Creamy Chicken Stew (3 Ways!)

This Creamy Chicken Stew is the ultimate comfort food, with tender chicken, assorted vegetables, and an easy sauce. In this post, I’ll share three great ways to prepare it for the stovetop, a slow cooker, and an Instant Pot. So you can cozy up with this dish however you like to cook!

Cheesy Crockpot Tortellini

This Cheesy Crockpot Tortellini is the perfect easy weeknight dinner-hearty, cheesy, and full of flavor. With just a few simple ingredients and minimal prep time, you can have a comforting and satisfying meal in no time.

Slow Cooker Short Ribs

These fall-off-the-bone slow cooker short ribs are a perfectly hearty and savory dinner your entire family will love! This is the best way to cook succulent beef and fork-tender carrots, both immersed in a rich, flavorful sauce.

Slow Cooker Beef Stew

This slow cooker beef stew brings all the cozy, hearty flavor you love, but with a blood sugar–friendly spin that helps keep your glucose steady and your energy up.

Mississippi Pot Roast

This Easy Mississippi Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots is the ultimate slow-cooker comfort meal. With just a handful of ingredients and only three simple steps, you’ll end up with a rich, flavorful roast that’s unbelievably tender—seriously, it falls apart with a spoon and works great for leftovers.

Crock Pot Swedish Meatballs

These Crockpot Swedish Meatballs are pure cozy comfort. The meatballs turn out tender and juicy, simmering in a silky, flavorful, creamy gravy. They’re delicious piled over egg noodles, spooned onto mashed potatoes, or enjoyed straight from the slow cooker.

Crockpot Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Lasagna Soup

Creamy Crockpot Sun-Dried Tomato Lasagna Soup: This cozy bowl brings together tender veggies, Italian herbs, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and broken lasagna noodles simmered low and slow. It’s rich, comforting, and perfect with a side of crusty bread, like a warm, white lasagna in soup form.

Slow Cooker Beef Ragu with Pappardelle

Enjoy a warm and comforting bowl of Beef Ragu with Pappardelle. Tender steak slow-cooks for hours in the crockpot with garlic, tomatoes, vegetables, and plenty of herbs, then gets shredded and served over wide pappardelle noodles with a sprinkle of Parmesan on top.

Slow Cooker Ribs

This easy Slow Cooker Ribs recipe makes the best tender, flavorful ribs that only take a few minutes to prep before dumping everything in the slow cooker.

Slow Cooker Korean Beef

Slow Cooker Korean Beef is an easy crockpot dinner recipe that makes tender, sweet, and spicy slow cooker beef.

Cider Braised Chicken with Caramelized Onions

This One-Pot Cider-Braised Chicken with Caramelized Onions can easily be adapted for the slow cooker. Tender chicken simmers in apple cider with fresh herbs, sweet caramelized onions, and mushrooms. If you need a warm and comforting winter dinner idea, this flavorful, saucy braised chicken is the perfect place to start.

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken

This Slow cooker honey garlic chicken is made with just 5 ingredients, takes minutes to prep, and smells amazing while it cooks! Drizzle some of the delicious sauce over your whole plate, and you’re good to go!

Crockpot Chicken Gnocchi Soup

This Crockpot Chicken Gnocchi Soup is deliciously cream-free, comforting, cozy, and made with lots of vegetables, which is great for the winter. Perfect with crusty bread and a green salad.

Slow Cooker Beef Stew

A crowd-favorite cozy beef stew slow-cooked to perfection! The beef turns incredibly tender, and the broth comes out rich, chunky, and wonderfully hearty.

Crock Pot Honey Garlic Chicken

Salty & Sweet, this Asian-inspired Crockpot Honey Garlic Chicken is loaded with the most delicious flavors. This slow-cooker chicken recipe is a delicious and hassle-free family dinner idea.

Rustic Roasted Winter Vegetable Chowder

A thick and hearty soup with butternut squash, sweet potatoes, parsnips, and more. Serve with a crusty loaf of bread for a cozy winter dinner. It’s quick, easy, and doesn’t require precise measurements.

Tex-Mex Instant Pot Potato Soup Recipe

This Instant Pot Potato Soup is brimming with spicy South of the Border flavors. Hearty, chunky, satisfying soup with a rich and creamy broth. It’s easy and delicious!

Chicken, Mushroom & Wild Rice Soup

This chicken, mushroom & wild rice soup recipe is packed full of flavor. Comforting and ultra-easy, this can be made with leftover chicken or rotisserie chicken, too. This soup can also be made on the stovetop, slow cooker, or in a pressure cooker.

Easy Vegan Lasagna Soup

This easy vegan lasagna soup is the ultimate comfort food in a bowl —creamy, saucy, full of Italian-inspired flavor, and packed with plant-based protein. It’s everything you love about traditional lasagna, in cozy winter soup form.

Lentil Vegetable Soup

This lentil vegetable soup is hearty, deeply nourishing, and layered with savory, tangy richness—made from whole, simple ingredients. It’s the kind of meal that’s worth the simmer time.

Corn and Crab Bisque

This Corn and Crab Bisque is a creamy Louisiana favorite made with sweet corn and tender lump crab. A blond homemade roux with a splash of sherry builds depth, elevating the flavor to another level. It’s a rich, decadent, and impressive soup dish, perfect for holidays and dinner parties. 

