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Loading... The Italian Slow Cookerby Michele Scicolone
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  SquirrelHead | Jan 4, 2011 |  The Italian Slow Cooker is a great cookbook for learning how to get the most out of your slow cooker. I definitely recommend it for anyone who has one, or is interested in getting one, and doesn't know what to do with it. The photos (by Alan Richardson) are just lovely and made me wish every recipe had an accompanying photo. For more info and recipes: http://archthinking.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-italian-slow-cooker.html (  )1  lorin77 | Feb 17, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
Finally a book that combines the fresh, exuberant flavors of great Italian food with the ease and comfort of a slow cooker. Michele Scicolone, a best-selling author and an authority on Italian cooking, shows how good ingredients and simple techniques can lift the usual "crockpot" fare into the dimension of fine food. Pasta with Meat and Mushroom Ragu, Osso Buco with Red Wine, Chicken with Peppers and Mushrooms: These are dishes that even the most discriminating cook can proudly serve to company, yet all are so carefree that anyone with just five or ten minutes of prep time can make them on a weekday and return to perfection. Simmered in the slow cooker, soups, stews, beans, grains, pasta sauces, and fish are as healthy as they are delicious. Polenta and risotto, "stir-crazy" dishes that ordinarily need careful timing, are effortless. Meat loaves come out perfectly moist, tough cuts of meat turn succulent, and cheesecakes emerge flawless. No library descriptions found. |
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You can recreate traditional Italian dishes, soups and desserts in a crock pot – perfect for anyone with a busy schedule. Michele Sciolone is the author of many cookbooks, a cooking instructor and an Italian culinary tour guide.
The recipes in this book are intended for slow cookers with a 5 to 7 quart capacity. If you are a household of two, as we are about to be, the extras may be frozen for a quick dish later on.
We tried Chicken and Orzo Soup as well as Mushroom Soup with Marsala . The chciken soup was my favorite so far. The orzo cooked in the slow cooker was incredibly tender and fluffed up. It was like having tiny dumplings…must be the lengthy (and low heat) cooking process from using a slow cooker. You’ll be amazed if you cook orzo this way – promise!
For the recipes and photos please see my blog:
http://tinaculbertson.blogspot.com/2011/01/italian-slow-cooker-cookbook.html (