Paleo Slow Cooking: Gluten Free Recipes Made Simple Author: Chrissy Gower | Language: English | ISBN:
B009JJQUKM | Format: PDF
Paleo Slow Cooking: Gluten Free Recipes Made Simple Description
Although eating a paleo diet (no gluten, grains, dairy, or legumes) has proven to be highly effective in shedding unwanted weight and improving overall health, many find preparing and cooking real-food meals on a daily basis difficult to manage. Let's face it, prepping and cooking meals, as well as cleaning multiple pots and pans, can take a lot of time from your already hectic schedule. Not to mention the difficulties in making healthy food taste delicious. Enter the slow cooker, an easy-to-use devise that allows you to enjoy a wonderful, home-cooked meal without slaving for hours in the kitchen.
In Paleo Slow Cooking, Chrissy Gower shows you that cooking real food using a variety of vegetables, clean cuts of meat, and healthy fats does not have to be a complicated, boring, or time-consuming endeavor. In this real-food-made-easy guide, Gower teaches you how to prepare full-course paleo/primal entrees, soups, stews, breakfast dishes, and desserts. To make every meal more enjoyable, Gower also includes several quick and easy side dishes to go with your slow cooker meals.
Paleo Slow Cooking is sure to win the hearts of every time-crunched individual or family that yearns to eat a healthier diet. Eating paleo has never been so easy or tasted so good!
- File Size: 7035 KB
- Print Length: 380 pages
- Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing (September 28, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009JJQUKM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I received my copy of "Paleo Slow Cooking" by Chrissy Gower today and I am slightly disappointed. While the majority of the recipes do look tasty I personally feel as a cookbook this particular book has a few major missteps. The first being a heavy use of "Penzeys" brand spices and El Pato brand sauces. A majority of the recipes in this book call for the use of specific Penzeys blends with no side-note on how to replicate the blend on your own by utilizing your own personal spices. I suppose I could go to Penzeys website, read the ingredients listed for the spice blend and reconstruct it at home... but that adds another step for me when attempting to prepare a dish. I feel this is a serious disservice to purchasers of the book. The use of El Pato brand sauces is not as prevalent but my complaint remains the same. The only explanation the author provides of the El Pato sauce is "Use the green can". I would have preferred a description of exactly what type of sauce it was so I could substitute with a brand I know and trust although personally I'd rather make the sauce myself than rely on a canned product.
In my opinion it was also a mistake to not have pictures of how she describes lining the crockpot with parchment paper. The instructions are clear enough, but they would have been crystal clear with an accompanying photo set, especially since a few of the deserts and practically all of the breakfast recipes call for this particular step.
Lastly, I also felt that a number of the recipes can be prepared quicker and with one less item to clean on the stove top. For a slow cooker book to have recipes that are quicker to prepare on the stove without the headache of cleaning the crockpot just doesn't seem well thought out to me.
I agree with what a lot of the other reviewers have stated in terms of disapointments in the book. I preordered it. I have bought slow cooker books in the past, and was so disapointed in their use of canned/bottled/premade "food" all thrown in a pot and heated up. I have been eating paleo for a couple years now, and felt that this would bring the two worlds together nicely. Paleo pretty much is no sugar (something we are very hardcore about in our house) and no processed foods. How could this book not rock with those as the basis? Well...
I'm going to sound nit-picky, and if this review bothers you, then this is the book for you and it's where you are in your food journey. Some of you are more like me and care a little bit more. So here are the details that bothered me.
1) I'm on the GAPS diet. Not a big deal. Very compatible with paleo. Only problem is sweet potatoes aren't allowd on the GAPS diet (sad... I know!). This book uses them A LOT. I think it might possibly be her favorite veggie. It's listed in 7 recipes in the index, but I counted an aditional 5 that include sweet potatoes that aren't even listed in the index. That makes a total of 12 recipes that call for them. I can substitute I realize, but just throwing it out there if you are a low carb person, or for some reason can't handle them, they are used pretty heavily.
2) She really doesn't worry about added sugar. This bothered me a lot. On page 118 is her recipe for BBQ sauce (one of the FEW recipes for something, not just calling for a bottle!). I was excited she included a recipe for BBQ sauce until I read it. It calls for 2 cups of organic ketchup. UGH! The second ingredient on the label is sugar in that stuff, even the organic. Then it also calls for 1/2 cup honey with that. UGH!
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