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    Slow Cooker Meals: Easy Home Cooking for Busy People
    Slow Cooker Meals: Easy Home Cooking for Busy People
    Slow Cooker Meals: Easy Home Cooking for Busy People
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    Slow Cooker Meals: Easy Home Cooking for Busy People

    By Neal Bertrand

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    Preparing a home-cooked meal in your slow cooker is delicious, nutritious, economical and easy. Put it on before you leave in the morning and it’s cooked when you return. Loaded with easy meals anyone can fix, this cookbook includes Cajun meals such as jambalayas & pastalayas, sauce piquantes, étouffées, plus a large variety of soups, stews, and gumbos. It has poultry and meat dishes such as brisket, roasts, ribs and Cajun Pepper Steak. It has classics like chili and meat loaf. Also includes 17 desserts such as cobblers, puddings, fudge, chocolate peanut clusters and chocolate cake. 127 recipes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCypress Cove Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2011
    ISBN9781936707133
    Slow Cooker Meals: Easy Home Cooking for Busy People
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    Neal Bertrand

    Neal Bertrand was born and reared in Opelousas, Louisiana, in the heart of Cajun Country. He has had experience as a farmer, gardener, cattle rancher, carpet cleaner, flooring installer, vertical blind technician, Postal worker, mail clerk for city government, owner of a printing business, a former husband, father and Mr. Mom to three beautiful children, now grown. He has over a decade of experience as an employee of a publishing company, helping his employer publish 40 magazine issues and 16 books, several of them being cookbooks. He is the founder and owner of Cypress Cove Publishing in Lafayette, Louisiana. His publications are Rice Cooker Meals: Fast Home Cooking for Busy People, Down-Home Cajun Cooking Favorites and the bi-lingual (English & French) Cajun Country Fun Coloring and Activity Book, which he published for a local artist. He has also published a collection of authentic Cajun art prints – beautiful South Louisiana landscapes, all painted by his father, Curtis. All of his books, art prints, rice cookers and other products can be seen and ordered from his websites, www.CypressCovePublishing.com or www.RiceCookerMeals.com. Neal has a large collection of old photos which he put in an online photo album for the world to see, including World War II photos his father took while overseas. The photo albums can be seen at http://www.picasaweb.google.com/cookbookdude/

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      Slow Cooker Meals - Neal Bertrand

      Slow Cooker Meals:

      Easy Home Cooking for Busy People

      by Neal Bertrand

      Mouth-Watering Family Favorites: Cajun-Style Meals, plus Appetizers, Pastas, Seafood, Meats, Soups, Stews, Chili, and 17 Desserts… all made in your Slow Cooker!

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      © Copyright 2011 by Cypress Cove Publishing

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions

      thereof in any form whatsoever.

      Published by Neal Bertrand at Smashwords, June 2011

      ISBN: 978-1-936707-13-3

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      ABOUT THE FRONT COVER

      This beautiful, mouth-watering dish of Cajun Pepper Steak on the front cover is one of many meals that can be made in your slow cooker. Look for the recipe inside.

      AUTHOR, EXECUTIVE EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Neal Bertrand

      FOOD STYLING AND COVER DESIGN Elizabeth Bell, eBell Design, Lafayette, La.

      FRONT COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Travis Gauthier, Zoom Photo Studio, Lafayette, La.

      BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Jeremy Bertrand, Cypress Cove Publishing

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I would like to thank all of the nice ladies associated with the LSU AgCenter and their members of the Volunteers for Family & Community (VFC) homemaker clubs across the state of Louisiana who contributed recipes and advice, and for their help in making this cookbook a success. In particular, Quincy Cheek, Rapides Parish; Mandy Armentor, Vermilion Parish; Connie Aclin, Caddo Parish; Elizabeth Lynn, Bienville Parish; Kathy Mauthe, Tangipahoa Parish – all with the LSU AgCenter. I would also like to thank Cathy S. Judd, LSU AgCenter Lincoln Parish, for contributing a few recipes from her Lunch and Learn recipe booklet.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 - Appetizers: Dips, Wings, Meatballs

      Chapter 2 - Meats & Poultry: Beef, Chicken, Pork, Steak, Sausage

      Chapter 3 - Pastas: Macaroni, Pastalayas, Spaghetti, Fettuccine

      Chapter 4 - Seafood: Shrimp, Crawfish, Crab, Fish

      Chapter 5 - Soups & Stews: Chowder, Chili, Stroganoff, Gumbo

      Chapter 6 - Vegetables: Potatoes, Corn, Beans, Carrots

      Chapter 7 - Desserts: Cakes, Puddings, Cobbler, Fudge, Pie

      Chapter 8 - Index In Alphabetical Order (linked to recipes)

      Chapter 9 - Index By Category (linked to recipes)

      INTRODUCTION

      In 2008, I wrote and published my second cookbook, Rice Cooker Meals: Fast Home Cooking for Busy People. I was so excited about cooking a one-pot meal in 30 minutes that I was spreading the word about my book, and it became very popular with busy people who still like to cook, as opposed to feeding their families fast food.

      In the process of distributing my book around my home state of Louisiana, I met a lot of people who were fans of my book. They kept asking me questions that, at first, I found to be a little irritating, such as, Will these rice cooker meal recipes work in my slow cooker? When are you coming out with a slow cooker meals cookbook?

      Initially, in my mind I scoffed at the idea. I thought to myself, These people just don’t understand! Here you have a Rice Cooker Meals cookbook where you can cook a one-pot meal in 30 minutes. Why would you want to cook the same thing that takes 8 hours? I had a hard time with that at first.

      Then I realized – wait a minute – they have a point here! Put the ingredients in the slow cooker pot, turn it on, and go to work and forget about it. When you get back home the food is ready to eat! That basically amounts to the same thing. Prepare the ingredients, put them in the pot and forget about it.

      Not only that, but I had a rude awakening when I found out that most people don’t have a rice cooker. (WHAT? How can that be? Almost everyone in south Louisiana has a rice cooker! I grew up cooking rice on the stove, then the rice cooker came along, which was a major kitchen miracle, in my opinion.) However, more people own a slow cooker or Crock Pot. So, thanks to my friends and customers, this book has been birthed.

      So, I wanted to find out if my Rice Cooker Meals recipes can be cooked in a slow cooker. Yes, I converted many of them to be cooked in a slow cooker; they are very delicious and appear within these pages. I wanted to provide you with a lot of recipes, so I got help from homemaker clubs associated with the Louisiana State University (LSU) AgCenter. I asked these club members to submit their tested and proven recipes that are family favorites, and I present them to you within these pages.

      Neal Bertrand, Author & Publisher

      Cypress Cove Publishing

      Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

      FOREWORD

      WHAT THE LSU AGCENTER LADIES HAVE TO SAY

      Working with the LSU AgCenter Cooperative Extension Service has taught me so much about the people of Louisiana, and one lesson in particular I learned recently has left me baffled.

      In south Louisiana (loosely defined as south of Alexandria) many families have, and use a rice cooker

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