A stellar collection of easy and delicious slow cooker recipes.

Slow cookers provide the perfect mealtime solution for tasty and nutritious food with a minimum of effort. Just a few ingredients in the slow cooker and a flick of the switch can produce a hot, satisfying home-cooked meal that's ready to serve at dinnertime.

300 Slow Cooker Favorites features easy, imaginative and delicious recipes such as:

• Sumptuous soups: potato leek soup with Stilton; meaty minestrone; roasted red pepper
• New chili dishes: football Sunday chili; party pleas'n chili; adobe pork and bean chili
• Satisfying mains: rosemary and garlic leg of lamb; gooey glazed beef ribs; coq au yin
• Sweet endings: very adult rice pudding; upside-down fudge brownie pudding; plum cobbler.

Also included are tips and techniques that guarantee slow cooker success. "Night before" advice features handy and time-saving tips.

From classic comfort foods to contemporary dishes, there's a new family-favorite waiting to be discovered by anyone using a slow cooker.

Donna-Marie Pye is a best-selling author of four cookbooks with more than 300,000 copies in print -- America's Best Slow Cooker Recipes, The Best Family Slow Cooker Recipes, 300 Slow Cooker Favorites and 300 Slow Cooker Winners. In her 20-year career in the food industry, Donna-Marie has worked with companies such as Kraft Foods. She now creates recipes and acts as a media spokesperson for Piller's Fine Foods, Maple Leaf Foods, California Raisins, Dare and others. She is co-owner of Relish Cooking Studio, in Waterloo, Canada.

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[5 stars] All tried and terrific, creative ideas, fabulous tips, family friendly recipes, great selection of recipes, not the same old, same old stuff. I finally found the best crock pot or slow cooker cookbook.

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