Slow-cooking Book Review
Slow-cooking Curry & Spice dishes by Carolyn Humphries
A great little book, that could save you time, cut down on those energy bills and let dinner cook while you're doing other things - Curry & Spice those dishes for a treat
Slow cooking is how the Mediterranean housewives have cooked for centuries. But for today’s busy cooks, leaving a pan on the open-fire to slow cook the dinner is not only infeasible but largely impossible.
Slow Cooking Curry & Spice - Carolyn Humphries
Carolyn Humphries’ slow-cooking series is an education for both the uninitiated in slow-cookers and the more experienced too. The Slow-cooking Curry & Spice dishes cookbook is a collection of delicious sounding recipes from a wide range of gastronomic influences.
Humphries's motto is: "slow cooking is the new fast food! Just come home to eat it!." The idea is that you'll spend more time living - with a little advance prep – while dinner just cooks itself, appealing eh?
Humphries opens the book with an introduction to Curries, then she gives some invaluable advice on slow-cooking and the use of slow-cookers.
The book has sections on looking after your slow cooker, cooking times and notes on recipes, all of which inspire confidence that Humphries really knows her way around a slow cooker. She has obviously done a fair few meals, and much more experimenting with one.
The mouth-watering recipe contents of slow-cooked Curry & Spice dishes includes chapters on
- Poultry dishes
- Beef dishes
- Lamb dishes
- Pork dishesFish dishes
- Pulses and grain-based dishes
Whether you like really spicy flavoured food or just mildly flavoured dishes this book has a great mix to whet your apetite.
How about these for some sample recipes from book.?
- Spiced chopped beef with olives, raisins and fried eggs
- Minted lamb tagine with prunes
- Mexican shredded meats with chorizo
- Kidney beans, aubergines and sweet potato chilli
- Mild spinach and potato curry with green pepper
- Curried barley and prawn pilaf
- Spiced Tunisian vegetables with chick peas
- Pomegranate molasses, chick pea and potato curry
They’re all very tempting, and even more so because they are time-saving and energy saving, slow cooking but fast eating – not a bad philosophy!
Get a copy of the book and your slow-cooker from the back of the cupboard and spice up those dinners while saving time. Slow cookers are also an environmentally friendly way to cook as they use a fraction of the electricity used by a conventional oven.
See one of the recipes from her slow-cooking from around the Mediterranean book - Tunisian Sweet Potato, Carrot and Pea Casserole courtesy of Carolyn Humphries and Foulsham Books
The book is nicely presented and one of a growing number of books in the series of slow-cooking books.
Published by Foulsham Books
ISBN 978-0-572-03323-1
£7.99/$14.95
