This Smoky Pumpkin Turkey Chili is total fall comfort cooking. It combines the mellow flavor of pumpkin with a bunch of warm flavorful spices plus a smoky kick of chipotle pepper. This chili will warm you right up on a cool fall evening. In fact, I think this would be a great dish for a…
Slow Cooker
Slow Cooker Pulled BBQ Chicken
Now I know that there are BBQ purists out there who might be a bit offended by me calling this BBQ. I know this, because I happen to live in the Carolinas, one of the meccas for everything BBQ (seriously, BBQ is everywhere here and folks here are serious about it). But sometimes, ya just…
The Easiest Homemade Apple Butter
Every year about this time, I make a nice big batch of homemade apple butter. My goal is to have enough jars in my pantry to last me well through fall and winter. It’s delicious on biscuits and toast, of course, but apple butter is also perfect in holiday appetizers, in pumpkin pie, in cheesecake,…
Stuffed Cabbage Soup
Among the vegetables I grow in my fall garden, I would have a hard time choosing a favorite. But if for some unfathomable reason I absolutely had to choose one favorite fall vegetable, it would be the cabbage. I love them all – green, red, savoy, napa, bok choy. But I sometimes feel like the…
Italian-Style Stuffed Peppers in the Slow Cooker
I’ve never been much of a slow cooker kinda gal, always preferring instead to use my cast iron Dutch ovens to do my slow cooking (there’s nothing like the slow heat of a heavy, enameled Dutch oven to concentrate flavors and make everything in it meltingly tender.) Of late, however, I’ve found myself occasionally drawn…