Our Favorite Speedy Slow Cooker Recipes

Think slow-cooking is too complicated? Put Our Favorite Speedy Slow-Cooker Recipes from Gooseberry Patch to work and you'll only need a fraction of prep time! Thanks to easy recipes, most with five or less ingredients, this book makes dinner easier than ever to throw together. Part of the best-selling Our Favorites series, the low retail and take-along size of each book will have shoppers wanting to collect 'em all!

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the first cookbook from Stephanie O'Dea, the extremely popular slow cooking blogger: affordable, delicious, nutritious, and gluten-free recipes to delight the entire family. In December 2007, Stephanie O'Dea made a New Year's resolution: she'd use her slow cooker every single day for an entire year, and write about it on her very popular blog. The result: more than three million visitors, and more than 300 fabulous, easy-to-make, family-pleasing recipes, including: Breakfast Risotto Vietnamese Roast Chicken Tomatoes and Goat Cheese with Balsamic Cranberry Syrup Falafel Philly Cheesesteaks Creme Brulee -- and much more. Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the perfect cookbook for easy, quick prep, inexpensive ingredients, and meals that taste like you spent hours at the stove.

Get the recipes everyone is talking about in the debut cookbook from the wildly popular blog, Skinnytaste. Gina Homolka is America’s most trusted home cook when it comes to easy, flavorful recipes that are miraculously low-calorie and made from all-natural, easy-to-find ingredients. Her blog, Skinnytaste is the number one go-to site for slimmed down recipes that you’d swear are anything but. It only takes one look to see why people go crazy for Gina’s food: cheesy, creamy Fettuccini Alfredo with Chicken and Broccoli with only 420 calories per serving, breakfast dishes like Make-Ahead Western Omelet "Muffins" that truly fill you up until lunchtime, and sweets such as Double Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies that are low in sugar and butter-free but still totally indulgent. The Skinnytaste Cookbook features 150 amazing recipes: 125 all-new dishes and 25 must-have favorites. As a busy mother of two, Gina started Skinnytaste when she wanted to lose a few pounds herself. She turned to Weight Watchers for help and liked the program but struggled to find enough tempting recipes to help her stay on track. Instead, she started “skinny-fying” her favorite meals so that she could eat happily while losing weight. With 100 stunning photographs and detailed nutritional information for every recipe, The Skinnytaste Cookbook is an incredible resource of fulfilling, joy-inducing meals that every home cook will love.

Weeknights mean busy schedules but your slow cooker is here to help! Meal-by-meal cooks have continued to come up with new and creative ways to slow-cook and slow-bake in this timeless kitchen helper. We love that you can prepare an entire menu from drinks, appetizers, soups, sides, mains and desserts! With delicious soups, stews and sides, you can feed your family a hearty snack or quick dinner with zucchini Parmesan or Slow-Cooker Hearty Pork Stew. Let’s not forget how easy it is to get a wholesome meal on the table with worry-free recipes like French-Country Chicken, Savory Merlot Pot Roast and Cheddar Cheese Strata. Top off dinner with amazing desserts like Apple-Peanut Crumble and Chocolate Pudding Cake. Surprise! We added a special chapter with some of those new and fun ways to make recipes in the slow-cooker like Chocolate Peanut Butter Drops, Cinnamon Rolls, Apple-cinnamon bread in jars and Meatless Stuffed Peppers! With these simple and delicious recipes to show your slow-cooker some love, you’ll be guaranteed it’ll love you back.

The debut cookbook by the creator of the wildly popular blog Damn Delicious proves that quick and easy doesn't have to mean boring.Blogger Chungah Rhee has attracted millions of devoted fans with recipes that are undeniable 'keepers'-each one so simple, so easy, and so flavor-packed, that you reach for them busy night after busy night. In Damn Delicious, she shares exclusive new recipes as well as her most beloved dishes, all designed to bring fun and excitement into everyday cooking. From five-ingredient Mini Deep Dish Pizzas to no-fuss Sheet Pan Steak & Veggies and 20-minute Spaghetti Carbonara, the recipes will help even the most inexperienced cooks spend less time in the kitchen and more time around the table.Packed with quickie breakfasts, 30-minute skillet sprints, and speedy takeout copycats, this cookbook is guaranteed to inspire readers to whip up fast, healthy, homemade meals that are truly 'damn delicious!'

Just when you thought slow-cooked recipes couldn’t get any easier, Taste of Home brings you Easy, Simple, Fast Slow Cooker that cuts the prep work from slow- cooked recipes so family cooks can load up their slow cookers in as little as 15 minutes, then set it and forget it as dinner simmers on it’s own during the day. Your favorite slow-cooker recipes just got easier! That’s because the pros at Taste of Home have cut the prep work, reduced the ingredients and trimmed down cooking times to create Fast Slow Cooker! Tossing together a classic slow-cooked dish has never been easier —and quicker—than with the 385 recipes in this brand new cookbook. Created by the folks who know slow-cooking best, this must-have kitchen helper features dishes from today’s home cooks. These are the speedy specialties they assemble in the slow cooker when headed out the door in a hurry. You’ll even find two At-a-Glance icons, highlighting recipes that only require five ingredients as well as those that freeze well. No matter how busy your schedule is, you always have time to toss together a hearty meal with Taste of Home Fast Slow Cooker! CHAPTERS Introduction Slow Cooking 101 Got 15 Minutes? Ready in 4! Quick-to-Fix Entrees Speedy Side Dishes Snacks, Sweets & More Recipes Slow Cooker Lasagna Slow Cooked Beef Stew Steak San Marino Chicken Mole Soy-Ginger Turkey Pizza Hot Dish Italian Pork Chops Easy Jambalaya Chili Beef Dip Chocolate Peanut Clusters Spiced Lemon Drink Hot Fudge Sundae Cake

A collection of 60 soulful, comforting, and wonderfully convenient recipes for Southern favorites--from Black Eyed Peas with Stewed Tomatoes to Country-Style Pork Ribs and Molasses Gingerbread. Cooking delicious, soul-warming Southern food that the whole family will love has never been easier! Whether it's a big pot of black-eyed peas, fall-apart tender pulled pork, or creamy apple butter, the greatest Southern dishes have one thing in common: they taste best when they're cooked low and slow. With more than sixty recipes for down-home favorites, ranging from Chicken and Cornmeal Dumplings to Buffalo Stout Beer Chili to Brown Beans and Fatback, The Southern Slow Cooker is packed with real Southern flavor. Author Kendra Bailey Morris presents regional classics from all over the South: church potlucks, Cajun and Creole traditions in the bayou, even her West Virginia granny's old recipe book. Morris carefully tested and adapted each recipe for the home kitchen, and the result is a treasure for busy home cooks everywhere. With hardly any active cooking time and featuring affordable ingredients, every dish is simple, convenient, and downright delicious. All of these satisfying, flavor-packed, and wonderfully simple recipes allow you to make the food you love in the time you have available--and will have you and your family begging for seconds.

A comprehensive guide to the art of slow-cooker cuisine for beginner and experienced cooks alike, this book offers mouthwatering recipes that require little prep time and call for ingredients commonly stocked in your kitchen cabinet.