Customer Reviews

Crock-It

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I had originally panned this book in an earlier review because it had a 'dump it in and turn it on' feel. But I decided to give it another try, mostly because: 1. The other reviews were so positive and 2. Most people use a slow cooker for convenience.
Well all I can say now is 'mea culpa'. Crock-It offers some tasty meals for people who don't have time to spend hours in the kitchen. A nice feature is that most of the ingredients are probably in your cupboard or refrigerator. This is a great gift for someone new to the kitchen or a college student. And of course, you can always toss in spices and herbs that appeal to your taste. If you are giving a slow cooker as a gift, Crock-It would be the perfect companion.

Here is the strength of this book: these are REAL recipies for real food that real people actually eat. There's no weird ingredients, no time-consuming techniques, no long winded directions. Simple, to the point, good, old-fashioned home cooking, except the pot does all the home-cooking. It's great. I love how it's hand-written and full of humor - it really feels like my friend gave me a few of her favorite recipies.

I have found the recipes to be very easy. They use common ingredients and best of all most of the recipes involve no pre-cooking of any of the items. I would recommend this book to anyone who is on a tight time schedule for dinners.

This is the best cookbook I've ever owned. Easy to follow, and the recipes are delicious. My favorite is the spaghetti pie, for which I've received numerous compliments. There are many good ones, and it uses easy to find ingredients, which is important in a rural area.

I love the idea of having my dinner all ready and waiting when I get home from work. Crockpots should be great, but too many of the recipes in cookbooks are just not good. Crock-It is distinguished by good tasting recipes using every day ingredients your family will eat.

I have had this book for a couple years now, and have bought it at least 3-4 times as a gift. The recipes are straight-forward, easy and yummy! My favorites include Roaster Bag Chicken, Great Chicken (sweet, soy sauce/tomato garlic taste), and Garlic Chicken (also known as "It couldn't be easier Chicken"). The recipes also have suggestions for ingredient subsitutions/additions. A must have for any real crock-pot cookbook library!

I needed a crock pot cook book that had down to earth recipes and this one has it. I'll be changing measurements for my niece who has a 1.5 qt crock pot with her at college. She'll be able to make these recipes without being overwhelmed by finding the ingriendents. New crock pot owners well love I know I do.

Compared to many crock-pot cookbooks on the market, this one focuses on simple, somewhat old-fashioned dishes -- the kind I remember seeing en mass at potluck suppers as a child.

The directions are easy to follow, and the introduction section has some really helpful hints about crock-pot cooking in general.

This cookbook is also handwritten rather than typed, which may be a turn-off for some readers, but actually made the book feel more like reading Mom's recipes to me!

Too many of the recipies in the book are not really useful. Cooking oatmeal in the crockpot is not a time saver. Some of the recipies are not even crock pot recipies. For examble, the recipie for chicken enciladas says to cook the chicken overnight in the crockpot, and then chop it up to make enchiladas the traditional way. If you didn't already know that, then you need a beginners book for crock pot (the for dummies series has one). And if you did know that, then the recipe is useless. All in all, I'm pretty sad that I bought it.

This is my favorite cook book and my family loves the recipes. I have had this book for a long, long time. I originally borrowed it from the local library, made a few recipes and decided I needed my own copy. Only at the time it was no longer in print and I called used bookstore after used bookstore with no luck (this was pre-internet access!). After renewing the book from the library several times and I seriously contimplated telling the library I lost the book, paying the replacement fee and keeping it! Finally I sent a letter to the address inside the book asking for help. Within a couple of weeks I received a copy with a nice note written inside the front cover from Barbara! I will always cherish this book. I'm so happy it is once again available, as I love to give this as a gift to new brides, new moms, etc.