Most slow cooker cookbooks tend to focus on "home-style" foods, like chilis, stews and other dishes of the sort that your grandmother might have made at some point. The homey feel that slow cooked foods evoke is is one of the things that makes them so wonderful, but it also tends to make slow cooker recipes sound similar after a while. The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World doesn't cover those same old recipes and, instead, aims for the more unusual recipes that are not often included in grandmothers' recipe collections. The chapters in the book are divided up by country and each section has sides, mains and even desserts. The American chapter will have some standards, but India includes Eggplant and Pea Curry, Neopolitan Truffle Risotto is from Italy and the Mexican chapter has lots of chilies and moles. As you might suspect from the names of the dishes, some are slightly more involved than the average slow cooker stew, but even the hardest will be easier than the recipe would be if prepared in another way. After all, the slow cooker does a lot of the work for you.
All of these recipes are great choices for winter entertaining, when you're looking for something hot, satisfying and elegant.
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1-14-2007 @ 1:54PM
Rachel said...
This looks so good! Thanks for pointing it out. I am always on the lookout for good slow cooker recipe books. I love preparing everything in the morning and coming home to a yummy-smelling house when I get home from work. Do they have a good variety of healthy recipes?
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1-15-2007 @ 9:03AM
scrivener said...
Thanks for the recommendation: That truffle risotto mention did it for me. I just bought this at Half.com for $8.25, counting shipping.
Not sure if "speedy checkout" is a blessing or a curse.
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1-17-2007 @ 6:26PM
moonablaze said...
I just received this book and if nothing else, it's beautiful. It really makes tossing some stuff in the crockpot feel less like a cop out and more like "real cooking."
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