Set It & Forget It: A Slow Cooker Cookbook

Dinner, ready when you are. The slow cooker is not glamorous — it just sits on your counter, quiet and humble, and hands you a home that smells like somebody has been cooking for you all day. Set It & Forget It is Dr. Christopher D. Pritchard, D.D.'s collection of 50 slow cooker recipes built for real life: load the pot in the morning, come home to pot roast, beef stew, chili, and pulled pork that fall apart at the touch of a fork.

Nearly every recipe gives you both the LOW and the HIGH cook times, because some days you have got eight hours and some days you have got four. Nothing needs more than about fifteen minutes of your attention in the morning, everything comes from a regular grocery store, and every recipe makes enough for real portions — plus leftovers, because slow cooker food is almost always better the next day. Set it. Forget it. Come home to dinner.