I thrive on slow cooker cookbooks and this one would be a top rated one for me. One I would keep in my kitchen library. Can't wait to try out some of these delicious sounding recipes, granted I may make some slight tweaks to the recipes. There are some ingredients that I know my family would not eat, but they are mostly optional.
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I thought this book offered fun new ideas for slow cooker recipes. I know I was intrigued by a lot of them and plan to try some of them out!

There are many interesting recipes, I think only about half to my personal tastes but I will be trying a handful for sure. This is my first time viewing a cookbook on kindle, that format does seem choppy and possibly hard to follow.

This is a bright, clear and easy to follow cookbook for the slow cooker. The recipes are simple and appear to be very tasty. There are many vegetarian options and suggestions for ingredient substitutions for people with food intolerances. I can't wait to give a few of these recipes a try.

Thank you to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for an early copy of Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker, Reinvent the Slow-Cooked Meal, 77 Mouthwatering Recipes by Nicki Sizemore. This cookbook is filled with a variety of delicious, and mouthwatering, recipes that I really enjoyed making. The book can be summed up with this quote from the beginning of the book, “Even if you spend time in the morning (or the day before) prepping the ingredients to go into the slow cooker, I promise you this: when you walk through the door hours later and dinner is already simmering way, it will feel like there’s a grandma sitting on your countertop doing all the work for you.”

The introduction has lots of helpful tips and techniques, including how to pick the right slow cooker for you, “jump-start” tips that can be done ahead of time, and even a section on the different types of canned tomatoes.

Each recipe comes with a description, directions and ingredients, tips for serving, jumpstarts to get going faster, and some have extra tips or storage hints. Many of the recipes also include suggestions for optional side dishes to help you complete the meal. The recipe chapters are divided by ingredients: Vegetables; Chicken, Turkey & Pork; Beef & Lamb; Seafood; and Breakfast & Brunch.

My favorite recipes are:
- Greens & Cheese Lasagna + Quick Green Salad
- Squash Curry + Cilantro, Apple & Cashew Chutney
- Thai Curried Chicken & Rice Noodles
- Chicken Tikka Marsala + Garlic Naan
- Bibimbap Beef Bowls + Garlicky Bok Choy & Sesame Carrots
- Potato Puree
- Sriracha Braised Brisket + Mashed Sweet Potatoes
- Cauliflower Couscous
- Tomato & Sweet Corn Salad (this was a side dish in the seafood chapter)
- Quinoa, Edamame & Cucumber Salad (so was this)
- French Toast Casserole
- Slow-Cooked Applesauce
- Peach Butter

While I am still afraid to leave my slow cooker on while I am not home, I did enjoy these recipes on the weekends. This is my second cookbook by Nicki Sizemore and I cannot wait to see what she comes up with next! This book is filled with beautiful pictures and tasty recipes! I highly recommend this cookbook!

The focus of this recipe book is to provide new recipes to be made in the slow cooker, using less processed foods, less liquid and more seasonings. The recipes are indeed diverse, from curries to carnitas to Moroccan dishes. The book is richly illustrated with appetizing photos of each dish. There are also pairings with salads or other side dishes (recipes included). This really looks like an interesting book and I look forward to trying some of the recipes.

Think that with the new popular appliances that slow cookers are antiquated? Think again! There are always new things to do in your slow cooker, and veteran food writer, Nicki Sizemore, has put dozens of new, delicious ideas in her book Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker: Reinvent the Slow-Cooked Meal; 77 Mouthwatering Recipes. This cookbook has enough good ideas that it will get you bringing all of those slow cookers in from the garage or up from the dusty basement shelves.

One of the things that sets this excellent cookbook apart from the others is that Sizemore includes accompaniments, like luscious, crunchy Toasted Cheese Baguettes, several salads: Red Cabbage & Sweet Corn Slaw, Pickled Red Onions (to go with her excellent Carnitas Tacos), Lime & Cilantro Slaw, and Buttermilk Caesar Salad.

