Learn to COOK - Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker: 200 Recipes for Healthy and Hearty One-Pot Meals that Are Ready When You are

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 641..5636 EAN: 9781558322554 ISBN: 1558322558 Label: Harvard Common Press Manufacturer: Harvard Common Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2004-01-25 Publisher: Harvard Common Press Studio: Harvard Common Press
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Editorial Reviews: By now the remarkable convenience of the slow cooker is no secret. It keeps the kitchen cool on warm days and is inexpensive and durable. The perfect appliance for vegetarian and healthy cooking, the slow cooker offers a foolproof way to cook beans, grains, and numerous vegetables. Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker delivers recipes for simple, delicious, hearty fare without relying on canned soup for flavor. With chapters on appetizers, soups, stews, breakfasts, desserts, and more, this is the book for anyone looking for healthy meal alternatives.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great recipes Comment: I highly recommend this book - all the recipes I've tried have been really good. The only thing is, most of them require some pre-prep - you don't just toss the ingredients in the slow cooker. I don't mind that, though, because the extra time spent in prep leads to delicious results. Customer Rating: Summary: techniques are good but recipes lack flavor Comment: While I have learned tips and techniques from this book, I have not been impressed with the flavors. The recipes lack flavor (in my opinion) and I often find myself adding a little cumin here or some smoked paprika there. For example, adding cumin to the corn chowder brings the recipe to the next level. I also disapprove of the use of canned tomatoes in some recipes, like the ratatouille. Ratatouille should capture the essence of summer and it is against the spirit of the recipe (again, in my opinion) to use canned tomatoes instead of fresh ones. In addition, the tastes of canned tomatoes is too strong compared to say, the mild zucchini or eggplant. I am not too crazy either about the use of orange juice concentrate in some recipes. I am still searching for a solid slow cooker cookbook, so please let me know if you have any to recommend :) Customer Rating: Summary: Impractical, disappointing... mostly useless to me Comment: My husband is more-or-less a vegetarian, so I was hoping for reasonably easy, practical help in making dinners for him. For my purposes, this book is pretty useless. Almost every recipe demands some exotic ingredient, unavailable in my neighborhood (couscous isn't good enough, it must be ISRAELI couscous etc); some are just disappointing, like p88 - the horrible 'Vegetarian pot au feu' that makes you wonder why vegetarians even enjoy food; and p75, a dismal'Indian, cauliflower and kidney bean stew'. p107 'Slow Spanish beans and rice' is OK. But what a basic recipe! And even this one requires that you fry up food in a skillet first. So - nothing is easy or simple with this pretentious book. If you have little time, live in an undistinguished neighborhood with ordinary supermarkets, and just want to cook healthy dinners, this is NOT the book for you. I regret buying it. Customer Rating: Summary: Great recipes! Comment: I enjoyed this cookbook so much a friend of mine decided to buy a copy as a birthday present for his wife! I love the fact that there are all kinds of recipes in the book - from main courses to snacks and cakes. So far I have only made a couple of the recipes, but both of them were hands down winners! I did have one challenge - I wanted to make the chocolate fudge pudding cake, which calls for a pan to be placed inside the cooker. All of my cake and pie tins were too large, so I was at a quandary about what to do until I realized that I could use the pan from my small rice cooker. Perfect! I served the recipe to my friends along with vanilla ice cream. It was as good as any of the desserts that I have had at 5 star restaurants. Customer Rating: Summary: I love this book!! Comment: I have given this book to more than one friend. It is so wonderful to have a vegetarian book for the slow cooker. The recipes are great! More Reviews