The Paleo Slow Cooker: Healthy, Gluten-Free Meals the Easy Way
Note: This is a revised and updated edition.
The Paleo diet has been the latest health movement, taking the low carb diet a step further by eliminating grains and legumes and eating only lean, grass-fed meat. In short they consume only what was available to ancient humans or cavemen. The theory says that by eating what human bodies were designed to eat, people will be healthier, have fewer illnesses and lose weight. In many cases, Paleo diet consumers are also fueling their P90X or Cross
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234 of 238 people found the following review helpful  Poor Editing, Tasty Food, This review is from: The Paleo Slow Cooker: Healthy, Gluten-Free Meals the Easy Way (Hardcover) I had high hopes for this cookbook as I’d been waiting for it to be released and suffered through the many delays. I assumed that those extra 5 months would yield and flawless cookbook full of gorgeous food photography and delicious food. Unfortunately, only the delicious food was found. Over the last couple of weeks, we have prepared several recipes from the cookbook. We have yet to be disappointed by the finished product, but the recipe directions and lack of photographs leave much to be desired. Here are examples of the lack of clarity in the directions: -No note on when to add ingredients – Pear Ginger Pork Chops – no note to add cinnamon and allspice We have found flaws in all but one recipe we have prepared thus far. I would definitely not recommend this for a novice or beginner cook because of the room for interpretation left by the lack of explicit instruction. One would think that the delays in publishing would have afforded ample time for recipe editing and testing. Here’s the rub. I can’t quit this cookbook because the food is delicious. I find myself reaching for it as I make my weekly meal plan and including at least 2-3 meals from it. As someone following an Autoimmune Protocol, I was pleasantly surprised to find at least a few recipes in each section that do not include nightshades. We have thoroughly enjoyed each dish we have prepared, and my husband has requested the Beef Roast with Beets and Tarragon enter the regular rotation. I do think most of the chicken recipes would benefit from a 4-5 hour cooking time, rather than 6 hours, but that’s an easy adjustment to make personally. Overall, if you can get past the editing and lack of food photography, the food is good. I almost wish I had held out for a reprint with edits in place, though. 0 47 of 47 people found the following review helpful  Fire your editor, This review is from: The Paleo Slow Cooker: Healthy, Gluten-Free Meals the Easy Way (Hardcover) I just purchased this book hoping to make my life easier, sigh, too much cut and paste has screwed up the recipes. The first recipe had partial instructions from some other recipe, and my second attempt has differing amounts in instructions than in the ingredients list in addition to some of the worst writing I’ve ever seen to the extent of gibberish. I have a feeling the editors and publisher are to blame and have put a black eye on this book for me. I won’t order any books from this publisher again rest assured. 0 105 of 113 people found the following review helpful There are much better cookbooks out there, This review is from: The Paleo Slow Cooker: Healthy, Gluten-Free Meals the Easy Way (Hardcover) I can’t understand all these glowing reviews. The book is very pretty with pictures of all the recipes, and it contains a good overview of eating paleo and nutrition tidbits spread throughout the book. But that’s about all I have to say that’s positive. Things I don’t like….they definitely did NOT proofread. We have made 5 recipes so far. In every single one there are ingredients listed that aren’t in the instructions anywhere, ingredients in the instructions not on the list, or what looks to be part of another recipe’s ingredient list inserted mid-sentence in the instructions. I have just kind of guessed what I thought it was supposed to be. This would be okay if the recipes where any good. But every one has been “okay.” Edible, but nothing we’d bother to make again (or serve anyone else). We’ve been eating strict paleo for a few years now,and cooking for a very long time,so we’ve started trying to amp them up a bit (adding more spices, deglazing the pan when it calls for browning the meat – why wouldn’t you do this if your already browning the meat? missing stuff like this makes me think the authors haven’t been cooking very long)but it hasn’t helped much. Oh, and I REALLY dislike that there is no recipe list under the table of content headings (i.e. what beef recipes are under the beef section?). There is an alphabetical index in the back, but that isn’t useful unless you know the exact name of a particular recipe you’re looking for. I like to be able to quickly scan and see what I’ve tried/get ideas without flipping page by page. We’ll keep trying recipes from it, although I usually half them now to not waste expensive meat, etc. (we buy free-range) on something that likely will just be okay. But if you’re new to paleo, don’t get this book! There are better ones out there, and I think it might turn you off. But if you’re not new and/or have been cooking a long time and don’t mind tweaking the recipes some, then it’s okay. But really, save your money. 0 |
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