Product Description

This book contains healthy recipes for your slo-cooker that are simple to prepare and have outstanding results. Many of the dishes are cooked as one-pot meals, whilst others require a simple accompaniment, such as rice or pasta. Real Food from Your Slo-cooker will help you to prepare meals of restaurant quality that will cook whilst you are at work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2525 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 126 pages

From the Back Cover
The Real Food Series turns natural ingredients into tempting, healthier eating with minimal effort.

Just follow its intruction and put the ingredients in your slo-cooker. You change the cooker into a chef! Any day or every day, it will cook you an evening meal to welcome you home.

Slo-cooking remains popular today because its so good to eat. Until you have experienced the fuller flavours of these slo recipes, you won't understand how good this method can be.

This great system was discovered and developed independently by almost every culture around the world. Here we publish a selection of some of the most exciting of their recipes for you to enjoy.

Your menu for the week, perhaps?
French Onion Soup;
Baked Cheese Onions;
Italian-style Mullet;
Beef Goulash;
Spaghetti Bolognese;
Navarin of Lamb;
Easy Cassoulet;
Coq au Vin;
Paella

About the Author
Annette Yates is a well-known cookery writer and home economist. She has a particular interest in cookery that requires specialist equipment and kitchen appliances. Her books cover subjects including barbecues, pressure cookers, slow cookers and microwaves. She lives in Abergavenny and likes to spend her spare time walking in the Brecon Beacons National Park and eating out of doors (Welsh weather permitting)!

Customer Reviews

If you're a working mother... this is the perfect book!
I'm new to slow-cooking. I've just gone back to work, and have to feed a 16 month old and a husband.

This book is a treasure!! We love the split pea soup, and the winter vegetable soup, and the lentil soup, and the chicken and turkey casseroles, and the pork and cider, and the beef goulash... it's been a lifesaver. Not only is it simple, with easy to find in the UK ingredients, but it has lengthy cooking times!

When I bought my slow cooker I bought several cookbooks, and this one by far is the best. Yes, it's got UK measurements, but the lengthy cooking times are great. If you're out of the house for 9.5 hours every day like I am, you won't want raw food (particularly poultry) sitting in the crockpot waiting for a timer to kick in the afternoon - you want it to cook all day. Some cookbooks don't have all-day instructions and this one DOES!

This book is a gem and well worth the price!

Not the updated edition, but still brilliant.
I purchased this at the same time as 'New Recipes For Your Slo-Cooker' by Annette Yates which, on recieving it, worried that it might just be an updated version of 'Real Food From Your Slo-Cooker.' Well, yes it is, but although a few of the recipes are repeated in the 'New Recipes' book, there are also a lot of recipes that have not been transferred over and therefore make the price tag worth the paying.

If you have just bought a slow cooker and are looking for a cheap book full of recipes to get you started, you won't get better than this one.

It's a little cracker
Having recently purchased a Slow Cooker (I went for the Morphy Richards 3.5 litre) after reading other peoples reviews of the various slow cookers and have been very pleased with it (cooking is even)and would recommend it.
The cooker came with 26 recipes, 3 of which were soups and 2 of which were desserts. But of course, having tried a couple I had the urge to have a recipe book/s for the slow cooker.
I read the various reviews and decided on this one.
It's a little cracker of a book, it is 13.5cm wide, 21cm long and 1cm thick. The book has a lovely picture on the front of the book but does not have any pictures of the dishes inside. The book is well laid out starting with an introduction and handy tips on slow cooking before going into the recipes. I use the cooker when we go to the gym, a wonderful meal awaits you on your return...so it stops you undoing all that good work you think you have done at the gym. You do need to do some preparation with most dishes, i.e.lightly frying onions, garlic, meat and veg before putting into the slow cooker so you need to build this into your routine before you go out. But l have to say the results are worth it. You will find that the meat is moist and the herbs, spices and garlic really do come to the show. All the recipes are in metric, imperial and american measurements and l would say that all the ingredients are availble in the uk. The only problem with this book is....you will be going back for seconds...oh yes.