Crockpot Recipes

The neighborhood fall potluck was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their signature dishes—Karen’s famous beef bourguignon, Mark’s from-scratch … Read more

The church potluck was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their grandmother’s lasagna that took all day, or those … Read more

Third time in ten days and I finally stopped adding things to it. That was the problem, you see. I kept thinking the Mississippi Pot … Read more

The farmer’s market bag was wilting on the counter. I’d bought the prettiest butternut squash and a whole sack of Honeycrisp apples three days ago … Read more

I ruined potato soup four times before I got it right. Not a little bit off—like, inedible, pour-it-down-the-drain ruined. The first batch was watery and … Read more

Third time this week, and I finally stopped stirring it. That was the moment. I’d been hovering over my slow cooker like it was going … Read more

I figured a chili that uses cream cheese would just taste like, well, cream cheese. It took about one ladleful for that assumption to completely … Read more

My brother-in-law Mark does not trust anything that comes out of a slow cooker with Buffalo sauce. He thinks it all tastes like somebody dumped … Read more

Frozen ground beef sitting on the counter at 4:30 PM and the slow cooker still clean in the cabinet—that was the moment this casserole was … Read more

That first rich, warm wave of chili powder and cumin hitting the air—the kind that drifts up from the slow cooker and curls around the … Read more