Cuisinart 6.5 Qt Slow Cooker

Wow! Pretty baby! If you have been searching for a great looking, large slow cooker that you can leave on the counter top (to make yourself use it more often), that automatically shifts to "Warm" when cook time ends, then this could be “the one”! The Cuisinart 6.5 Qt Slow Cooker has to be one of the best looking, programmable slow cookers available.

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  Featuring an easy to use touch pad control panel with LCD timer display and 24 hour timer, and the essential functions of Off/On, Keep Warm, Simmer, Low and High settings, this model is starting to tick some important boxes.
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  The removable 6.5 quart oval ceramic dishwasher safe cooking pot is housed in a brushed stainless steel casing with chrome-plated handles with glass lid with stainless steel rim and chrome-plated knob, and the base has non-slip rubber feet.
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  Dishwasher safe lid and ceramic pot for fast, mess free. fuss free clean up.
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  With elegant good looks, you will be happy to place the unit straight on the buffet at gatherings. One feature that you won't be expecting is a retractable cord!
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  Includes cooking rack for use with ramekins or other bake ware to make soufflés or roasts. Your warranty comes with a spiral bound recipe book with 70 basic to gourmet dishes and instruction book.

Looking for 'new fashioned' crock pot cooking ideas? “Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook” is an excellent series for crock pot cooks that prefer to use ingredients, rather than packets or canned soup to cook... check out the review of the “Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook” Series here!

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The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World

This unique, adventurous crock pot cookbook brings an upscale approach to this new-old phenomenon, using fresh ingredients in imaginative recipes that you can create all during a day’s work. Focusing on traditional one-pot meals from various cultures, recipes such as Apricot Chicken from India, Molé Poblano from Mexico, Neopolitan Truffle Risotto from Italy, and Boston Baked Beans from the United States are delicious meals truly fit to serve guests. This crock pot cookbook is a breath of fresh air, and is one of my favorites.

My absolute favorite recipe in this slow cooker cookbook is from the Italy section, the Italian Pot Roast – it's the dish featured on the front cover too! It would seem that pot roast is a big favorite in Italy, just as it is in North America – a cut of beef stewed in a hearty red wine and tomato sauce. In fact, as with many wonderful pot roast crock pot recipes, the longer you cook it, the better it gets, as the meat begins to fall away from the bone and meld into the sauce. It's delicious served over polenta or a creamy mash... you have just got to try it!

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Cuisinart Slow Cooker Review

This Cuisinart Crock Pot is one of the best – and it ticks all the boxes...

The Cuisinart PSC-350 3-1/2 Quart Programmable Slow Cooker is programmable, it has keep warm mode, it looks fabulous and is available from Amazon for an exceptionally good price – and it is the highest rated in Customer Reviews and the best seller of all the 3 quart programmable slow cookers available through Amazon. In fact, ninety percent of customer reviews at the time of writing rated this appliance 4 Stars or higher out of 5. What more could you want? Oh – and it cooks your meals to perfection and has them piping hot and ready to serve when you're ready to eat!

Cuisinart Slow Cooker

One of the benefits of slow cooker cooking is you can buy the less expensive cuts of meat and yet serve the most flavorsome, delicious, heart-warming curries, chilli, stews and casseroles, as if by magic! This Cuisinart Slow Cooker has a simmer mode. This special feature allows long slow cooking, which encourages the meat and vegetables to really release their flavorsome taste and nutrients while still maintaining safe cooking temperatures.

Cuisinart Digital Slow Cooker – for good looking cooking!

I'm sure you would agree, that as far as 3 quart slow cookers go, this is one of the more attractive ones in the 3 to 3-1/2 quart size range. The brushed stainless finish of this Cuisinart Crock Pot is practical as well as pretty – definitely an improvement on “your mother's slow cooker”! You will be happy to have this slow cooker out on your counter almost permanently, it's so good looking!

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Slow Cooker Honey Chilli Chicken

Looking for a "quick prep" recipe using any kind of chicken pieces and ingredients you'll have on hand?

Slow Cooker Chilli Chicken
3 Tbsp honey
2 Tbsp Sweet Chilli Sauce
1 tsp ground ginger
1 Cup of chicken stock
4-8 chicken piece - to make one layer of chicken only

Put the first three ingredients into the slow cooker and combine, stir in chicken stock, add chicken.
Turn on slow cooker, cook on low for 7-8 hours.

You can thicken the sauce with 1 Tbsp of cornflour prior to serving if you prefer a thicker sauce.

Serve over rice, risoni or noodles with a stemmed greens or a crisp salad.

