What Is Your Favourite Cold Weather Comfort Food?

[nmaineman36]

I love this time of year when I can cook up a storm and not have to worry about the heat. Usually when its cool and rainy I love to make a beef stew or a pot roast. Plus I will make bread and bake a cake.
In the winter on a snowy day I like to make a spagehetti sauce from scratch. I start it in the morning and cook it all day long. I usually combine a Roa's cookbook recipie with Lidias sugo sauce...and man what a combo. Plus with the herbs I grew in the garden and froze it makes for good eats.
Sometimes I get in the mood for roasting a whole chicken and have mashed potatoes with gravy. I love to convection roast since it cooks faster yet it seals in the juices of the meat. The skin gets very crispy. Most of the time if I bake anything I will use Convection bake and I can tell you that cakes baked that way come out moist and perfect.

 

[gmmcnair]

My favorites

In no particular order:

Cream of Potato Soup with Bacon
Beef Stew and Cornbread
Homemade Chili
Corn Chowder
New England Clam Chowder
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
Corned Beef and Cabbage
Homemade Tomato Bisque

Dang...now I'm hungry....wish DH would get home from the grocery store.

 

[parunner58]

Here are my favorites

ANy kind of homade soup, Chicken Noodle, Cream of mushroom, Potato leek,

Beef stew
Chicken and dumplings
Turkey with all the trimmings
Meat loaf
Mac & Cheese with stewed tomatoes
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup
Shepherds Pie
Lasagna
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin Roll
Sitcky buns
Raisen Bread
Hot Chocolate(made with milk and Hershey's syrup)
Stuffed cabbage
SaurKraut and Pork
Chilli

 

[angus]

I almost forgot to include the quintessential Italo American comfort food - orichiette pasta with broccoli rabe aglio e olio (olive oil and sauteed garlic), with sausage (usually hot or sweet Italian sausage cut into little nuggets and pan fried until crisp and browned. Not terribly elegant, but tasty and soul warming. Ahhh........

 

[appnut]

OOh, Anthony that does sound outstanding. And it's pasta!!!! and broccoli, my favorite vegetable.

 

[eluxomarty]

I am a terrible cook!!!

Dinty Moore Beef Stew over Minute Rice..Yummy!

DM Beef Stew with Cheez-its on top.

Hamberger Helper LOL!

Cassorole type foods with meat and potatoes.

Sheppard's Pie! Yum O!

I can make spaghetti! Secret ingredient: P-R-E-G-O.

 

[mixedup]

Cold Weather.... What's That??

Ok so on the few days a year it gets cold here I love a grilled cheese & tomato soup. Well I guess it's fall, high of only 89 F today!

Virginia

 

[sheerlookhomes]

yummy

when my mum is baking/cooking, the AIR in the kitchen is good enough to eat..real comfort every time!
apart from that..if it's home cooked, then ALL of the above!!
yum yum, Denis

 

[sudsdudeshane]

I love hot homemade Chili,Split Pea Soup..
For Dessert, It would have to be Vanilla Ice Cream and Apple pie. Or good old NY Pound Cake and a cup of coffee brewed in my corningware coffee pot.

 

[rocky2]

Hmmmm, worked up an appetite just reading this thread

Thick French Toast with real maple syrup for breakfast
Grilled Cheese Sandwich with tomato soup for lunch
Pot Roast for dinner and Pumpkin Pie for dessert!

 

[appnut]

I hadn't heard of grilled cheese with tomato (or tasted it) until 9 years agop when some friends (his father was a yankee) and his wife always made grilled cheese that way. I always hated tomatoes, but this got me hooked. To this day, my mom wants to kiss this guy's wife's feet for getting me to eat tomatoes sometimes.

A comfort dessert, toasted pound cake (uner broiler in oven) with a type of homemade vanilla from the grocery

 

[sheerlookhomes]

that sounds good

hi Maytagbear,
your 'apple crisp' sounds good!...I'll be baking that soon..nice to include oats, thanks, Denis

 

[toggleswitch]

Today's theme appears to be cinnamon.

on a cold cold cold weekend winter's day day, I like to shower, shave, curl and my set my hair and get all bundled up...then get to the grocery store, buy the newspaper, and get to the local diner/ coffee-shop around noon and have a hanburger "deluxe" platter.

Beef patty on a toasted sesame-seed bun with lettuce and tomato and fried potatoes, a bit of cole-slaw and a nice cup of coffee. MMMMMMMMMMM

another nice, heavy yet economical winter meal is Greek-style beef stew with chunks of beef or lamb, string beans, onions, tomatoes and/or paste/sauce and cinnamon. MMMMMMMMMMMMM Sometimes 5 ingredient jobbies are WONDERFUL.

Here is another interesting stick-to-your-gut dish:

ORZO (rice shaped pasta)
2 cups orzo (just under one pound, less than half a kilo)
5 cups water
oninon(optional)
chicken bouillon cube(optional)
tomato paste.

