Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker

by Dawn J. Ranck, Phyllis Pellman Good (Author)

Fix-It and Forget-It

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Who's hungry? EVERYONE. Who has time to cook? NO ONE. Dig out the slow cooker. Add a second and a third if you wish. Fill one with main-dish fixins and the others with go-alongs. Do it in the morning--or between work and after-school events. Come home to richly-flavored, ready-to-serve food. Slow cookers are having a comeback. With good reason. They are friends on a day of running errands. They allow easy entertaining with no last-minute preparation. And vegetarians won't find a better way show more to work with dried beans. Slow cookers are gentle with the food budget--less expensive ingredients flourish in their slow, moist heat. 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. show less

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This book certainly has many recipes. Many seem redundant, as if they took every recipe submitted and stuck them in the book. Sometimes this really works for me if I don't like exactly one recipe I can combine ideas. I am ambivalent about the usefulness of this book by itself. On one hand choice is good. On the other hand picking a recipe seems like a crap shoot.
My other quibble is the heavy usage of prepared food in the recipes. What is the point of a slow cooker if you use dried soup mix or canned vegis? Just throw an onion or carrot in for crying out loud!
There are no photos and the book is a paperback with glued binding, but it has stood up to the use. It is an OK book, but not the first book I would have bought for someone just show more starting to cook show less
Haven't tried everything, but what I have tried has been yummy and easy. Definitely a winner if you're looking for hearty meals with minimal prep that will take care of themselves all day while you're otherwise occupied.

My personal favorite? The Chicken Reuben Bake (p.195) - serve it with/on steak rolls. It might sound odd, but it's tasty.
While most of the recipes are good, this book is so poorly organized that it is a headache to use. For example, in the "Main Dishes" section, you might find 5 pot roast recipes, all scattered throughout, and 2 of them would be virtually identical save for one or two ingredients.

I find myself looking up all the recipes for what I want to make, and then mixing and matching between them to suit my tastes. I am still in the market for a good, easy to use slow cooker cookbook.
Overall full of great slow cooker recipes. You'll find everything here from the standard beef stew all the way through how to make corn bread in a slow cooker. The only reason I give it less than 5 stars is because the index is almost useless so it makes things hard to find. Recipes are indexed by recipe name (e.g. Martha's Beef Stew) rather than by ingredients or food type (Beef Stew). Overall the book is broken up by meal types, though, so you can flip through the pages and usually find what you are looking for eventually.
A great cookbook for the busy woman and for the woman who wants to maximize her crockpot to the fullest.
Good recipes contributed by slow cooker users
I couldn't live through the winter without this cookbook.

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Phyllis Pellman Good is a New York Times bestselling author. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from New York University. Phyllis is the author of the Fix-It and Enjoy-It!® and the Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook series . She co-authored The New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Book Sense bestseller Fix-It and Forget-It show more Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker (with Dawn J. Ranck). Phyllis Pellman Good is Executive Editor at Good Booksand lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For a complete listing of books by Phyllis Pellman Good, visit www.GoodBooks.com. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker
Original publication date
2000
First words
Slow cookers have long ago proven to be the efficient friend of those cooks who are gone all day, but want to offer substantial home-cooked food to their households.

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Food & Cooking, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
641.5884TechnologyHome economics & family managementFood and drinkCooking; cookbooksCooking, Specialized EquipmentTimed CookingSlow Cooking
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TX827 .R35TechnologyHome economicsHome economicsCooking
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