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Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Slow Cooking: Recipes and Techniques for Delicious Slow-Cooked Meals (Williams Sonoma Essentials)
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Covering the traditional methods of stove-top and oven preparation, as well as up-to-date techniques for using a slow cooker, an introduction to braises and stews looks at the history of slow cooking, offers information on ingredients and variations, and includes more than 130 delicious recipes. 50,000 first printing.
Publishers Description
This information-packed volume opens with a brief history of this centuries-old technique and a look at the many ways slow cooking and braising transforms the texture of food as well as enhances the natural flavors. Comprehensive descriptions cover the types of slow cooking and explain every stage of the process, from preparing the food in order to achieve the best results to properly testing the food for optimum doneness, providing readers with all the knowledge they need to turn out delicious and memorable meals. Slow cookers, Dutch ovens, roasting pans, and other important equipment are clearly described and pictured. Five chapters filled with more than 130 recipes follow, offering a range of irresistible ideas for preparing and braising fish and shellfish, poultry, meats, and vegetables, both using a traditional stovetop or oven method, as well as a slow cooker. The chapters begin with invaluable advice on buying and preparing fresh foods, and the recipes, each one handsomely photographed, perfectly balance everyday fare, such as braised Brussels sprouts with pancetta, chicken marsala, with special-occasion dishes, including veal stew with asparagus, and Italian braised short ribs. Detailed instructions and step-by-step photographs explain the basic techniques of slow cooking and braising such as browning ingredients, carving large cuts of meat, and preparing delicious side dishes. A glossary of culinary terms and ingredients completes this indispensable volume. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 288
Dimensions: Length: 1.25" Width: 9.5" Height: 10.5"
Weight: 3.4 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Oct 1, 2008
ISBN 0848732596
EAN 9780848732592
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 | slow cooker resource Jan 9, 2010 |
| A great beginning resource for making meals in your slow cooker. I had just purchased a slow cooker from Wm Sononma and needed some tips on how to use it best. Very easy and creative dishes. Can be used for any slow cooker. | | |  | Underwhelming Nov 13, 2009 |
I bought this book because I was looking for gourmet-type meals to cook in the slow cooker. I have several other cookbooks that cover all the American Standards involving condensed cream soups, Lipton Soup Mix, and other processed convenience items.
In that respect, this book does have lots of recipes that use fresh ingredients to produce a higher-quality end result than the old-time "gloop with glop sauce" that so often comes out of a slow cooker. There are also gorgeous pictures of every recipe. I love that.
Now for the downsides. The editing in this book is terrible. There are tons of typos throughout, and it is also obvious that one of the vegetable recipes was only slightly altered from another similar recipe a few pages before--I could tell because the first recipe was for cabbage, so it said cabbage throughout the recipe. The second was for spinach, and halfway through the recipe, it started talking about cabbage. The two recipes were the same--someone had just done a half-hearted job of changing the word cabbage to spinach. There are lots of other examples of bad editing, but that's my job, so that kind of thing bothers me.
The other thing that irritated me is that I wanted a slow cooker cookbook. This is a "SLOW COOKING" cookbook. In other words, while many of these recipes have instructions for slow cooker use, others do not. Some of the recipes are stove top or oven only. I was disappointed by that. Most of us have plenty of recipes that just take a long time, what we want is something we can put in the crock before heading out to work for the day.
I feel like the high price of this cookbook is solely because of the pretty pictures and the strength of a few good recipes. They also have the big name behind it, but some of the recipes are just not that good, or they aren't made for slow cookers. Another downside was that there was nothing in here that I found very innovative, but there are a lot of familiar dishes like Osso Bucco, Bolognese Sauce, Beef Stroganoff, American Pot Roast, Chicken Fricassee with Dumplings, and other dishes that have been around for ages and that I already have recipes for.
| | |  | Superb! Sep 21, 2009 |
| This is my number one, go to book for slow cooker meals. Lots of variety in these pages. | | | | Great book Jul 5, 2009 |
| I loved this book and the service on getting it to me quickly was wonderful. I am very pleased. | | | | good Jun 3, 2009 |
| the book is excellent the service from this site is always purffect,but not all of the recipes are good in this book ..Thank you | | | Write your own review about Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Slow Cooking: Recipes and Techniques for Delicious Slow-Cooked Meals (Williams Sonoma Essentials)
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