Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
by Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann
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Book Reviews of Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
Book Review: Amazing variety, pay attention to details
Summary: 4 Stars
I use this cookbook quite a bit. Lately, my schedule has been such that I'm almost never home in the typical "dinner prep" time frame, but still have a family to feed. I've been using my Crock, and this book, nearly 4 times a week.
I love the huge variety of detail. There are extremely long cooking recipes, and quick cooking recipes. Some days, I forget to throw something in in the morning, and I can still find plenty of recipes that I can throw together in the early afternoon and will still be ready by dinnertime. I've found that it's not only important to pay attention to the cooking times, but also, to pay attention to the recommended slow cooker size for each recipe. Things recommended for small cookers, cooked in larger cookers, may scorch. Things recommended for large cookers, squished into a smaller cooker, may not finish cooking or come up to temperature. Those details are important.
I've had a few recipes that I followed to the letter turn out strangely: the Hamburger Soup was way too thick, the Potato Soup way too thin. However, there's plenty of information in these pages about how to modify things, so I find I can usually adjust the consistency to my taste without adding a lot of extra cooking time, and if worst comes to worst, I know how to fix it next time.
I love this cookbook. I can cook when I feel like cooking, and we can still eat when we usually would. Brilliant.
Book Review: Excellent Cook Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I am constantly using this cook book - there are many great recipes, none of them have been a disappointment.
There are two great corn beef recipes, good recipes for pork butt and roasts, great vegetarian soup recipes, and the best recipe for posole that I've ever found.
As other reviewers have noted, the book is also an excellent resource for crock pot cooking.
I have recently become a vegetarian, but I still use this book to cook recipes for my boyfriend. The Southern Barbecued Pork on a Bun recipe is one of his favorites - I bet he could eat it every day.
I also use it to cook a variety of vegetarian dishes: Chili sin Carne, Black Bean Chili, Lucky Chili, Lentil Chili, Chickpeas with Chard, and Borscht. (To name a few!)
This is my top pick for slow cooker recipes.
Book Review: So - So.
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought this book would be the answer to my dinner prayers. It looked so modern and fresh and convenient. Unfortunatly the easiest recipes were the least edible. Don't bother with the salsa chicken or the "quick teriyaki". I made them both to a T and they came out close to yucky. I've had some success, I guess, but I could tell you more recipes that failed the "family test" than passed. It might give you some good ideas, but I don't think this book deserves any real praise. I think I gave it three stars because I might have made a mistake with the recipes so I wanted to give it the benefit of doubt. But honestly, I am a seasoned cook who knows how to cook with and without recipes. This book is not very helpful.Book Review: a great addition to my kitchen
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book so much that i have given it as a gift to my mother, sister, and mother-in-law. Its true that some of them recipes have prep time to them, some require adding ingredients midway, some have short cooking times, but every recipe i have tried from this has worked out great! I never thought i would use a crock-pot as much as I have this year, and i doubt that i would be using it very much at all if i did not have this book. I have a couple of other crock-pot cookbooks. This is the only one i use.Book Review: Is ketchup a recipe ingredient to you?
Summary: 2 Stars
Your answer to the question will determine whether you like this book. I almost purchased this book, and then found it at the library to look at first. I found 4 recipes that I would consider making. One recipe (but not one of the 4) listed ketchup as a recipe ingredient, and others listed similar prepared processed sauces likely to have lots of sugar. Its probably fine for someone using the crock pot to save time and bother - but I like to know the ingredients, and ketchup doesn't cut it for me.