Sarah DiGregorio’s new book, Adventures in Slow Cooking, is modern slow cooking at its best and most delicious. You’ll find recipes for weeknight meals, party food, desserts (hello, Sticky Toffee Pudding!), and even warm cocktails. It’s filled with tips and tricks from someone who has had eight slow cookers going at once. She’s the real-deal.
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Miso-Butter Roast Chicken and Potatoes
Slow-cooking a “roast” chicken yields moist, juicy meat but flabby skin—the easy fix is to run the carved chicken under the broiler to crisp the skin before serving. The miso-honey mixture that’s drizzled on before broiling helps the skin get deep caramelization, and it also reinforces the salty-sweet miso flavor you added in the beginning, which will have mellowed.
Winter Tomato Sauce
This is a slow-cooker adaptation of Marcella Hazan’s famous 3-ingredient marinara sauce. The butter makes the sauce plush. Good-quality canned tomatoes are a useful pantry staple year-round but especially in winter when fresh tomatoes seem a lifetime away.
Skinnytaste Slow Cooker Chocolate Swirl Banana Bread
My younger daughter, Madison, loves banana bread, so I always keep extra bananas on hand and let them get super ripe (almost black!) just to make it for her. Overripe bananas are very sweet, which means you can cut back on the sugar without missing any sweetness. The first time I tried making a quick […]
Skinnytaste Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore
Since the sauce is hearty and chunky, it’s perfect to make in the slow cooker. While any part of the chicken works great, Gina Homolka prefers to use skinless chicken thighs that are still on the bone. The chicken comes out so juicy and tender, and the bones add flavor to the sauce.
Ronni Lundy’s Slow Cooker–Roasted Pork Shoulder
The pork shoulder, slow-roasted with fat and bone, produces a richly textured, deeply flavored meat worth smacking your lips for.
