Slow Cooking for Two: A Slow Cooker Cookbook with 101 Slow Cooker Recipes Designed for Two People

SLOW COOKING FOR TWO? THAT’S A LOT OF FUN FOR YOU… The book is phenomenal! Structured in an easy to read and understand format, this book has a lot of detailed information to offer. It is a slow cooker cookbook including 101 delicious slow cooker recipes designed for two people. This cooking technique works magically and it has multiple benefits. A slow cooker saves you time, work, money, and could improve your health. The recipes are created for a 1-1/2 to 2-quart slow cooker and ask for little preparation and long cooking times (4-8 hours). The book provides helpful tips for cooking healthy and delicious meals for two, also useful information about this cooking technique and how to buy a slow cooker that works best for your necessities, as well as directions for cooking these mouth-watering recipes to get the most flavor, texture, and taste of the foods. The tips, rules, and guidelines about cooking and shopping, food safety and storage – that’s all you need on your experimental journey to success and, perhaps, to romance as well. The slow cooker can be used to cook a large variety of sauces (Barbecue Sauce), dips ( Pizza Dip), appetizers (Stuffed Mushrooms), soups (French Onion and Cabbage Soup, Chicken Soup),vegetarian sides (Barley Risotto), fish and seafood (Tuna Noodle Casserole), poultry and meat (Chicken Pot Pie, Coq au Vin, Pork Chops with Red Cabbage, Beef Bourguignon, Beef Stroganoff), and even one-pot meals (Barley-Wild Rice Chicken Salad, Rich Lasagna, Tamale Pie) and special desserts ( Chocolate Cheesecake, Pumpkin Pie). The two appendixes at the end of the book about substitutes and equivalents and about different types, sizes, and brands of slow cookers are of real help, too. Amazing book! Have fun cooking together and enjoy savoring these terrific foods cooked in a slow cooker.

As a single person, I really appreciate cookbooks that feature recipes intended to produce 1 or 2 servings. I've amassed a decent collection of them but had none for my slow cooker. So I was intrigued when this showed up as a "recommendation" on Amazon based on my purchase history. First things first: READ THE INTRODUCTION. Even if you're no stranger to slow cookery, you'll find valuable information here, especially the fact that the recipes are designed for 1.5- to 2-quart slow cookers. This tidbit of info is NOT included with the recipes themselves, so if you're used to jumping right into the recipes and making a couple of dishes, you might miss this rather critical instruction. Introductory sections include info on temperature variability (old vs newer models of slow cookers), buying and repackaging/freezing meats, and specific techniques for cooking meats, veggies, poultry, fish -- techniques that will let you use your imagination to create your own slow-cooker meals that taste great. My usual practice when I review a cookbook is to prepare 3 recipes. I used this slow cooker for the first two ( Crock-Pot 2 Qt Slow Cooker - Red ) and this one for the third recipe ( Autumn Leaves Fall Crock Pot Slow Cooker, Round 2.5 Quart ): 1. Beef Stroganoff -- one of my favorite dishes anyway and this slow cooker version works very nicely. Cubed beef sirloin tip, onion, mushrooms, and seasonings with red wine and beef broth are slow-cooked to tender perfection; then sour cream is added with a little flour to thicken the sauce. This has a lot of flavor -- the combination of herbs and mustard give it a lot of depth. I actually got 3 servings of this from the recipe -- served o er cooked noodles. There's no prep cooking on the stovetop -- everything goes into the slow cooker "raw" so it's super simple. This is definitely a keeper. 2. Lasagne Chicken Rollups -- For this one, you pre-cook lasagne noodles (4), then combine ricotta cheese, cream cheese, diced cooked chicken, and seasonings, roll the mixture into the noodles, and cook with pasta sauce in the slow cooker. I sometimes make my own pasta sauces, but for this one, I used a roasted garlic/tomato jarred sauce. This cooks for 3-4 hrs on low; then is topped with mozzarella cheese and baked just until the cheese melts. Good flavor, easy to put together, not a big "wow" factor, but certainly worth doing again. 3. Peach Crumble -- I don't often make desserts in my slow cooker, so I wanted to try one and see how it worked out. I'm a huge peach fan, so this one caught my eye immediately. I used my slightly larger slow cooker for this one (see reference above). I had to modify the recipe a bit because I used frozen sliced peaches. When using fresh peaches, everything goes into the slow cooker at the beginning (fruit + topping) and it all cooks together. Since I was using frozen peaches, I put all the fruit filling ingredients in first, let it cook for an hour or so to thaw the peaches, then added the topping, and cooked per instructions. YES! This is definitely a keeper. I often make peach crisp in the oven, but doing it in the slow cooker is so much easier, and the flavor is perfect. So there it is -- three recipes, three good results. There are several other recipes that I have in my planner to make in the not-too-distant future. I'm liking this a lot. The main downside is that there are no photos in the book other than the cover. I'm OK with that -- I'm not as much of a visual cook -- but others may find that's a deal breaker. So, overall -- I really do like this book. Solid 4 stars.

