Converting your favorite recipes to the slow cooker

Over at the Orlando Sentinel Heather has some great tips on how to convert your favorite recipes into delicious slow cooker masterpieces. Heather went to her test kitchen to see what worked best. Some of the tips include: cook the hearty foods longer and add the delicate stuff toward the end, Cut the liquids in half from your conventional recipes, but rice dishes will often additional more water to keep the rice from drying out before the main meat is cooked.

See her column for more excellent tips.