Not Your Mother'S Slow Cooker Recipes For Entertaining - Softcover

Julie Kaufmann, Beth Hensperger And

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459605179 ISBN 13: 9781459605176

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

In the best - selling Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann made it easy to cook a delicious, contemporary meal in the slow cooker. In Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining, they prove that the slow cooker is the perfect tool for effortless entertaining on weekends and even weeknights, offering more than 300 new recipes specially created to serve a group. There are recipes to suit a wide variety of entertaining styles, from casual to formal; both classic slow cooker favorites such as New - Fashioned Pot Roast with Fresh Rosemary, Mulled Wine, and Hot Spinach Dip; as well as many more adventurous, innovative dishes such as Fondue with Sparkling Apple Cider, Brandied Red Onion Soup Gratinee, and Braised Pheasant with Mushrooms in Riesling that will really impress. Like the recipes in Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook and Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, the dishes here feature fresh, wholesome ingredients and reinforce what an essential appliance the slow cooker is for any busy cook. In addition, this is the only slow cooker cookbook that includes lots of tips and techniques on how to use your slow cooker for a wide variety of entertaining options, as well as advice on how to scale up those recipes for even more guests. Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining covers all the bases; appetizers, drinks, soups, sauces, entrees, desserts - all of these can be prepared ahead of time in the slow cooker, so that hosts will be able to focus on the guests, not the cooking.

About this title

About the Author:

Beth Hensperger's career as a prolific food writer and educator began when she was chosen as the guest cooking instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Apptit. She has gone on to author more than twenty cookbooks, including the best - selling '' Not Your Mother's'' series. She is also the author of The Bread Bible, winner of a James Beard Book Award, and has been nominated twice for an IACP Cookbook Award. Hensperger writes a food column, '' Baking with the Seasons,'' for the San Jose Mercury News (which was nominated for a James Beard Award in newspaper journalism). She is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking and lifestyle magazines, such as Food and Wine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Prevention, Veggie Life, Working Woman, Family Circle, and Cooking.com, as well as being a sought - after radio interviewee speaking on cooking, baking, and entertaining. An East Coast transplant who now considers herself a true Californian, Hensperger lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Julie Kaufmann, a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has lived in California since 1979. She is the food editor of the San Jose Mercury News, which has twice been nominated for a James Beard Award in newspaper journalism. Before becoming the food editor, she wrote '' Kids in the Kitchen,'' a twice - monthly food column for kids, and worked on West, which was the paper's Sunday magazine. She spent a decade on the paper's business section prior to her roles with the food section. Kaufmann is an avid home cook who has co - authored several books with Beth Hensperger. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1459605179
• ISBN 13: 9781459605176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 708