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An upscale approach to the new-old phenomenon of cooking with a slow cooker, by author and food journalist Lynn Alley, featuring 60 recipes. 

With fresh ingredients and imaginative recipes, you can create delicious meals to serve with pride to your guests. Drawn from slow cooking traditions from around the world, the recipes in The Gourmet Slow Cooker include Lamb Shanks in Tomato Sauce from Greece; Apricot Chicken from India; Chicken Mole from Mexico; White Truffle Risotto from Italy; Provencal Chicken Stew from France; and Potato, Cheddar, and Chive Soup from the United States.

Including chapter introductions to each region, and focusing on the slow-cooking traditions and techniques from that country; local wine or beer suggestions for all 60 recipes; and featuring 16 full-color recipe photographs, The Gourmet Slow Cooker will elevate your everyday dining from the mundane to the gourmet, while freeing you from hours of hard work in the kitchen.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press (September 15, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580084893
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580084895
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.34 x 0.45 x 8.98 inches
Reviewer: prisrob
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Food From Around The World Via Your Slow Cooker
Review: Lynn Alley has written the definitive word about food cooked in a slow cooker. I have a new Cuisinart Slow Cooker and could not wait to use these recipes.Lynn tells us she has used a slow cooker for awhile, but after returning from a time away to research a book, she deided to look at foods from around the world that could be done in one dish and preferably a slow cooker. She has provided a story of the first one dish meal called 'The Midas Feat ' , and she has given us a recipe to duplicate. One portion of the book gives us tips on slow cookers, size and shape of the slow cooker,safety, how to arrange food in the cooker, and why. Lots of tips to make your slow cooker cooking much more successful.And, then the recipes from around the world, the United States from baked beans to chocolate chip cookies! Then, Mexico, chicken mole to Spiced Meatballs in Chipolte Sauce. On to Great Britain, corned beef and cabbage to Irish champ. Here comes, France, Beef Burgundy to Split Pea Soup. Italy, polenta to biscotti. Greece, moussaka to walnut cake. India, eggplant curry to stuffed peppers. How to make chicken stock and then on to the Resources she has used. There are 92 pages of recipes. I can't wait to try them all. I have lamb shanks with tomato sauce slow cooking now! As an added attraction, Lynn Alley has also given us her suggestions for wine or beer with each meal.The cookbook is well put together. The glossy pictures superb, they will make your mouthstarts to water for some of the delicious food to come. If you are a slow cook lover and delicious food enthusiast, this cookbook is for you!Highly Recommended. prisrob 09-11-12Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World50 Simple Soups for the Slow Cooker

Reviewer: The Rebecca Review
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Tamale Pie
Review: If you are always looking for good slow cooker recipes then this book might entice you. I liked the Tamale Pie which only require minimal effort. First you make a beef filling and then you top the filling with a cornmeal crust. Total time is three to four hours. I did change a few things in the recipe since I could not find some ingredients. Like I used small diced tomatoes instead of crushed. Also the recipe doesn't call for a specific quantity of salt. I used two teaspoons seasoning salt, but would probably only use one teaspoon seasoning salt the next time I make it.Also I cut back on the sugar in the cornmeal crust. I saved time by using black olives that were already sliced. I will add a can of black beans to the filling next time I make the recipe. This is one of those recipes where it is so good you want another helping. The filling has a nice spicy taste because of the chili powder and cumin. The recipe calls for one tablespoon of cumin seeds but you are probably more likely using ground cumin. So I only used one teaspoon ground cumin. Besides all the adapting this was fairly quick to make.The leftovers freeze well and can be microwaved easily later.~The Rebecca Review

Reviewer: Jay P. Francis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: You will still have to do prep work
Review: We think of slow cookers as labor saving devices, and they are. However this book focuses on utlilizing the slow cooker as another tool in the kitchen, one that, by its design, results in tender cooked meats. This is not a book for those who want to be able to throw stuff into the cooker and come back 8 hours later. There is a lot of prep work, and, the three recipes I have prepared so far, require sautee skills, blender skills, roaster skills. Excellent, flavorful end results though. I have tried chicken and dumplings, tamale pie, and pork stew with tomatillos. The winner is the pork stew. Honestly I have never tried a recipe that required 3 lbs of tomatillos. But it worked. Also I haven't ever used my broiler before to roast chiles, onions, tomatillos, etc. I always used my comal on top of the stove. But the broiler method worked great.Of the tamale pie and chicken with dumplings recipes, neither the dumplings nor the cornbread were spectacular, but the flavor was very good.For the way I cook, and because I enjoy prep work, I can recommend this book.But be warned.Supplemental: The artichoke risotto was a complete bust. It just didn't work. I don't know what kind of crockpot she was testing this recipe in, but I followed the directions to the letter, and after two hours on high, the risotto was inedible. I moved it over to a rice cooker to finish off. So my rating goes down to 3 stars with this experience.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lots of work
Review: The recipes are good, but I thought it would be everything in the slow cooker without much prep, but it is a lot of prep before anything goes in the slow cooker. If you are looking for a way to same time this is not the cookbook to use.

Reviewer: Kathy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Beautifully illustrated and very easy to follow recipes. Ingredients are those readily stocked in most cook's pantry. I will give this book as a gift many times over I'm sure.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Not that many recipes. But ok.

Reviewer: Seve
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I love the slow cooker & this gave us some inspired meals, I enjoyed pairing the meals with the recommended beverages.

Reviewer: Florance
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I have not cooked a lot of recipes out of this book yet, but the ones that I did try turned out very well. This is not your wipe-up-a-meal-with-minimum-effort kind of book. You will need to do some prep before putting the food in the slow booker. But of course, you get better results because of that. 🙂

Reviewer: Gerry McCowan
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Some of her recipes didn't really represent the counties she wrote about and some of her recipes definitively did not represent gourmet cooking.Not a great connoisseur cookbook.Campfirecook.