Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two - by Beth Hensperger & Julie Kaufmann (Paperback)

About the Book

Nearly 60 percent of American households today consist of only one or two people, yet most cookbooks don t reflect this trend, with recipes designed for large families, yielding 6-8 servings. For individuals and small families who want to cook hearty, healthful meals but don t want to deal with all the leftovers, Beth Hensperger has the solution. The James Beard Award winning author follows up the best-selling Not Your Mother s(r) Slow Cooker Cookbook with Not Your Mother s(r) Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, a collection of 125 new recipes specially designed for the small slow cooker. As always, Hensperger s innovative recipes call for fresh, healthful ingredients and continue to prove that the slow cooker can produce amazing meals. While the recipes yield the perfect amount for two or three people, there is no shortage of flavor with dishes such as Quick Hominy and Zucchini Chili, Moroccan-Spiced Tomato Chicken with Almonds, Lamb Stew with Lemon and Garlic, and Vegetable Polenta with Mascarpone Cheese. The slow cooker is an essential countertop appliance for busy cooks, and this is the only book on the market specifically written for the increasingly popular 1 1/2- 3 1/2-quart slow cooker. Not Your Mother s(r) Slow Cooker Recipes for Two is great for the growing population of empty-nesters, working couples, singles, and small families who want the convenience of small slow-cooker cooking without sacrificing wholesomeness and flavor."

Book Synopsis

The James Beard Award-winning author follows up the best-selling Not Your Mother's(R) Slow Cooker Cookbook with Not Your Mother's(R) Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, a collection of 125 new recipes specially designed for the small slow cooker.

Nearly 60 percent of American households today consist of only one or two people, yet most cookbooks don't reflect this trend, with recipes designed for large families, yielding 6-8 servings. For individuals and small families who want to cook hearty, healthful meals but don't want to deal with all the leftovers, Beth Hensperger has the solution with Not Your Mother's(R) Slow Cooker Recipes for Two.

As always, Hensperger's innovative recipes call for fresh, healthful ingredients and continue to prove that the slow cooker can produce amazing meals. While the recipes yield the perfect amount for two or three people, there is no shortage of flavor with dishes such as:

• Quick Hominy and Zucchini Chili
• Fennel Potato Leek Soup
• Moroccan-Spiced Tomato Chicken with Almonds
• Lamb Stew with Lemon and Garlic
• Vegetable Polenta with Mascarpone Cheese
• Cabernet Short Ribs of Beef with Apricots

The slow cooker is an essential countertop appliance for busy cooks, and this is the only book on the market specifically written for the increasingly popular 1 1/2-3 1/2-quart slow cooker. Not Your Mother's(R) Slow Cooker Recipes for Two is great for the growing population of empty-nesters, working couples, singles, and small families who want the convenience of small slow-cooker cooking without sacrificing wholesomeness and flavor.

Discover even more modern takes on classic techniques and dishes from the Not Your Mother's series: Not Your Mother's Microwave Cookbook; Not Your Mother's Fondue; Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, Revised and Expanded; Not Your Mother's Casseroles Revised and Expanded Edition; and Not Your Mother's Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook Revised and Expanded Edition.

From the Back Cover

"125 recipes with fresh, easy-to-find ingredients--just what I wanted." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

About the Author

Julie Kaufmann, a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has lived in California since 1979. She is an editor of the food section of the San José Mercury News. Before becoming a food editor, she wrote "Kids in the Kitchen," a twice-monthly food column for kids, also for the San José Mercury News. She previously worked on West, which was the Sunday magazine for the San José Mercury News, and spent a decade on the paper's business section. In addition to her work at the San José Mercury News, Kaufmann has taught editing in the Communications Department at Santa Clara University, in Santa Clara, California. Until recently she co-wrote a monthly mystery novel review with her husband for the San José Mercury News. She is an avid home cook who has coauthored several books with Beth Hensperger. Kaufmann lives in Palo Alto, California, with her husband and two children. Web: NotYourMothersCookbooks.com; Facebook presence.

Beth Hensperger is the author of 22 cookbooks, about half books on bread and baking and half books on how to cook with popular countertop appliances. They include The Bread Bible, winner of a James Beard Cookbook Award, and several volumes in the best-selling Not Your Mother's series, including Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, Not Your Mother's Microwave Cookbook, and the blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. She has twice been nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award. Hensperger previously wrote a San Jose Mercury News food column for twelve years, Baking with the Seasons, and has contributed to dozens of cooking and lifestyle magazines, such as Food & Wine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Veggie Life, Cooking Light, Working Woman, Victoria, Prevention, and Family Circle.