Category Dinner

Million Dollar Chicken Casserole

I made this on a Tuesday when the only thing in my fridge worth building a dinner around was a rotisserie chicken from the day before. Cream cheese, cottage cheese,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Crockpot White Chicken Chili

White chicken chili became the one nobody complained about. Not the kids, not my husband, not the neighbor I roped into taste-testing three batches in a row. This isn’t the…

Butternut Squash Soup

The first time I made this butternut squash soup, I almost skipped the potatoes. Glad I didn’t — they’re the reason the texture holds up instead of turning watery after…