Betty Crocker's Easy Slow Cooker Dinners: Delicious Dinners the Whole Family Will Love (Paperback)

by Betty Crocker Editors (Author) "Are you looking for a simple way to make a delicious, homemade meal, but don't have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen?..." (more)
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Product Description
Dinner ready and waiting when you want it - it's all possible with your slow cooker and Betty Crocker! Betty Crocker's Easy Slow Cooker Dinners gives you 50 slow cooker dinners recipes -- from succulent meats and fantastic poultry, to simmering one-pot meals including vegetarian options, as well as heartwarming soups and stews. Plus, you'll find tips and techniques for the best way to use a slow cooker - including extra-special shortcuts, cleaning hints, how to lock in flavors, and other finishing techniques to make every dinner look as good as it tastes.

From the Back Cover
Get out of the kitchen and into your life—use a slow cooker to make your next dinner! Feeding your family satisfying, good-for-you dinners is important, but we all want to spend less time in the kitchen. A great solution to this dinner-time dilemma is a slow cooker. Slow cookers are so great! You can make a delicious dinner without a lot of fuss. Just prepare the ingredients, put them into the slow cooker, cover and that's it. Your meal cooks while you are doing all the other things you love—spending time with family and friends, enjoying the outdoors or just relaxing at home. Wow them with Betty Crocker's fantastic recipes for heartwarming dishes that are easy to prepare and taste great. You can rely on tried-and-true recipes and exciting new choices. It's no wonder more and more people are discovering the convenience, reliability and great taste of slow-cooked meals. So when It's your turn to answer the question "What's for dinner?" think of your slow cooker.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Betty Crocker (August 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764565311
• ISBN-13: 978-0764565311
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #190,634 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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63 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite crock-pot cookbook ever, October 26, 2004

By	M. Garrison (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For me, this cookbook had the perfect mix of oldtime favorites and new dishes, clear and helpful instructions, plus great pictures that gave me a good idea of what I was supposed to be aiming for.

I'd definitely recommend this cookbook to anyone in a situation similar to where I was -- I just never seemed to have the time or the patience for regular cooking, but still wanted to make nice meals. On the other hand, I don't know that this would be the best fit for say, a college student giving crock-pot cooking a try -- the dishes may be more elaborate or use more expensive ingredients than they're looking at.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars tall skinny book difficult to use; disappointing, February 27, 2006

By	H. Boehning "helenB" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I should have read the description more closely. It is 96 pages including index, etc. It is taller than Joy of Cooking but as skinny as the free blooklet you get when you buy a slow cooker, making it difficult to handle. The recipies look OK, nothing caught my fancy, but this book was NOT worth the money to buy. I have the Better Homes and Garden crocery cooker book and it is great. Perhaps as a first book it would be OK.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's okay, March 18, 2006

By	Marie Francis "Mom for Life" (Bakersfield, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Most of the recipes are pretty good and at least worth trying. It provided nutrition information and nice substitution suggestions for each recipe, along with a section on meatless meals. I have found that everything seems to overcook for me, though I am not sure if that is a crock pot problem or not, however most of the things I have made taste pretty good. Just be warned, NOTHING will come out looking as good as it does in the pictures, and there are beautiful pictures for each recipe in this book, but experience tells me that meats, especially poultry, just doesn't come out like they show, and neither do vegetables; that is just the nature of slow cooking.

All in all, a great beginner's book, good information at the beginning about crock pot cooking, but I am ready to move on.