Customer Reviews

Slow Cooking for Yourself: Restaurant quality food ready when you walk through the door!: Restaurant Quality Food-ready When You Walk Through Your Door

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Read the reviews that were here so bought it without a thought. Just a word of warning, if you have cut down on red meat please be aware that this book is mainly awash with pork, beef, lamb, duck etc. Just to let you know. I am not a veggie, but rarely eat red meat, so most of the recipes are no good for me.

I was so impressed with this recipe book that I bought a copy for my daughter.The recipes contain easily obtainable ingredients and illustrated very well in a really tempting way.

So far everything I have tried from this book has worked really well, and I love coming home to a cooked meal ready for me. It has made me more adventurous with my slow cooker cooking and I like the way the author gives ideas for the second portion or left over ingredients. I have used some of the recipes when just one person comes for lunch or supper with great success, too.
It is worth noting that quantities are generous, and I now sometimes use less of the starchy ingredients (potatoes, rice etc.).

Excellent. Great recipes which work really well. Could have done with some photos to let you see how it should turn out.

Great recipes, easy to follow.I would definitely recommend this even if, like me, you are a big famyl because you can multiply the quantities accordingly.

and i think the quality is very good i will tell all my friends about them thanks so very much

There may be no illustrations, but the numbe of recipes equal the Hamlyn book ( which I also have). The recipes are interesting and varied and I don't have to work out how to measure recipes for a larger slow cooker. Mine takes 2 quarts.
I am surprised to find fewer meat recipes in comparison with vegetarian ones. This conflicts with one reviewer complaining there were too many meat recipes. Haven't tried any yet, but will certainly be doing so.

This book shows how to save money and time by using a slow cooker for your family meals, cooking delicious dishes such as stews and pot roast.

Used my new slow cooker for the first time yesterday and tried a recipe of pork, apples and cider from this book. It was delicious. Lots of tasty looking recipes in it and I shall be trying lots of them. Book is for a single person, but easy to double up for two. Only four stars as I would have liked pictures of the meals included, and there are none.

I am so impressed with this little book. With most recipe books, you flick through and there are only a handful of recipes you'd actually try but with this book there are loads I want to try. What's more, it's not full of new fangled recipes trying to jazz up slow-cooking but instead gives you unpretentious classic recipes that prove really popular with everyone, such as Winter Lentil Soup, Minestrone, Leek and Potato Soup, Fish Pie, Kedgeree, Tuna Pasta Bake, Boeuf Bourguignon, Steak and Kidney Casserole, Pot Roast Chicken, Meatballs in Tomato Sauce, Chilli Con Carne, Lasagne, Irish Stew, Hot Pot, Chicken Supreme, Chicken Curry and loads of great veggie recipes using beans and lentils. The cake and pudding section is mouthwatering too (I can't wait to try out Honeyed Rosemary Apricots, or Panettone Pudding). I'm so impressed with the recipes I've tried - simple, easy to prepare and completely delicious - and I'm looking forward to trying some more. I had no idea the slow cooker could be so versatile.
I would also recommend this book for students because most of the recipes are the kind of food you'd get at home: economical in both time and money, nutritious and hearty, comforting and crowd-pleasing. Now you can buy Crock-Pots small enough for one there's really no excuse!