipes for Cuban Black Beans and Rice, Lamb Dijon, and Squash and Apple Bisque as well as for the crockpot staples. This cookbook isn't satisfied to offer a single stew recipe; it provides nine vastly different ones, using beef, pork, chicken, or even venison. Somehow, good old-fashioned Betty Crocker realized that cooks like me didn't want to compromise much when it came to crockpot cooking. I highly recommend this book for its non-traditional fare.
186 of 190 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, better, best,
By A Customer
This review is from: Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook (Spiral-bound)
If I had to choose one crock pot cookbook to own, I would still choose Mable Hoffman's Crockery Cookery. Every recipe I've tried in there turned out delicious! Crockpot aficionados, however, need variety in cooking styles. Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook fills the "runner up" category. Most helpful are the suggestions regarding cooking beans in a crockpot, which has always been a tricky affair. In fact, my favorite recipes in this Betty Crocker cookbook are bean recipes. Savory Garbanzo Beans with Vegetables was much appreciated by a crowd of six vegetarian friends of mine. Its "secret" ingredients, believe it or not, are horseradish and mustard! Sounds strange, but tastes great. The Lima Bean and Kielbasa Soup is so delicious that my friend made her own batch of it two days after trying it at my house! A little less exciting, but still comforting on a cold winter day, is Chicken and Rice Gumbo Soup, topped with hot red pepper sauce. The only "bomb" I've tried so far was the Burgundy Stew with Herbed Dumplings. The stew was fine, but steaming dumplings on top of a crock pot recipe is doomed to failure, I'm afraid. It looks like a gloppy mass of uncooked biscuit dough, and not like dumplings, because the circumference of a crock pot does not allow for separate dollops of the dough. Bake some biscuits in the oven and ladle the soup on top of a biscuit in each bowl, instead. Finally, this recipe book has a very nice format. Alongside each recipe are "success tips", "ingredient substitution" advice, and "finishing touch" recommendations which guide the cook along. Each recipe includes helpful nutrition data, and the large majority of the recipes are accompanied by a full color photo of the finished dish. If you are already a Mable Hoffman fan, the Betty Crocker Slow Cooker Cookbook is likely to come in a close second.
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