Rating:  Summary: Real-life cooking Review: I have bought several other crockpot cookbooks. They have maybe 100 recipes with beautiful full page color photos and none of them tasted very good to me or my family. I borrowed this book from a friend to try a few recipes and loved it so much I bought a copy of my own. It is FANTASTIC!!!!!! There are about 800 recipes. Plenty of meat main dish recipes which is what I am interested in. I couldn't believe you could make so much in a crockpot. (Chicken Cordon Blue for example) I am a full time college student and mother of two young children and wife, this book makes my life a lot easier. I couldn't live without it.
Rating:  Summary: Too many processed ingredients Review: Was disappointed to see so many recipes calling for processed foods (canned chicken, canned mushrooms, velveeta cheese, etc.). Doesn't seem up to the times
Rating:  Summary: Promises to deliver Review: This book is a conglomeration of lots and lots recipes. No pictures, no fuss. Easy to follow recipes with readily available ingredients. All in all, a real bang for your buck!
Rating:  Summary: Over promise and under deliver Review: This book is merely the conglomeration of lots and lots recipes. No pictures, no recommendations. Too much information, too little intelligence. All in all, not what I expected.
Rating:  Summary: Way too much canned soup, but some gems within Review: Most of the other reviewers have nailed it - a lot of these recipes are totally over-reliant on canned soup and other highly processed ingredients. Ever read the ingredient list on a can of cream-of-whatever soup? Scary! These are the kinds of recipes you find in old cookbooks from the 1950s when canned soup was considered this amazing new technical advance. Well, the only thing that's amazing about it now is the amount of preservatives it contains. That being said, if you stick to the recipes that don't use cream-of-death soup, you will find some gems in this cookbook. There are some interesting Oriental-flavor recipes in particular. However, a lot of the "800-plus" recipes in the book are either exact duplicates or recipes with extremely slight variations, so you're not getting as many recipes as you think you are when you buy the book. The easiest, tastiest, and most versatile crock-pot recipe is this: take 2-4 chicken breasts, place them in the crock-pot still frozen, add half a can of chicken broth and your favorite spices, and cook on low for 4-6 hours. You can use this cooked chicken in enchiladas, fajitas, chicken ala king, etc.
Rating:  Summary: Great cookbook Review: This book is wonderful! I love being able to follow simple recipes and make them in the crockpot! They are simple, but there are several repeats in the book I could do without. But the recipes I have tried are delicious. You won't go wrong with thie book!
Rating:  Summary: Not so great Review: Recipes are kind of yucky (maybe just not to our taste, though) but easy. Not a very wide variety, but eg. many many (too many) recipes for meatballs etc -- but not a wide variety of foods. Some things I made according to instructions seemed a little overcooked.
Rating:  Summary: Have some MORE pot roast! Review: How many recipes for pork chops does one person need?! How about 20? How about 14 recipes for pot roast? Or 13 for cranberry punch? An entire week's worth of split pea soup is available, too, by only varying one ingredient a day (maybe two--JACKPOT!). No wonder the book is sold in shrink wrap with no demos available to look at. Seriously though, if you are looking for a winning state fair baked bean recipe, you could use this book's recipe collection, and enter a different recipe every year for the next forty-seven years! Wheeeeee!! Happy blue ribbons to ya!
Rating:  Summary: Not for the health-conscious! Review: Although most of these recipes are quick and some are tasty (others are ordinary at best), many are far from healthful and in that way not much better than fast food. Many rely on cream soups, bottled dressings, and sour cream for flavor. Also, some of the soups in the "Vegetarian Soup" section contain chicken broth, beef broth, bacon, or dried beef. Someone needs to check the definition of "vegetarian"!
Rating:  Summary: Great Book Review: This book is very useful because it has so many recipes using ordinary groceries you have in the house.
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