What a great cookbook for the slow cooker.
I don't use my slow cook enough and this has given me many many ideas to create meals with it.
Great addition to my library.

Lots of good sounding recipes with bold or interesting flavors. Chapters are vegetables, poultry, beef/lamb, seafood, and breakfast/brunch. The book includes lots of appealing color photographs. Each recipe also has steps that can be done in advance clearly listed, and ingredients used to finish the dish are listed separately. The author has children and there are pictures of the kids in the book, so the recipes are family friendly.
I received an ebook ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.

I love this book, a refreshing set of recipes for the slow cooker......not all casseroles and stews!...

There the delicious sounding, White bean and veggie minestrone, Chicken noodle soup and even Bibimbap Beef bowls....

All the recipes are broken down into sections, stove top prep, setting up the slow cooker and even accompaniments. Very easy to follow in a step by step method too.

I’ll be using this a lot so time to dust off the slow cooker and try something new and fresh

Thank you to NetGalley, the publishers and the author for the opportunity to read this for free. This is my honest and unbiased review

An okay cookbook.
The layout is my favorite thing about this title. I like how the ingredient list is separated into stove top, slow cooker, additional prep, etc. This really helps simplify the prep, particularly the grocery shopping. I also like the pairing of main dish with suggested sides.
The recipes were so-so. I feel like I have seen them in dozens of slow cooker books. It also felt like quite a few of the recipes would be faster to just make on the stove rather than the slow cooker.
Not a bad book if your library collection needs more slow cooker titles, but I would recommend the American Test Kitchen Slow Cooker Revolution series over this one.

I received an ARC of this book thanks to Net Galley and publisher Storey Publishing in exchange for an honest review

And now for something completely different!

I have never reviewed a cookery book before but I saw this on Net Galley and I couldn't resist. My slow cooker is one of my favourite kitchen tools and I am always on the lookout for new, simple recipes. I was a bit hesitant when I started flicking through and saw what looked like a lot of fancy stuff but thankfully I was pleasantly surprised.

This book does so much right and it really deserves kudos for it. You can tell Nicki has been writing recipes for a long time and she really does include a lot of fantastic detail. It starts off with a general introduction followed by some slow cooker tips. These weren't all new to me but it was still useful to include them and it shows the attention to detail put in.

Now onto the recipes themselves. They are divided up into 5 sections: vegetables, chicken/turkey/pork, lamb/beef, seafood and brunch/breakfast. I was actually glad not to have a dessert section since I never tend to use these parts of my recipe books but I can see some people potentially wishing it had one. This structure makes sense for the most part, although the pork does seem a little out of place with the poultry.

Each recipe is laid out fantastically. It starts with an overview of the dish, followed by ingredients which are sorted by where you use them (most dishes are slow-cooker focused but may require some stove work or other elements). Beneath this is a little box which contains information about which ingredients/steps you can plan up to days ahead. I found this incredibly useful as people using a slow cooker are often pushed for time, so it's great to know what can be done earlier. After this comes the method, followed by fridge/freezer instructions (again, incredibly useful) and finally there is a little additional tip.

As mentioned above, I really was a fan of the content of the recipes. There's a fair range of dishes but I was impressed by how the main slow-cooker dish was usually simple but the side dish would be fancier/involve rarer ingredients. Firstly, the inclusion of a complementary side dish for every main one is something that added a wonderful touch to this recipe book and showed the skill of the chef behind it. Secondly, by doing it this way it means that you can easily skip the side dish if you only want a tasty simple meal, but have the option for more extravagance if you're hosting or have money/time to spare. Not counting sides, I would happily try making 24 out of 46 recipes which sounds low until you realise I don't eat beef or lamb. Excluding those, it has a much higher ratio than any other recipe book I've bought.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this book and will certainly be checking out the author's food blog as a result of reading it. The layout and attention to detail is phenomenal, the recipes are varied and tasty, and the tips and other notes are useful on the whole. A wonderful find for anyone with a slow cooker.

Overall Rating: 5/5