Five Recipe Collections Offer Low-Effort Dinners

Fall food coverage features quick, comforting meals for cooler weather, including creamy one-pot orzo with Italian sausage, sage brown butter, Parmesan and toasted breadcrumbs, along with hands-off slow-cooker dinners and pressure-cooker soups and stews. Suggested dishes include chicken and dumplings, pot roast, lasagna soup, beef stew with rice, minestrone, and white bean, potato and kale stew, which requires soaking dried beans in advance. Other stories offer family-friendly Halloween party recipes and a chicken-bacon-ranch wrap made with Cool Ranch Dorito-crusted chicken and homemade ranch. A frozen-food review praises Marie Callender’s Creamy Chicken and Dumplings for its chicken, vegetables and rich sauce, though the dumplings are bland. In Greenville, Jasmine Kitchen serves soup as part of a mission to help women rebuild their lives through job training and economic independence.