kima

kima

Slow Cooker Beef Stew

I used to skip the browning step. Dump everything in raw, walk away, come back to soup with gray meat floating in it. Technically edible. Not stew. The sear is not optional here — it’s the difference between “fine” and…

Crockpot Taco Soup

I made this the first cold week of the season, mostly because I didn’t want to think about dinner and I had a pound of ground beef that needed to happen before it went bad. It’s not a fancy soup.…

Caramel Apple Nachos

Caramel apple nachos are exactly what they sound like: apple slices standing in for tortilla chips, caramel and chocolate standing in for cheese sauce, and a pile of toppings doing the rest of the work. No baking. No candy thermometer.…

Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

They’re soft, a little cakey, loaded with chocolate chips, and they don’t need a stand mixer or a chill time. Bowl, spoon, sheet pan, done. If you’ve made pumpkin bread before, the batter here will feel familiar. It’s wetter than…

Cheesy Lasagna Soup

What I can tell you for certain is that this soup came out of not wanting to deal with layering, boiling noodles separately, and waiting an hour for a bake to set. Same flavor, same gooey cheese pull, none of…

Instant Pot Broccoli Cheddar Soup

I made this the first cold snap of the season, mostly because I didn’t want to stand over a pot stirring for 40 minutes. Cauliflower sneaks into this one alongside the broccoli. You won’t taste it. What it does is…

Chicken Pot Pie Soup

I’d been staring down a rotisserie chicken and a bag of frozen peas and carrots that had been living in my freezer for way too long, and pot pie was the obvious answer — except I did not want to…

Creamy Chicken Wild Rice Soup (Panera Copycat)

This one’s a Panera copycat, but I stopped calling it that in my head after the second batch. The rice does something the original never quite nails — it holds its bite instead of going mushy, which matters more than…

Apple Fritter Bread

Apple fritter bread is exactly what it sounds like: a butter-and-vanilla loaf with a thick ribbon of cinnamon-sugar apples running through the middle, then a creme glaze poured over the top once it’s cooled. It’s not trying to be a…

Old-Fashioned Apple Crisp

The first time I made apple crisp for a crowd, I used a mix of apples I had lying around and ended up with a filling that was half mush, half crunch. Granny Smiths fixed that. They hold their shape…