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Slow Cookers (aka Crock-Pots)

Do you want a great soup or stew when you come home from work but don't want to wait until 10 pm to eat? Get a Slow Cooker to do the cooking while you're away.

 

Selected Books

For additional titles, browse the library catalog under the subject heading: Electric Cooking -- Slow . This is not to be confused with Slow Food.

 
Alley, Lynn
The Gourmet Slow Cooker Vol. 2: Regional Comfort-Food Classics
TX693.A4462 2006x
Back by popular demand, Lynn Alley serves a generous second helping of sophisticated yet easy-to-prepare slow-cooker recipes, this time with a focus on regional comfort food. Includes chapters on "Choosing a Slow Cooker" and "Tips for Using a Slow Cooker". Check out the first Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World with its emphasis on quality ingredients, nuanced global flavors, and sumptuous presentation.
 
Alley, Lynn
Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World
TX827.A436 2010
A vegetarian approach to the slow-cooker phenomenon, from the author of the best-selling Gourmet Slow Cooker series, featuring innovative and time-saving meatless recipes from Indian, Mexican and Southwestern, Asian, Italian, French, Greek, and Middle Eastern cuisine.
 
Frankel, Laura.
Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes: 120 Holiday and Everyday Dishes Made Easy
TX724.F65 2009
Laura Frankel Jewish Cooking for All Seasons, shares more than 120 easy, delicious kosher recipes for everyday and holiday meals -- all conveniently prepared in the slow cooker -- a staple of Sabbath cooking.
 
Hensperger, Beth
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Family Favorites
TX827.H39143 2009
Hensperger adds another title to her Not Your Mother's series. "Not Your Mother's" supposedly refers to today's changing tastes in food, although family favorites and comfort food seem like old favorites to me!
 
Humphries, Carolyn
Slow Cooking from around the Mediterranean
TX827.H863 2007x
Even nonamericans are using electric slow cookers as this British series testifies. And even Americans are as fascinated with Mediterranean cuisine as are the British.
 
Humphries, Carolyn
Slow Cooking Through the Seasons
TX827.H864 2008x
Carolyn Humphries from Britain offers a series of Slow Cooker recipes, including this one for use with fresh, local produce.
 
Kolpas, Norman
Food Made Fast: Slow Cooker
TX827.K6525 2006x
This is a volume of the Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast Series.
 
Phillips, Diane
Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever with More Than 400 Easy-to-Make Recipes
TX827.P545 2009x
This Chronicle book is low on photos but slow-cooked food probably isn't too photogenic anyway.
 
Schloss, Andrew
Art of the Slow Cooker
TX827.S35 2008
This Chronicle cookbook includes 80 recipes for soups, stews, braised meats, vegetable mains and sides and slow cooked deserts.
 
Scicolone, Michele
The French Slow Cooker
Michele Scicolone has traveled across France and she has adapted dishes from those travels to the slow cooker for the home cook.
 
Scicolone, Michele
The Italian Slow Cooker
TX827.S36 2010
Does this qualify for the Italian Slow Food Movement? Scicolone (The Sopranos Family Cookbook) uses the slowcooker to advantage for soups and sauces.
 
Yarnell, Elizabeth
Glorious One-Pot Meals: A New Quick and Healthy Approach to Dutch Oven Cooking
TX840.D88 Y37 2009
Don't have a Slow Cooker? Use a Dutch Oven and try this new patented way to cook quick and easy one-pot meals, while keeping ingredients intact and full of flavor. Nutritionist Elizabeth Yarnell developed her revolutionary infusion-cooking method to avoid often mushy slow-cooker results yet cooking a meal in an hour or less, with no more than twenty minutes of hands-on prep work -— and just one pot to clean.
 
Yates, Annette
Slow Cooking for Vegetarians
TX837.Y388 2007x
Here's the very best of vegetarian eating from around the world – Creole, Caribbean, Mexican, British, Eastern European, Central European, Mediterranean, Lebanese, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Japanese and even Australian fusion cookery
 
 

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