Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round - Hardcover

Good, Phyllis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561483796 ISBN 13: 9781561483792

Publisher: Good Books, 2013

Synopsis

Bursting with absolutely delicious recipes, as well as Tips for Hosting, Menus for Meals with Friends, and Ideas for Go-Alongs that complement slow cooker dishes. You'll love cooking, hosting, and eating from this treasure of good foods.

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About the Author

Phyllis Pellman Good and Dawn J. Ranck collaborated on the highly successful Fix-it and Forget-It Cookbook which has been the topselling cookbook throughout the country and has appeared for months on The New York Times bestseller list.

    Good has been part of many cookbook projects, authoring The Best of Amish Cooking and The Festival Cookbook, and co-authoring Recipes from Central Market, Favorite Recipes with Herbs, The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals, and From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens.

    Good and her husband, Merle, live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and are co-directors of The People’s Place, a heritage interpretation center in the Lancaster County village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

    Ranck has been a convinced slow-cooker user for years. She, along with her many friends, have been lining up their various-sized cookers on their kitchen counters before they set off each morning—and coming home to richly flavored full dinners.

    Ranck, who lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is the co-author of A Quilter's Christmas Cookbook and Favorite Recipes with Herbs.

From the Inside Flap

    Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining is for busy people who still want to have guests—dinner with neighbors, weekend visitors, friends after a chilly soccer game, a birthday party, a slow-cooker carry-in buffet.

    Get rid of the last-minute pressures of putting food on the table. Visit with your guests until it’s time to eat. Little fuss, lots of flavor.

    This new cookbook—in the Fix-It and Forget-It tradition—has more than 580 irresistible recipes (and no duplicates with the original Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook).

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About Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining

Can you lead a busy life and still have guests for dinner?

Can you have people over without spending hours in the kitchen?

Would you love to try some new recipes in your slow cooker maybe just for your own household?

Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining answers "yes" to all those questions.

This cookbook in the Fix-It and Forget-It tradition has more than 580 irresistible recipes (and no duplicates with the original Fix-it and Forget-It Cookbook).

Use these wonderful recipes to share dinner with your neighbors, with your summer weekend visitors, with friends after a chilly soccer game, with family for a birthday party.

All the dishes in this bountiful collection share two qualities little fuss and lots of flavor.

Most of the recipes in this collection will fit in a 4-qt. or a 5-qt. slow cooker. We indicate those that require a larger cooker; with those we suggest that you use a 6-qt. cooker, or two smaller ones.

Many stove-top or oven recipes can be adapted for a slow cooker. If you want to experiment, use these conversion factors:

Low (in a slow cooker) = 200°, approximately (in an oven)

High (in a slow cooker) = 300°, approximately (in an oven)

In a slow-cooker, 2 hours on Low = 1 hour, approximately, on High

And don t forget, every time you lift the lid and peek, you need to add 15 minutes to the cooking time.

So, relieve the pressures of hosting. Get rid of the last-minute stress of putting food on the table.

Visit with your guests until it s time to eat then lift the lids of your steaming slow cookers and offer them Fruited Pork Chops, Garlic Lime Chicken, Navy Bean Soup, Oriental Shrimp Dish, Hot Cranberry Punch and more.

Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining is bursting with absolutely delicious recipes, as well as Tips for Hosting, Menus for Meals with Friends, and Ideas for Go-Alongs that complement slow cooker dishes.

You ll love cooking, hosting, and eating from this treasure of good food.

Phyllis Pellman Good and Dawn J. Ranck

Corn and Shrimp Chowder
Naomi E. Fast
Hesston, KS
Makes 6 servings
4 slices bacon, diced
1 cup chopped onions
2 cups diced, unpeeled red potatoes
2 10-oz. pkgs. frozen corn
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp. paprika
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
2 6-oz. cans shrimp
2 cups water
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
12-oz. can evaporated milk
chopped chives

1. Fry bacon in skillet until lightly crisp. Add onions to drippings and saute until transparent. Using slotted spoon, transfer bacon and onions to slow cooker.

2. Add remaining ingredients to cooker except milk and chives.

3. Cover. Cook on low 3-4 hours, adding milk and chives 30 minutes before end of cooking time.

4. Serve with broccoli salad.

I learned to make this recipe in a 7th grade home economics class. It made an impression on my father who liked seafood very much. The recipe calls only for canned shrimp, but I often increase the taste appeal with extra cooked shrimp.

I frequently use frozen hash brown potatoes for speedy preparation. There is no difference in the taste.

Elijah s Cucumber Soup
Shirley Unternahrer Hinh
Wayland, IA
Makes 8 servings
1 lb. ground pork
2 Tbsp. fish sauce
1/4 tsp. black pepper
4 large cucumbers, peeled
2 qts. boiling water
2 green onions, chopped
1/8 tsp. black pepper
4 Tbsp. fish sauce
salt to taste

1. Combine pork, 2 Tbsp. fish sauce, and

1/4 tsp. black pepper in mixing bowl.

2. Cut peeled cucumbers in half and scoop out seeds, creating a channel in each cuke. Stuff pork mixture into cucumbers.

3. Form remaining meat into 1" balls. Drop balls into stockpot with 2 qts. boiling water. Boil until a layer of foam develops on the water. Skim off foam and discard.

4. Drop stuffed cucumbers into boiling water. Simmer for 15 minutes. Transfer cucumbers and pork balls into slow cooker. Add hot liquid from stockpot.

5. Add green onions, 1/8 tsp. black pepper, and 4 Tbsp. fish sauce.

6. Cover. Cook on high 11/2-2 hours.

7. Serve over rice in bowl, along with lemon juice and chili sauce.

This dish was brought into our family s recipe collection by my husband, Hai. Hai came to the United States, from Vietnam, 23 years ago.

We eat this soup quite often at our house. Many of our friends and family have enjoyed it over the years and we ve had many requests for it.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Good Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1561483796
• ISBN 13: 9781561483792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284