The Everything Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook (Everything Series) [Paperback]

Rachel Rappaport (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 18, 2010 | Series: Everything Series

Slow-cooker meals may save you time and energy, but they can also help you pack on the pounds. Thanks to this clever collection of deliciously good-for-you recipes, you can please your palate without sacrificing nutrition--or your waistline! This cookbook serves up hundreds of mouth-watering recipes, including:

• Sun-Dried Tomato and Pesto Dip
• Greek-Style Orzo and Spinach Soup
• Red Wine Pot Roast
• Ginger Caramelized Chicken
• Curried Lentils
• Italian Meatloaf
• Chocolate Crème Brûlée
• Stewed Cinnamon Apples

Popular food blogger and cooking instructor Rachel Rappaport provides full nutritional analyses so you can choose recipes based on calories, fat content, fiber, and more. When you save time and produce healthy meals, you?ll find you can have your pot roast--and eat it too!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Rachel Rappaport is a recipe creator, cooking teacher, and blogger. Her blog, Coconut & Lime (coconutandlime.com), was named one of the top fifty food blogs in the world by MSN?s Delish.com. Receiving an average of 100,000 visitors per month, Coconut & Lime is the only blog that features exclusively original recipes. Rappaport writes a column for Taste of the Bay magazine about using local seasonal ingredients, and her recipes (as well as her thoughts on food) have been featured in such diverse outlets as NPR.org, the Baltimore Sun, the LA Times, WashingtonPost.com, and the New York Sun.

B. E. Horton, MS, RD is a registered dietician with several years of kitchen and foodservice work experience. A graduate of the University of Vermont, she obtained her registered dietician certificate before pursuing a master?s degree in nutrition communication at Tufts University?s Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (August 18, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440502315
• ISBN-13: 978-1440502316
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rachel started the award winning food blog Coconut & Lime in 2004 to share recipes with her friends. In the years since it has grown into a respected source of original, inventive recipes with fans all over the world. MSN's Delish.com named Coconut & Lime one of the top 50 food blogs in the world.

Following the success of her blog, Rachel has become a popular food writer, recipe developer and commentator appearing in a wide range of online and print publications, webcasts, television and radio.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

117 of 118 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing take on slow cookery! August 13, 2010

By Eileen Fenster

Format:Paperback

The Everything Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook is a welcome addition to my cookbook library. Other crock-pot cookbooks I've checked out from the library rely on processed foods and many unhealthy ingredients that I wouldn't want to serve my family, but this cookbook emphasizes fresh produce, dairy, and meat products that I can buy in the grocery store. Amazingly, this cookbook has two vegetarian chapters - one vegetarian and one for vegan recipes (no dairy products, eggs, or meat). There are other vegan and vegetarian recipes throughout the book, too - not just in those two chapters. I really appreciate that because we entertain vegan friends and it's great to have something delicious to serve them rather than the same-old pasta they get everywhere.

I've tried five recipes from this book so far and every one of them has been really tasty and so easy. (Great to use the slow cooker in summer when you don't want to overheat your house.) The Hot and Sour soup tasted even better than the soup at our local Chinese take-out place. The Strawberry Pandowdy is a really different dessert idea for my family and tasted so good with vanilla ice cream. The Turkey White Chili is so good that I made it twice already. I brought Baba Ganoush and Creamy Low-Fat Spinach Artichoke Dip to a potluck and both were huge hits, gone in minutes. I am going to give this cookbook and a slow cooker to my friends who are getting married this fall. I am looking forward to using this cookbook again and again. Highly recommended to everyone who has a slow cooker.

80 of 81 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars for home cooks who love healthy, easy recipes that taste good August 19, 2010

By Music and Literature Garden

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

The recipes in this cookbook are written very well. Nothing is confusing or misleading -- a more difficult thing to find in a cookbook than you'd think. I have heard of 99% of the ingredients called for and can find almost all of them in a normal grocery store.
Although there are other slow cooker books out there, I took an hour to sit down and compare them all at the bookstore and found that this one matched my style of cooking most closely. I like to buy fresh produce, not canned and frozen vegetables and canned soups. Although I am a pretty good cook, I need someone to give me ideas of which things go together. I think the recipes in The Everything Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook are inspiring and make me want to try new things. I like that some recipes are comfort food and others are more ambitious and challenging to the bored palate.
Slow cookers are very helpful when you're feeding a crowd, and I found quite a few recipes in this cookbook that will be excellent when having family and friends over for Christmas, birthdays, and the Super Bowl. There are a lot of vegetarian and vegan options, too, which I think is fairly unusual for a cookbook that isn't explicitly billed as veg. But carnivores will also be pleased with the variety of recipes -- there are so many options here.
The bottom line is that this cookbook is for anyone with a slow cooker who wants to eat nutritious food. Beginners and more advanced cooks, herbivores and omnivores, kids and adults will all find something to love in this book. Well done.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recipes! October 18, 2010

By Aseleener

Format:Paperback

I really like this cookbook. It is so refreshing to read a slow cooker cookbook that isn't constantly calling for cream of mushroom soup! In fact, it doesn't call for it once. These recipes are not only healthy, but they are very creative. They are not your run-of-the-mill slow cooker recipes. I highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys using their slow cooker, in fact, I have already bought this as a birthday gift for my sister.