Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker by Dawn J. Ranck, Cheryl A. Benner (Illustrator), Phyllis Pellman Good

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You might have relegated your slow cooker to the slow lane or, worse, earmarked it for a tag sale, but it's not too late to put it back to work. Slow cookers have made a big comeback recently, and for a good reason -- they are the multitasker's best friend and produce delicious hot meals while you're busy doing something else.

This surprise bestselling cookbook is the slow cooker bible, and one look inside will tell you why. Here are more than 800 tested recipes from slow cooker enthusiasts all over the country. These are not recipes to pull out once a month for show; these are recipes that will work hard for you every day -- recipes for meat loaf, different kinds of chili, pork chops with mushroom sauce, pot roasts, bean dishes galore, and chicken cacciatores, all made in the slow cooker. There are even some surprise slow cooker recipes for rice pudding and holiday wassail drinks. What are you waiting for? It's time to put time on your side. (Ginger Curwen)

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Who’s hungry? EVERYONE. Who has time to cook? NO ONE.

Dig out the slow cooker. Add a second and a third if you wish. Fill one with main-dish fixins and the others with go-alongs. Do it in the morning—or between work and after-school events.

Come home to richly-flavored, ready-to-serve food.

Slow cookers are having a comeback. With good reason. They are friends on a day of running errands. They allow easy entertaining with no last-minute preparation. And vegetarians won’t find a better way to work with dried beans.

Slow cookers are gentle with the food budget—less expensive ingredients flourish in their slow, moist heat.

Fix-It and Forget-It offers the range of recipes slow cookers do well: Appetizers and Snacks, Soups and Stews, Main Dishes (with and without meat), Vegetables and Go-Alongs, Desserts and Beverages.

Bring an element of simplicity—and quality—to your pressured life! Let your slow cooker work for you.

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1. Place meat in slow cooker.
2. Combine flour, salt, pepper, and paprika. Stir into meat until coated thoroughly.
3. Add remaining ingredients. Mix well.
4. Cover. Cook on Low 10-12 hours, or High 4-6 hours. Stir before serving.
Baked Apples with Raisins
Vera Schmucker, Goshen, IN
Connie B. Weaver Bethlehem, PA
Makes 6-8 servings
6-8 medium-sized baking apples, cored
2 Tbsp. raisins
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 Tbsp. butter
1/2 cup water

1. Remove top inch of peel from each apple.
2. Mix together raisins and sugar. Spoon into center of apples.
3. Sprinkle with additional sugar and dot with butter.
4. Place apples in slow cooker. Add water. Cover and cook on Low 7-9 hours, or on High 21/2-31/2 hours.
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