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It’s slow cooker season! If you haven’t done it already, it’s time to plug in the appliance and get back to the comfort and convenience a slow cooker serves up.
Simple Little Tricks
Now, I have heard all sorts of excuses why some finicky home cooks don’t like to use a slow cooker. The meals are too bland, food comes out as mush, it turns everything into soup—yadda yadda yadda! The truth is, the slow cooker is as only as good as the recipe you use to prepare the meal. For instance, adding liquid to a slow cooker can make a soupy mess. Why? Because a slow cooker will release and accumulate liquid as it cooks. There is no way for the liquid to evaporate, so if you are not looking to prepare soup—don’t add any liquid to the cooker. Also, sticking to more hardier vegetables in the beginning of the cooking time will avoid unwanted mushiness. Add the more delicate ingredients towards the end of the cooking process. Simple little tricks can turn your slow cooker into a hands free magic chef that does all the arduous work for you!
New Cookbook Series Slow Cooker Favorites
Having easy, delicious slow cooker recipes at your fingertips is a key to getting the most out of your slow cooker during the cool months ahead. The new cookbook series – Slow Cooker Favorites is a must have for those slow cooker fans looking for easily to prepare hearty meals for the whole family. The one-stop guides for using the popular beloved kitchen appliance offers more than 140 budget friendly recipes in each book. The series includes Slow Cooker Favorites: Chicken, Slow Cooker Favorites: Soups, Stews, and Chilis, Slow Cooker Favorites: Beef, and Slow Cooker Favorites: Vegetarian. Choose from family favorite classics like Chicken and Dumplings in Slow Cooker Favorites Chicken Cookbook or try something more exotic such as Peruvian Chicken with Aji Verde featured in the International Favorites Chapter. The comprehensive collection of crock-pot recipes is a treasure trove of delightful and affordable meals for your family every night!
Slow Cooker Favorites: Chicken– List Price $14.99 (price may vary by retailer)
150+ Easy, Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes, from Hot Chicken Buffalo Bites and Chicken Parmesan to Teriyaki Chicken
(Part of Slow Cooker Favorites)
By Adams Media
Learn how to make easy, affordable, and deliciously diverse dinners for your family every night with this go-to cookbook featuring more than 140 slow-cooker chicken recipes.
Chicken is a dinnertime staple. It’s a simple, budget-friendly favorite, and there are countless ways to prepare it. In Slow Cooker Favorites Chicken you’ll find something new and delicious to enjoy every day—from classic appetizers and comforting dishes to exotic international one-pot meals—with minimal prep work and easy cleanup. The most challenging part will be picking which dish you want to try next!
Slow Cooker Favorites: Soups, Stews, and Chilis – List Price $14.99 (price may vary by retailer)
150+ Easy, Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes, from Cincinnati Chili and Beef Stew to Chicken Tortilla Soup
(Part of Slow Cooker Favorites)
By Adams Media
A one-stop guide for using the most popular kitchen appliance—the slow cooker—to easily prepare hearty, comforting soups, stews, and chilis. With more than 150 recipes, slow-cooker fans have plenty of options for easy, worry-free ways to make flavorful bowls of their favorite food in their favorite appliance.
It’s time to start up the slow cooker!
Slow Cooker Favorites: Soups, Stews, and Chilis gives slow-cooker fans more than 150 recipes perfect for the fall and winter. With minimal prep work and easy clean up, the most challenging part will be selecting which delicious bowl to try next. Whether it’s crockpot chili for the tailgate, spicy chicken tortilla soup on a chilly day, or beef stew the whole family will love, there’s something for everyone in this comprehensive collection of crock-pot recipes.
Slow Cooker Favorites: Beef (Debuts January 2018)- List Price $14.99 (price may vary by retailer)
150+ Easy, Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes, from Meatloaf and Pot Roast to Beef Stroganoff
(Part of Slow Cooker Favorites)
By Adams Media
The go-to family meal guide to prepare tasty, satisfying beef dishes in the slow cooker with more than 150 recipes sure to please anyone—making dinner hassle-free and deliciously diverse every night.
