The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World
The slow cooker can be so much more than a repository for nacho cheese dip?use it to raise the standards of your everyday dining from the mundane to the gourmet. THE GOURMET SLOW COOKER brings an upscale approach to this new-old phenomenon, using fresh ingredients in imaginative recipes that you can create all during a day?s work. Focusing on traditional one-pot meals from various cultures, recipes such as Apricot Chicken from India, Molé Poblano from Mexico, Neopolitan Truffle Risotto from Italy, and Boston Baked Beans from the United States are delicious meals truly fit to serve guests.
The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World Accessories
 The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Volume II, Regional Comfort-Food Classics
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
Cooking Light Slow Cooker
Food Made Fast: Slow Cooker (Williams-Sonoma)
The Healthy Slow Cooker
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two: For the Small Slow Cooker
All-Clad 99009 Stainless-Steel 6-1/2-Quart Slow Cooker
Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes (Better Homes & Gardens)
Slow Cooker Ready & Waiting: 160 Sumptuous Meals That Cook Themselves
KitchenAid KSC700GC 7-Quart Slow Cooker, Gloss Cinnamon Red
The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World Reviews
Practical and down to earth - not at all "too exotic" for everyday meals. I love it - full of interesting goodies for the slow cooker. Bought this lovely recipe book as a Christmas gift for my daughter.
Unless you're looking for a pretty coffee table cookbook, save your money. I like the photos and the concept of this gourmet slow cooker book; however, after trying a few recipes I gave up because they simply did not taste good. With one exception that is - the chicken tarragon was delicious.
Do not be a fool-as I was. Simply not worth the cost; suggest you look elsewhere.
Yes, there is prep workthis is not a mushroom soup/quartered onion/garlic powder/round steak kind of recipe collectiongratefully. It is classy, stylish, even elegant food entrees that you would proudly serve to dinner party guests. But if you are a dedicated cook who wants to create really memorable meals with little hovering over the pot, and don't mind the Iron Chef flurry up front, this is your book. P.S. Rely on instinct. My crockpot is pedestrianwhen it dies I will replace it with All-CladI never thought I would become a slow cooker enthusiast. Some of my favorites: Chicken Tarragon (worth the price of the book), Pork Stew in Tomatillo Sauce (everyone kept "wow-ing"), Apricot Chicken (simply fabulous), Neopolitan Lamb Stew (realllllly delicious), Chicken Cacciatore (often repeated, unbeatable), Doublin Coddlegreat winter comfort food), Artichoke Risotto (amazingwho would have thought)., and, beyond my Indian-food loving dreams, Chicken Currydo grind your own spicesand use a large package of chicken thighssimply ambrosia.
This is one of them. So, I guess the bottom line here is: if you want a kid-pleasing Hamburger Helper kind of crock, pass it by. I have a bookcase full of outstanding cookbooks.
I've learned that leaving the finished dish on "warm" for the last hour doesn't harm anythingin fact, it improves it. I've learned that when time is crunched to start the recipe on "high" for an hour, then turn it down to "low" to finish. But this book has changed my perspective.
Thank you Lynn Alley. I often add a bit less liquid than called for (rarely, though) so I don't end up with a slightly watery finishguess it depends on the slow cooker. I'm a fan.
I've never bombed with this book.
I was even thinking of writing to the publisher when Amazon sent this email for the review so save your money and look on the web for recipes. One was way, way too hot and the other was much too sweet. I am not the very best cook in the world however, I do know how to read and follow instructions. Now having said that, I tried 2 very basic recipes from this book and both of them went down the drain literally and that has never happened to me before.
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