I’m always looking for new crock pot recipes and I’m looking forward to trying so many from Crock Pot Essentials. This book has so many good soup recipes!

Thank you, Netgalley and Fox Chapel Publishing, for the ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

A crock pot is a wonderful appliance to have in your kitchen, and this cook book will have your mouth watering with the many delicious recipes. There are pictures for each recipe with clear instructions.

This is a must-have to make use of our pots with so much variety, I love the design of the pages with amazing photos and appetite the book starts by teaching us to make stocks. The recipes are easy to follow and I can't wait to try some fav like lasagna and mac and cheese. Great for someone like me that doesn't cook but loves to eat great food. Gives me lots of ideas for different times of the day.

First and foremost, love that EVERY recipe is accompanied by a photo! It just makes it so much more appealing and fun to read, IMO. I’m a big fan of the crockpot so this cookbook was perfect! Every recipe is very easy to follow and I found so many I am really looking forward to trying out.

Nice little cookbook. I liked that it has general information towards the front and conversion tables too.

It has breakfast, mains and side but also has recipes for cooking for 2.

The recipes are simply stated without a ton of ingredients

I love using my crock pot, so I knew I needed to check out Crock Pot Essentials as soon as it popped up on NetGalley!

The recipes are sorted into categories such as soups, meals, desserts, and meals for two. There are pictures of every recipe, which is a must for me in a cookbook! I like to be able to see what I am making, and that draws me in to the recipe. I also liked how there was a section on cooking for two people, making a smaller amount of food. Often our crockpot recipes lead to a crazy amount of leftovers, so this will come in handy.

The pictures are appealing, the recipes are easy to understand and follow, and I am looking forward to trying several of them in the coming weeks.

Thank you to NetGalley and Fox Chapel Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Looking for new recipes to make in your slow cooker? Crock Pot Essentials: 101 Recipes to Make with Your Slow Cooker Cookbook of Fast and Easy Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert Ideas with Minimal Prep and Quick Clean-Up by veteran cookbook writer, Anne Shaeffer, is full of appealing, innovative recipes that will inspire cooks to pull out their slow cookers again and start cooking.

This excellent cookbook covers some of the basics of slow cooking, and includes an excellent chart to customize your recipes to the slow cooker size. Since there are dozens of sizes of slow cookers on the market, this is especially helpful.

There are over a hundred recipes in this book, with several mouthwatering soups, and includes sandwiches and wraps to accompany them. There are also several accompaniments to go with the other recipes such as quick breads. The recipes are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients listed first, followed by easy instructions. Most of the recipes have minimal ingredients to make for minimum hands-on time to put dishes together. There are beautiful, professional photographs of every dish, which makes this a 5-star cookbook for anybody who cooks.

One bonus is a chapter on meals in the slow cooker designed for two; this helps small families, and the recipes, such as Bacon-Apple Chicken and Shrimp Creole are mouthwatering.
This cookbook is highly recommended and will help cooks prepare more innovative and delicious meals.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

This will be a great cookbook for some cooks. The recipes are easy and there are colorful photos for them all. It wasn’t a good fit for me since there is no nutritional information for the recipes (an automatic deduction of a star for me) and most of the recipes use packaged, processed ingredients like cans of soup, jars of sauces, frozen readymade ingredients and so on. I prefer to cook simple recipes from scratch. Most of the recipes are SAD (standard American diet) types which will please most American readers but not those who follow special diets like gluten free, paleo or vegan. It will be a great book for those who want “homemade” meals with little work though.

I read a temporary digital copy of this book via NetGalley.