Cookbook shout out!
I love my slow cooker. If I could get my act together, I would slow cook all the time. It fills the house with deliciousness and dinner can be ready right when you get home from work.
While the trend is changing, many slow cooker recipes are bland at best and kind of gross at worst (using tapioca pudding mix to thicken a stew? Not really what I want to be doing with my life). Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook is fighting on the front lines to change this trend. And I am happy about it. I have only tried a handful of the recipes, but I am very happy so far. Many of the recipes are simple and straightforward, and therefore easy to take in different directions. They also have a pretty extensive section on the basics of using the slow cooker, which can be helpful if you want to create your own recipes.
If you’re obsessed with your slow cooker like me, I highly recommend this book. They also have a slow-cooking for two book, but to me that defeats one of the main purposes of the slow cooker: leftovers!