Beef is a hearty dinnertime staple and an easy family favorite, and there are countless ways to prepare it. Slow Cooker Favorites Beef will make dinner even easier and more delicious with 150 different recipes you can try—with minimal prep work and easy clean up that’s perfect for your busy schedule. With a wide range of flavors to choose from, classics such as Yankee Pot Roast and French Dip Sandwiches to more exotic dishes like Beef Biryani, you’ll always have something new and savory to try for dinner.
Slow Cooker Favorites: Vegetarian (January 2018)- List Price $14.99 (price may vary by retailer)
150+ Easy, Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes, from Stuffed Peppers and Scalloped Potatoes to Simple Ratatouille
(Part of Slow Cooker Favorites)
By Adams Media
The go-to guide for using the most popular kitchen appliance—the slow cooker—to prepare healthy vegetarian dishes, featuring more than 150 easy plant-based and vegan-friendly dishes sure to please everyone at the dinner table.
A vegetarian diet is healthy, nutritious, and environmentally friendly. Slow Cooker Favorites Vegetarian makes plant-based eating even easier with more than 150 vegetarian recipes, including more than fifty vegan-friendly recipes, for your slow cooker. Whether you’re a dedicated vegetarian, vegan, or omnivore looking to have more meatless meals, you’ll be sure to find many new and delicious recipes that will become family favorites. With minimal prep work and easy clean up, the hardest part is picking which mouthwatering dish to try next!
Tested, Tried and Delicious!
I received the two first cookbooks from the Slow Cooker Favorites. I’ve been having a blast looking through the books and planning meals. What I really like about these cookbooks is the recipes use easy to find ingredients that create budget friendly DELICIOUS meals. The prep is very simple, so you can get your ingredients in the crock-pot fast and be on your way to doing other things. For the slow cooker newbie, the cookbooks give basics such as what slow cooker to purchase, how to use it correctly, caring for the appliance, and simple easy to follow instructions. Additionally, the writer offers slow cooker suggestions at the end of some of the recipes to help make the meal more scrumptious and efficient.
One of my favorite recipes from the Slow Cooker Favorites Chicken Cookbook I have had the pleasure of serving to my family is the Curried Chicken Meatballs with Tomatoes (page 38). The meatballs came out amazing and made the entire house smell like a giant Italian eatery while they were cooking! They are tasty and satisfying on their own, but would be perfect served over freshly baked spaghetti squash. Here is the recipe, so you can enjoy making them in your slow cooker too! Bon appétit!
Curried Chicken Meatballs with Tomatoes Recipe
Great Holiday Gift!
This holiday shopping season why not give your home chef a thoughtful gift that will let them get the most out of their slow cooker? The Slow Cooker Favorite Cookbooks have a retail value of $14.99 and are available for purchase at www.simonandschuster.com.
I finally got a nice slow cooker, and it is so much fun! I could sure use some cookbooks like these to make sure I don’t end up with mushy messes. This recipe sounds delish, I’d like to try it.
I love using my slow cooker. I need to branch out of the few recipes I use.
I would love to get these books. I like using my slow cooker and trying new recipes
I’d like the chicken cookbook since I use a lot of chicken.
This is a delicious and easy dish to make and I know that my family would love this dish. I am always cooking in my Slow Cooker, especially this time of year. I like these Slow Cooker Cook Books and want to get one.
These chicken meatballs sound delicious and I love that this dish can be prepared in the slow cooker!
Winter is a great time for soups & stews. Need to look at that cookbook.
I am the slow cooker Queen in the fall and winter. I actually use mine all year. It really can make nearly anything. I like your recipe it sounds flavorful and hearty. Pair it with a crusty bread and you have dinner !
This sounds good, I have never used curry before.
This look like a great comfort food, thanks for sharing.
What a delicious looking recipe! I’m always looking and wanting to try new things. I can’t wait to make this for my family!
This sounds really good. It would make a great cold weather comfort meal.
I love using the slow cooker. These cook books would be great to have and this recipe looks delicious.
This is a great slow cooker recipe.
This recipe for the Curried Chicken Meatballs looks and sounds so very good! I just love cooking in the slow cooker, makes the food taste so good, and everything always comes out so tender
These look like great meatballs.