Williams-Sonoma Quick Slow Cooking: More Than 125 Tempting Recipes with Hectic Schedules in Mind

by Kim Laidlaw

This cookbook from Williams-Sonoma minimizes hands-on time while maximizing flavor in 120 main dish recipes for the slow cooker.

Slow cooker recipes are a boon to the busy cook, but many call for long ingredient lists and complex preparation steps that just aren’t realistic for cooks on the go. In this new take on slow cooking, the recipes are developed with hectic schedules in mind, with streamlined ingredient lists and a minimum of recipe steps. Each recipe is a one-pot dish or a main course that can be easily augmented by a simple salad or side dish.

In addition to the over 120 delicious recipes, there are tips for choosing a slow cooker, how to build flavor into your dishes, how to stock your freezer and fridge, and tips for busy cooks on how to get weeknight dinners on the table.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

224 pages, Hardcover

First published November 4, 2014

Reviews

[Chuck Knudsen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ratio of pictures to recipes - 1:4 or so. Not bad, but definitely not good. They are gorgeous pictures, but many are of ingredients instead of finished products. I am a picky cookbook browser.

I understand the wordplay the title is going for but most of these recipes involved ~15 ingredients, and a stage called 'Prep' that is more than "put ingredients into crockpot".

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some nice looking recipes, but nothing I'd make myself. Nice pictures, but I'd say maybe 1/3 of the recipes have one, and most are just of the raw ingredients. For a book of 'quick' recipes they were more involved than I thought they'd be.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

The recipies I made were tasty, but not exceptional. Great pictures. Some good ideas.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have an earlier version of this book, and the recipes are all sound. I could have done with more photos of finished meals and less coconut in the recipes. Also, many of these involve more prep - it's not completely fix-it and forget-it. You usually need to brown some meal, sauté some aromatics, etc. This can be done via stovetop or in the slow cooker, depending upon the time you have. But if you're getting this ready prior to leaving for work in the morning, if you're like me you may not want to deal with browning meat.

However, the results are great. The recipe we keep returning too here is the sauerbraten recipe. It's great, and easier than making it in the oven. So I think of this as slow cooker meals for company - I'm willing to cook a little, and then the house smells great and I don't have to worry about rushing around the kitchen as everyone arrives.

[Dana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Start Your Slow Cookers

There's a lot of good recipe ideas in this book. There's also more than I would like of curry recipes. But I don't like curry. So there's that.

[Aasinathena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this book!

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this cookbook, there are recipes I look forward to making.