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30 Fall Crockpot Recipes to Start the Second It Gets Cold
The first cold night changes what dinner is supposed to do. Road food stops leaning on the grill and starts tasting like whatever has been simmering since morning, and a slow cooker brings that same patience into an ordinary kitchen. These recipes stay on the savory side of fall, with real dinners…
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28 Crockpot Soups That Beat the Diner Special
The soup of the day is the most honest thing on a diner menu because nobody makes a bad one twice. A good pot has to survive the lunch rush, taste right from the first ladle to the last and still be worth taking home. These 28 crockpot soups cover brothy chicken, beef and vegetable bowls, bean…
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23 Copycat Chain Mac and Cheese Recipes
Every chain has a mac, and each one is a different argument about what mac should be. These 23 copycat chain mac and cheese recipes are original home-kitchen interpretations built around the detail that makes each bowl recognizable, not claims to proprietary formulas. The Panera-inspired shell mac…
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33 Ground Beef Casseroles That Stretch Further Than You’d Think
Ground beef may be the most-filmed ingredient on the show because it is cheap, fast and willing to carry almost anything the kitchen needs to use. These 33 casseroles lean into that usefulness without repeating the hamburger-bake list beside them. Pasta, rice, beans and vegetables do most of the…
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40 No-Fuss Weeknight Chicken Dinners
Forty ways to answer the same question everybody asks at 5pm. Chicken is rarely the hard part; choosing a method before patience runs out is. These dinners stay at forty-five minutes or less, including prep, and they move across sheet pans, skillets, crockpots, casseroles, soups, pastas and…
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31 Chicken Sandwiches Worth Building at Home
The fried chicken sandwich is the single most-argued-about item on any counter menu. Crust, heat, pickles, bun and sauce all become evidence, and nobody agrees on which detail matters most. Home is a better place to settle it because you control the brine, watch the oil temperature and eat the…
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37 Chili Recipes for Every Kind of Chili Argument
Chili parlors are their own American institution, and every one of them thinks the others are doing it wrong. That disagreement is useful because it gave us Texas red with no beans, fine-textured Cincinnati chili, green chile, pork chile verde, white chicken pots and the beef-and-bean bowl most…
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21 Crockpot Mac and Cheese Recipes People Fight Over
Mac and cheese is the side dish that decides whether a place gets a second visit. People forgive a dry pork chop faster than they forgive broken cheese sauce or elbows cooked into paste. These 21 crockpot versions start with a plain sharp-cheddar baseline, then move through a Southern custard set…
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22 Dump Cakes and Cobblers That Take Four Ingredients
Diner dessert cases run on things that are easier to make than they look. These 22 dump cakes and cobblers each use only four or five listed ingredients, including the butter, milk or flavoring that shorter recipes sometimes pretend does not count. The first 17 layer fruit or pudding with dry cake…
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26 Fried Chicken Recipes, From Cast Iron to the Oven
Fried chicken is the dish the show has filmed more than any other, and no two kitchens seem to agree on the right crust. These 26 versions start with a cast-iron buttermilk batch, then move through pickle brine, cornmeal, rice flour, potato starch, cracker crumbs and panko. There are bone-in…