Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, Revised and Expanded: 400 Perfect-Every-Time Recipes

by Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann

Fall in love with your slow cooker all over again. You probably own a slow cooker—80 percent of American households do. For more than thirty years, its unbeatable convenience and practicality have made it a staple of busy families, enabling anyone to return to a home-cooked meal at the end of a hectic day. Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann turned slow cooker recipes on their head with Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, making it one of the best-selling slow cooker cookbooks of all time. Now, they're going global with this revised and updated edition that includes 50 new recipes from a variety of cuisines (Greek, Spanish, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Middle Eastern, and more) plus an exciting new collection of ways to use any slow cooker to make pulled pork and other bbq-flavored dishes. All your favorite, classic slow cooker recipes are still here, plus many more from international cuisines that bring flavor and adventure to any meal,

Tortilla Breakfast Strata with Homemade Turkey ChorizoCurried Chickpeas with Creamy Cucumber-Tomato SaladOrange Hoisin ChickenHungarian Beef Stew with Paprika and MarjoramSoulfully Good Pork Spareribs with Pineapple and GingerChicken and Shrimp JambalayaChocolate Peanut Butter Pudding CakeThere is also practical information on the different types of slow cookers, their latest accessories, and what sizes are best for what purposes. With over 350 recipes, this is the go-to guide for every home. Discover even more modern takes on classic techniques and dishes from the Not Your Mother’s series: Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two; Not Your Mother's Microwave Cookbook; Not Your Mother's Fondue; Not Your Mother's Casseroles Revised and Expanded Edition; and Not Your Mother's Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook Revised and Expanded Edition.

Genres: Cookbooks, Reference, Nonfiction

592 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2016

About the author

Beth Hensperger is a passionate professional- and home- baker who is both extremely creative and extraordinarily prolific as an author and developer of quality recipes. Her training included a ten-year apprenticeship as a restaurant and hotel pastry chef as well as having her own custom wedding cake business and attending classes given by some of the top bakers in America. Though restaurant trained, she considers herself more of a dedicated home baker than a chef.
Beth’s writing career began when she was chosen as the Guest Cooking Instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Appetit. She is now the author of fifteen cookbooks, many of them best sellers. Her most recent books include: Williams Sonoma Breads (Weldon Owen), Bread For Breakfast (Ten Speed Press), and The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook (HCP). The Bread Bible (Chronicle Books) is the recipient of The James Beard Foundation Award for Baking in 2000. Beth's Basic Bread Book (Chronicle Books), a sequential text for the beginning home baker, published in the Fall of 1996, was chosen as one of the best baking books of the year by People Magazine. She has been nominated twice for the IACP Julia Child Cookbook Awards. Her books are all represented at the prestigious Culinary Collection of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
When she isn't up to her elbows in flour, Beth is a monthly food columnist with the San Jose Mercury News "Baking By the Seasons". She is a regular contributor to Cooking Pleasures, Food & Wine, Shape Magazine, Bon Appétit, Veggie Life, and Pastry Art and Design Magazines.

Reviews

[Melissa Lee-Tammeus · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some nice recipes in here but it is a very basic cookbook - no pictures of any kind, no nutritional information, and it is mostly for 3 quart meals. I picked out a few I wanted to try but I was looking for much easier recipes for my son to take to college with him. This one didn't really pan out for that purpose.