Here's a warm dinner (because spring is taking her sweet time arriving) that is easy to prep. Set it up in your slow cooker before hea...

Recipes for Ropa Vieja kept popping up in my cooking magazines and recipe emails, so I took it as a sign to make a batch. This is Cuba...

Life's been super busy folks, as I'm sure you can relate. Luckily, the Thanksgiving break freed up some time in the kitchen. This ...

This is comfort food for me. I've made this recipe many, many times. It's a great dinner for dreary days because it warms you up whi...

Fall is slowly arriving and school and other activities are kicking into high gear. Enter the slow cooker. I love the ease of prepping a mea...

When I wrote my last post at the end of March, I apologized for falling off the face of the earth because of our business move. Well I fell...

For dinner in the winter, I'm satisfied with a warm bowl of beans. Growing up we'd often have beans and cornbread. Not fancy beans —...

This dish is slow cooker gold, my friends. And I can't thank fellow mom Molly enough for sharing it with me. (Molly is also the genius b...

America's Test Kitchen slow cooker cookbooks never let me down. I have three of them and lately have been trying to cook more from ATK...

For Sunday dinner, I often make a crockpot meal. I love walking into our house after Sunday evening Mass to the smell of a warm dinner that...

When the constantly changing schedules in my household force a switch in our dinner plans, the results can be extra-delicious. My kids end...

I love fish tacos and on a recent 80-degree November day (gotta love Fall in Charlotte!) they seemed like an excellent idea for dinner Chez ...

My husband loves my Easy Crockpot Mexican Lasagna and even counts it among my top five dinners. What I like most about it is that it's ...

Do you ever have a week when it feels like everything is hitting the fan? Yeah. I'm having one of those weeks. Work is crazy. The kids...

A couple weeks ago, I posted this Facebook status update: "I made Thai curry eggplant for dinner. The whole family hates me." Ye...

Since graduating from college in ... well, never mind ... I have spent most of my life in the South. My Southern culinary credentials are ap...

A couple weeks ago a friend messaged me for July 4 menu ideas that were easy to make, didn't need the oven and would work well for feedi...

Confession: I'm off my cooking game. I've never been so off my cooking game. But I have good reason. Reason: I started my own bu...

The spring has been touch-and-go here in Seattle. One day is 80 and sunny, and the next is 55 with drizzle. On one such grey day, I had a ha...

I've been trying to find new, easy ways to cook fish, so the slow cooker naturally comes to mind. Readers, this is my new favorite easy-...