Slow cookers are a working cook's best friend. Whether you work in an office or on a farm, having dinner ready when you come through the door is a blessing anyone can appreciate. I have a running rotation of recipes, family favorites, but I'm always looking for new ideas and recipes to up my crockpot game. Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker includes many good recipes that will appeal to cooks in a hurry but who still want to give their families a quality meal at the end of the day. I've already family tested 10 of these and my family has voted which ones are next. Great reviews from all!

Who doesn’t love using a slow cooker to make meals? Fresh Flavours for the Slow Cooker provides 77 great new recipes for your to try.

There is a quick intro with “tips and tricks” then the book is divided by chapters that separate the recipes by categories like Breakfast and Brunch, Vegetables and of course specific meats.

Easy to follow, well describe instructions and lots of color photos, which is a must for me with any cook book.

I received this ARC copy of Slow Cooker Showstoppers: Fresh Recipes for the Full and Flavorful Meals was provided by Storey Publishing, LLC. This is my honest and voluntary review. Slow Cooker Showstoppers: Fresh Recipes for the Full and Flavorful Meals is set for publication October 01, 2019.

This is one of the best books for the slow cooker that I have had the pleasure of browsing through.
Tasty and interesting recipes with tons of tips on how to do more with your slow cooker than just bone broth. I will definitely advise anyone who has a slow cooker or thinks about obtaining one to buy this book. Wonderful Thank you so much.

Fresh flavors are throughout the cookbook in the form of spices and lots of vegetables. Many of these were new, but I'm kind of plain food person and so they just didn't look appealing. Those that did were similar to recipes I already owned.

Some really unique and exceptionally tasty meals! Easy to prep and throw in the slow cooker - particularly loved the Greens & Cheese Lasagna and some of the curries and soups.
Gorgeous pictures and easy to follow recipes, a must for all lovers of plant based diets (or cooks who have to cater for them!)

I loved this cookbook! It has huge chapters on veggie crockpot meals and fish crockpot meals. I find I always struggle with finding great recipes for the slow cooker for those types of dishes. I am going to try several - they look healthy and delicious! The poultry and beef chapters have healthy, good options too! Photos for every recipe.

As it gets colder, it feels like it's time to get out the slow cooker, and make delicious food, and this is the recipe book to help you with that!

There are sections for vegetable main dishes; chicken, turkey and pork; beef and lamb; seafood; breakfast and brunch. Each recipe set out with stove top prep, slow cooker, and slow cooker jump starts, where you're given some bits that you can do in the days before.

This is a really nicely laid out cook book, with lots of photos, which I always feel helps me when I'm cooking, so I've got an idea of what it all needs to look like.

Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker was published on 29th October 2019, and is available to buy on Amazon and on Waterstones. I've found a link to where you can search for local bookshops, including independent!

You can follow Nicki Sizemore on Twitter, Instagram, or through her website, where you can find more recipes!

I was given this book for free in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Storey Publishing (the publishers) for this book.

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Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker: Reinvent the Slow-Cooked Meal; 77 Mouthwatering Recipes by Nicki Sizemore is currently scheduled for release on October 15 2019. This book is filled with slow-simmered main dishes, plus 35 recipes for sauces and sides, that replace canned ingredients with fresh vegetables, boost flavor with aromatic herbs and spices, and feature a tantalizing array of global tastes in dishes that span the menu. Overnight Pumpkin-Brown Rice Pudding with crunchy pecans is a wholesome, hands-off breakfast treat, Thai Curried Chicken with Rice Noodles gets a spicy kick from curry broth, and Shredded Mole Beef Tacos are accented with the sweet heat of Quick Pickled Jalapeños. Whether you’re feeding a family or entertaining a crowd, each recipe highlights prep work that can be knocked out days in advance, making serving meals worthy of every occasion easy and delicious.

Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker has a good variety of dishes, and taught me a few tricks for using my crock pot- even as I need to retire my old one due to seal failure after a solid ten years of use- and get a new one. While there are some recipes I do not see myself trying (only because if it only needs to be in there for an hour I do not see the point of using it) there are plenty they I fully expect to be trying in the coming months. I have one adult picky eater and one kid of a similar mindset, so it is easy to fall into a rut of eating the same meals all the time, because I know what everyone will actually eat. However, the rest of us get tired of the repeats, and I am looking forward to trying some of these recipes out to see what I can add to the rotation and to test out some of the ideas reading these recipes have given me. I really liked the basic information at the beginning of the book- laying out what type of slow cooker might be right for you, and why some of the preparations can or cannot be done in advance. In my need to replace my trusty crock pot I found the information to be helpful.

Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker is a wonderful resource for tips and tricks in crock pot use, new recipes, and inspiration for further experimentation. I fully expect to be consulting this book many times in the future when planning family meals.

I will always be loyal to my slow cooker and pressure cooker! Many of us value healthy meals however rely on simple methods of meal preparation to make meal planning sustainable. This is a great collection of healthy recipes to satisfy any craving! I look forward to trying several recipes including fajita stuffed sweet potatoes and chicken & black bean chilaquiles.

Thank you, Storey Publishing and NetGalley for a digital ARC.

Thank you Storey Publishing and NetGalley for allowing to have an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I made quite a few recipes in this book and wish I had gotten to more since several sound amazing in particular the bimbap. The highlights for me were the sweet potato potage, the pumpkin brown rice pudding and the french toast casserole. I made these several times. It will be good to see this in its final e-book format as many of the recipes were hard to follow in the ARC version.

I had expected to try some of these recipes but then a family emergency happened which has had my attention devoted to health care.

The book is a wonderful collection of recipes and tips that sound fantastic. I like that there are recipes for fresh sauces since preservatives can be an issue along with high sodium levels of canned products.

I can’t wait to give these a try. I like the way the cookbook is organized, plenty of prep tips and fresh ingredients sprinkled throughout.

Looking forward to seeing a hard or soft copy version of this book.

I like some of the recipes this book offers, I wish there was a book that had more simplicity to it.

I love the convenience of using the slow cooker to have a hot meal ready when we get home after school, work and activities. I jumped at the chance to check out a review copy or "Fresh Flavours for the Slow Cooker". So many slow cooker recipes are along the lines of "put chicken in the crockpot and dump a can of xyz in with it and hit START". This book does not have any of those sort of recipes. The cookbook is full of recipes that use fresh ingredients and many of the recipes have steps that you do on the stovetop (like toasting spices) before putting ingredients in the slow cooker. The recipes are accompanied by color photos which make them even more tempting.

So far I've cooked a couple of recipes and have a few more bookmarked. The boys and I made some slow cooker applesauce using the honey crisp apples we picked at the orchard last week. The apple sauce "tasted real" according to my son. The recipe was easy and the result was delicious and a perfect way to use up those excessive quantities of apples from the orchard. I also made the Fajita-stuffed Sweet Potatoes. This made for great vegetarian dinner entree but would also make a good side dish. The cookbook also had lots of helpful tips about what parts of the recipe can be prepared ahead which helps make meal planning even easier.

I love my crockpot, so I was super excited to dive into this cookbook and hopefully get some new and fresh recipes to try out. 🍴

It starts off with an Introductory chapter, and a "Tips & Tricks" chapter. 🏫 Then it is divided into the five following chapters...

-- VEGETABLES 🍅
-- CHICKEN, TURKEY & PORK 🍗
-- BEEF & LAMB 🍖
-- SEAFOOD 🍤
-- BREAKFAST & BRUNCH 🍛

Each chapter has eight to ten recipes. 🍴 Each recipe has easy to follow instructions and there are "SLOW COOKER JUMP STARTS" and "TIPS" sprinkled throughout. ☑ It is also visually pleasing with plenty of colorful photos to catch your eye and make your mouth water. 📷

Some tasty sounding recipes you will find within are...

