Slow Cookin In The Fast Lane

3 Delicious Spins on 5-Ingredient Meals, to Save You Time in the Kitchen AND the Grocery Store Express Lane Cooking will get you in and out of the grocery store fast and save you from prepping complicated, time-consuming meals when you get home. You'll grab just 5 key ingredients and then choose from 3 delicious recipes to bake, grill, roast or simmer those ingredients into mouthwatering meals the whole family will love. No other book offers this kind of variety from one express lane checkout. Turn chicken, black beans, salsa, cheese and rice into Fiesta Stuffed Chicken, Chicken and Black Bean Burgers or Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken Rice Bowls. Grab ground beef, bow tie pasta, ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese and pasta sauce, and whip up Polka Dot Lasagna Skillet, Slow Cooker Ricotta Stuffed Meatballs or Pasta Balls with Meat Sauce. Cut down your grocery list and expand your meal selection the easy way so you have time to enjoy your food and your family.

The secret is out: That slow cooker that's been collecting dust in your kitchen cabinet is a wonderful and easy tool for making delicious entrees at the touch of a button. With new U.S. sales estimated at 6 million a year, more people are finding slow cookers indispensable in getting a home-cooked meal on the table. Besides tasting good, slow cooked meals are convenient and nutritious because you use fresh, wholesome ingredients. Slow Cookers For Dummies is for working families, couples, single people, students, and anyone who is tired of takeout. Perhaps you love cooking but have little time to do it or want to decrease your reliance on prepared mixes or boxed convenience foods. Slow cooking may be right for you if you want to Save money on food and utility bills Control your sodium and fat intake Free up your oven and cooktop for more holiday cooking Take a hot dish to a potluck supper If you already know how to use a slow cooker, the delicious recipes in this book can help you expand your repertoire beyond soups and stews. If you're thinking of getting a slow cooker, Slow Cookers For Dummies takes you from the basics of how these cookers work to preparing special occasion meals, to troubleshooting slow cooker problems. Here's a closer look at what Slow Cookers For Dummies includes: Guidelines on how to choose the right slow cooker for you Techniques to help you slow-cook the right way Easy recipes for snacks, beverages, chili, stews, and casseroles Scrumptious recipes for roasting beef, pork, lamb, and poultry How-to's on cooking and freezing in batches Ways to adapt favorite traditionally cooked dishes for the slow cooker In Slow Cookers for Dummies, food and appliance cooking experts Tom Lacalamita and Glenna Vance show that this classic cooking appliance is really a wonderful tool for making creative, delicious meals. With 75 recipes for making the most out of your slow cooker, you'll never put that slow cooker in your cabinet again.

A collection of 55 fix it and forget it recipes for Mexican favorites from an award-winning Mexican cooking authority, in a stylish, engaging package. When acclaimed chef and cookbook author Deborah Schneider discovered that using her trusty slow cooker to make authentic Mexican recipes actually enhanced their flavor while dramatically reducing active cooking time, it was a revelation. Packed with Schneider’s favorite south-of-the-border recipes such as Tortilla Soup, Zesty Shredded Beef (Barbacoa), famed Mole Negro, the best tamales she has ever made, and more, The Mexican Slow Cooker delivers sophisticated meals and complex flavors, all with the ease and convenience that have made slow cookers enormously popular.

Bring the taste of fresh, natural ingredients and wholesome meals to your table. Featuring 151 recipes made with canola oil - one of the healthiest cooking oils available - this cookbook will allow you to serve dishes that are low in saturated fat and cholesterol but high in flavor in no time. It's just what the doctor, and your inner chef, ordered.

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental anthropology: economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior, nutritional sciences, environmental sustainability, and globalization studies.

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