Review: Classic and Traditional. Slow Cok Recipes
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
This review is from: International Slow Cooker Recipes - 50 Easy, Healthy, and Delicious Recipes for Slow Cooked Meals (Kindle Edition)As a busy woman, I love to use my slow cooker. I have had my present slow cooker for over a year, and I feel pretty comfortable cooking slow cook foods. This cookbook covers the international scene, and I had fun looking at the recipes and deciding what I will try next.Brenda Finney is the author of this cookbook. I really liked the photo on the cover of the e-book, and I missed photos of the food. Some of the instructions could have been more explicit. Since I have used the slow cooker for awhile, I know how to layer the foods.I also often sauté the onions and peppers for a better taste before putting them in the slow cooker. These are things you learn as you go along. Brenda has written an introduction of how she came to write the cookbook, and to explain some of the recipes are adaptations of classic and traditional recipes. And, some are her own recipes, derived from her own travels. The first slow cooker came onto the scene in 1971 by Rival. The slow cooker world has evolved greatly, and now most slow cookers switch to a warming phase after cooking. Brenda suggests we prep the veggies the night before and put everything together the next day, before we leave the house.There are 50 recipes, broken up into 5 chapters with 10 recipes in each chapter. The recipes are easy to read and use. Most of the ingredients are ones you will have in your home. The chapters are:1. Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Slow Cooked MealsThis covers Kashmir lamb chops to Mediterranean Ragout.2. Mexican Slow Cooked MealsTaco Soup3. Italian Slow Cooked MealsLasagna toItalian Meatballs4. Caribbean Slow Cooked FoodsSlow Cooked Chicken to Slow Cooked Pork5. German Slow Cooked FoodGerman Pot Roast to German Pulled PorkAll of the recipes look delicious. I am cooking the German Pot Roast right now, and it smells so good. Note: I was given this e-book to read and review,Recommended. prisrob 11-07-13