Dawn Hall - Busy Peoples Slow Cooker Cookbook

Busy Peoples
Slow-Cooker
Cookbook Dawn Hall To one of my most favorite people in the world, my mother, Wendy Ellen Oberhouse, whose mouthwatering meals on more than one occasion distracted me from the Sunday church service. Copyright 2003 by Dawn Hall All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any otherexcept for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Rutledge Hill Press, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., P.O. Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee, 37214. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-4016-0107-3 (hidden spiral)
1. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 1-4016-0107-3 (hidden spiral)
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Electric cookery, Slow. 2. Quick and easy cookery. I. Title.
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Busy Peoples Library The recipes in these two cookbooks are all easy to prepare and cook They all contain 7 ingredients or less and can be prepared in less than 30 minutes Down-Home Cooking Without the Down-Home Fat 1-4016-0104-9 $16.99 Includes recipes for: Citrus Pancakes Caesar Oyster Crackers Chicken Skillet Cobbler Chewy, Gooey No-Bake Freezer Cookies Turtle Cake Busy Peoples Low-Fat Cookbook 1-4016-0107-3 $16.99 Includes recipes for: Eight-layer Chili Casserole Steak and Potato Cattlemans Soup Cherry Oatmeal Peppermint Chocolate Cheesecake Butterfinger Trifle Available at better book stores everywhere!
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www.RutledgeHillPress.com Reviews from Real-Life Busy People I wasnt expecting this to be such a great book. It is so full of great recipes! Usually you buy a recipe book and maybe try one or two but not with this book.

This is a keeper. All the recipes are simple with only a few ingredients and almost no prep time. This was exactly what I needed to keep dinners sane in a very busy household with people eating at all different times. I am a very busy mom and Dawn Halls cookbooks have been a lifesaver for me. My family has loved everything I have fixed in the Busy Peoples Slow Cooker Cookbook. I can look up a recipe at the last minute and have all the ingredients 95% of the time.

This is rare for me with other cookbooks. As a working mother of two boys, this cookbook is a lifesaver! It is one of the better slow cooker cookbooks Ive seen. The recipes are different than other ones I have seen, and they are all 7 ingredients or less. Gotta love that! It really does make life a lot easier. It is so nice to come home and have dinner ready and have it taste good. My husband and kids are always happy.

This cookbook has some of the best crock-pot recipes Ive seen. Dawn Hall has outdone herself this time with a variety of delicious, easy to prepare dishes that all use 7 ingredients or less. Youll spend more time deciding which recipe to try first than actually making the meal! Contents T hank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am so blessed. God has surrounded me with a wonderful support team of people of integrity, character, and a high work ethic. Each of them is a vital part of this books success. It seems appropriate, since I thank God daily for these two very special people, that I first publicly acknowledge what a tremendous gift from God they both are to me.

To my faithful, loyal, hardworking, and dedicated assistants, Karen Schwanbeck and Diane Bowman-Yantiss, I am and will always be grateful. You two are my right hand ladies. Theres no way I could do all I do without you. To Brenda Crosser, my test-cooking assistant, thank you for all of your help and helpful suggestions. I appreciate you. To Jo Anna Lund, the unselfish, ever-giving, and caring author of Healthy Exchanges Cookbooks, thank you for your counsel and for introducing me to your literary agent.

More importantly, thank you for being a living example of a godly, Christian businesswoman and author who truly runs her business and life by the Golden Rule. To my literary agent, Coleen OShea, thank you for all you do on my behalf and for bringing Rutledge Hill Press and me together. We are a great fit. To the staff at Rutledge Hill Press, I am grateful to be united with publishers of integrity such as you. I am blessed to be able to say my publishers dont publish anything I would be ashamed to be associated with. That means a lot to me.

Thank you, Tammi Hancock, a registered dietitian, for your expertise in getting accurate nutritional data for each recipe. Last but not least, I want to thank my family. Often people think it would be wonderful to be at my dinner table every day eating something new or different I had created. But in all honesty, how would you like to be a guinea pig 365 days a year? They got tired of continually eating a meal prepared in the slow cookernonstop, day in and day out, until I finished this cookbook. For their patience and perseverance, I thank them. I ts been said that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Often this has been the case in my life. If I were not the one living my life, Id find the truth of my life unbelievable. Many have said my story would make a great movie. Who knows? Maybe someday. I was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. My parents divorced when I was five.

When I was ten we moved to Toledo, Ohio, when my mom remarried. Im the oldest of seven. I feel I was born watching my weight and have struggled with being a compulsive overeater for as long as I can remember. I hate it. I flunked first grade. In the early years of elementary school my teachers always told me I wasnt focusing in class, even though I was trying to with all my might.

It wasnt until adulthood that I was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, which explains my extreme difficulty (even today) concentrating with background noise and distractions. I graduated with honors in 1981 from Springfield High School. I married my high school sweetheart, Tracy Wayne Hall, in 1984. I never went to college. I worked as a waitress until I was pregnant with our first child in 1986. We were blessed with two wonderful daughters born in 1987 and 1988.

It took one year to physically build our small ranch home ourselves (with the help of friends) while our family lived in a tiny efficiency apartment above Tracys parents garage. We fondly named our new home Cozy Homestead, and we moved into it in June 1992. I enjoyed teaching aerobics and facilitating classes for compulsive overeaters. With passion I was creating new recipes every day, and our family never ate the same meal twice for family dinners. I home-schooled our children until November 28, 1994. Ill never forget that day.

It was the day my life was turned inside out and upside down and also the last day of a normal life as I can remember it. November 28, 1994, the day after my loving husbands thirty-second birthday, was the day we found out Tracy had brain cancer. Doctors were able to surgically remove one pound of malignant tumor, leaving Tracy completely paralyzed on his entire left side. He was given six to eight months to live. I told Tracy the day we found out about his cancer that I believed God was going to use our most challenging situation to give Himself praise and glory. That is