Slow Cooker Saves Thanksgiving While Oven Holds Turkey Hostage
Thanksgiving side dishes are stuck playing culinary Tetris because the oven is hostage to the turkey for hours. Enter Sarah Olson, culinary wizard behind 'The Magical Slow Cooker,' who heroically suggests stuffing, mac and cheese, and even mashed potatoes can simmer in those glorified warm pots called slow cookers. With recipes borrowed from Damn Delicious, Spend With Pennies, and Delish, you can crawl your way to mashed potatoes after a four-hour wait or mop up candied yams slathered in molasses, cinnamon, and extravagance. Meanwhile, glazed carrots effortlessly lounge in their own heated jacuzzi. Side dish chaos tamed if you actually plan ahead, but hey, who does that?
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Thanksgiving strategy: cook turkey slow, plus cram mashed potatoes and mac 'n cheese into Crock-Pot prisons. Because nothing says holiday spirit like a kitchen hostage situation with marshmallows smuggling gooey sweetness under scent of molasses.
Congrats: you can now slow-cook your mashed potatoes in 4 hours, or you know, just microwave and pretend you planned this. Slow cookerâbecause Thanksgiving wasnât chaotic enough already.
Nothing says festivity like using a slow cooker to babysit meatballs while the oven hogs the turkey spotlight. Somewhere, the stuffing just sighed and accepted its fate.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 11/9/2025 | Author: Erin McDowell
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