Crockpot Recipes

I swore I hated corned beef. For years. Maybe even decades. The kind of hate that made me wrinkle my nose at St. Patrick’s Day … Read more

I wasn’t expecting cooking advice from my accountant, but there I was, sitting in his cluttered office during tax season, watching him stir a small … Read more

This was supposed to be regular applesauce. Plain, simple, the kind you’d pack in a lunchbox without thinking twice. I had a ten-pound bag of … Read more

My husband swore he hated tortilla soup. For years. Like, a solid decade of side-eyeing it at restaurants and pushing bowls away after one polite, … Read more

I used to think chili was just a thing you made because you had to. A pound of ground beef, a can of tomatoes, some … Read more

I was standing in the frozen foods aisle of our local grocery store last January, staring at a row of bagged soups, when the cold … Read more

I had sworn off weeknight chicken thighs. For years, honestly. They were always either dry and stringy from being overcooked, or they sat in a … Read more

My neighbor Marta watched me fumbling with a grocery bag that had just split open, sending three cans of diced tomatoes rolling across the driveway. … Read more

My brother-in-law Mark swore he hated green bean casserole. For years. Like, would-push-the-dish-across-the-table hated it. He’d tell the same story every Thanksgiving about a sad, … Read more

I was standing in the checkout line at the hardware store—of all places—when the woman behind me started talking about soup. Not just any soup, … Read more