Slow Cooked: Miss South’s Easy, Thrifty and Delicious Recipes for Slow Cookers

by Miss South

Sticky Pork Belly, Garlicky Tahini Chicken, Stuffed Salmon, Dulce de Leche Coffee Cake—no-fuss, frugal slow cooking at its bes t

In her first book, Miss South turns to one of her favorite kitchen appliances, her beloved slow-cooker, and shares 200 recipes for economical, adventurous food. Look forward to mouth-watering one pots, including Pulled Pork, Sausage Ragu, spicy Gumbo, Beetroot Orzotto, and Brown Butter Rhubarb Cobbler. Her ideas include plenty of hearty stews, soups, curries, braises, pasta, rice dishes, and lots of meat-free ideas as well as foolproof recipes for slow-cooked chicken, pork, fish, seafood, lamb, and beef dishes. Try Greek Salad-Stuffed Tomatoes, Ghanaian Peanut Soup, Chicken Korma, Fig and Pomegranate Relish, or addictive Cream Cheese Brownies. This is no-fuss, affordable, slow-cooker food at its best, with plenty of inventive ideas to use up leftovers. Includes metric measures.

Genres: Cooking, Cookbooks, Reference, Food, Nonfiction

272 pages, Hardcover

First published November 6, 2014

Reviews

[Lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book, I am new too cooking alllll things inside my Slow Cooker, outside of soups and meat dishes, so this was rather a refreshing read, though I missed seeing the photos! I find that really helps the creativity to get going, but again, on the plus, less photo pages allows for more recipes, and I loved that too.

[Cidney · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well I bought this because I had seen some rave reviews online. I am not impressed. I did like the bank of colour photos at the beginning of the book, there are none to accompany any of the recipe details and it's a bit disjointed in the way it categorises the recipes, which makes searching a little difficult.

It took me a while to find a recipe for the chicken breasts and the ingredients I had, and then she does not recommend cooking chicken breasts in a slow cooker, she prefers to use chicken with the skin on. I can see the reason behind that in that the chicken could dry out, but cooking with the skin on and not pre-frying first (not recommended as it destroys the flavour) leaves you with soggy skin. Not pleasant in any dish. So I dished the slow cooker and cooked my chicken breasts in the oven instead with a mixture of a curry paste massaged over the top. Turned out well without the slow cooker! But I had wanted to cook using the slow cooker which was the point of buying the book, but couldn't find a suitable recipe for my ingredients, although the vegetarian ones detailed looked okay I think.

I'm not sure if I will cook many dishes from this book, and those that I do will not involve meat it looks! Rather disappointed really, and it was an expensive book.

[Jane Huws · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bought on the recommendation of a friend, I used this book once and the recipe didn't work. The food was uncooked and inedible. I'm not sure if it required a different type of cooking pot. However, I lost confidence in the book and it now sits on the shelf

[Jo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this was really promising and liked the range of different recipes. I’ve tried three or four and had mixed results. One worked really well a couple were okay and one was a disaster. I’ll try more but select the recipes carefully.

[Sophia Graebke · Rating 4 out of 5]

A favourite slow cooker book of mine - I especially like the dal/legumes section. The recipes are fairly easy to follow, so you won't find yourself spending hours on the preparations for a "set it and forget it"-type of meal. It's not much of a coffee table cookbook, though.

[Pearl · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was given this for Christmas the other year and I can honestly say this is a book I go back to time and again!

[Monika Rozek · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointed

I am very disappointed with this book.
To many ingriedients, each recipe requires 6 - 10 ingriedients. Nothing new or orginal.
I will send it back.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspired me to take my slow cooker out of the cupboard and use it for the first time :)