Manchester City Library

Are you really busy right now?  Think you’re too busy to cook?   Not if you take it slow and easy!  Here at the library we have some new cookbooks–just in time for the busy holiday season.  So fire up your crock-pots and slow cookers and turn your ovens on to “low”. 

If you have leftovers from your huge turkey dinner check out this recipe adapted from the “Everything Slow Cooker Cookbook”. 

Turkey and Dressing Casserole  Serves 4

Ingredients:  Nonstick spray

• 2 cups leftover turkey
• 4 cups leftover stuffing
• 2 cups leftover gravy
• 2 Tablespoons heavy cream
• leftover vegetables like peas and carrots (1/4 cup or to taste)

Method: Treat your slow cooker with nonstick spray.  Cut turkey and dressing into bite-sized pieces.   Add  to  the  slow cooker along with the peas and carrots, gravy and heavy cream.  Stir to mix.  Cover and cook on low for 3 hours, or until heated through.

If you don’t own a slow cooker or crock-pot try something from “The Best Slow & Easy Recipes” published by the geniuses at Cook’s Illustrated.  According to their chef’s, cooking food in an oven at moderate temperatures with extended cooking times will produce food that is more flavorful and tender with surprising and delicious flavors.   It sounds wonderful and I can’t wait to try something from these books and come in from a cold afternoon of snow shovelling into a house smelling of roasting meat or warm mulled cider from the crock-pot.

If you have any wonderful crock-pot or slow recipes please reply to this post and share them or if there is a cookbook you’d like that we don’t have here at the library  please let me know.  

And as always, see you at the library!

Yvonne