slow-cooker

Not every Asian dish is slow cooker-friendly, but the ones that are can certainly benefit from “set it and forget it” like this slow cooker cashew chicken.

Hearty, rib-sticking food doesn’t have to pack a day’s worth of calories. Gina Homolka, author of the wildly popular blog Skinnytaste, has a new collection of hearty slow-cooker recipes out that pump up the flavor and nutrition and cut out the fillers. Best of all, you can set it and forget it! Try this slow-cooker beef…

Your slow cooker is your straight and narrow path to a delicious dinner full of flavor, but did you know you can make a ton of desserts in this simple, versatile appliance? Welcome dessert to the “set it and forget it” world with this tender fall apple cake recipe. We both grew up near a famous local…

Your slow cooker is your straight and narrow path to a delicious dinner full of flavor, but did you know you can make a ton of desserts in this simple, versatile appliance? Welcome dessert to the "set it and forget it" world with this sumptuous bananas foster recipe. This classic recipe originated in New Orleans and…

"Low and slow" season is almost upon us, so break your slow cooker out of storage and fire up these 12 hearty meals. There's something satisfying about a bubbling Crock-Pot that somehow makes you feel like you've done more than toss a bunch of ingredients into a reliable appliance. And yet that's all you need to…

Old-school necessities like knitting, canning and gardens with actual food in them seem to have launched into popular culture of late, possibly because of the growing realization that the next zombie apocalypse is one germ away. Applying this concept to cooking seems critical considering an open fire will give away your position every time. In…

My resistance to cooking hearty rib-sticking food disappeared with the first fall chill a couple of weeks ago. Currently the weather in New York is being civil and everyone's letting their guards down. But any day now, boom! Frost. And everyone's going to be running for their braisers and slow-cookers willy-nilly, shoving smaller people out…

Time is running out. You haven't made wings in a year...or two. Now is the time to make a burner batch and learn from your mistakes, not next week around this time. Pick your wing from our bounty of tailgating recipes and get friendly with it. Then consolidate two pretty good appetizers into one spectacular…

Feel like watching the biggest football event of the year with a hot, steaming bowl of homemade chili by your side? Obviously not on your lap, because when you jump up to scream it'll go flying into your flatscreen, and we know that's nobody's friend. But you still want chili, right? Like us on Facebook…

Read Part 1 of the blueprint for chili mastery: Chili Con Carne: The Anti-RecipeAnyone can create an original pot o’ red with the right blueprint, yet that first delicious spoonful only cracks the surface of chili con carne. Dig in and you’ll find a culinary rabbit hole of fiery flavors, ingredients, techniques and history. But…

Chili con carne is perhaps the simplest single pot stew, the quintessential campfire cuisine and the original tailgate meal. Before the days of brats and beer koozies, 19th century Chili Queens of San Antonio stewed it in open air wagons while mariachi minstrels entertained stockmen, soldiers, rounders and prowlers. The rich history of chili bubbles…