Slow Cooker Dinners

When the evenings turn cold, this is the dinner that fixes everything with almost no work. This slow cooker beef stew keeps the shopping list short — just five main ingredients — and still gives you tender chunks of beef, soft potatoes and sweet carrots in a rich, savoury gravy. There is no browning, no…

There are evenings when only pot pie will do — but nobody has time to roll pastry and babysit a filling on a Tuesday. This slow cooker chicken pot pie is how I get the same cozy result with about fifteen minutes of actual work. The chicken, potatoes and vegetables simmer all afternoon in a…