Crockpot Recipes

The woman at the community garden plot next to mine watched me struggling to dig up a particularly stubborn carrot. She didn’t say anything at … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a rainy Thursday in March, and I had that craving—you know the one. Not for anything fancy, just something warm, … Read more

Introduction My Aunt Carol wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by her house the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to grab a casserole dish she was … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, knee-deep in spreadsheets for my quarterly taxes, listening to Mr. Henderson describe exactly … Read more

This was supposed to be lasagna. The real, layered, labor-intensive kind that takes over your entire afternoon and leaves every pot in your kitchen dirty. … Read more

My neighbor asked why I couldn’t just dump everything in the slow cooker and walk away. I started to explain why that wouldn’t work — … Read more

I was standing in the frozen food aisle at 7 p.m. on a Tuesday — exhausted, hungry, and honestly, a little bit cranky — when … Read more

The neighborhood chili cook-off was in twelve hours and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their secret-ingredient, slow-simmered-all-weekend masterpieces. I had a bag … Read more

Lena wasn’t trying to impress me. I’d stopped by her place on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon to drop off a book I’d borrowed, and the … Read more

My husband claimed to hate beef stew for fifteen years. Fifteen years! He’d make a face at the mere mention of it, launching into a … Read more