Lynn Alley is a freelance food and wine journalist specializing in traditional foods and culinary techniques from around the world. Author of The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Volume II, Regional Comfort-Foods Classics, she has other books to her credit besides being a regular contributor of recipes on website and cooking magazines.
Lynn provides insights into the comforting pleasure of the slow cooker. Apart from being a quiet helper it is no-fuss equipment with little tantrums. Being a background accomplice in most kitchen Lynn Alley brings out gourmet cooking through this wonderful book. Gathering up favorite regional dishes and adapting them to the slow cooker she adds her imaginative and contemporary touches to dishes. Working on comfort foods she has the extraordinary knack to add that extra zing. Slow cooked classic gourmet meals have never been the same ever since her book.
Taking care of concerns for healthy, fresh foods in keeping with shifts towards organic foods, Alley’s primal premise is clear - good ingredients make the difference in nutrition and flavor, and can absolutely be used in slow cooking. Turning out imaginative recipes like White Bean Chili using green chilies instead of red and adding basil make it only more savory. There are recipes for Korean Style Ribs and Pulled Pork with Barbecue Sauce, for Turkey with Cranberries and Sun-Dried Tomato Risotto. You can prepare your dessert in a slow cooker as well, and when Alley hands you down such recipes as Apricot Gingerbread Upside-Down Cake, Coffee-Chocolate Pot de Crème, and Georgia Peach Cobbler you just feel tempted to try them out. Her book provides tips on how to choose a slow cooker as well as tips on how to use one. There are photographs throughout that add to the appeal of this second volume.
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