Recipes
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Slow Cooker Tomato Chicken
Chicken simmered in a seasoned tomato sauce with herbs and vegetables. Simple, healthy, and great over rice or pasta.
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Krista's Queso
Creamy cheese dip with spicy sausage and tomatoes. Melty, savory, and perfect for game day or chips-and-dip cravings.
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Chili Cheese Dip I
A warm, gooey dip made from melted cheese and spicy chili. Quick to make and impossible to resist—serve with tortilla chips or bread.
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Colonial Hot Buttered Rum
A classic winter warmer with spiced butter, brown sugar, and dark rum. Rich, sweet, and nostalgic—ideal for holiday evenings.
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Slow Cooker Roast Beef
Classic roast beef cooked low and slow until melt-in-your-mouth tender. Savory, juicy, and ideal for family dinners or sandwiches.
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Sleeper Heater Lentil Soup
Spicy lentil soup with a hidden kick of heat from chili or pepper. Healthy, hearty, and great for cold nights or meal prep.
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Smokey Black Beans
Black beans slow-cooked with garlic, onions, and smoked spices. A versatile, plant-based side dish or filling for tacos and burritos.
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Yankee Beans
New England-style baked beans slow-cooked with molasses, brown sugar, and bacon. Rich, sweet, and savory—great as a side or main dish.
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Slow Cooker Spaghetti Sauce I
A rich, tomato-based sauce simmered slowly with ground beef, garlic, and Italian herbs. Ideal for pasta night with minimal effort.
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Roasted Tomatoes and Onions on Toast
The inspiration for this recipe came from the treasure trove that is The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. Deb Perelman’s perfect union involves cipollinis and mini-Romas together, poured over toast with white beans for heft. Mine involves sungolds and cherry tomatoes bathed in olive oil, spring onions instead of cipollinis (I’m too lazy to peel the latter), and husky cloves of garlic roasted alongside the whole mess, to be spread on the toast like butter. Instead of the beans, to make it a meal, I eat seconds.
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New England Spider Cake
This is a two-bowl, all-of-the-ingredients-are-already-in-your-pantry sort of cake. It belongs on your post-holiday brunch table—and not only because you can make it at 8 A.M. on December 26. Throw together the batter when you realize you spent so much time fussing over holiday meals that you forgot about feeding your guests the next day. It will slow your mind—anxious from dolling up pretty candies—and your body—strung-out from digesting sugary treat after sugary treat—but it's not so virtuous as to be annoying.
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Easy Cheesy Chicken I
Chicken breasts baked in a creamy cheese sauce. Comforting, rich, and super simple to prepare.
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Gena Hamshaw s Vegan Deli Bowls With Smashed Chickpea Salad
Whether you have rosy associations with potato, macaroni, and other salads lovingly glommed together with mayo, or you’ve always been a bit uneasy about the whole genre—there is something for you to love in this recipe.
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Vegetable-Stuffed Peppers
Bell peppers filled with rice, veggies, and herbs. Baked or slow-cooked for a colorful, wholesome main dish.
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Pasta With Lemon Parmigiano Sauce
Let’s begin with some clarifying vocabulary: “Parmesan” is a style of cheese (like “cheddar” and “mozzarella”), and “Parmigiano-Reggiano” is the world’s best variety of this cheese, only produced in Italy, exclusively in Bologna, Modena, Parma, and Reggio Emilia. Its moniker is “the king of cheese,” and that is no hyperbole.
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Slow-Cooked Short Ribs
Beef short ribs braised slowly in wine and herbs until fork-tender. Deep flavor and a luxurious texture.
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Warm Mexican Corn Dip
Creamy corn dip with green chilies, cheese, and spices. Served hot and bubbly for dipping tortilla chips or veggies.
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Shredded Barbecue Beef
Slow-cooked beef shredded and slathered in BBQ sauce. Great for sandwiches, tacos, or over baked potatoes.
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Padma Lakshmi s Yogurt Rice
There is comfort in knowing that as long as you keep yogurt, rice, and spices on hand, you can always feed yourself and your family dinner. The recipe is pictured here with Padma Lakshmi's Green Mango Curry. If you don't have the spices on hand, try a local spice shop or Indian grocery, or order them from Kalustyan’s, a beloved New York institution and one of author & Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s favorite stores), but it’s also okay to work with what you have. If you can't find urad dal, an Indian white gram lentil, for example, Lakshmi recommends frying cashews for a similar nutty crunch.
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Nigella Lawson s Meringue Gelato Cake with Chocolate Sauce
Much of the wonder of this dessert may lie in its semihomemade ease—you’re doing little more than bashing up store-bought meringues and folding them into whipped cream. But this gelato cake comes from quite literary roots, reminding us that we should be open to finding cooking inspiration in all sorts of places: dusty books at estate sales, our elders’ recipe boxes, or the yellowed clippings that flutter out of an old birthday card. In this case, it did help that Nigella Lawson could read Italian.