Excerpted from “The 150 Best Slow Cooker Recipes, Second Edition” by Judith Finlayson ($24.95, 2011, Robert Rose Inc. www.robertrose.ca) Reprinted with permission.

Certainly you’ve got a slow cooker collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. Well, make your life easier this winter — dust it off and put it to work. You’ll be rewarded with a hot meal when you walk in the door on a cold night.

Here are three recipes sure to make you a fan of slow cooking!

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