There were a lot of nice looking recipes in this book but generally I found the recipes relied too heavy on things like condensed soups. But while not to my taste, they make a great dinner shortcut.

Very excited to try the recipes in here! They run the gamut from simple to fancy, and there's something for every taste. Highly recommended for my fellow Crock-Pot enthusiasts.

I received a digital ARC from the publisher via Netgalley.

I so wanted to read this cook book... Sure that I would learn so much... but by the time I had figured out all that I needed to do to down load the correct version of adobe digital reader and get it working... I was too late to request another chance to download the book as a gift from the publisher as ADE would not accept the original download copy of the book..
I sincerely apologize ... I am giving this a 5-star review because I have read the reviews posted by others.

Dinner help has arrived, with three wonderful cooks that eat, sleep and breath Crock Pot Rules, Recipes, and results! This book doesn't disappoint, its usefulness in the kitchen its primary goal! What I wished for more of was pictures, as there is only a handful of pictures. However, I made several of the recipes. They're good recipes and set out to do exactly what this book is designed to do, get your dinner on the table and the device that helps you achieve that as easy as possible, with the best results! Bravo!
I voluntarily reviewed this book for an honest review

Quick and easy recipes. Many of the recipes use pre-made ingredients (ex store bought meatballs) which is not my preferred ingredients. I did try a few of the “from scratch” recipes which turned out well

I could tell this cookbook is very well thought out -- it's so organized. Not everyone knows how to use a slow-cooker (crock-pot) and now that the InstantPot craze is upon us, people who didn't own a pressure cooker or crock-pot now have wonderful recipes to choose from with no fear of cooking too long or not long enough.

I particuularly liked all the information at the beginning of the book, again helping those who haven't used a crock-pot before. Starting with an appetizer section you have a choice of ten different sections, ending with sauces, the accessory of good food.

Food was beautifully photographed enticing me to try certain recipes.

Last nice thing I liked about how it is organized is how the meats are divided out. Some people only eat poultry, while others may particularly like beef, but avoid pork and lamb. The authors have made it easy to not have to thumb through a meat section to get the kind of meat they prefer.

Great, classic recipe book! Would be a great staple alongside my vintage community cookbooks that have been passed down to me. I tend to use my Instant Pot more often than my crock pot but it does have a slow cooker setting and most of the recipes would be pretty easy to convert to pressure cooker settings!

Thank you Quatro, Harvard Common Press Publishing and Netgalley for this ARC.

I enjoyed reading though this recipe book. I found lots of new ideas and recipes from the usual slow cooker books I have previously read, so it was inspirational. I have ear marked quite a few recipes and look forward to trying some beef in the hope I can make it juicy, fall apart myself.

I liked the layout and borders in the book but would have appreciated more photographs of finished products.

Thank you for this ARC in return for my honest review.

Today is a great day to make good use of a new cookbook in stores, The Crock-Pot Ladies Big Book of Slow Cooker Dinners, while we have another weekend of weird winter weather. Rain, sleet, snow, ice, and then repeat, This is a great day to put supper in the slow cooker early and let it do it’s thing all day while we stay inside away from the elements. This book is written by; Heidi Kennedy, Katie Handing and Sarah Ince and the circle graphic on the cover is very true – it states “Quick-to-Fix Meals from the Ladies Who Make Slow Cooking Fun and Delicious”. Every meal I have tried out of this book has been easy, and tasty and I keep going back for more meal options.

Using a Slow Cooker
The beginning of the book is filled with lots of helpful advice on slow cookers. Everything from deciding whether to use the LOW or HIGH settings to cook, how to do a slow cooker temperature check and even slow cooking for the freezer. This book is a great reference for all of your slow cooker questions.

The Recipes
Now on to the recipes, and there are a LOT of recipes in this aptly named Big Book of Slow Cooker Dinners. My first recipe was Spicy Jalapeno Popper Dip.I choose to try this out with cut- up veggies instead of the traditional chips. It was a huge success! All the ingredients were easy to get at my local grocery store (as I find in most of the recipes in this book).

Next I tried out a main dish, and you are going to laugh, but it intrigued me and I had to go for it…Stupid Chicken. They explain that it has a silly name but it is stupidly easy to make. They were not kidding, just chicken, diced tomatoes, savory herb with garlic soup mix, bow-tie pasta and parmesan cheese. This was a GREAT dinner and it was so simple I will be making it again!

Tonight's dinner is going to be Tangy Pineapple Pulled Beef. It is smelling so good I can’t wait to try it. I love pineapple, so I love trying recipes with that as one of the ingredients. As soon as I get done with this post, supper is on! My next recipe to try is going to be Our Favorite Root Beer Pulled Pork. I can’t wait to see which one makes the better sandwich.

I do want to call out that chapter 7 is a whole section on Vegetable Main Courses. So if you are looking for meatless options, The Crock-Pot Ladies Big Book of Slow Cooker Dinners has you covered there too! There are also some great veggie sides such as Mashed Pesto Cauliflower that you will want to try as well.

My biggest surprise with this cookbook was the number of desserts that you can make. I’ll admit it, in all the times I’ve used by crock-pots I have never attempted a dessert. I choose Lush Pina Colada Dump Cake. It was so successful that I eventually decided to dish up individual portions to put in the freezer so I was not tempted to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

This cookbook has so many options in it, and it uses normal, easy to get ingredients so I encourage you to add it to your cookbook collection. You will have a lot of meal options to cover every season of the year!