-- Greens & Cheese Lasagna + Quick Green Salad 🍝
-- Cilantro, Apple & Cashew Chutney 🍏
-- Spicy Maple Pecans 🍁
-- Chicken Noodle Soup 🍲
-- Spinach, Shaved Fennel & Parmesan Salad 🍠
-- Chicken & Black Bean Chilaquiles 🍗 (SOOO good)
-- Braised Short Ribs with Gremolata + Creamy Parmesan Polenta 🍖
-- Lamb Gyros + Tzatziki Sauce 🍚
-- Fish Tacos with Sriracha Mayo + Lime & Cilantro Slaw 🍴
-- Overnight Pumpkin – Brown Rice Pudding 📝 (Loved this recipe)
-- French Toast Casserole 🍞

This was definitely an excellent cookbook to flip though, and I can't wait to try even more of 77 recipes found within. 👍

“Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker is not your average cookbook. Author Nicki Sizemore has family-tested these recipes and throughout the book she informs us which ones are the home favorites. The book is sectioned to allow readers to go right to their preferences: Vegetables, Breakfast, Seafood (!), and two meat sections (Chicken/Turkey/Pork and Beef/Lamb). Along the way, the author has dressed up the pages with many full color pictures of her creations.

Ms. Sizemore offers hints and suggestions on what can be prepared one to two days earlier, making it easier to prepare wholesome meals at the end of your hectic workday. The author also suggests quick substitutes if you don’t have the time to create the entire meal she outlines (using chips as a substitute for cornbread, for example). Every recipe has a recommended shelf life, both in the fridge and in the freezer. From the author’s descriptions, she loves to salt her foods BUT there is no indication of how much to use so for those who are watching their salt intake (or just got used to the taste of less salt), the option of how much to use is left up to you. You can always add more, right?

As a lover of fish, I had never even thought about using a slow cooker to make a seafood dinner, and I have earmarked the Moroccan Braised Halibut to be my first attempt. There are loads of interesting recipes here, and none of the ingredients are hard-to-get or so little used they are outrageously expensive. This is an opportunity to dress up your weekly meals, earning yourself a combination of healthy and good-tasting food that is certain to enlarge your eating options. Five stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for a complimentary ebook of this title.

Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker by Nicki Sizemore offers updated recipes as the author was searching for ways to improve slow cooked recipes. Her cookbook is the result. Sizemore writes the slow cooker has become “a weeknight warrior.”

She writes the majority of the recipes found in her cookbook use a 4 to 7-quart slow cooker to prepare the recipes. The recipes will be tagged with both the prep and slow cooker times. Some of the recipes you'll find include:

White Bean & Veggie Minestrone + Pesto
Chicken Noodle Soup
Garlic-Lemon Whole Chicken
Asian Pork Lettuce Wraps + Sesame-Scallion Sauce
Carnitas Tacos + Quick Pickled Red Onions
Bolognese + Buttermilk Caesar Salad
Slow Cooker Congee
French Toast Casserole
Peach Butter

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley

Ever since I was approved, I've always wanted to give slow cooking a try. After finishing summer, I finally bought a slow cooker last week and plan to try some of these recipes!

There are so many delicious looking ones but I plan to try the shorter ones for now so that I could get used to leaving the pot in the fire for long periods of time.

Thank you so much Netgalley for providing me with the digital copy for an honest review.

4 out of 5

**OMG! I cannot believe that these reviews haven't been done! I am so sorry they are so late!!!**

Great cookbook for anyone who is having trouble with ideas for slow cooking creatively. This would make a great gift for any single person, newly working or in college (In my case graduate school).

Thank you to Netgalley for giving me the chance to read and review, "Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker" by Nicki Sizemore. I loved reading and learning new things from this cookbook! As a very inexperienced cook, this book takes harder recipes and makes them easier for someone of my skill level! The ebook version is a little choppy and hard to follow which is why I have taken away a star. This cookbook is perfect for cooks of all levels! I highly recommend it to everyone.