When the evenings grow longer and colder, few things bring comfort like a pot of soup simmering on the stove. The gentle ...

Let your slow cooker do the work with 20 cozy recipes—soups, meats, and comforting meals full of slow-simmered flavor.

There is NOTHING better than coming home from a long, cold day to a home-cooked meal, and the slow cooker makes it easy ...

Using a slow cooker is a great way to get dinner on the table without doing lots of cooking, and makes for hearty, nutritious meals. (Getty Images) The slow cooker is not the most fashionable ...

Fall crockpot recipes are among my favorites — they’re hearty, flavorful, and filled with the cozy aromas that make autumn so special. I absolutely love cooking with my crockpot, especially during ...

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Risotto usually requires endless stirring, but slow cookers can do a lot of the work, with surprisingly good results. Beth Hensperger is an expert on baking and has written many books on the subject, ...

Rebecca Corbett receives funding from The Japan Foundation. She is affiliated with the Urasenke School of Tea through membership in the Urasenke Tankokai Los Angeles Association. The powdered drink ...

Find new dinner favorites — creamy lentil tomato soup, or comforting chicken jook — to pull out of your back pocket when the fall calendar fills up. By Mia Leimkuhler Good morning! Today we have for ...

As the Santa Ynez Valley News celebrates a century of chronicling the Valley’s history this month, the iconic Pea Soup Andersen’s Inn in Buellton, King Frederik Inn in Solvang, and the legendary Pea ...

Ditalini, that petite tube-shaped pasta (sometimes referred to as “macaroni salad pasta”), is a welcome addition to simple soups. I like to team it with peas, onion, and celery. Diced pancetta comes ...

Black-eyed pea soup is a new venture for our test cook, who saw it as a way to use up a ham bone. When I brought a slow cooker filled with “Smokey Black-Eyed Pea Soup” from the Times Leader test ...