Recommended Reads

Here's an ideal combination: a tasty meal, nutrition for good health, and the convenience of a slow cooker. The Healthy Slow Cooker offers more than 100 delicious, nourishing recipes that are healthy and contain key nutritional, health and wellness information. Along with a complete nutrient analysis, each recipe will feature:

• An icon denotes vegan friendly recipes
• "Mindful morsels" that highlight particular nutritional elements
• "Natural Wonders" that provide an a overview of a dish's healthful benefits

For diabetics, the book features a separate section of useful advice and nutrition guidelines.

People who've turned to the ketogenic diet often have tremendous success losing weight. But in order to keep losing weight—and avoid putting it back on—you need to have a long-term commitment to the diet. Easy Ketogenic Diet Slow Cooking shows you how to combine simple keto-compliant ingredients in scrumptious slow cooking recipes to create a weight loss regimen you'll be happy to follow. This is the first slow cooker cookbook specifically for the ketogenic diet—and it brings you delicious recipes that require no fancy ingredients. So you can enjoy familiar flavors, affordable meals, and the hands-off convenience of slow cooking.

 

In December 2007, Stephanie O'Dea made a New Year's resolution: she'd use her slow cooker every single day for an entire year, and write about it on her very popular blog. The result: more than three million visitors, and more than 300 fabulous, easy-to-make, family-pleasing recipes, including: Breakfast RisottoVietnamese Roast ChickenTomatoes and Goat Cheese with Balsamic Cranberry SyrupFalafelPhilly CheesesteaksCrme Brulee

--and much more. Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the perfect cookbook for easy, quick prep, inexpensive ingredients, and meals that taste like you spent hours at the stove.

In The 150 Best Slow Cooker Recipes, you'll find superb recipes that will exceed your expectations for not only preparing everyday meals, but also for entertaining -- from casual Friday nights to even the most challenging special occasions,

Everyone wants food that is easy and flavorful, whether it's an old favorite that evokes fond memories such as Classic Boeuf Bourguignon, Shepherd's Pie with Creamy Corn Filling or Pineapple Upside-Down Spice Cake. New taste sensations that reflect today's globalized world can be found in Pumpkin Soup with Shrimp and Lime, Stuffed Pot Roast in Cumin-Flavored Gravy or Thai-Style Coconut Flan. Old standards or new classics, The 150 Best Slow Cooker Recipes has an abundance of appetizing and dependable recipes.

With the ease and convenience of hands-off cooking, dinner's ready when you are! And "OOH IT'S SO GOOD!!

For the millions of home cooks who swear by the ease and convenience of the slow cooker, this book provides a whole new array of healthy, delicious recipes—that don’t rely on canned soup for flavor! And for the millions of vegetarians looking for simple, hearty fare, this book introduces them to the magic of slow cooking. 
Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker proves that slow cookers can be used for much more than just tough, inexpensive cuts of meat. They are perfect for vegetarian and healthy cooking because slow cooking is a foolproof way to make beans, grains, and root vegetables. Chapters on appetizers, soups, stews, beans, vegetables, condiments, breakfasts, desserts, and beverages ensure that nothing is overlooked. At last, vegetarians and anyone looking for healthy meal alternatives can take full advantage of this amazing appliance.
 

Low-carb cooking has never been this easy, or tasted this delicious! The Everyday Low Carb Slow Cooker Cookbook shares how to make nutritious low-carb meals that the whole family will enjoy, with very little effort or attention. Nutritionist Kitty Broihier and chef Kimberly Mayone offer over 120 delectable low-carb recipes that cover everything from breakfast to dessert, family meals to potlucks, comfort food favorites to international cuisine.

Whether you have diabetes, are trying to lose weight, or are just looking to eat healthier, The Everyday Low-Carb Slow Cooker Cookbook is guaranteed to put the fun back into cooking and make life a whole lot easier

When acclaimed chef and cookbook author Deborah Schneider discovered that using her trusty slow cooker to make authentic Mexican recipes actually enhanced their flavor while dramatically reducing active cooking time, it was a revelation. Packed with Schneider’s favorite south-of-the-border recipes such as Tortilla Soup, Zesty Shredded Beef (Barbacoa), famed Mole Negro, the best tamales she has ever made, and more, The Mexican Slow Cooker delivers sophisticated meals and complex flavors, all with the ease and convenience that have made slow cookers enormously popular.

