350 Big Taste Recipes for the 1.5 Quart Mini Slow Cooker: All American Favorites Adapted for the Mini Slow Cooker with an Emphasis on Healthy Eating [Paperback]

Albert Herbert (Author)

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Publication Date: April 21, 2004

New and revised with new text and complete index!

Product Details

• Paperback: 402 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (April 21, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594573700
• ISBN-13: 978-1594573705
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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81 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not healthy, not 1 1/2 qts, don't buy, January 19, 2007

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M. Fairchild "Books my thing" (Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 350 Big Taste Recipes for the 1.5 Quart Mini Slow Cooker: All American Favorites Adapted for the Mini Slow Cooker with an Emphasis on Healthy Eating (Paperback)

Nothing about the title is accurate. The recipes are far too large for a 1 1/2 quart slow cooker - one of them, the Brunswick Stew (which was dreadful, by the way just barely fit in my 3 quart slow cooker.

The recipes make no effort to reduce fat, calories, carbs, or sodium - especially sodium, since nearly all of them use canned food as the main ingredients, and are therefore loaded with sodium. A few of the dessert recipes do incorporate sugar substitutes - but a typical dessert recipe instructs you, basically, to use half a box of cake mix along with half the ingredients the mix calls for anyway. Ever tried to use half a box of cake mix? It's not easy.

In fact, most of the recipes are not cooked in the usual sense at all: they use already cooked ingredients and employ the crock pot to heat them slowly.

The one minor virtue of the book is that you can read the recipes and then draw some conclusions about how to adapt regular recipes for the crock pot - but that is true about any crock pot cookbook.

I am sorry I bought it and recommend against your buying it.

60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Tasty, September 20, 2006

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Jeanine Turner "Cinderella" (NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 350 Big Taste Recipes for the 1.5 Quart Mini Slow Cooker: All American Favorites Adapted for the Mini Slow Cooker with an Emphasis on Healthy Eating (Paperback)

When I ordered this book, I expected it to be full of recipes scaled for 2 people. I was surprised by the author's claim that you can cook dinner for 4 in a 1.5 quart crock pot. The author is wrong, you can't use most of these recipes in the 1.5 quart model unless you reduce them by half. The Rival 1.5 quart crock pot I own only holds 5 cups rather than the 6 cups you might expect, and the manufacturer warns the user not to fill it all the way to the brim. The author of this book should have recommeded a 2 quart crock pot for his recipes. I did find the recipe I tried easy and tasty. The cooking times are accurate, unlike other crock pot books. I would recommed that you buy this book if it interests you. Reduce the recipes that serve 4 by half if you are using a 1.5 quart crock pot or use a 2 quart crock pot if you need to cook for 4. I also recommed that you omit the water from stews using condensed soup as a base for the sauce because liquid excreeted from the meat and vegetables is enough.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A unique book..., June 28, 2005

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This review is from: 350 Big Taste Recipes for the 1.5 Quart Mini Slow Cooker: All American Favorites Adapted for the Mini Slow Cooker with an Emphasis on Healthy Eating (Paperback)

For what the author is trying to accomplish this book works because it's geared toward small dishes. It's wonderful for empty nesters and busy people who like to keep things simple. Aside from some typo's it's a decent book. The recipes are very straight forward if you use some common sense solutions to following them. This helps you maneuver through each recipe better. I would've given the book 5 stars if the author had written the book like he was there in the kitchen with me going through each recipe. He definitely needs the rapport vs. report feel in this book.

I've tried the beef stew, turkey loaf, soup, braised ribs and oatmeal recipes and all have turned out well. The author likes to have his food on the firm side and I like mine on the tender side so I usually add 2 hours to some of the recipes where appropriate.