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Title: Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round by Phyllis Pellman Good, Dawn J. Ranck ISBN: 1-56148-377-X Publisher: Good Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Pick the best , leave the rest & use good common sense
Comment: My husband's aunt "loaned" us this book since we're busy quite a few nights each week and she never used it. We weren't crock-pot cooks ourselves but we're learning - and we love the freedom the crock-pot gives when there's not a lot of time to cook.
In a nutshell, let me say this volume is well worth the price of admission for the gems tucked in the pages!
The praise:
- There are some excellent contributors. We've been particularly fond of the submissions by Naomi Fast. Her "Pot Roast Complete," "Fruited Beef Tagine" and "Bavarian Beef," among others, have received rave reviews from friends and family.
- Some of the odd recipes are actually quite good and have encouraged us to put our prejudices aside and give entries we might otherwise have ignored a try.
- This is a good source of inspiration... it's got us thinking about what can be done in the cooker and not just what's printed on the page.
Now that you know we like it, here are the criticisms:
- You'll flip through a number of so-so, and some downright awful looking, entries.
- There are a number of similar recipes, which could have been shown as variations on a basic dish. But, in fairness to the fact that they came from different contributors, we suppose they should be listed separately.
- We've noticed a lamentable tendency toward too much liquid, and/or not enough thickening agent, in some of the recipes. It's almost as though they were originally stove top or oven recipes that someone converted to crock pot cookery (Without testing?? Either that or much of America likes much thinner gravies than we do!). After a while, common sense kicked in and we are getting pretty good at anticipating which recipes will need to be adjusted. We've coped with cornstarch slurries during the last half hour and the occasional packet of gravy mix as a quick rescue.
Some trial and error and, finally, common sense will let you adjust for your tastes before you cook. For example, how appetizing will it be to serve skin-on chicken from a crock pot?? It's not! So, just ditch the skin!
Many happy meals later, we've still got the book and we're sharing the gems with our aunt as we find them!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: This was a definite surprise! I love the recipes because when you are truly not having the time to pull off an extravagant meal, the last thing you want to do is to have to run to 3 different stores to get the ingredients. Most of the recipes contain ingredients I already have at home. I know there was a complaint about the duplication, but I agree with reviewers from the first book that it gives you a choice if you only have certain ingredients. It's not like you don't have enough different types of recipes in there to choose from. The sweet and Saucy Chicken is excellent as well as the Harvest Kielbasa. I also agree that the ingredients might be somewhat processed, but as someone who is cooking for a Celiac allergic to wheat, you can always work around them....and there is plenty there that are not processed foods at all. Great job with this book!
Rating: 2
Summary: Ok slow cooker recipes- but not for entertaining
Comment: The recipes are fine- if as many reviewers note you don't mind using processed ingredients. Those that I have tried lack sufficient seasonings. While I'll serve the recipes to my family (trying to improve their heathiness when possible), I would never consider them to be the kind of dishes to serve to guests.
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Title: Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting With Your Slow Cooker by Dawn J. Ranck, Phyllis Pellman Good ISBN: 1561483397 Publisher: Good Books Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes by Chuck Smothermon, Better Homes and Gardens, Carrie Holcomb, Better Homes and Gardens Books ISBN: 0696215462 Publisher: Meredith Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Betty Crocker's Easy Slow Cooker Dinners : Delicious Dinners the Whole Family Will Love by Betty Crocker Editors ISBN: 0764565311 Publisher: Betty Crocker Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Busy People's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Dawn Hall ISBN: 1401601073 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 11 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: The Complete Crockpot Cookbook: Create Spectacular Meals in Your Slow Cooker by Wendy Louise ISBN: 1891400290 Publisher: Champion Pr Ltd Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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