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55 Crock-Pot Recipes to Set & Forget

Because at the end of the day, comfort cooking will always mean comfort food.

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Bake

15 Soothing Cooking Projects to Busy Your Hands & Nourish Your Soul

From fresh pasta to sourdough bread to a richly spiced lamb stew, here's what we're cooking to care for ourselves right now.

Pasta

Our 31 Coziest Fall Pasta Recipes

The pasta equivalents of your softest scarf: comforting, warm, and always welcome.

Macaroni and Cheese

The 17 Best Instant Pot Recipes to Cozy Up With This Fall

Whether you're craving hearty, cheesy pasta or fudgy chocolate cake, we've got you.

Italian

A Dish As Comforting to Cook As It Is to Eat

Table for One columnist Eric Kim on the solace of risotto stirring and comfort cooking.

by: Eric Kim|March 6, 2020

Casserole/Gratin

20 Make-Ahead Breakfast Casseroles That Feed a Crowd in One Fell Swoop

Including Chrissy Teigen's French toast casserole with salted corn flakes.

by: Rebecca Firkser|February 25, 2020

Tofu

After I Got Divorced, I Leaned on General Tso's Tofu

On ending my marriage, the transition into my "divorce apartment," and the comforting takeout dish I ate twice a week to cope.

by: Lev Grossman|December 4, 2019

Instant Pot

The Best Use for the Instant Pot

How the electric pressure cooker has changed the way I cook and think about dinner.

by: Carlos C. Olaechea|September 24, 2019

Potato

The Best Ways to Use Up Leftover Sweet Potato

With this many uses for extra sweet potatoes, it's easy to be sweet on your leftovers.

by: Mei Chin|July 29, 2019

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Chowder

Creamy Chicken Chowder Is Cold-Weather Comfort at Its Best

It's the soup version of the coziest sweater you own.

by: Grant Melton|February 25, 2019

Pasta

Champagne Pasta Is Exactly How We're Spending Our New Year's Eve

When your couch is better than a club.

by: Grant Melton|December 26, 2018

Casserole/Gratin

Croque Madames Take Forever, Croque Madame Casserole Doesn't

Feed six hungry friends in 30 minutes.

by: Katie Macdonald|May 22, 2018

Leftovers

17 Dishes That Taste Even Better on Day 2

And day 3 and day 4 and day 5...

by: Katie Macdonald|March 30, 2018

Home Hacks

10 Perfectly Distracting Recipes for When You're Avoiding Chores

Messy apartment? Taxes? *La la la*

by: Katie Macdonald|March 23, 2018

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