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Author: Rick Rodgers
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

52 reviews
Sales Rank: 24785

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 7.5 x 0.6

ISBN: 068815803X
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5884
UPC: 043144158039
EAN: 9780688158033
ASIN: 068815803X

Publication Date: February 4, 1998
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Great tastes! November 11, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

Nicely written recipies, easy to understand and no fancy ingredients or techniques needed. Some recipies take longer due to pre-cooking browning, etc., but worth the extra effort.

4 out of 5 stars

Very good cook book, worth acquiring June 29, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

The layout in my '98 paperback edition is quaint, at best, but the information is top-notch, an interesting assortment of dishes, most of which I'm interested in making. While this book isn't as pretty as some others, the information is unique, I like Rick Rodgers' writing style -- lots of useful information and food combinations I don't imagine that I'd have ever thought of. I'd like to see this cook book updated, I'd buy another copy. It would be really great if it had a spiral binding, so that it would lay flat -- I love details like that, making things truly useful.

This is a good cook book, buy it!

5 out of 5 stars

A Surprisingly Wonderful Cookbook April 25, 2006
23 out of 23 found this review helpful

I bought this book not expecting it to be as good as the reviews I read here. After all, I couldn't imagine yet another crockpot cookbook to be different from the 6 other crockpot cookbooks I own...but I was wrong. The first dish I tried, Bistro Beef Bourguignon, was simply fabulous (even my fussy teenage son liked it) and our house was filled with the most mouthwatering aroma.

I agree with the other reviewers that you'll spend a fair amount of time putting everything together before you actually create the finished product, but it's time well spent. Too, you'll probably need to cook these recipes on the weekend, as they're not of the throw-everything-in-the-pot-and-walk-away kind. If you enjoy cooking and eating truly wonderful meals, this is the best book of its kind out there.

5 out of 5 stars

Real food, really simple March 9, 2006
31 out of 31 found this review helpful

I grew up in the 1970s eating dinners from the Crock Pot prepared in the morning to be ready when my parents came home from work. My mother was picky, she had only a handful of recipes she liked, because back then far too many recipes called for raw meat dumped in with a can of whatever soup and combined with frozen vegetables. But there were a few, a very few, that with some extra effort yielded wonderful results.

This cookbook takes my mom's view on Crock Pot cooking & makes it a real art. If you like those super simple stews with canned soup, then this is not the book for you. But if you like tasty soups, stews and dinners, then this is one of the best out there. This book has earned a place on my "use it all the time shelf." Sure, as some people have pointed out, it does take more time. Typically, it takes me 20-30 minutes to prepare the meal & put it on to cook. But the results are fantastic and the variety is wonderful.

Finally, I read with surprise the reviews that said that for their "meat and potatoes" families there was nothing here. My family loves the Pot Roast, Good Woman's Chicken, and chili recipes. Yes, there are many other recipes that are more ethnic or unusual, but the basics are here also & they are better than ever before.

5 out of 5 stars

Classic Cooking December 5, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful

I really love this cookbook. This is the first cookbook I've seen to give a cheap cut of beef -the bottom round- a star position. Most books that feature pot-roasts and braises use the "chuck". I think he's really taking a chance by exploring this cut of meat so thoroughly. It must take more skill to get the bottom round to be really succulent and tasty. The techniques here are classic but applied to a modern appliance.
I hope he does a book devoted to another forgotten cut of meat: the eye of the round.

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