Crockpot Recipes

My brother-in-law Mark had claimed to hate white chili for almost a decade. “It’s not real chili,” he’d say with a shrug every time someone … 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 shuffle through a … Read more

Marta wasn’t trying to impress anyone. I’d stopped by to drop off a book I’d borrowed—a cookbook, ironically enough—and the smell hit me before I … Read more

The man at the community garden plot next to mine—his name is Frank, and he’s probably seventy-five if he’s a day—watched me struggle with a … Read more

My husband swore he hated potato soup. For fifteen years. Fifteen years of me making other soups—brothy chicken noodles, chunky vegetable minestrone, even a fancy … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a particularly gloomy Tuesday, and I had a craving so specific it was almost embarrassing. I didn’t want a fancy, … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a rainy Tuesday in late October, and I was staring into my pantry like it held the secrets to the … Read more

My neighbor Patty wasn’t trying to impress anyone that Tuesday night. I’d stopped by to return her hedge clippers, and this smell hit me before … Read more

It was 10:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday in late October, and I had a potato problem. Not the kind where you have too many—though, … Read more

The woman at the next stall watched me sniffing a head of broccoli like it was going to tell me a secret. I was at … Read more