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Check out the helpful slow cooker cooking tips chart below, courtesy of Andrew Schloss, author of the new Art of the Slow Cooker App for iPhone (and the cookbook it’s based on). This new app has arrived just in time for making holiday and wintertime cooking delicious, comforting, and easy for when you’re on the go.

Slow Cooking By Ingredient
Slow cookers are almost always used to cook recipes that combine a variety of ingredients, so it is a bit difficult to talk about the specific needs of particular ingredients during slow cooking. Yet I always find it helpful to understand the affinities and tolerances of ingredients when figuring out how best to cook them. The following table will give you an overview of how to slow cook various ingredients, with the caveat that you will probably never cook any of them alone. As a result, recipes including these ingredients will probably reflect a compromise that accommodates the needs of all of the ingredients in the recipe.

The Art of the Slow Cooker App includes these great functionalities and features:

• 30 recipes for soups, stews, braises, classics, and sides, based on the best selling book “Art of the Slow Cooker”
• 20 photos of finished recipes
• Ability to add individual and multiple recipes to shopping list
• Aggregates list for putting multiple recipe ingredients into one shopping list
• Inside-app word search
• Social media out-messaging and thumbnail photos to email, Facebook and Twitter for easy recipe sharing with friends and family

Check out the app in action in this demo:

Other Chronicle Books Food and Drink iPhone apps being released in the coming months include: Cheese Plate, The First Real Kitchen Cookbook, Asian Market Shopper, and the first-ever app from renown Mexican food expert Rick Bayless, Essential Mexican. Check them all out here.

Let us know what you think about the app after you take a look at the preview. Leave a comment and enter to win a free download of the app (remember, presently this app is for iPhones only, and usable on the iPad). And enjoy this seasonally-appropriate recipe featured in the app.

Pumpkin Soup
Serves 8

2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
2 oz thinly sliced prosciutto, cut into thin strips
1 large onion, cut into 1⁄8-in dice
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 can (about 28 oz) 100% pure pumpkin
2 qts vegetable or chicken broth
1⁄8 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp ground white pepper
1/2 cup cream (at least 10% fat)
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
2 tbsp chopped fresh Italian (flat-leaf) parsley

1. Heat the oil in a large deep skillet over medium-high heat. Add the prosciutto and sauté until crisp and frizzled, about 1 minute. Remove with a slotted spoon and reserve.

2. Reduce the heat to medium, add the onion to the skillet, and sauté until tender (do not brown), about 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for a few seconds, until aromatic. Stir in the pumpkin, broth, nutmeg, salt, and pepper and bring to a boil. Transfer to a 5- to 6-qt slow cooker, cover, and cook for 3 to 4 hours on high, or 6 to 8 hours on low.

3. Stir in the cream and Parmigiano-Reggiano and heat through, about 5 minutes. Stir in the parsley and garnish with the frizzled prosciutto.

Peter Perez
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