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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…

Stuffed Pepper Soup

Stuffed peppers are a lot of work for a Tuesday. This soup takes everything good about them — the beef, the rice, the sweet-tomato broth — and skips the part where you’re standing at the counter stuffing individual peppers one…