Book excerpt: 450 of the best slow cooker recipes from the New York Times bestselling Fix-It and Forget-it series! Here are the best-loved slow cooker recipes all in one place. These are the champs. These are the ones that surprise you—because you didn’t realize you were cooking when you made them. Because everyone at the table wants more! You can cook with these easy-to-follow, quick-to-prepare taste-stunners. If you already know you can cook, allow yourself to be surprised by the layers of flavors you can make in your slow cooker when you handle it well. You can trust these recipes because they are: Collected from some of America’s best home cooks Tested in real-life settings Carefully selected from thousands of recipes Want to feel like a smart cook? Fix-It and Forget-It Slow Cooker Champion Recipes will make winners of you and your meal, whether you’re cooking: Breakfast or brunch Stand-out roasts for your holiday meals Weeknight pasta dinners Quick or yeast breads Puddings or cakes Vegetarian specials Appetizers and snacks, or Big basics (your own cream of mushroom soup, yogurt, dried beans from scratch, applesauce, garden salsa, and more) You’re going to love this. And so will your family and friends. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.