Semi-Homemade Money-Saving Slow-Cooking: 128 Quick-to-Cook Meals [Paperback]

Sandra Lee (Author)

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Saving time and money never tasted so good!

Why slave over a hot stove when slow cookers are a great way to cut your kitchen time-and meal budget-without sacrificing taste. Fill your slow cooker with simple ingredients, turn it on, and relax as it does the work for you and fills your home with mouthwatering aromas. Sandra Lee, host of the Emmy-nominated "Semi-Homemade Cooking" on Food Network has added "Sandra's Money Saving Meals" to her television line-up, and her new book, Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade Money Saving Slow Cooking provides plenty of affordable options that taste like they were made from scratch.

Slow cooking is a great way to turn inexpensive, overlooked cuts of meat into tender, juicy main courses with minimal effort. You will be amazed to learn what you can create in a slow cooker. There is traditional slow cooker fare like chilis, soups, and stews, but the book also includes party foods like Adobo Wings and Red Hot Curry Ribs, before moving on to desserts like Red Velvet and Chocolate Coconut Cake and Caramel Marshmallow Brownies. Plus, there are tons of creative ideas inside, including Crocked Penne with Black Olives and Mushrooms or Beefy Baked Ziti.

• Offers quick, easy, and affordable dinner options for every taste
• As always, these recipes follow Sandra Lee's popular Semi-Homemade philosophy using seventy percent ready-made products and thirty percent fresh ingredients

Semi-Homemade Money Saving Slow Cooking lets you use the ingredients you have at hand and turn them into creative, unforgettable meals the whole family will love.

Recipe Excerpts from Semi-Homemade Money-Saving Slow-Cooking

Turkey-Chicken Chili

Burgundy Lamb Shanks

Strawberry Cream Cake

From the Back Cover

128 Deliciously Easy Dinners

Slow cooked meals that are melt-in-your-mouth perfection and made with amazingly little money

Why stand over a hot stove when slow cookers are a great way to cut your kitchen time—and meal budget—without sacrificing quality or quantity? Fill your slow cooker with simple ingredients and relax as it does the cooking for you. Money Saving Slow Cooking provides affordable,traditional meals including delicious, inexpensive roast suppers, creativecost-conscious chicken dinners, simplesavory stews, and incredible chunky chilis. All are amazing one-pot wonders.

Affordable, easy dinners let you prepare meals the whole family will love.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470540265
• ISBN-13: 978-0470540268
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #29,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Ideas, November 24, 2009

By	Kaye R. Luckey ""mystery cook"" (Etters, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I have several of SAndra Lee's cookbooks and find them all great. The Semi-Homemade Money-Saving Slow Cooking book fits its title. I find it so handy in making meals while I am busy with other things and am still able to present a nurishing, economical meal. This is so important during this particular economic time. Sandra has proved to be a great help with her ideas.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy & Yummy!, November 22, 2009

By	Anna D. Connors - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Wow, this cookbook is fabulous! one good recipe after another that are easy & delicious. I love using my crockpot but this makes the prep even easier and the result is ohhh so good!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Slow Cooking Made Easy, December 15, 2009

By	CJ Der Risener (New Jersey) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Semi-Homemade Money-Saving Slow-Cooking: 128 Quick-to-Cook Meals (Paperback)

I bought this book because I like the fact that it had pictures for almost every recipe. I am a visual type of person and I like to see the finished product, and this book offered that, so I bought it. I have made some recipes from it already and they seem pretty accurate to the pictures. I am very glad I found this book. I am not a very good cook and this book showed me that I can make more than meat dishes. Who knew you can do desserts in a slow cooker!

I highly recommend this Slow Cook Book to any beginner! I made the beef stew and when I ate it, I felt like I was a GREAT cook! Worth the money!