The 110 recipes in this book make the most of the slow cooker’s assets (low heat, hands-off cooking), while also uncovering its hidden potential. Readers will find that they can not only braise cuts of meat until meltingly tender and let soups and stews simmer away untended, but also gently poach fish, cook up creamy scalloped potatoes, and bake a perfect cheesecake. This book has everything home cooks need to maximize flavor and make life a whole lot easier.

Packed with delicious recipes for everyone--including those who have to keep track of food exchanges, carbohydrates, sugars, calories and fats. Includes recipes for delicious fare such as Mexican Meatballs, Garlic Lime Chicken, Black-Eyed Pea Soup, and Hot, Spicy Lemonade Punch. Each healthful recipe includes a complete nutritional analysis.

 The Whole30 Slow Cooker features delicious, no-fuss dinners that cook while you work; roasts that transform into tacos, salads, and soups, for easy meals throughout the week; and satisfying one-pot meals that make prep and cleanup a breeze. These creative meals use whole-food ingredients found in any supermarket, and as an added bonus, feature recipes and directions for making your meals Instant Pot-friendly

Who's hungry? EVERYONE. Who has time to cook? NO ONE. Dig out the slow cooker. Fix-It and Forget-It offers the range of recipes slow cookers do well: Appetizers and Snacks, Soups and Stews, Main Dishes (with and without meat), Vegetables and Go-Alongs, Desserts and Beverages. Bring an element of simplicity--and quality--to your pressured life! Let your slow cooker work for you.

With Skinnytaste Fast and Slow, you can get a nutritious, flavor-packed, figure-friendly meal—complete with a flourless chocolate brownie made in a slow cooker—on the table any night of the week. Gina Homolka, founder of the widely adored blog Skinnytaste, shares 140 dishes that come together in a snap—whether in a slow cooker or in the oven or on the stovetop. Favorites include:
 

Stock the Crock brings together the expertise of America's most popular slow-cooker authority with a fresh collection of 100 essential, innovative, and easy-to-prepare recipes—each with variations allowing readers to customize the dish according to their dietary needs. You'll find beloved classics, as well as dishes you might be surprised can be done successfully in a slow cooker. (Hello, slow-cooker crème brûlée!)  Whether you are looking to accommodate gluten-free, paleo, or vegetarian diets, or prefer slow-cooker meals perfectly sized for one or two people, this cookbook provides smart ideas, more than 100 recipe photos, and cooking hacks that will change the way you use your favorite fuss-free cooking appliance. Learn simple make-ahead tricks, convenient baking tips, and how to make two recipes at once using the same cooker, so you can simplify cooking and spend more time enjoying your family and friends around a wonderful, delicious meal.

Showcasing a beautiful, engaging design, inviting color photographs, and 105 original, innovative recipes thoroughly tested in a variety of brands of slow cookers, Adventures in Slow Cooking provides a repertoire of delicious food for any time of day. The author also provides ingenious tips and tricks that will help cooks get the most out of today’s slow cookers, and have them saying, "I never knew my slow cooker could do that!"

Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook takes a completely fresh look at cooking with this popular appliance. This comprehensive collection of 350 recipes combines the ease of slow cooking with the fresh, wholesome ingredients and exciting flavors of today's kitchen. The authors offer dishes for every time frame, without compromising on taste, quality, or variety. And Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook showcases the best of home cooking while taking advantage of a global melting pot of flavors.

A collection of two hundred all new slow cooker recipes is focused on simplicity, dependability, and versatility to help readers create great-tasting, home-cooked meals for family meals or larger crowds, with minimal preparation and only a single pot.

A specially designed low-carb cookbook includes more than two hundred recipes for soups, stews, appetizers, and main dishes incorprating chicken, beef, pork, and lamb--all designed to be prepared in a slow cooker while the chef is doing something else. 

With a slow cooker, even novices can turn out dishes that taste as though they came straight out of the kitchen of a French grandmère. Demonstrates how to adapt classic French dishes for convenient, high-flavor results, providing coverage of such favorites as crispy duck confit, bouillabaisse and ginger, and crème brûlée.

Incredible meals and extra easy dishes that taste like they're made from scratch

• 120 recipes including chili, hearty soups and stews, one-pot meals, five-ingredient dishes, and slow-cooked desserts
• Tips and hints on how to reinvent slow cooker leftovers and cut fat and calories from comfort food favorites
• Deliciously simple recipes and suggestions for entertaining groups while taking it easy on the cook