Stock the Crock

Great collection of recipes for your crockpot. Love the colorful photos and recipe layouts. Many of them have alternate options for recipes including changes for picky eaters or vegetarians. A good addition to any library cookbook collection.

First Line: When I bought my first slow-cooker cookbooks years ago, there were very few slow-cooker recipes available.

Summary: This is cookbook filled with authors favorite and family slow cooker recipes.

Highlights: Beautiful pictures to go with the recipes. I hate cookbooks that don't show what the food looks like. These are gorgeous! Also the extra tips. Making items for 2 or picky eater tips. Very helpful. She also includes Paleo versions. I cannot wait for fall so I can try out the soups. I learned so much reading over this cookbook. I never considered using pans inside the pot or dividing it into 2 parts.

Lowlights: Lots of ingredients sometimes get daunting. Especially when I only use them rarely and a little in each.

FYI: I am so hungry now!

The basic cooking process for each meal in the book may be the similar across the board (as with any crockpot cookbook book), but you cannot say anything remotely similar about the recipes themselves. Phyllis Good offers up a fantastically diverse array of comforting, easy, and tast-tastic meals that can satisfy everyone including those who eat vegetarian, those who want a nice hearty dish where meat is the centerpiece, those who want a nice big slow-cooked soup to warm up those winter months, and those who want to try their hands at a dessert to satisfy their sweet tooth. For both those who adore their crockpot and those who wish to explore new possibilities with their underutilized slow cookers, this is definitely a great book to check out as soon as it becomes available,

Slow cooker cookbooks are some of the best circulating cookbooks at our library and I am sure this will be no different. Loving the color photographs in this book as well as some of the recipes. I am sure this will be another popular book with our patrons as soon as the slow cookers come out for the fall season!

This is anther great collection of recipes from this author. This book is filled with great recipes and pictures to help you to make delicious recipes with your slow cooker. What I really liked about the recipes is how easy they are to prepare and the ingredients used are not overly expensive or hard to find. Some of my favorite recipes from the book are the chicken and wild rice soup, creole style beans, and easy French dip sandwich. After each recipe there are also great tips on variations including tips for picky eaters, how to make the recipe vegan, or how to make it gluten free. I know I will be using this book often.

Good variety of recipes that can be cooked in either a crockpot or Instant Pot.

This cookbook has 100 crockpot recipes and each have many variations for gluten-free, paleo, 'picky eaters' (i.e. less spicy) or vegan diets. The accompanying photographs look scrumptious. There are many unusual recipes including tomato paste, cream of mushroom soup, fruit butters, yogurt, fruit crisps and other desserts. There are some unusual vegan substitutions like pan cooked lentils for ground beef that I am going to try soon. The author also includes some excellent cooking tips that I have never heard elsewhere despite my addiction to the Food Network. My favorite was putting cut potatoes in a water and cream of tartar bath before cooking to avoid them turning brown while cooking, which worked great when I tried it. I will use this tip in many of my family's recipes--not just the ones in this book.

The recipes don't have exotic ingredients or spices that you have to make a special trip to the store to buy. Most of the ingredients would be in a typical family's fridge or pantry. I liked that the author included substitutions for items you may not have on hand, or just don't like, along with any timing differences that might be required. The two dishes that I prepared were simple and tasty. I'm looking forward to trying a few more soon. I only have one complaint. There is no calorie or nutritional information with any of the recipes so I deducted one star for that oversight. However, I would still recommend this book.

I want to thank the publisher, Time Inc. Books, and netgalley for the advance reader copy in exchange for my honest review. This book will be released on September 5, 2017.

This book provides some great recipes for using your crock pot. It contains a wide variety of food, from soups and sauces to main and side dishes, even brownies, breads and cakes. There are even tips on cutting the recipe down for two people, as well as ways to make the recipe to fit dietary needs. I'm looking forward to trying out a few goodies myself.

Stock the Crock by Phyllis Good is a beautifully illustrated cookbook which features plenty of slow cooker recipes. I also liked the tips, the graphics showing whether the recipe was designed for picky eaters, cooking for two, paleo-friendly, gluten-free, vegan or vegetarian. You will also find a chapter called Make Your Own Basics that features foundation recipes you can use in other recipes. Some of the foundation recipes you'll find include:

Tomato Paste
Ketchup
Cream of Mushroom Soup with variations
Homemade Chicken Broth

Some of the other recipes you'll find include:

Lasagna Soup In a Bowl
Whole Chicken Dinner (With a Little Buzz)
Eggs with Shrimp
Sausage-and-Spinach Cheese Tortellini
Creole-Style Red Beans
Homemade Refried Beans
Gingerbread On Applesauce

Overall, Stock the Crock is a lovely slow cooker cookbook almost any cook would enjoy using.

