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Five Ingredients or Less Slow Cooker Cookbook

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The easiest slow cooker recipes ever by the best-selling author of  Make It Fast, Cook It Slow

Stephanie O’Dea,  New York Times  best-selling author of  Make It Fast, Cook It Slow  and  365 Slow Cooker Suppers , is back with her easiest assortment of recipes ever in  Five Ingredients or Less Slow Cooker Cookbook . Just because these recipes are a breeze to throw together doesn’t mean they’re lacking in flavor or creativity. O’Dea knows how to make standard slow-cooker fare delectable, with recipes like Pulled Pork Jalapeño Dip, Pureed Pumpkin Soup, and Cornbread Casserole, while also providing plenty of unexpected slow-cooker dishes like Ginger Glazed Mahi Mahi, Artichoke Angel Hair Pasta, Flan, and Cheesecake. There is also a whole chapter for vegetarian meals, as well as gluten-free options for every recipe in the book. And she does it all with five ingredients or less!

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 3, 2015

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Stephanie O'Dea

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STEPHANIE O’DEA is a New York Times best-selling author and award-winning blogger who has been featured on Rachael Ray and Good Morning America. Her websites garner over a million hits a month, and she currently has over 60,000 email subscribers.

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656 reviews415 followers
January 2, 2017
Five ingredient French onion soup? Coffee cake?? Thai peanut chicken??? There are a lot of recipes in this book that sound exactly like the kind of food I enjoy, and really easy to make. There aren't pictures for every recipe, but the ingredients speak for themselves.
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1,358 reviews31 followers
October 5, 2017
I like the author's writing style, it's breezy and fun. There are plenty of recipes to try and in my experience (I've owned all of her books) the recipes do work. I also like that she admits it when she uses a recipe she found on somebody's website, her honesty is refreshing.
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2,490 reviews
February 18, 2018
This book is a great resource if you like to use your slow cooker. The recipes are easy to follow and generally very family friendly. The meat chapters were highlights for me.

There’s no nutritional information and not enough pictures. But otherwise, this is an almost perfect weeknight cookbook.
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2,268 reviews28 followers
October 30, 2021
For my Mom, Picky Peggy, who would really benefit from trying some of these simple recipes in the slow cooker I bought for her--a few of which I've copied to share with her. But she probably won't make a thing. <3
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10 reviews
August 4, 2022
As a gluten intolerant person that doesn’t enjoy cooking this is a wonderful cookbook. The recipes are easy to throw together with items I always have on hand and the dishes are so yummy my teenage son loves them too.
Highly recommended for anyone that wants easy, delicious food from a crockpot.
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453 reviews15 followers
October 25, 2023
I haven't tried anything yet, but there were so many different things that sounded good and easy, that I probably will have to buy the book. If everything works as good as it sounds, I might never need to use my oven again.
154 reviews3 followers
December 29, 2018
Delicious recipes! Our Christmas dinner came from this book--a Mexican quinoa and bean dish that everyone raved about and cooked while we were at work!
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13 reviews
April 22, 2020
Lots of great recipes!

Can't wait to try out so many of these! A lot of easy and healthy recipes bookmarked for future use already!
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494 reviews3 followers
March 8, 2022
As you can probably tell I was bored at work (the library) and so I grabbed a bunch of cookbooks to look through, cuz why not, and now I have a huge grocery list and a ton of new recipes to try.
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77 reviews
February 12, 2016
Checked this one out of the library, made a few recipes and have ordered the cookbook for my husband and I to use. The recipes are tasty and not complex. I have never given Jack a cookbook, but he enjoys being in the kitchen…my thought is encourage him to create a few meals. All look delicious!

All recipes are gluten-free. O'Dea is the gal who blogged using the crockpot 365 days and has written a few cookbooks. This cookbook is filled with simplified versions of her favorite recipes.
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882 reviews8 followers
December 19, 2015
One of the things I enjoy most about cookbooks is seeing photos of the completed recipes. This book fails miserably in that arena. However, readers will find a wide range of recipes from punch to dessert. that are relatively easy to put together.
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45 reviews
September 12, 2016
Lots of interesting recipes but, as one reviewer mentioned, not enough pictures. Nevertheless some ideas i had but seen before.
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596 reviews4 followers
November 2, 2016
Great simple recipes! Easy and fast read. The greatest thing about 5 ingredients or less is that there are only healthy ingredients -- no filler b.s.
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238 reviews1 follower
December 29, 2017
as a person just starting out with a slow cooker, it's simple and easy to follow. These are recipes that you can add to, try new things and always remember slow cookers taste better the next day.
#favoriterecipe the broccoli & cheese quiche! (on a bed of day old rice!)
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