Vegan Slow Cooker for Beginners: Essentials to Get Started

This will be a very subjective review. I have been a vegetarian, leaning towards vegan most of my adult life, but still managed to get significantly overweight, in part because I just don't like cooking. I am not good at coordinating the food preparations, so it is all done at the same time and really dislike watching pots on the stove for more than a minute. While I have had a crock pot for years and appreciated its simplicity, I only used it periodically. Since purchasing this book, I am using mine every day and it doesn't heat up my kitchen like my stove will and isn't nearly as laborious to clean either.Granted, you can get a lot of similar recipes online, but it is so nice to have it all in one place. So far, not a single one has not been tasty. There are many interesting combinations I would never have considered.The only problem I have had is with the liquids. I find that I usually cut them in half--for the "chocolaty steel cut oats", I even went for just a quarter of what the recipe suggested (so delicious when it turns out "right"!). In general, everyone has to get to know their own slow cooker, as the temperatures will vary as well as the altitudes. So the times listed are just guidelines. I am not upset, if a recipe doesn't turn out at first try. In the contrary, I am inspired to experiment. Since I have started to cook from this book, I have had no cravings for sweets and am slowly losing weight. I have just ordered a timer for the electric outlet, so I can prepare food in the morning in the pot and have a delicious meal waiting for me when I get home, as that is the time when I am usually tempted to eat anything that's available instead of spending time preparing good food.I find myself relishing foods I don't particularly like, but they are combined in a way that makes me want them again and again. For example, I can't remember when was the last time I purchased an apple. I love all other fruits, but apples are associated with negative childhood memories and have just never appealed to me. Or cabbage--it is not something I usually buy, though I will eat it when I am at someone else's house. But there is a Apples and Cabbage recipe, which I have made as often as twice in a week, because I find it so tasty. The combination of concentrated (frozen, thawed) apple juice with mustard--simply ingenious! Anyway, I highly recommend this book, especially for beginners and none-cooks. It is simple, instructive, and inspiring.

“Vegan Slow Cooker for Beginners” is written for vegans who are looking for new ways to prepare healthful foods. All the usual advantages of slow cooking apply here--convenience, saving time, retention of vital nutrients, richer flavors, less likelihood of food sticking and burning, and so on.The book takes us through a refresher course on slow cooking, emphasizing safety issues as well as tips to get the most out of your cookware and which features to consider in a new model. Did you know that for every time you open the lid to peek and poke inside you should add 15-20 minutes of cooking time? Solutions are suggested for common challenges such as too much liquid in the pot, and there are sections on herbs, egg substitutes, broths and stock, and how to make your own buillon cubes. There is good coverage of meat alternatives tofu, tempeh and seitan, along with sections on rice and beans.The book gives recipes for breakfasts, snacks, soups, stews and chilies, beans and grains, vegetables, meat alternatives, international cuisine and desserts. While you might not be surprised to see recipes for tapioca pudding, home-style applesauce and rice pudding, you might be intrigued to find pumpkin cinnamon rolls, apricot/peach butter, curried almonds, Mexican-style dumpling stew, lima bean gumbo, portobello mushrooms & tempeh stroganoff, classic apple cobbler and fudgy brownies. These are just a few of the 150 recipes, and clearly there are more than enough possibilities for everyone.One disappointment for me in going through the breakfast recipes was discovering that several of them required 3-5 hours of slow cooking: not long enough to have it cook overnight, but too long to get up at a normal rising time and then eat breakfast at a normal time. For these recipes a pot with a programmable timer would be required, or else a sleepless night.

Slow cooking (also known as a crock-pot cooking) is the art of cooking many foods together inone pot. The book, "VEGAN Slow Cooker for Beginners" just out by Rockridge Press, is manythings in one book.The book explains the art of cooking with a slow cooker for vegetarians, and those thinkingabout becoming vegetarian who don't want to lose out on the flavor that meat, poultry and fishgive to a meal. There are some very satisfying meat substitutes on the market, and this bookcovers them all. Vegan Slow Cooker is also a very storied recipe book, not only in that it hastons of recipes, but the recipes and the various ingredients used in them come from all acrossthe globe, the US, India, Mexico, Sweden, Morocco, and countless other fascinating locales.Another thing the book does, and very well, is break down the vitamin and mineral content ofthe ingredients in each recipe and explain their health benefits. From breakfast to lunch,dinner to dessert, Vegan Slow Cooker has recipes to suit every taste and fancy. And with itssimple and easy instruction, you'll soon find that the healthier choice of slow cooking is apiece of cake.

It has some really good recipes. Some easy some a bit more concentration needed she'll we say. The one thing I will say is I've learnt so much about the amount of things u need when following a plant based way of living,its a long list lol but worth it!

A decent selection of meals, with enough recipes that use ingredients available in the UK to make it worth the purchase.Edit: reduced from 4 stars to 2 as I've yet to make something edible from following the recipes. I have hope that something will be tasty eventually, but that hope is getting fainter with each awful meal.

Good, but not great.

Really disappointed in this. Nothing to say it was American and measurements are all in cups with ingredients not readily available in the UK. Waste of money.

Lots of simple recipes but yet to tryNothing instantly stands out that I want to cook though