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Fresh From the Vegetarian Slow Cooker: 200 Recipes for Healthy And Hearty One-Pot Meals That Are Ready When You Are
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By now the remarkable convenience of the slow cooker is no secret. It keeps the kitchen cool on warm days and is inexpensive and durable. The perfect appliance for vegetarian and healthy cooking, the slow cooker offers a foolproof way to cook beans, grains, and numerous vegetables. Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker delivers recipes for simple, delicious, hearty fare without relying on canned soup for flavor. With chapters on appetizers, soups, stews, breakfasts,… More >>
Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker: 200 Recipes for Healthy and Hearty One-Pot Meals That Are Ready When You Are
This is a very useful and creative cookbook. My girlfriend and I use it all the time.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m a lone artist working at home and am not into cooking. I gave away my microwave because it was so noisy and also because I couldn’t get the hang of the short times, and had to check all the time, or else forgot about it when engrossed in a project.
So most of my evening meals are cassarole type one dish things I do in a conventional oven. I eat little meat, because I can’t keep it and don’t like to shop more than once every week or two. I’m the type who figures out what to eat no more than an hour before it goes in the oven. I figured out how to do rice and pasta dishes in the oven as one shot, one dish operations, although they would probably dismay a “real cook”. I use frozen soy meat subsitutes a lot because I don’t have to worry about waste from spoilage.
Some relatives gave me a little 1.5 qt slow cooker for Christmas, and I thought it might work out because I remembered the bean pot and soup pot my mother had going all the time when I was a child (we had a wood stove for both cooking and heat.)
But when I read the book that came with the cooker and saw all the recipes need stove top preparations, I almost gave it away. But discovered two uses for it: baked potatoes and hot sandwiches. You wrap up a big potato in foil at breakfast time and its done for supper (top with plain yogurt and/or cream cheese); breakfast sandwiches are cream cheese and jam on brown bread wrapped in foil ready in an hour. Lunch sandwiches are brown bread and cheese with chopped stir fry veggies (snow peas, green beans, water chesnut, carrot etc. and wrapped in foil.
I got this cookbook in hopes of extending my recipes, and I probably will be able to; it explains better about beans than the one that came with my cooker. But I virtually live on rice and pasta dishes, and those all seem to need extra stove top steps.
As other reviews say, lots of slow cooker recipes are NOT one step “put all the ingredients in and plug it in” operations. This book repeats that old chesnut in the intro, but most of the recipes need stove top operations. That doesn’t work for those going out to work, or else require foresight and preparation the night before. But some of the recipes I think I can work out for me in my lifestyle.
But I will probably have to get another cooker, as my little baby one has only one temperature level (no controls, you plug it in, period), and doesn’t have a removable liner, so all my cooking so far (mostly potatoes) has been in foil. The best thing about slow cooker cooking is that if you’re absent minded (or ignore timers when they go off when you’re engrossed in something), an extra hour or two doesn’t result in a ruined meal; maybe not optimal, but still edible, and usually even still fine and tasty.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is an awesome resource for busy people. We eat really healthy, delicious meals, and we are not scrambling for them at dinnertime. I love this author’s books!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is not “200 Recipes for …One-Pot Meals” in fact NONE of the recipes is a one-pot meal, and by far the greater number aren’t even for meals, just entrees, or main dishes, or side dishes. or vegetables, or desserts, or hot drinks, or breads, etc, etc..
Look elsewhere for “Recipes for One-Pot Meals”.
Rating: 1 / 5
recipes were not at all tasty. if i could return this book now, i would.
Rating: 1 / 5