This is one of the best books I've read on slow cooking. I've done quite a bit of it in the past but mostly for soups and dinner recipes. This book starts out with about 5 pages of very helpful information on how to get the best out of a slow cooker as well as how to choose the right one and other helpful hints. Most of these are things I've never even thought of but which make a lot of sense. There is also a wide variety of recipes for all meals. It honestly had never even occurred to me to use a slow cooker for breakfast. Since I have much limited time in the morning, this is definitely something I've going to try in the near future. Some of the recipes seem very tasty although different than what I had considered using a slow cooker for in the past. Examples include: applesauce, baked oatmeal cereal, chocolate-peanut butter rice putting and several dip recipes. The lentil soup also looks really good. Even though I've made lentil soup before in a slow cooker, I haven't made it with this recipe. I also found the idea of putting cooking spray in the slow cooker to be a great suggestion. I've never tried this and I've had problems in the past with my food getting stuck inside making cleanup of my cooker difficult. It seems like this should help. The only downside to this book is that I'm gluten free and dairy free and many of these recipes are not. So if I were to actually cook them I would have to make some modifications. That said, it wouldn't be that hard to do for many of these recipes and the variety in this book is more than I've seen in most other cookbooks. As a disclaimer I did recipe a copy of this book for free, but I would have happily paid as it is well worth it.

I’m sure this will be a useful book for some. It starts with great information on the why’s and wherefore’s of cooking various items with a crockpot. I learned a few things I did not know. However, I wanted more plant based recipes. There is one section of ten recipes, about three are sides and not entrees. There are a few others, sprinkled here and there, found in other categories. There is no nutritional breakdown and no photos or illustrations anywhere within the book. If you have Kindle Unlimited it is free to read online, which is what I should have done.

I was gifted this cook book along w/a 2 quart slow cooker. I've never owned a slow cooker before and I'm enjoying learning about it. This book has introductory info about cooking this style as well as some interesting and fairly easy recipes.

Not what we were expecting. We are older and we’re looking for something that we can just put in the slow cooker all of the recipes had to have a lot of precooking. We are trying to be as independent as we can be so I guess what I’m trying to say is We Need Dump recipes.

Update: After trying the recipes we thought looked good we were disappointed in a couple of then. The barley wild rice chicken salad was tasteless and had a mushy texture. I'm not sure why they called it a salad as it had only a couple of crispy elements. The coq au vin did not have a great flavor either and took a lot of prep. The loaded baked potato chowder was wonderful as was the pork in peanut sauce. I don't know why the cassoulet was not very good, it has great ingredients and I expected more. Original review: I tried this out on Kindle Unlimited first to see if we would like the recipes. They sound so good my husband wants a spiral bond copy of the book. I have bookmarked quite a few of the recipes we want to try. There are a few ingredients I couldn't find at the local grocery, like yellow curry paste (they had green and red but no yellow) so I ordered some from Amazon. I don't know what some of the items required for chicken mole are but I'm sure I could find them online if needed. But most of the recipes call for common ingredients that will be easy to find. I'm looking forward to trying lots of the food covered in this book. Update: Oh my gosh we have made some delicious dinners! The loaded bake potato soup is wonderful, the butter chicken is great, and I have book marked about eight more to try. We have found that the meals cook faster than the recipe says. Our slow cooker must have a bit higher temp than the cook book suggests. We use a fast read thermometer to check the temp of the food about two hours sooner than suggested to be safe.

This book has a ton of recipes that I can toss in the slow cooker and leave go to bed or work, then enjoy a meal later on. Slow cooker prep seems to be pretty easy here and they actually explain the mechanics of a slow cooker instead of telling you just what button to press. I’m happy with the section that tells you what cuts of meat are good ones for the slow cooker, as well as how to make sure it doesn’t get greasy. It does the same with poultry and seafood. I’ve never relied on slow cookers, usually using them to cook beans, but this seems like a good guide on what to do to make meat turn out. I tried the Egg and Potato Casserole, which cooks for 8 hours and was a perfect hot breakfast. When I was first looking at this book, I thought that it would make two great servings: one for me now and one for leftovers. I’ve made the casserole a couple of times for school mornings and added half again as many ingredients. Still good! This book gets creative with how to make a chocolate cheesecake by putting more dishes inside of the slow cooker. I’m going to try that when I have time.

This book presents some very interesting ideas for making meals for one person in a small slow cooker - 1.5 to 2 quart, size, and difficult to find: I tried to acquire a slow cooker of this size, with a timing facility, but couldn't find one. You'd think with the huge percentage of households now consisting of one person, there would be a considerable market for such a product, but I guess it is still to be tapped.

Wish I'd never bought it because now I'm having to cook for my wife. Plenty of easy meals, I didn't do cooking but now I can stick some food in the slow cooker and go do something less boring without fear of ruining the meal

lots of ingredients that are not available here

This cooking book includes many terms and even more ingredients that are not available in Europe. As a European, I have never heard of Pinto or Northern Beans, nor have I ever heard of Adobo Sauce, and where can I buy Cheesy Stuffed Meat Loaf? Also, a lack of photos makes the book a boring read. The Introduction, tips and techniques about slow cooking are, however, a great help for the beginner.

Mostly American recipes and ingredients took some time to identify UK products