Life is stressful enough without your having to spend hours slaving away in the kitchen making meals. Give yourself a well-deserved break instead and put your slow cooker to work. Once you've prepared the ingredients, this heaven-sent machine will do all the work for you. Stocks, soups and stews couldn't be easier - and this book will also show you how to expand your repertoire and make imaginative recipes that will wow. I Love My Slow Cooker gives you more than 100 recipes for hearty soups and starters, tender meat, delicious poultry and fish courses, inspiring vegetarian dishes and divine desserts. As the steam rises in a slow cooker, the flavours intensify and the ingredients become meltingly tender. Whether you want to make Beetroot & Pear Soup, Beef & Aubergine Tagine, Chinese Pork Belly or perhaps indulge in a Lemon Pudding, you'll find here the succulent, comforting flavours that are unique to the slow cooker. Each recipe shows the time it takes to cook, and a symbol on some of the recipes indicates it's a super-easy meal. Whatever the occasion you'll find in this book everything you ever wanted - and more - for your much-loved slow cooker.

Marla Rawlings truly has a knack for choosing and preparing simple, delicious Dutch oven meals, and the unique ability to share those skills with others in an easily understood fashion! In this valuable book, she teaches novice Dutch oven chefs the basic techniques they need to know to enjoy this hobby. She tells about different sizes of Dutch ovens and how much they hold, how to break in, season, clean and store a new oven so foods cooked in it will retain its unique Dutch oven flavor. She explains how to control Dutch oven temperatures, comparing the number of charcoal briquettes to the temperature listings found in regular cookbooks. She gives useful tips concerning equipment and tools that can make the cooking process easier, and warns of safety concerns. The extensive collection of 136 delectable, easy-to-prepare recipies is sure to make this one of the most enjoyed Dutch oven cookbooks available!