Garlic Parmesan White Bean Soup (High Protein)

This hearty & healthy Garlic Parmesan White Bean Soup (high protein) is a cozy, protein-packed meal that comes together with simple, wholesome ingredients that are perfect for chilly nights. It is naturally gluten-free, high in fiber and protein, and can easily be made vegetarian by using vegetable broth instead of bone or chicken broth. With creamy white beans, fragrant garlic, fresh herbs, and a savory parmesan finish, this stew is both nourishing and comforting. 

Crockpot Taco Soup

If you’re looking for a fun twist on Taco Tuesday, try this flavorful crockpot taco soup. Bursting with the vibrant flavors of classic taco ingredients, this hearty soup offers a warm, comforting experience that will satisfy your cravings. This Tex-Mex-inspired taco soup uses a slow cooker for added convenience, ensuring you come home to a delicious meal ready to enjoy after a busy day.

Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup

This easy Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup recipe is so flavorful and hearty, and tastes so fresh. It’s packed with lots of veggies and goes perfectly with homemade breadsticks.

One Pot Creamy Vegetable Dumpling Soup

This one-pot creamy vegetable dumpling soup is the perfect make-ahead dish for chilly fall or winter nights!

Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup

This homemade creamy chicken noodle soup recipe is simply the perfect mix of easy, wholesome, cozy, and satisfying. It’s creamy yet light, and benefits from the addition of potato, thyme, oregano, and store-bought rotisserie chicken. If you’re looking for an easy yet incredibly delicious homemade creamy chicken noodle soup, try this recipe, and you won’t be disappointed.

Creamy Mushroom Wild Rice Soup

Soup Season is the best season, and this winter soup recipe tops them all. This Creamy Mushroom Wild Rice Soup has all the good stuff – wild rice, plenty of veggies, and a creamy roux to bring it all together.

Marry Me Soup

If you love the well-known Marry Me Chicken, get ready to fall for this Marry Me Soup. It’s unbelievably creamy, cheesy, and totally crave-worthy. If you want a dinner that makes you scrape the bowl clean, this one delivers. Loaded with rich flavor and silky texture, this soup is downright irresistible.

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

This rich and cozy homemade broccoli cheddar soup comes together like pure comfort in a bowl. If you’re a fan of Panera’s creamy broccoli cheese soup, this version is sure to become a new favorite.

Roasted Sweet Potato and Acorn Squash Winter Salad

This beautiful, bright sheet pan dinner showcases some of my favorite cold-weather produce – sweet acorn squash, creamy sweet potatoes, and tart pomegranate. This Winter Salad is a healthy side dish that comes together with very little effort and even less cleanup. 

Acorn Squash Salad with Maple Dressing

This roasted acorn squash salad is a must for Thanksgiving or even as a side for a fall or winter dinner, especially paired & drizzled with creamy maple dressing!

Kale Caesar with Butternut + Crispy Parmesan

If you’re a fan of fall flavors and kale, you’ll absolutely love this Kale Caesar Salad! It’s a vibrant mix of pumpkin spice-roasted butternut squash, crispy Parmesan chips, and tender, massaged kale, all tossed in a creamy Caesar dressing and topped with pumpkin seeds and pomegranate arils.

Winter Coleslaw

For a quick, fresh, and simple side dish, look no further than this Winter Coleslaw. Crisp seasonal vegetables are combined with crunchy nuts and sweet raisins in a creamy dressing. Since it goes with literally anything and everything, this is a slaw recipe you’ll keep coming back to.

Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad

This Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad is a healthy quinoa salad made with roasted sweet potatoes, kale, pumpkin seeds & feta. Then it’s topped with a creamy balsamic date vinaigrette. Easy to make, tasty, and great for meal-prepping lunches!

Broccoli Kale Salad

Sweet cranberries, toasted almonds, and crisp greens meet an Indian-spiced dressing — this raw broccoli kale salad turns a standard side into the dish everyone fights over.

Harvest Radicchio & Kale Salad with Chicken

This Harvest Radicchio & Kale Salad with Chicken is a cozy yet refreshing fall/winter salad featuring roasted butternut squash, juicy chicken, crisp kale, and bitter radicchio tossed in a sage-maple vinaigrette. It’s full of texture and balanced flavor – sweet, savory, and crunchy – making it perfect for a nourishing lunch or dinner.

Harvest Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad

Harvest Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad- a delicious fall/winter salad. Since this salad has no lettuce and uses Brussels sprouts as the base, it will not get soggy. This salad is vegetarian, but so satisfying. Perfect for the holidays.

Farro and Arugula Salad With Sweet Potato and Pomegranate

This farro and arugula salad with sweet potato and pomegranate is chewy, nutty farro, peppery arugula, tender sweet potato, and sweet-tart pomegranate vinaigrette. You can call it whatever you like; let’s call it hearty and delicious!

Arugula Salad with Beets

This salad is full of healthy ingredients! Colorful beets and arugula, fresh herbs, walnuts, and the vinaigrette are all full of flavor and nutrition.

Pomegranate Winter Slad

This Winter Salad combines sweet fruits like tangy cranberries, oranges, pears, Pomegranate, and crunchy pecans, all tossed in an amazing creamy maple dressing.

Brussels Sprout Winter Salad

This winter salad is proof that you can enjoy fresh, flavorful salads all year long. I make it every time the temperatures drop because it’s hearty, comforting, and still gives me that crisp salad fix. Tossed with a creamy lemon-tahini dressing, it’s rich, cozy, and exactly what I crave during the colder months.

The Best Winter Salad Recipe

Filled with savory pancetta, smooth Boursin, and sweet candied pecans, all tossed with tender butter lettuce and a light honey-Dijon dressing, this salad feels perfect for a celebration—or even a cozy dinner at home.