Crockpot Recipes

Soggy flour clumps stuck to my fingers, the baby was wailing in her bouncer, and I had exactly one clean pot left in the whole … Read more

Late October, and the only thing I wanted was a dinner that would cook itself. Not because I was busy—I was actually just tired. The … Read more

Pulling the turkey carcass out of the freezer at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday, wondering what on earth I was thinking. The whole house smelled … Read more

My neighbor Linda dropped off a grocery bag of pumpkins on my porch last October. Not the cute pie pumpkins, either—three massive, lopsided carving pumpkins … Read more

The first real cold snap of the year hit, and I just accepted that no store-bought can of soup was going to taste like the … Read more

I figured chili was something you just threw together and hoped for the best. It took about three hours of watching a friend obsess over … Read more

The text came in around 4:45. “Can you bring that chicken thing to the potluck tomorrow?” I stared at my phone for a second, blanking … Read more

Three bags of candy corn dumped across the kitchen floor, a toddler wearing a superhero cape as a hat, and the front doorbell ringing for … Read more

Sunday afternoon, three in the afternoon, and the kitchen smelled like nothing at all. That felt wrong. I had a bag of potatoes, a roll … Read more

“Wait — you put Fritos on chili?” my brother-in-law asked, one eyebrow raised, like I’d just suggested ketchup on a steak. It was the Sunday … Read more