I absolutely loved this book. Great recipes and my crockpot is getting a work out. Well worth your time reading this book.

Great cookbook. I enjoyed many of the recipes. I liked that there was a section on vegetable main dishes for the crockpot.

I prefer cookbooks to include nutritional information. This cookbook did not include nutritional information.

I received this galley from NetGalley.

An absolute cornucopia of lovely recipes. I tend to only use my crock,pot in the winter, but this book will inspire me to use it all year round!

Easy to follow and so far, my family has loved them all!

The Crock-Pot Ladies Big Book of Slow Cooker Dinners is a new recipe collection from cooking/lifestyle blog team at CrockPotLadies. Released 15th Jan 2019 by Quarto on their Harvard Common Press imprint, it's 328 pages, and available in ebook and paperback formats.

My family is fairly typical of a lot of families with older teen/twenties kids living at home, two parents working full time and very little time left over for long and involved meal prep. My slow cooker and instant-pot have become some of my best friends in the kitchen. It's really tempting to pick up the same things at the grocery store and prepare the same dinners week in and week out. I'm seriously not exaggerating when I say that this book has challenged my family to change up our dinners and get away from the same old things.

There are some really delightful regional dishes represented here. There are the staple southwestern USA dishes (the chicken enchilada soup - p.66 is delicious and we've made it a dozen times in the last few months), lots of Italian American fusion dishes, minestrone, tomato soup with gnocchi, and others, as well as a welcome handful of Asian inspired dishes also with an American flair. I haven't seen many seafood based slow cooker recipes, and this cookbook has them. The lobster bisque (p.50) is -gorgeous-.

The ingredients are slanted toward North American readers; sourcing some of them might be challenging other places in the world. I live in Northern Europe and didn't have trouble finding the ingredients for the recipes we tested, so it's not likely to be an impossible hurdle in other parts of the world. Recipes are given in imperial measurements with metric equivalents in parentheses, so the reader is spared from having to convert.

Just a fun and delicious comprehensive slow cooker cookbook. There are lots of selections which are not soups or stews, which is great. This collection shows the versatility of slow cookers. The recipes are sensible and the entire aesthetic of the book is family friendly and wholesome. Is there anything in here that's going to make cordon bleu chefs swoon? No. Are these family friendly and appetizing meals with easily sourced ingredients which even your picky ten year old will eat without drama? Yes.

Five stars. Definitely worthwhile. Of the recipes we've tried, there hasn't been a single clunker.

This is quite a comprehensive collection of slow cooker recipes, primarily falling into a "comfort food" category. This would be great for busy families looking to meal prep (and even freeze) but likely not for those looking to lose weight.

Every recipe I tried out in this book was great! My kids and husband also loved the recipes and I will definitely be purchasing this one for my cookbook library. Thanks for sharing it with me!

I’ve followed the Crockpot Ladies on Facebook for awhile now, so was excited to receive an ARC of this book through Netgalley. There’s a great selection of recipes here and none call for obscure ingredients. They are all hearty recipes with easy instructions and simple ingredients. I was pleasantly surprised that there is a section for venison! I also loved the desserts section because these were recipes I had not seen anywhere else. I would estimate that a little over 1/3 of these recipes are on their website; however I would want a copy of the book regardless because who wants to have to look at a website a million times when cooking?

Overall this is a great selection of crockpot meals and I plan on making quite a few of them. My only complaint is I wish there were more healthy, whole food ingredient recipes.

This is a fantastic book! So many recipes that you'll never get bored. And all of them are doable with regular old groceries that pretty much everyone keeps around the house. The photos are mouthwatering, and the variety of dishes is amazing. This isn't gourmet cooking; it's rib sticking, delicious food that makes families happy. That being said, I'd be happy to prepare any of these dishes for company, for example, the Italian Beef Stew with Red Wine or the Maple Smokehouse Chicken, or, really, any of these fantastic meals. My crockpot has been getting a real workout with this book.
I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This is a book that you might think would be things you see in every other book of this type, but you will be greatly surprised! This book offers new and surprising ideas for yummy dinners that you might not normally think of. This is a great addition to any busy cook's home and recipe books. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves their slow cooker, but needs some new refreshing recipes. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to the authors, publisher and Netgalley for the privilege of reading this in advance.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Harvard Common Press, and the Crock-Pot Ladies for the opportunity to read and review this cookbook.

I love my Crock-pot but this book has really opened up what it could do. Besides the recipes for soup and stews that we're all familiar with, there are a ton of unusual recipes in here for appetizers and desserts. I even learned how to get that annoying white line out of my crock! Best of all, these recipes are developed using things you already have at home - no weird ingredients to hunt down (well, maybe except for the venison and bison section!). I wish more cookbooks included nutritional information - I received an ARC of this book so maybe the final version will. This is a book that belongs on everyone's cookbook shelf!

I do love looking through cook books and the recent purchase of a slow cooker meant that this was an ideal book to take a look through. Marked up a good handful of recipes to try out, which is the least you'd hope for.

Laid out well, and whilst some of the recipes are ones i'd seen elsewhere there was enough of a twist in differing approaches here and there to make it a worthwhile addition to the recipe options in my kitchen.