Taste of Home Slow Cooker: 431 Hot & Hearty Classics

I love mine, purchased this for my grandson when he moved away, it's perfect for a new cook

Updating my review below, now that we've been using this cookbook for much longer: We really LOVE this cookbook and regularly use it (about three times per week). I have stopped using our other slow cooker cookbooks, which are either too bland or unreliable in the cooking times, and should probably just give them away! We make small adjustments for our taste, to add a bit more of the seasoning/spices or leave out an ingredient we don't like, but as written they are usually good to great. Some of our favorite go-to's include Slow Cooked Mac n' Cheese (p. 210), French Beef Stew (p. 201), Pizza in a Pot (p. 171), Spaghetti Sauce (p. 171), Chipotle Beef Sandwiches (p.39) and Lime Chicken Tacos (p. 135). All are hits with our kids ages 9-16 which is where the "go-to" part comes in.-----------We had picked up a couple of Taste of Home slow cooker magazines at the checkout through the years, and the recipes always turned out great. So I was excited to find this much bigger set of recipes on Amazon. We have made a handful of recipes from it already and they have been terrific. We have tried a lot of other slow cooker cookbooks in the past, and the recipes don't consistently turn out well (overcooked, dry, etc.) or they just aren't to our taste (usually too bland). So finding a reliable one is a big deal. There are sections of recipes for beef, pork, poultry, etc., plus a couple of sections of other types like side dishes, desserts, etc. My only wish is that they would have consistency in the slow cooker size in the recipes; some are for 3 qt, some 5 qt, etc. so you need to be careful and adjust based on the size of your slow cooker. Also, there isn't any nutritional information - but a lot of recipes look to be healthy and decently low in fat. Only a few call for condensed soup. ;)

I went thru the whole book picking and marking the recipes I knew sounded like something I would like. I was impressed with the ease of most of them - and I quickly realized after trying a couple of the recipes that they could be easily tweaked to mimic dishes I have made before - the long way. On the stove top - stirring and trying to avoid burning and sticking to the pot. I love that about the slow cooker - I can leave it alone - don't have to stay home or stay close in order to keep stirring sauces, etc. This is a very basic book that has a lot of tasty dishes. I will continue my way through the book - I make notations right on the recipes if I change or think something should be changed for taste. I really like this book and since I didn't want 10 books, this covers the main food groups, is sectioned by main protein - such as chicken, pork, vegetable, etc. I would recommend this book to anyone but especially someone like me who is new to slow cooking.

Yummy!

We were looking for a cookbook for slow cookers and stumbled upon this once and I am glad we got it. Lots of recipes. Plenty of them call for ingredients that the average cook would have. And we have enjoyed all the recipes we have tried so far.

Variety of recipes that are easy to make

Very disappointing.

My sister in Connecticut cannot use her stove as it sets off all the smoke detectors in her triplex building. I decided this year to buy her a slow cooker and decided a Taste of Home cookbook would be ideal since I remember their recipes published in Country magazine. When it came, I looked through it and in no time decided I HAD to get myself a slow cooker so I could try out the recipes, and typed up about 45 of them for my own use before sending her the cookbook and slow cooker. I liked the way each recipe specified what size cooker was called for so I wouldn't put a recipe together and find it was too large for mine. Actually, I bought a six-quart one so that would not be apt to happen, but I gave my sister a 4½-quart slow cooker. I hope she tries these out as they are so easy to do for the most part. You simply assemble everything together, with some preparation (such as browning the meat first), then put it all into the cooker and leave it for the specified time. I hope she is as pleased with this cookbook as I am.

Just another coolbook

I work a full time job, and while I do not have children, this book is perfect in so many ways. I’m not a takeout or short cut type of person for meals, so a slow cooker is the perfect route to still be able to enjoy great home cooked meals on busy weeknights. This book has so many perfect weeknight meals, as well as desserts too!

Bought this cookbook for my husband as he likes to cook. Lots of good recipes in there with ingredients you would normally have.

This was a gift for our granddaughter to go with the slow cooker we purchased for her. She enjoys the recipes in this book

good book