Crockpot Recipes

I was at the hardware store last November, of all places, picking up a new showerhead when the woman in line behind me started talking … Read more

My neighbor Carla wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to borrow a lug wrench—my car had made that awful scraping sound pulling into … Read more

My husband had refused chili for the better part of a decade. He’d claimed, with the kind of certainty usually reserved for political opinions, that … Read more

My neighbor, a woman named Clara with a garden that spilled over with more vegetables than she could ever use, watched me one rainy October … Read more

I swore I hated pork chops. For years, honestly. Dry, tough, flavorless slabs of meat that my mom would serve with a side of applesauce … Read more

I was standing in the frozen food aisle of our local grocery store last Tuesday when the smell of roasted chiles hit me—someone had bumped … Read more

I used to think white chicken chili was a total cop-out. Not the real thing, you know? Real chili had to be beefy, dark, smoky, … Read more

“Why can’t you just throw the rice in raw?” my sister asked, peering over my shoulder as I measured out pre-cooked wild rice on a … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a particularly frantic Christmas Eve, and the craving for a no-stress, everyone-loves-it breakfast the next morning was hitting a fever … Read more

Introduction This was supposed to be a slow cooker wassail punch. I had the apple cider warming, the cinnamon sticks ready, and a whole bag … Read more