The slow-cooker is the appliance of choice for busy house-holds, and now Mable Hoffman offers 120 all-new, tantalizing crockery recipes--easy-to-make appetizers, soups, main dishes, beverages and desserts. Chapters are divided by cooking time for easy easy meal planning. Includes special sections on international flavors, shortcut cooking and more. (Fisher Books)

It does not have to be microwaved to be convenient. Rediscover the easy, delicious wholesomeness of slow-cooked food. Featuring Hoffman's ideas, tips, recipes and menus geared toward busy lives and health-conscious times. Tour the world with more than 120 light recipes with an international flavor, including appetizers, soups, main dishes, beverages and desserts.

For foods that satisfy the soul and nourish the body, there's no better place than the Heartland Cooking series. Featuring the best of old-fashioned favorites plus dishes incorporating herbs, spices, and staplas, these 100 mouth-watering recipes are enhanced by color photographs, notes on the origins of the recipes, and more.

-- 80 recipes, all tested and approved in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen -- Tips from the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen -- Every recipe is accompanied by a meal idea or recipe description -- Nutrition facts and exchanges for every recipe -- Delicious recipes for main dishes, side dishes, snacks, beverages, and desserts

A New York Times bestseller, this cookbook established Mable Hoffman as a premier cooking enthusiast--well-deserved praise for one who has spent decades extolling the benefits of slow cooking. Her easy and affordable recipes for appetizers, soups, and main dishes are designed to bring out that "simmered-in" flavor that only slow cooking can provide. In addition to the new recipes, this edition contains many others that have been revised to reduce fat and calories.

Mable Hoffman loves to cook. A professional home economist, she cooks to develop recipes, to promote food products and to prepare those tasty, eye-appealing dishes you've seen in ads and food-preparation articles. She's also a food stylist and editorial consultant for Better Homes & Gardens. Slow cooking is different and requires special recipes. Mable developed every recipe specially for slow-cooking pots. Every one has been tested and re-tested to bring you sure success with each meal you prepare. You'll see how your slow-cooking pot invites culinary creativity. Just use these recipes as a foundation and add a little pinch of your own ingenuity to the pot. You'll find slow cooking makes good eating!

For healthy meals that virtually cook themselves, get out your slow cooker. Chop up some fresh ingredients, simmer them for 3-8 hours while their flavors blend and intensify, and voila, dinner's ready, and you didn't even need to be there while it cooked! Start with the basic "rules" of crockery cooking--general tips on how to prepare meats and poultry, vegetables, pasta and rice, dried beans, cheese, and fish. Then take your time with 101 delicious and health-conscious, mouth-watering recipes that fit perfectly into today's busy schedules and desire for low-fat, low-cholesterol meals. Every one contains helpful nutritional information including calorie, fat, cholesterol, sodium, and dietary fiber content. 144 pages, 6 x 9.