This is a great collection of crock pot recipes, 4 whole years of different dishes that I can try every day of the year. Like any normal crock pot, I just fill my crock pot with ingredients and leave it there to simmer and in the meantime I can get on with other things. This recipe book is very handy for me as I am always so busy and I like to rediscover flavours that I had forgotten and that were part of my culinary tradition, it was a great purchase.