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Author: Judith Finlayson
Publisher: Robert Rose
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

21 reviews
Sales Rank: 22106

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.7 x 0.7

ISBN: 0778801330
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5884
EAN: 9780778801337
ASIN: 0778801330

Publication Date: December 2005
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

A winning combination of healthy eating and convenience.

Here's an ideal combination: a tasty meal, nutrition for good health, and the convenience of a slow cooker. The Healthy Slow Cooker offers more than 100 delicious, nourishing recipes that are healthy and contain key nutritional, health and wellness information. Along with a complete nutrient analysis, each recipe will feature:

An icon denotes vegan friendly recipes
"Mindful morsels" that highlight particular nutritional elements
"Natural Wonders" that provide an a overview of a dish's healthful benefits

For example, Indian-Style Chicken with Pur�ed Spinach provides 400% of the daily requirement of Vitamin K, and cumin in the recipe improves digestion. Here's a small sampling of the tantalizing array of recipes:

Creamy Polenta with Corn and Chilies
Moroccan-Style Lamb with Apricots and Raisins
Ribs 'n' Greens with Wheatberries
Winter Vegetable Casserole
Cranberry Pear Brown Betty
Indian Banana Pudding

For diabetics, the book features a separate section of useful advice and nutrition guidelines.

Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Cant go wrong with easy and healthy July 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

We have had about half a dozen dishes now out of this book. I really enjoy it as slow cookers are the lazy way to cook and most of the time you get a slow cooker book its full of garbage. Lazy cooking plus healthy is my idea of great. Toss the stuff in.. head to work ... come home and eat.

5 out of 5 stars

Inspiring and useful book for cooks of all levels -- and time constraints April 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I think this is an absolutely wonderful book. It makes it possible even for someone like me -- with little cooking experience, even less time, and to boot, a kitchen that is in the middle of a serious renovation -- to prepare delicious and very healthy foods. The food is incredible, the instructions are clear, and the accompanying information is very useful. I can't say enough good things about it. In addition to being healthy, each recipe is unique and subtle, yielding a dish that makes my short time in the kitchen very rewarding. The book is organized well with a layout and pictures that invites browsing through the recipes.

Most of my previous health food endeavors have been limited, primarily, to low-calorie foods. This book takes healthy eating to a different dimension by considering vitamins, ratios of meats to vegetables, and nutritional variety. I've enjoyed reading the information paired with each recipe as much as I've enjoyed the food itself. And that's saying something -- I've prepared perhaps one-third of these recipes, and all have been winners. It includes recipes using a wide variety of ingredients, many of which I would never have tried nor known how to cook without using this book. For me, it's perfect -- this is the kind of food I want to eat, but learning the techniques and cooking it via means other than the slow cooker is not something I have time to do, unfortunately.

My time and budget constraints have meant cutting a few corners prescribed by the recipes, but the recipes have turned out very well for me. The book includes instructions and measurements for grinding your own spices, as well as introductions to exotic and otherwise intimidating (to me) specialty food items that require going beyond the fare at, say, Kroger grocery stores. I don't grind my own spices -- I buy them in bulk to save money, and for these recipes do my best estimations based on guidelines in the beginning of the book and my own tastes. I also try to substitute some of the more expensive food items. (Many recipes call for nothing beyond the ordinary, and the ones that do usually only have an ingredient or two that exceeds my normal food budget.) The recipes are still FABULOUS.

Another aspect of the book that many here have noted is that the cookbook author includes, in each recipe, instructions for "softening" vegetables and browning meats on the stove before putting in the pot. This makes a huge difference in terms of taste. And I must also say that of the other slow cooker cookbooks I own, most say in the introduction that doing this is a good idea, but they don't include it in their recipes. Given that, this cookbook isn't significantly more complicated in its instructions than most others on the market.

I will soon wrap up this long review... but I do encourage anyone interested in a relatively easy way of cooking healthy, truly unique food to seriously consider this book. The results of each recipe are undeniably wonderful, and I believe the ingredients and methods are adaptable to a wide range of cooking abilities and budgets.

5 out of 5 stars

Yummy! March 26, 2008
Yummy recipes, and very easy to read. Not complicated, and I'm super excited about my new crockpot and armed with all these recipes, I'm set!

2 out of 5 stars

Not for regular use. March 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Sadly, I have to agree with the reviews that say the recipes are overcomplicated and not for daily-type use. I was highly disappointed by this cookbook. Many of the recipes require a ridiculous amount of prep and effort (toasting seeds in a pan and grinding them with a mortar and pestle -- talk about completely missing the point of a slow cooker!) Quite a few use hard-to-find or specialty ingredients that can leave you scouring all the stores in town to find what you need and then paying an arm and a leg for it. No thanks. I'll be checking out some other slow cooker cookbooks.

5 out of 5 stars

Great recipes and very healthy! February 25, 2008
I have only tried two recipes, but they came up soo good! I definetly recommend this book.

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