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Crockpot Comfort Food

Crockpot comfort food combines my two favorite things: slow cookers and comfort food. Easy comforting recipes cooked in the crockpot.

Alternative Thanksgiving Ideas

If you don't want to cook a full-blown Thanksgiving dinner, but want to enjoy the flavors and foods of the season, these recipes and menus are good choices for an alternate meal.

Main Dish Pies

Main dish pies are fun to make and delicious to eat; you'll find advice, information, tips, and some fabulous and easy recipes for entree pies.

Start With - Chicken Thighs

These easy and delicious recipes all start with chicken thighs, a very moist and tender cut of chicken. Recipes using chicken thighs.

All My Articles

previous issues of weekly articles and columns, from Christmas recipes, Fourth of July parties, quick and easy five ingredient recipes, crockpot and slow cooker recipes and information, desserts, quick sweets, side dishes, nutrition information, cooking lessons, and more from your Busy Cooks Guide.

The Weekend Cook

A new series at Busy Cooks for the more accomplished cook and baker. This week there's a weekend's worth of menus with clever uses for leftovers for the cook who wants to put a bit more effort into cooking on days off.

Start With - Pasta

Pasta recipes are simple, quick, and easy. Start with pasta and end up with delicious quick and easy recipes. Find quick and easy pasta recipes in the 'Start With...' cooking series at Busy Cooks.

Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes

Thanksgiving dessert recipes include cakes, crisps, and cookies and are quick and easy. Get some delicious recipes for easy and make-ahead Thanksgiving desserts.

Last Minute Pork Recipes

Last minute pork recipes are super quick and easy. Pork recipes that cook quickly and are easy to make with few ingredients.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween parties, recipes, and menus. For Halloween, browse my collection of articles about this spooky holiday. For Halloween, recipes, treats, and menus that are quick and easy.

The Weekend Cook - Halloween and the First Snowfall

Halloween is a big deal in my neighborhood; we usually go through 10 bags of candy! So having dinner ready and waiting in the crockpot is necessary; for the rest of the weekend, cozy foods celebrate the first snowfall and use up leftover Halloween candy.

It's Halloween...

Halloween weekend menus are quick and easy. It's Halloween this weekend! Do you have your costume? If so, all you need now are some delicious recipes to feed your family before (or after) trick or treating.

Soup, Soup, Beautiful Soup

Soup recipes that are delicious, nutritious, and are easy to make, whether you simmer them all day in a slow cooker or combine a few of your favorite canned varieties. Soup recipes, stew recipes, and bread recipes for cold winter days.

Start With ... Pork Roast

Pork roast is an excellent cut of pork used in quick and easy recipe. Start with pork roast to make delicious and fast recipes.

Start With - Pork Chops

Find quick and easy recipes that begin with pork chops. Just a few ingredients and some pork add up to a delicious main dish.

Pot Roast 101

Learn how easy it is to make tender, succulent pot roast in the Basics of Cooking Lesson Series at Busy Cooks. Pot roasts can be challenging, but you will have success with these simple rules and recipes.

And the Winner Is...

Grand prize winning recipe and other recipes from the Pillsbury Bake-Off contest. Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest recipe winners.

Happy Halloween!

Celebrate Halloween with these cute recipes that are all fun to make with your kids. Halloween recipes include Spidey Family, Hobgoblins, Halloweenie Sandwiches and other Halloween treats.

Easy Cheesy Pizza Recipes

Pizza recipes are fun, quick, and easy. Find mix and match recipes for easy pizza crusts and inventive, flavorful toppings. Make your own crusts and store in the freezer, or use purchased crusts and go wild with toppings.

Cook Once, Eat Twice

Easy leftover recipes using quick and easy main dishes. Collection of recipes where you cook one meal, then use the leftovers for a totally different recipe in the next day or two.

Start With ... Pork Tenderloin

Start with pork tenderloin and finish with delicious and easy recipes to feed your family. Quick and simple recipes for pork tenderloin.

More Meatloaf Please!

These delicious and different recipes for meatloaf are perfect for fall family dinners. Try meat loaf recipes made with ground chicken, turkey, pork, ham, beef, and even a vegetarian variety.

Start With... Canned Tuna

The 'Start With...' series continues with quick and easy recipes that use canned tuna and some other easily storable ingredients. Find everything from an updated Tuna Sandwich to Tuna and Spinach Risotto.

Chocolate and Your Health

Chocolate has lots of properties that make it good for your heart, and a study has found that pregnant women who eat chocolate have happier babies.

Food Safety

Food safety, storage, and safe food handling techniques in the Basics of Cooking Lesson Series. Learn about food safety, including the keywords cook, chill, clean, and separate; make food safety a priority.