Slow cookers are experiencing a comeback—and with good reason. They are friends on a day of running errands. They allow easy entertaining with no last-minute preparation. They are miracles for potluck meals, whether in your home or someone else's. And vegetarians won't find a better way to work with dried beans.

Slow cookers are gentle with the food budget—less expensive ingredients flourish in their slow, moist heat. This cookbook offers the range of recipes where slow cookers do well. Appetizers and Snacks, Soups and Stews, Main Dishes (with and without meat) Vegetables and Go-Alongs, Desserts and Beverages.

Tips and Hints are dropped in throughout, urging one additional small step for lots of extra flavor, offering ways to make your cooker a complementary appliance, explaining seasoning to maximum effect. Bring an element of simplicity—and quality—to your pressured life! Let the slow cooker do the work for you!