Crockpot Recipes

My neighbor asked why I couldn’t just dump a whole rotisserie chicken into the crockpot with some broth and call it a day. I started … Read more

I was standing in line at the hardware store, of all places, holding a new showerhead and feeling sorry for myself after a particularly gray … Read more

My neighbor, a retired chef named Sal who gardens like it’s his second job, watched me wrestle with a butternut squash on my back porch … Read more

The neighborhood chili cook-off was in two days and I’d completely forgotten. Everyone else would be bringing their secret-ingredient, simmered-for-24-hours masterpieces. I had a slow … Read more

I was standing in the frozen food aisle at the grocery store last Tuesday, staring at a bag of frozen corn like it held the … Read more

My husband swore he hated broccoli soup. For years. The kind of hate where he’d wrinkle his nose at the very mention of it, claiming … Read more

There used to be a tiny café tucked behind a used bookstore on the corner of Elm and 4th that made a butternut squash soup … Read more

There used to be this tiny, wood-paneled café tucked between a dry cleaner and a used bookstore in my old neighborhood—The Gathered Thistle. They made … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple baked potato bar. You know the kind—set out a bunch of toppings and let everyone build their own. … Read more

I was at my daughter’s school book fair, of all places, trying to find a book that wasn’t about slime or superheroes, when the school … Read more