Are you like me? Do you get frustrated when you open a cookbook only to learn that you need to buy countless ingredients to make a recipe work? Or do you get disheartened when a recipe sounds great, but you know it will take more time in the preparation than you care to give?
The minute I opened this book, I knew I found a cookbook I'll really use.
The recipes are inexpensive to make, and they feature easy, simple ingredients. These are my kind of recipes . . . and since they are also slow cooker recipes, they're also super easy to make.
Of course, since I must eat gluten-free, having each recipe gluten-friendly is a plus, too. However, these recipes can easily be enjoyed by anyone, whether they eat gluten-free or not.
Be sure to read the introduction. Stephanie gives lots of tips there, including a section on how to best use your slow-cooker.
Each recipe has a "verdict" at the end, so you can learn more about how Stephanie, her friends and family felt about the recipe.
I enjoyed the chapter that features "staple" food recipes -- everything from baby food to yogurt. Here is a tip from me on the yogurt starter: Buy a plain yogurt that has no stabilizers added -- works better. Fage Greek Yogurt works particularly well.
Not all the recipes are for me, which is true for ANY cookbook. A few of the recipes contain foods I do not or cannot eat, although with most of them, I can adapt them to make them work for me. Nice.
This is the first cookbook I've purchased since going gluten-free where I not only want to -- but probably really WILL try a majority of the recipes in the book.
