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Beautiful to display and practical to use, Slow Cooker is truly a godsend for time-challenged cooks who want to prepare healthy, tasty, and satisfying meals but don?t have hours to spend hovering over their stoves. Replete with all the high standards that have made Cooking Light a trusted favorite, this new edition provides over 58 beautifully photographed recipes with useful, easy-to-follow instruction.
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Cooking Light Slow Cooker (Cooking Light)
- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Oxmoor House; 2006-09-01
- Label: Oxmoor House
- Studio: Oxmoor House
- ISBN: 0848730682
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 21 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #486
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Summary: Cooking Light Slow Cooker 2008-11-16
Comment: I've made a few meals from this book and all turned out well. This book has pictures of the food which I like. Some things I wouldn't consider eating only because our family is pretty basic with our meal choices. If you are looking for new ideas for healthy meals I would suggest giving this a try.
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Summary: It's OK if you eat to live... 2008-11-15
Comment: I hate to cook but love to eat, that's why I tried the slow cooker.
With this book, one wants to cry.
Food has almost no taste, no originality, no savor or flavor.
I live to eat as every good Epicurian, do not buy this book if you plan to enjoy yourself.
Claude
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Yummy but Non-Complicated Recipes w. Ingredients in your Pantry 2008-10-26
Comment: I recently bought a new crockpot with the thought of fixing meals that would be ready when I returned home from work. I was delighted to find this cookbook, which I hoped would combine convenience with lighter, healthier meals than you typically find with traditional crock-pot recipes.
So far, I've tried a few recipes which have been delicious. However, my hopes of stuffing the crockpot as I headed out the door were a bit naïve, as the ones I've tried have all required at least 30-60 minutes of preparation time. As a result, I've adjusted my methods and have begun preparing the meals on the weekend for reheating and serving during the first part of the week. Another alternative might be to measure and chop everything the night before for assembling the next morning. It's not that these recipes are complicated or difficult - it's simply that when I last used the crock-pot, my repertoire of recipes was quite limited and confined to only those that featured few ingredients and were extremely simple. An example is the one with boneless pork chops that you toss in the crockpot and throw a can of cream of mushroom over. Not exactly gourmet fare, but it doesn't get much easier and was quite tasty, believe it or not.
Most of the recipes are for 6 servings and since there is just the two of us, I freeze the rest in two serving containers to enjoy at another time. For the most part, the ingredients are those that are easily found in the grocery store or even in your pantry -nothing exotic or expensive. The crock-pot size indicated in all the recipes I've encountered so far is either a 3 or 4 quart. I recently replaced my crock-pot with a Hamilton Beach model that comes with 3 different quart size crocks - 2, 4 and 6 - which has proven to allow a lot of flexibility and perhaps even doubling the recipes.
For those wishing to watch the bottom line, the book provides the per-serving count of calories, fat, protein, carbohydrate, cholesterol, fiber , iron, sodium and calcium for each recipe that includes the side dish - such as rice or noodles - that they suggest serving with the entree.
We're fairly big eaters and the sad reality is that what some recipes consider a serving is about half of what we'd actually like to eat. So far, we've found the portion they've indicated to be a serving is adequate. Knowing how many servings each dish is supposed to provide helps us with portion control, which is our downfall.
I've enjoyed the results of this cookbook and am having fun trying different recipes and having most of the work done up front with little clean-up afterward.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Delicious Recipes 2008-02-14
Comment: This book has many delicious recipes.
Cooking Light in the past has always met my expectations.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Odd Recipes 2008-02-08
Comment: I got this cookbook because I was looking for healthy recipes for my slow cooker. While the recipes are no doubt healthy, few-to-none of them are for what I would consider "common" dishes. I ended up getting the Betty Crocker Slow Cooker cookbook (which gives you a nutritional breakdown for every recipe at the bottom of each page) and like that one a lot better.
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Cooking Light Slow Cooker (Cooking Light)
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