Davidson - Slow Cooker Cookbook: Easy One-Pot Meal Crock Pot Recipes - 1000 Recipes (Everyday Recipe Cookbook)

1000 Recipes! SLOW COOKER COOKBOOK Easy One-Pot Meal Crock Pot Recipes Louise Davidson
Copyrights All rights reserved 2018 by Louise Davidson and The Cookbook Publisher. No part of this publication or the information in it may be quoted from or reproduced in any form by means such as printing, scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright holder. Disclaimer and Terms of Use This book is presented solely for motivational and informational purposes. The recipes provided in this book are for informational purposes only and are not intended to provide dietary advice. A medical practitioner should be consulted before making any changes in your diet. Additionally, recipes cooking times may require adjustment depending on age and quality of appliances.

Readers are strongly urged to take all precautions to ensure ingredients are fully cooked in order to avoid the dangers of foodborne illnesses. The recipes and suggestions provided in this book are solely the opinion of the author. The author and publisher do not take any responsibility for any consequences that may result due to following the instructions provided in this book. The nutritional information for recipes contained in this book are provided for informational purposes only. This information is based on the specific brands, ingredients, and measurements used to make the recipe and therefore the nutritional information is an estimate, and in no way is intended to be a guarantee of the actual nutritional value of the recipe made in the readers home.

Within minutes, dinner is served and the whole family can enjoy a satisfying and nutritious meal together. Yes, the slow cooker can be your magic genie or the shoemakers elves, doing the work for you while you sleep or while you have other things to do. You throw in all your ingredients, let it slow cook for a few hours, and come back for a ready-to-eat meal. You save time, energy, money, and most of all, serve healthy and delicious food to your family. Slow cookers are for the seasoned chef as well as the cooking novice because of their versatility. With the slow cooker, you have time to do other stuff.

The slow cooker is also safe to leave cooking all day in your home. You can prepare slow cooked meals to warm you in winter. In summer, while using the well-insulated pot, you can prepare tasty dishes without adding more heat to your home. There are 1000 slow cooker recipes in this cookbook, each with easy to find ingredients, step-by-step instructions and nutritional facts. You will also find some useful slow cooker cooking and caring tips.

Here are a few tips that can make using your slow cooker an even more satisfying experience.

1. Meal plan and pre-prep your food as much as possible. It is true that sometimes you can just throw random ingredients into a slow cooker and turn out a masterpiece. It is also true that sometimes that philosophy can result in a culinary disaster. I know that you are probably busy, and meal planning may or may not be something that is on your priority list. However, you should at least try to give a little thought to what you might like to cook during the week.

   Taking a little time at the beginning of the week can actually save you big time over the course of the week. Also, if you know you are going to be preparing a certain dish or using specific ingredients, pre-wash or cut them in advance to save yourself some time later. This is especially helpful if you are assembling a slow cooker full of goodness in the morning before you rush out the door.

1. To really make your slow cooker meal a no fuss event, prepare everything the night before. You can brown meat, cut vegetables, and assemble everything in the evening. Once it is assembled, place it in the refrigerator and simply grab it and get it going in the morning.

1. In most cases, slow cooker times can be adjusted to suit your schedule. The recipes in this book were created using a certain quantity of food at a low temperature to allow the dishes to take eight to ten hours to cook to perfection.

   If you would like to shorten that cooking time, simply cut back a little on the ingredients and increase the temperature to high. Generally speaking, increasing the temperature can take off two to four hours off the cooking time, depending on the dish.

1. Consider browning the meat. Many of the recipes in this book call for browning the meat, or quickly sauting some vegetables. Do you really need to do this step? For that question the answer is no. However, if you are looking for the highest quality results, then the answer is yes. Browning the meat before you place it in the slow cooker helps to maintain the moisture, flavor, and juiciness of the meat.

   When you saut vegetables, you change the character of the ingredient and alter the flavor slightly, to something a little more desirable. Take onions, for instance. You can just place them in the slow cooker. They will absorb juices and soften during cooking. The result is often delicious. Other times, you might want to saut them a little to bring out their natural sweetness to a level that slow cooking alone is unable to do.

1. When you brown your meat, dont forget to scrape the pan.

   There is an awful lot of goodness left in the bottom of a pan that a piece of meat has been browned in. The same is true for the oils or moisture left after sauting vegetables. Take the extra minute and scrape the pan into the slow cooker to keep all the extra flavor.

1. Beware the dairy. If you are following a ketogenic diet, which means you are likely also enjoying creamy, full fat dairy products daily. Full fat dairy is great as it provides valuable nutrition and important fat calories. You can include full fat dairy in your slow cooker creations, you just have to be a little thoughtful of how you do it.