Pamela Rice Hahn - The Everything Slow Cooker Cookbook: Easy-To-Make Meals That Almost Cook Themselves!

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Slow Cooker Cookbook

2 ND Edition

Dear Reader,

Like you, one of my everyday realities is that I have to get meals on the tablesomehow. Because with just a little planning ahead I can practically fix it and forget it until its time to serve the meal, the slow cooker is one of the easiest ways to go about getting that done. Hopefully with the help of my book, you too will come to appreciate that the slow cooker is the perfect countertop appliance for creating and cooking an endless assortment of family-friendly dishes.

Unless stated otherwise, the recipes in this book were tested using the Cuisinart four-quart Programmable Slow Cooker. (See for additional equipment.)

This is my fourth Everything cookbook. I truly enjoy finding innovative methods for fixing and adapting traditional methods to create tasty food. Im fortunate that I then get to pass that information along through the recipes in my cookbooks.

My sincere wish is that your time spent cooking will be more enjoyable because Ive helped make the food that comes out of your kitchen not only delicious but also easier to prepare.

Pamela Rice Hahn

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For their help and support, I would like to thank everyone at Adams Media. For all of their hard work and perseverance, I would like to thank my agents Sheree Bykofsky and Janet Rosen. Special thanks also go to my daughter, Lara Sutton; her husband, Randy; and the other joys in my life: Taylor, Charles, and Courtney; Ann, Andrew, Dennis, and Tony Rice; my mother; my nephew Brian Teeters; and Eric J. Ehlers, David Hebert, Star Geisz, everybody at ProudPatriots.org, and my other online friends.

The recipes in this book were created for use in todays worldwith an emphasis on making as much of that food as possible using a slow cooker.

The slow cooker makes it possible for you to prepare great-tasting food in ways that save you time and effort. Take a quick look at this book and youll see that there are recipes for food that can take you from breakfast to lunch to dinner, and through all points in between.

While every effort was made to create foolproof recipes for this book, its impossible to anticipate every factor that can affect cooking times. For example, a slow cooker sitting on a kitchen counter next to a drafty window on a sub-zero, windy winter day is going to take longer to come to temperature than one sitting in direct sunlight in the summer. Regardless of the cooking method, ingredients at room temperature will cook faster than those just out of the refrigerator, and even faster than those fresh from the freezer.