The Italian Slow Cooker | Michele Scicolone | Better than average slow cooker recipes

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	The Italian Slow Cooker Michele Scicolone Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Product Description Finally a book that combines the fresh, exuberant flavors of great Italian food with the ease and comfort of a slow cooker. Michele Scicolone, a best-selling author and an authority on Italian cooking, shows how good ingredients and simple techniques can lift the usual "crockpot" fare into the dimension of fine food. Pasta with Meat and Mushroom Ragu, Osso Buco with Red Wine, Chicken with Peppers and Mushrooms: These are dishes that even the most discriminating cook can proudly serve to company, yet all are so carefree that anyone with just five or ten minutes of prep time can make them on a weekday and return to perfection. Simmered in the slow cooker, soups, stews, beans, grains, pasta sauces, and fish are as healthy as they are delicious. Polenta and risotto, "stir-crazy" dishes that ordinarily need careful timing, are effortless. Meat loaves come out perfectly moist, tough cuts of meat turn succulent, and cheesecakes emerge flawless.

Recipe Excerpts from The Italian Slow Cooker

Chicken Parmesan Heroes
The Butcher's Sauce
Chocolate Truffle Cake

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Better than average slow cooker recipes

I made the beef short ribs last night for company and everyone thought they were great. Yes, there is more prep work involved in these recipes than the typical "throw it in the pot and ignore" crock pot cookbook recipes but that is also why they taste more interesting. While these recipes could probably be made on the stove as well, it was nice to do the prep work and then be able to go about my day without worrying about dinner cooking dry or the stove catching on fire. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone willing to do a little extra work for great tasting food.

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Yummy slow cooking...

I love this book...I have made soups and fish stews and even the amazing meatball meatloaf from this book and my husband and I have loved everything. Recipes are clearly written and easy to follow and it is truly delightful to be able to make Italian food in this new way. Sauces are easily thrown together and simmer away...the result is that my entire kitchen smelled so fragrant...I am working my way through almost every recipe. It is a much needed addition to the volume of recipes out there for slow cookers. The fact that these recipes have such an Italian flare is wondrous.

The Italian Slow Cooker

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A must-have addition to your cookbook collection

What a wonderful cookbook! I've made quite a few recipes from it and each one has been fantastic. They are also easily adaptable to cooking in the oven if you want to double the recipe for larger crowds. Whether you're an experienced cook who likes to modify recipes, or a novice just learning the art of cooking, you can't go wrong with buying this book.

A How to use your Slow Cooker Recipe Book

This is one great cookbook. The recipes are easy to read and follow, and the final product is awesome. What I like the most is that they require very little in prep time and are very fast to do for people who work outside of the home. You do not have to sacrifice taste for speed. The recipes include are for: soups, sauces for pasta, risotto, polenta, grains, seafood, eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, veal, pork, lamb, vegetables, dried legumes and desserts.

Some of the recipes that I tried were: Creamy Cauliflower and Potato Soup (page 21), Pasta Fagioli -- my husband's favorite (page 35), Mussel, Saffron, and Fennel Stew -- takes a longer time (page 100), and Pesto Chicken (page 125).

All the recipes turned out delicious and I am not a great cook (but I can follow recipes). About half the recipes require a longer prep time but I thought that it was worth it since they turned out very good. I highly recomend this cookbook for everyone.
The Italian Slow Cooker

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The Italian Slow Cooker

What a wonderful book! My husband hates slow cooked food he say's it all taste the same like mush. I've made two recipes from this book and he loved them.

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