Fix-It and Forget-It Family Vacation Cookbook: Slow Cooker Meals for Your RV, Boat, Cabin, or Beach House

Home cooks on the road with limited storage and prep space are the intended audience for food blogger Comerford’s (Fix-It and Forget-It Holiday Favorites) collection of 150 simple recipes for the slow cooker solicited from fans. The slow cooker’s ease of use—the very definition of “fix-it and forget-it”—makes it a terrific choice for preparing dishes while traveling, as Comerford’s followers show time and again with dishes that often call for fewer than five ingredients, among them honey chicken thighs, chili-lime corn on the cob, sloppy joes, pulled pork, and a chocolate peanut butter swirl dump cake. This simplicity occasionally borders on the ludicrous, with “recipes” for Sweet N Sour Meatballs, consisting of frozen meatballs, grape jelly, and chili sauce; barbecued cocktail sausages (four packages of cocktail sausages and a bottle of barbecue sauce); chili-cheese taco dip (a pound of Velveeta, browned beef, and a can of chili); and hot dogs, in which readers are instructed to fill their slow cooker with as many hot dogs as they’d like and cook, then “serve in hot dog buns with your favorite toppings.” While the recipes themselves are thin, this volume just might be the answer to those traveling on a tight budget.[em] (Apr.) [/em]