More easy crock pot recipes: Chocolate Fudge Pudding | Crock Pot Mac N Cheese
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Crock Pot Mac N Cheese

When my nephew and niece come for the occassional day in the school holidays, when it's cooler, we like to make something hot for lunch.

Macaroni Cheese is their favorite, and it's super easy in the crock pot!

This is a one pot meal the whole house will enjoy!

Crock Pot Mac N Cheese

1/4 Cup flour
1 tspn salt
1/4 tspn pepper
2 Tbsp minced onion flakes
1/2 tspn paprika

3 Cups milk

1 Cups grated cheese
2 Cups uncooked macaroni

Add the first 5 ingredients into a saucepan. Whisk in the milk gradually, keep whisking until no lumps remain. Heat and stir until boiling and thickened.

Add cheese and macaroni, stir to combine. Turn into 3-1/2 quart or 3.5L slow cooker, cover and cook on low for 2 to 2-1/2 hours or on high for about 1 hour.

Makes 4 cups.

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West Bend Oblong Slow Cooker

In a recent post we discovered a slow cooker than lets you brown the onions and meat without dirtying an extra pan to do it. For the simple reason that I don't want extra dishes to do as part of my meal prep time, I have almost never browned things before adding them to my crock pot. But the interior of the West Bend Oblong Slow Cooker stainless steel insert has a non-stick coating... so it both practical and possible to brown your ingredients on the stove top, directly in the slow cooker stainless steel insert, before placing it on to the heating base.

The heating base is able to be used separately to – as a small non-stick griddle. It's ideal for cooking up a little bit of bacon, some sausage links, tomatoes and some scrambled eggs for breakfast.

The West Bend Oblong Slow Cooker Gives You Total Control, Total Flexibility!
The cooking temperatures are controlled with a dial – as you would expect to find on with a griddle. Heat setting 2 is warm, 3 is low, 4 is medium and 5 is high. This means you have the ultimate in flexibility of choosing you rate of cooking. For example if you are starting the casserole early in the day, you can just select low and leave it. A little later in the day you might want to select medium for a while and then turn it down to low. Mid afternoon you can start the dish off on high and then turn it down, and it will still be cooked – just use the instructions to work out how long at each setting.

West Bend Oblong Slow Cooker with Tote
The West Bend Oblong Slow Cooker also comes with an insulated carrying tote bag – an essential item if you like to cook and then take warm food out to gatherings and events.

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Chocolate Fudge Pudding

This is my nephews favorite crock pot dessert recipe ever! I am asked for this recipe by everyone I have shared this dessert with – because it is prepared, cooked, and travels in the slow cooker it is perfect dessert to take out with you to share - especially if you have a slow cooker like this one. Chocolate Fudge Pudding is often requested when we are invited to pot luck dinners, and it is so easy to make!

I make the recipe right into the slow cooker insert – no extra dishes!

Slow Cooker Chocolate Fudge Pudding

2 Cups plain flour
1-1/2 Cups brown sugar, packed
4 Tablespoons cocoa
4 Teaspoons baking powder
½ Teaspoon salt

1 Cup milk
4 Tablespoons oil
1 Teaspoon vanilla essence

1-1/2 Cups brown sugar, packed
4 Tablespoons cocoa
3-1/2 Cups hot water

Get the slow cooker base out and find a measuring jug that 4 Cups of liquid. Half fill your kettle and set it to boil.

Place the first five dry ingredients into the slow cooker base and stir to combine.

Measure the wet ingredients into the 4 cup jug - start by adding the milk, then add the oil and vanilla. Stir and add to the dry ingredients in the slow cooker, stir well to combine. (Don't worry about scraping down the sides.)

Quickly and roughly distribute the second measures of brown sugar and cocoa evenly over batter, don't flatten, mix or stir! Place insert into slow cooker base.

Using the rinsed, wet ingredient measuring jug, add your measure of hot water from the hot kettle, hold a spoon just above the surface and gently pour (don't splash yourself) the water onto the spoon.

Do not stir! Cover and cook on high for 3 hours until a toothpick comes out clean.



This crock pot dessert recipe comes up to about an inch away from the top of the insert when cooking. It's a big desert. If you are dishing it out to a family, you will easily feed 12, maybe even more if you are generous with the cookies n cream ice cream!

I try to time the end of cooking time to be when I am serving the main course. Standing time (not left in warm mode, turned off) seems to make the chocolate sauce thicken, and of course, it doesn't make the ice cream melt instantly, which we prefer too!

This slow cooker dessert recipe was prepared in a 3.5 quart crock pot.

You can halve the ingredient quantities for this crock pot desert recipe. Halved, it will cook in 90 minutes and serves 6-8.

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