Even though this isn’t a basic slow cooker cookbook, there are recipes for grits and polenta (much better in slow cookers than any other way), as well as grains. The recipes in this cookbook are new and innovative and will appeal to modern cooks everywhere. Some of the recipes are quick – Slow Cooked Salmon takes only an hour and a half and it’s perfect. Others can cook all day – unattended, of course – so while the cook is at work, the house is being filled with heavenly smells, as well as tastes.

Favorites so far include Bibimbap Beef Bowls (Korean is quite the craze right now), a version of Chicken Tikka Masala that rival those served in London where it supposedly originated and is challenging fish and chips as the English national dish (breasts can be substituted for thighs if you prefer white meat), and a delicious Asian-Style Pot Roast. The cookbook is very light on dessert choices, but the Overnight Pumpkin–Brown Rice Pudding is good enough to make up for it. There is also slow cooked applesauce.

Even if you own dozens of slow cooker cookbooks, this one is definitely worth adding to your collection. The recipes are appealing, the instructions are easy-to-follow, and the results are picture-perfect. There are beautiful photographs of most of the recipes, which helps everyone know what their final dishes will look like. This one is highly recommended.


Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

This book was very difficult to follow on a kindle. The pages were too choppy. It was very difficult to follow along. It may be different in a print copy. But the kindle copy the pictures were not in order easily and the layout of the recipes made it hard to follow.

Always on the look out for new takes on what you can do in a slow cooker and this fits the bill nicely. Good selction of dishes and side dishes, tips on portion size, batch cooking etc. Probably about 50% of the recipies that appealed to me in some way and about a third which I have/will be trying out. A handy little book to have if you have a slow cooker hiding in the back of a cupboard.

Some great recipes that were easy to follow and fun to make! I love using my slow cooker and am glad there are still recipes being created for it.

While I'm not likely to personally try many of the recipes in the book, there are many unique recipes for the slow cooker on offer from this book that are sure to inspire many home cooks.

This book has sections so it's easy to get an overview and some interesting recipes, although several of them are easy enough to find online. Also, I found it a bit counter-intuitive having a bunch of sides and such for a slow cooker cookbook, as it is a SLOW COOKER cookbook.

“In a world of Instant Pots, do people still use their slow cooker?” is what my other half asked me when I said what kind of cookbook I was looking at. I think the not so subtle comment was meant to make me agree to free up some cabinet space...either way, cooking from this cookbook convinced him that we should keep it a bit longer. I loved the photos, the tips on what things could be prepped ahead of time so that there were less steps the day of. I was a bit disappointed that there was no nutritional breakdowns, which is something I always look for in cookbooks, but in this case it wasn’t a deal breaker, I liked it that much.

Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker by Nicki Sizemore is a well put together recipe book, it features many brilliant recipes with colourful pictures.

Fresh Flavors is a must-have addition to any kitchen with a slow cooker. Recipes are organized by category accompanied by many photos. What I really liked about this cookbook was the blend of old-school recipes and new ones--there's something for almost any pallet. Pro tip: don't read while hungry!

This book is full of recipes that are MUCH more appealing than most of the slow cooker recipes I've seen. The biggest difference is that Sizemore's recipes involve fresh ingredients and more prep than I'm used to. As a result, the food is more appetizing than the mushy meals that I generally throw together, but it's not as much of a timesaver as you might expect. It's a trade off, but I'd rather eat what Sizemore has put together than 99% of the slow cooker recipes that I've come across.

I tried some of the recipes out on my family and even my picky children enjoyed! It's sometimes difficult to find new, easy, and interesting recipes for the slow cooker, but this cookbook delivers. I love that it has easy to find ingredients as well!

Not really my sort of food, which makes reviewing it difficult! I'll give it 3 stars because there didn't seem to be a massive variety, but they are thorough.

Oh. My. God. This is the bible for a slow cooker owner. It has got everything, and more.

I love that the author included recipes for fish in the cooker. That's not something you see very often.

I'll certainly be using this regularly. To be highly recommended!

This is a well presented cookbook with a relatable introduction. Each recipe has a stunning photo along with a clear method and hints and tips. A great one for the collection!