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.

Very nice book full of recipes )with pictures) and hacks. I never thought to use my old crock pot as a diffuser!!!! The recipes are broken down in categories and there is something for everyone. I tried the pulled pork recipe when I had friends over and it was a hit. Great book for anyone who owns a crock pot. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

Oh, how I love Phyllis Good and her magic crockpot recipes! She as saved many a dinner hour for me and my family. I am thankful for the variety of updated recipes in Stock the Crock that reflect new taste combinations and easy healthy meals. Thanks, Phyllis!

A really lovely updated cookbook! I've been a fan of Fix it and Forget it for years. So many of my friends have suggested it over and over but newer younger friends never pick it up. This is the best of both worlds.
Solid information on using a crock pot to cook meals and delicious recipes. With lovely photos and clean white pages.
So many new recipes I ran across that I can't wait to test out as school and busy schedules gear up in a few weeks.

This is a great cookbook with easy and delicious slow cooker recipes. It includes recipe variations to fit all diets: gluten free, vegan, vegetarian, paleo-friendly, cooking for one or two, and cooking for picky eaters.

Slow cooker fundamentals contains tips for picking the right equipment to suit your needs as well as other tools you might need. There is also a section for practical tips and tricks to make anyone a pro at using a slow cooker. The section containing slow cooker hacks provides alternative uses that you might find useful as well.

Beautiful full color photos accompany each recipe. The chapters are as follows:

1. Soups, Stews, and Chowders
2. Vegetarian and Pasta Mains
3. Poultry
4. Beef and Pork
5. Fish and Seafood
6. Sides
7. Sweet Treats
8. Make Your Own Basics

I would recommend this cookbook to anyone looking for easy and delicious recipes for the slow cooker, including unique recipes and variations to think outside of the box. I received this as a free ARC from Time Inc. Books, Oxmoor House on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I love to use my crockpot for fast and delicious meals and am always looking for new crockpot recipes. I got so many ideas from this book. If you love to use a crockpot, this is a must have cookbook.

Oh man. This is one of my new favorite slow cooker cookbooks. Since receiving this book from Netgallery.com, I have tried about 6 of the recipes. They are easy to follow and delicious. The ingredients for the recipes are easy to find in the grocery store, if they are not already in your cupboards. The pictures are true to the end result. I will definitely be adding a copy of this to my library.

Phyllis Good has written dozens of cookbooks; some are fairly good, others are just collections similar to church and community cookbooks where there is a laundry list of recipes from people none of us know. I actually own eight of her cookbooks, and have always felt like Good was more of a recipe compiler than a cook using her skills and imagination to present her own recipes. Most of Good’s previous cookbooks are lacking when it comes to pictures of the dishes (including her blockbuster bestseller), as well as lacking introductions and vignettes at the beginning of each recipe. These are attributes that should be - and most would agree are essential – to making a mundane cookbook into a good cookbook. It was a pleasant surprise to look through Stock the Crock: 100 Must-Have Slow-Cooker Recipes, 200 Variations for Every Appetite and see that this one is definitely a cut above her previous books.

Another pleasant surprise is that even though there are only100 recipes (and 200 variations), they are, for the most part, for dishes people will actually want to prepare. Good has included some basics, like stuffing mix, homemade yogurt, and cooking dried beans. She has included several mouthwatering baked desserts (the Pecan Bars are divine), as well as puddings and cobblers. There are several excellent meat dishes such as Sauerkraut with Smoked Chops and a Mexican Pot Roast, and even some good seafood dishes such as Shrimp and Grits. Also included are soups, side dishes and an impressive array of vegetable dishes.

The recipes have the contributor’s names on them (a few even have Good’s name on them), so it’s apparent that this is yet another compilation of recipes from friends and neighbors. However, there are excellent pictures of several – not all – of the dishes and some introductory notes heading the recipes. Included are well-written chapters explaining slow cooking fundamentals as well as slow cooker hacks, and at the end of each recipe she has included hints on serving only two people, variations, and notes on making some of the dishes gluten free.

All told, this is Good’s best cookbook yet. My queue for trying her recipes is lengthy, and I expect this to become a well-used cookbook.

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