crock pot .simple question

[kymar57]

47 yr old bachelor.any recommendations for a crock pot cookbook?

[NMDemDist2]

1. start with the one that came with the crock pot

once you see the basics you can do anything from there

here's a great cooking site for guys called "Cooking for Engineers"

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/toc_2004.php

[politicat]

2. Not a book, but...

www.recipesource.com

Crockpot specific section:
http://www.recipesource.com/main-dishes/crockpot/


If you can't find a recipe at the SOAR, you will never, ever find it.

[mandyky]

3. Many recipe websites

have a crockpot section.

[Lorax]

4. I just bought two crockpot cookbooks.

The best of the two is Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Beth Hensperger. No pictures but I've made four recipes from it so far and they've all been wonderful. These are definitely different recipes, more ethnic, more variety. The recipe for French Onion Soup was fantastic. These recipes go beyond your typical "add a can of cream of mushroom soup" recipes.

The second one is good as well, The Slow Cooker Bible from Publications International LTD. Lots of pictures, not as adventurous recipes but still good. These are the basic recipes but there are not too many containing the dreaded canned cream of mushroom soup. (Can you tell I despise those recipes?) I have made one recipe, the BBQ shredded beef recipe, and it was very good.

I chose both of these cookbooks because they weren't heavy on the starch-laded recipes. There are nice stews and soups but both books go beyond that.