Smart Crockery Cooking: Over 100 Delicious Recipes [Paperback]

Carol Heading Munson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1996

For healthy meals that virtually cook themselves, get out your slow cooker. Chop up some fresh ingredients, simmer them for 3-8 hours while their flavors blend and intensify, and voila, dinner's ready, and you didn't even need to be there while it cooked! Start with the basic "rules" of crockery cooking--general tips on how to prepare meats and poultry, vegetables, pasta and rice, dried beans, cheese, and fish. Then take your time with 101 delicious and health-conscious, mouth-watering recipes that fit perfectly into today's busy schedules and desire for low-fat, low-cholesterol meals. Every one contains helpful nutritional information including calorie, fat, cholesterol, sodium, and dietary fiber content. 144 pages, 6 x 9.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806961066
• ISBN-13: 978-0806961064
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fine recipes--but I didn't realize they were low-fat!, April 25, 2001

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"nkeithf" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smart Crockery Cooking: Over 100 Delicious Recipes (Paperback)

In my ongoing quest for simple recipes to throw in the Crock-Pot, I ordered this book, and am generally pleased with it.

The recipes themselves are quite appealing and meet my primary criterion for slow-cooker meals: They call for simple ingredients requiring a minimum of preparation in the morning... The vast majority of them are things I wouldn't hesitate to try.

The only real gripe I have is one that perhaps I could have avoided had I looked carefully at the enlarged picture of the front cover and seen that these are LOW-FAT recipes. (In retrospect, I now understand the word "Smart" in the title.) Looking at the recipes, I think I can probably remedy that by simply using higher-fat versions of the ingredients (whole or 2% milk instead of skim, full-bore sour cream instead of light, etc.).

All in all, probably an OK book to add to your Crockery Cookery collection...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Duper!, December 19, 2002

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CJOPE "Doris L. Drake" (Dedham, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smart Crockery Cooking: Over 100 Delicious Recipes (Paperback)

I purchased Carol Munsun's crock pot cook a few weeks ago. So far I have prepared perhaps a half dozen of her recipes and they all have been fabulous.

For years I have been using Crock pots, mostly for cooking legumes and soups - pretty conservative and safe fare. However, Munson's recipes have all been exceptionally tasty, and easy to follow, as well as healthy.

In my opinion, if you are interested in slow cooking as a means of eating low fat food this is the "first" book you should pick up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Caution--This is a Low Fat Cookbook, November 26, 2005

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FNU MNU LNU (Midwest, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smart Crockery Cooking: Over 100 Delicious Recipes (Paperback)

My major observations after flipping through this cookbook are:
1) It is a low-fat cookbook, which is great if that is what you are looking for. 2) Many of the recipes require browning of meat prior to adding it to the crockpot, which is a drawback. 3) This cookbook does not make heavy use of convenience items, like canned soups, which is a plus. (It does call for canned broths, which is not objectionable). Overall, a nice selection of recipes, particularly if you are trying to avoid the crockpot cookbooks which call for opening & dumping processed foods like entire bottles of catalina dressing.