Soft, pillowy pumpkin cookies ready for a swirl of cream cheese frosting. (Photo shows pumpkin cookies unfrosted; the recipe below adds the frosting.) Photo by Giovanna Iorio / Pexels. There is a reason pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting trend every single fall: they are the cozy sweater of desserts. Soft, pillowy cookies that taste…
Crockpot Potato Soup — thick, creamy and ready for its loaded toppings. Photo by Valeria Boltneva / Pexels. Some dinners ask a lot of you. This one asks for fifteen minutes in the morning and a bowl at night. Crockpot potato soup is the ultimate dump-and-go comfort food: potatoes, onion, garlic and broth go into…
Air Fryer Chicken Quesadilla — golden, crispy tortillas around juicy chicken and gloriously melted cheese. Photo by Valeria Boltneva / Pexels. Dinner in 10 minutes flat — crispy, golden tortillas, juicy seasoned chicken, and cheese that stretches for days. This air fryer chicken quesadilla needs just 4 ingredients and about 4 to 6 minutes in…
Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings — fluffy biscuit dumplings steamed over creamy, herb-scented chicken. Photo by Nano Erdozain / Pexels. Some dinners are recipes; this one is a blanket. Slow cooker chicken and dumplings takes fork-tender chicken simmered all day with carrots, celery and herbs in a rich creamy broth, then finishes it with the…
Caramel Apple Dump Cake — gooey caramel apples under a golden, buttery crumb topping. Photo by Valeria Boltneva / Pexels. A dump cake earns its unglamorous name honestly: you dump the ingredients into a pan, you do not stir, and out of the oven comes something that tastes like you worked all afternoon. This caramel…
The original Mississippi pot roast is five ingredients and pure genius: chuck roast, two seasoning packets, a stick of butter, and a handful of pepperoncini. Eight hours later you get fork-tender beef in a buttery, tangy gravy that practically shreds itself. There is just one problem — it is famously salty. Two seasoning packets plus…
Air Fryer Marry Me Chicken — golden, juicy chicken under a silky sun-dried tomato cream sauce. Photo by Huzaifa Bukhari / Pexels. If one chicken dinner genuinely lives up to its dramatic name, it is marry me chicken. Juicy, deeply seasoned chicken breasts with crispy golden edges get spooned over with a silky sauce of…
Some fall desserts are a project. These pumpkin bars are not. The crumb is soft and pillowy, warmly spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves, and kept moist by a full can of pumpkin puree — then finished with a thick, tangy cream cheese frosting. One 9×13-inch pan, one bowl, and a hand mixer do…
This slow cooker chicken noodle soup is the fall weeknight dinner that makes itself: golden savory broth, chicken that falls apart with a fork, hearty egg noodles and sweet carrots — from one pot and about 15 minutes of morning prep. It tastes like the soup you grew up with, without an afternoon at the…
There is a special kind of magic at an apple orchard in October — cinnamon in the air, the cider press running, and apple cider donuts coming out of the fryer nearby. This apple cider donut cake bottles up that moment into a sliceable bundt you can make at home, no fryer required. If fall…
