Instant Family Meals: Delicious Dishes from Your Slow Cooker, Pressure Cooker, Multicooker, and Instant Pot

The latest by Copeland (Every Day Is Saturday) aims to help home cooks create faster and easier family meals that don’t sacrifice flavor. She guides readers in getting to know their electric pressure cooker or slow cooker, including the varied settings and essential parts. The introduction, as well as the content prior to the recipes, is instructive, with information on what to look for when purchasing an electric cooker or figuring out all that it can do. A chapter on staples and meal-time helpers includes some features, such as a yogurt setting, that are found only on specific models of cookers, but the vast majority of recipes are adaptable to whatever cooker the reader has on hand. Quite helpful is the section on cooking times after the recipes. Chapters are divided by type of meal and include delights such as creamy carrot soup and double-the-vegetables pot roast.