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101 Things to Do With a Slow Cooker | 
| Authors: Janet Eyring, Stephanie Ashcraft
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 1655207
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Media: Spiral-bound
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.5
ASIN: B000F7BP6G
Publication Date: August 8, 2003
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Product Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of 101 Things to Do With a Cake Mix! comes 101 Things to Do with a Slow Cooker! Call it a slow cooker, a crockery cooker, or your best friend, the popularity of these handy machines has exploded recently, and "Mrs. 101" Stephanie Ashcraft has stepped up to the plate (or bowl, or serving tray) with an amazing collection of timesaving recipes. From South of the Border Pot Roast to Hearty Vegetable Soup to Cherries Jubilee, now anyone can make hearty, healthy dishes for the whole family the "throw-n-go" way-simply throw several ingredients into the slow cooker, get on with life, and come home to a kitchen filled with the aroma of real home cooking. 101 recipes for main courses, side dishes, desserts, and more are included, along with suggestions for how and what to serve with each dish, time-saving meal preparation tips, and easy modifications to fit your families tastes.
Stephanie Ashcraft, New York Times best selling author of 101 Things to Do With a Cake Mix, is a full-time mom who has created and collected recipes for years. She also teaches a monthly cooking class for Macey's Little Cooking Theater.
Janet Eyring's interest in learning how to cook healthy, inexpensive meals without living in the kitchen inspired her to write a cookbook that relied on the ease of the slow cooker. She also teaches cooking classes at Macey's Little Cooking Theater.
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 Good for Beginners June 20, 2008
This is a good little book to keep on your shelf if you're just getting into crock-pot cooking. The book is divided into categories: recipes with beef, recipes with chicken, soups, recipes with pork, etc. The recipes are VERY easy and fast prep. which I really like.
However, with that being said, we tired of the recipes quickly. A lot of the recipes are repeated throughout the book: for example, several of the recipes use the same ingredients, you just replace the chicken with beef. And because of the simplicity of the recipes, most of them are very plain in flavor. But if you have some imagination you can add your favorite ingredients and do your own variations.
As I said before, a great little book for starters. But if you plan on using your crock pot more than once a week, you'll tire of these recipes quickly.
 I so wanted to love this book... June 1, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I wanted to love this book because I needed it to be every bit as good as I imagined it to be. It's not. What is it? It's heavy on the salt, preservatives and other ingredients that abound in pre-packaged mixes and bottled sauces/dressings that you should avoid, anyway.
To my way of thinking, a slow cooker is for the preparation of healthy meals that you can toss together and find finished when you get home from work instead of using a feast of chemicals found in those boxes and bottles. So, when a recipe tells me to use an entire bottle of Teriaki sauce -- yes, an entire bottle -- then I have to say, NO WAY! This is just wrong. You might as well buy one of those awful frozen dinners from the supermarket and be done with it.
I don't like to rain on any author's parade, but couldn't there be 101 recipes that include meat, fresh or frozen veggies, seasonings, wine, tomato paste, broth, etc. used creatively to make a quick and healthy meal? I hate to harp on the same thing, but my doctor would have a stroke FOR me if he heard I dumped an entire bottle of Teriaki into a slow cooker and served it up. It tastes awful and is awful for you.
I am hoping for a revised edition of this book using more fresh ingredients without the chemicals and loads of salt. I'll have to do without using this book for anything I might eat.
Not really recommended.
You might like some of it November 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I tried two recipes - one good (easy taco soup p.43) and one too horrid to eat (chicken teriyaki p.87). The teriyaki recipe calls for an ENTIRE BOTTLE of teriyaki sauce. The result was disgusting and nasty. Many of the recipes are retarded in their cooking requirements. For example, you need to add soem ingredients in the last hour of cook time in a five hour meal. I did not buy a slow cooker so that I could babysit my food for half a day ... and many recipes have less than an 8-hour cook time, so forget leaving the cooker on and coming home from work to a fresh hot meal. There are a mix of recipes for different size cookers ... for the chef that keeps two of these things sitting around. Yeaaah. Keep your eyes open and some of the recipes are edible.
Not full meals November 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not imaginative, simplistic recipes for partial meals. I need full meals, not just slow cooked meat.
 101 Things to do with a Slow Cooker September 17, 2007
Very disappointed with cook book. Nothing exiciting or new. If you are a slow cooker user you came up with these recipes on your own and have been using them for years. Most call for simple and few ingredients which is the best part of the book.
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