The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book: More than 400 Recipes from Appetizers to Desserts

by Better Homes and Gardens

You'll never run out of meal ideas for your slow cooker with this massive, photo-filled compendium

The second book in the Ultimate series, following The Ultimate Cookie Book , this giant collection of recipes will keep your slow cooker meals delicious and exciting for years to come. There's way more here than just pot roasts and stews; this book offers recipes for main courses, appetizers, sides, and even desserts and breakfast. With all that, you'll never lack for ideas again!

Nearly 500 pages in length and packed with full-color photos and hundreds of inventive recipes— The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book is a great deal at a great price.

    • Includes 400 recipes, including main dishes, appetizers and beverages, soups and stews, side dishes, breakfast, and desserts
    • 200 full-color photos and a beautiful design will help inspire your next slow cooker sensation
    • Features tips on converting many of your favorite conventional recipes for soups, stews, and roasts so they can be prepared in the slow cooker
    • A great big cookbook at a small price

Whether you've been using your slow cooker for years and need new ideas or you're a first-timer looking for easy dinner solutions, this is the ultimate slow cooker book for you.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference, Food

834 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Sara]

This book is great. I've been trying to make something from it every week. Some of the recipes are oh-so-simple, others take a lot more ingredients and more work.

I have made (so far) Barley-Beef Soup (excellent), Barley-Squash Gratin (a very good dish with spinach, barley, and butternut squash but let me warn you - it REALLY needed more salt), Turkey Thighs in Spicy Cranberry Sauce (I used chicken thighs, but this was a great sauce), Hoisin-Garlic Mushrooms (a rather pricey dish, but not bad), and Penne Italiano (you can't go wrong with spaghetti sauce but I really livened it up with my own idea of spices).

I'd recommend this book if you have a slow cooker and want to have some fun with it. Lots of pictures - half of the recipes have pictures. And so many good recipes I'm wanting to try.

[Nancy]

This was a great crockpot cookbook. I love a recipe book with pictures for every recipe. I tried the beef bourginon which was very easy and a big hit for the night.

[Lynnie]

A decent collection of slow cooker recipes with a great deal of variety. Some of the recipes barely count as slow cooker meals, & like many slow cooker recipes there's a reliance on canned soups & other pre-made ingredients, but I still managed to find about a dozen recipes that I would like to make. I find that most slow cooker cookbooks are generally similar with a standard set of dishes but this one did have some ideas that were unique in my opinion.

[Rebecca]

American cook book with all the annoying things about American cook books, for example listing that aren’t real food- ingredients like tins of soup, jars of sauce and quick cook this or that product.

[MrsMJ]

This is one of my favorite, most used cookbooks! Practical recipes with staple ingredients, and pictures on every page!

[Raham Khan]

good

[Just - The romance reader]

I didn't get a chance to make any of the recipes before I had to return the book to the library but I definitely want to check it out again and try the recipes on the following pages:

70, 93, 105-107, 109, 110, 114-115, 168, 184, 190, 207, 240, 241, 295, 299, 331, 336, 337, 351, 364, 392, 395, 417, 461, 463, 465

[Kelly]

Who doesn't love 'drop n go' recipes? This book just tries to do too much with a crock pot/slow cooker. Needs more pictures...I like to see it before I try it!!

[Aud]

I liked that the book had a lot of pictures - and I saw several recipes that I'm going to try.

[LoriAnn Kocialski]

I love slow cooker recipes ... this has some really good ones!

[Donna]

Some very tempting recipes!!

[Michelle]

Well worth the purchase and an excellent gift to give

[Nkleyle]

April 2017