Title: Martha Stewart's Slow CookerAuthor: The Editors of Martha Stewart Living
Genre: Non-Fiction, Cookbook
Synopsis: Slow cooker recipes from Martha Stewart including meat, main dishes, vegetarian dishes, side dishes, and even desserts!
My Thoughts
So excited to review a cookbook for the first time! This isn't even available to the public until a week after I had received it!
First off, Martha admits right at the beginning that she had not used a slow cooker until she and her team were researching and writing this cookbook.
You can really tell that the team that put this book together worked hard to create the best version of these recipes a slow cooker can produce. Every recipe has a photograph, correction a BEAUTIFUL photograph, of the dish. It begins with a short paragraph introducing the dish, its origins, and what to serve it with. The ingredients listed are always high quality and what the editors found worked best in a slow cooker. Ingredients that are less common also have easier to find substitutions listed, which can be helpful.
Be warned, this is not 110 dump-everything-in-the-slow-cooker-and-go recipes. Martha Stewart reminds the reader that the slow cooker is to be used as a tool to help prepare meals, and not all recipes can just be thrown in and expected to taste good. Quality recipes are the first priority. Many of the recipes ask that you prepare some part of the meal before it is placed in the crockpot. For example, I made the Three-Cheese Macaroni and the recipe called for the onion to be cooked first before added to the pot, and that breadcrumbs should be browned and then added on top in the last 15 minutes of cooking. Other recipes have steps like searing the meat beforehand or making the broth in the crockpot while you cook another part of the meal on the stove.
I was also excited to see that one of my favorite TV chefs was credited with a recipe in this book, Emeril Lagasse's Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup. I appreciate credit given where it is due.
Bottom line: You need to add this book to your cookbook collection. It is seriously a beautiful book with great recipes. I'm so glad that I had the chance to review it. You can purchase your own copy from Amazon by clicking the image of the book above. (Seriously, you want this book.)
Comment below if you have read this book or have suggestions for others like it!
To buy this book from amazon now, click on the image at the top of the post.
To see more from Martha Stewart, visit her website linked above.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
So excited to review a cookbook for the first time! This isn't even available to the public until a week after I had received it!
First off, Martha admits right at the beginning that she had not used a slow cooker until she and her team were researching and writing this cookbook.
You can really tell that the team that put this book together worked hard to create the best version of these recipes a slow cooker can produce. Every recipe has a photograph, correction a BEAUTIFUL photograph, of the dish. It begins with a short paragraph introducing the dish, its origins, and what to serve it with. The ingredients listed are always high quality and what the editors found worked best in a slow cooker. Ingredients that are less common also have easier to find substitutions listed, which can be helpful.
Be warned, this is not 110 dump-everything-in-the-slow-cooker-and-go recipes. Martha Stewart reminds the reader that the slow cooker is to be used as a tool to help prepare meals, and not all recipes can just be thrown in and expected to taste good. Quality recipes are the first priority. Many of the recipes ask that you prepare some part of the meal before it is placed in the crockpot. For example, I made the Three-Cheese Macaroni and the recipe called for the onion to be cooked first before added to the pot, and that breadcrumbs should be browned and then added on top in the last 15 minutes of cooking. Other recipes have steps like searing the meat beforehand or making the broth in the crockpot while you cook another part of the meal on the stove.
I was also excited to see that one of my favorite TV chefs was credited with a recipe in this book, Emeril Lagasse's Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup. I appreciate credit given where it is due.
Bottom line: You need to add this book to your cookbook collection. It is seriously a beautiful book with great recipes. I'm so glad that I had the chance to review it. You can purchase your own copy from Amazon by clicking the image of the book above. (Seriously, you want this book.)
Comment below if you have read this book or have suggestions for others like it!
To buy this book from amazon now, click on the image at the top of the post.
To see more from Martha Stewart, visit her website linked above.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