In a 4 qt/ 4 litre pot:
Saute onion in a small amount of (olive) oil. (optional)
add the orzo, saute for a minute.
add water
add tomato paste (1 tablesppoon or equivalent), stir
(if you use tomato sauce reduce water so that total liquid is 2 cups)
add one or two bouillon cubes. (if not using this ingredient add salt, pepper)
add cinnamon stick or ground cinnamon.

COOK over LOW heat stirring one or twice with a wooden/plastic spoon. SCRAPE THE BOTTOM as it tends to stick.

Cook for 12 minutes covered or with cover slightly ajar.
STIR WHEN FINISHED. Water will be fully absorbed. no need to drain.

It is truly a unique and flavorful meal.

..as a variation add pre-cooked (leftovers work well too) meat to the mix at the start of cooking.

 

[sudsman]

appnut

oh yeah pound cake with butter under the broiler for just a sec and milk ohhhhh

 

[mixfinder]

Leg Of Pork

It is hard to find a leg of Pork these days, at least from a pig! It usually weighs around 15 pounds. By the time it is done, the house is filled with the warm, rich smell of roasting meat. The exterior of the roast is a rich caramelized brown and the crackings out of this world. The drippings make the richest gravy to pour over the mashed potatoes and stuffing. Baked squash and fried apples, with green beans and hot oat bread fill the groaning side board. Surround the table with 8 or more friends and it is a cold weather moment that warms the soul. Now you know why a double oven Flair or two ovens of any denomination make life easier. No more playing oven Twister.
Kelly

 

[toggleswitch]

....if you use tomato sauce, reduce water so that total liquid is 2 cups)

that should be 5 cups, dear.

 

[laundromat]

convected turkey breast with steamed vegies.

 

[peterh770]

Macaroni & Cheese. I just love that vegetable!

 

[seeitrun2006]

The colder outside the better!

Taco soup with Sour cream and mexician corn bread. Then for dessert a layered yellow cake with milk chocolate frosting with a huge size lump of Cool Whip. YUM YUM!

 

[lavamat_jon]

A good old Sunday Roast of course, with mum's homemade bread and butter pudding, rhubarb crumble, apple pie, or treacle tart for afters!

Jon

 

[aquarius1984]

kidnaps Jons mum . . .

does she do the porridge oat thing with the crumble? Roobarb is my fav fruit mmm next to grapefruit. . . . Now you know i am insane.

 

[lavamat_jon]

I'm not sure - all I know is that it appears magically on the table in a bowl :-D.

I am a good cook, but when it comes to Sunday roasts it's best I stay out the kitchen! (and besides I always clear up anyway so that's another excuse for not helping :-D).

 

[aquarius1984]

shame my mum lately only does nice roasts and homemade lasagna. Everything else is plain boring or in some form of readyness. An excuse NOT to go home for tea. Well back to my work. Ariel promo again grr! Nick

 

[sparkcymru]

hmm well as the cold weather starts here in the Uk i like a nice beef or lamb hotpot or stew. cant beat it with some fresh bread to mop up the juices. afterwards chocolate fudge cake with ice cream and then a coffee. OOhh i want it nowwwwwww!!!!!!

Steve

 

[gadgetgary]

Beef Stew and dumplings
Pot Roast
Bread Pudding
Rice Pudding w/ raisins
Any style MeatLoaf
Apple Crumb Pie
Pizza Fritte

And of course..........

Perked CAW-FEE~!

 

[user 12105]

Some more favorites would be:

Pot roast slow cooked on top of the stove.
Lasagna..though it can be VERY time consuming.
Roast chicken or turkey.
Pork roast.
Pasta Fagioli.
Pepper steak...though hated it it as a kid.
Sausage and peppers.

There really isn't too much i do not like. Except maybe olives and cantelope...YUUUUK!!

 

[user 12105]

Some more favorites would be:

Pot roast slow cooked on top of the stove.
Lasagna..though it can be VERY time consuming.
Roast chicken or turkey.
Pork roast.
Pasta Fagioli.
Pepper steak...though hated it it as a kid.
Sausage and peppers.

There really isn't too much i do not like. Except maybe olives and cantelope...YUUUUK!!

 

[irishwashguy]

OMG!!! I love this thread!!

I love my Popeyes spicy chicked, red beans and rice, mashed potatoes and gravy, OOOOOnelly! Sweet potato pie, potato salad like Grandma Chris would make.She had that special touch.My Granda Alletha would make some of the greatest everyghing you could imagine.All would comfort me on a rainy day, and we have lots of them. She could make the best soups, chicken, toast, bake. Spaghetti. I am so comforted now, i am hungry. i will see you later

 

[irishwashguy]

Almost forgot the home made from scratch apple and cherry pies she took great pride in .Move over Marie Calendars!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Food

Lancashire Hotpoint, Scouse or Lobbies...

Meat & Potato Pie, Chips n Gravy..Homemade

Fish Chips & Mushy Peas, from the best chippy, cooked in beef dripping (with Nappies...as Jon Jetcone says lol) buttered white bread.

Sticky Toffee Pudding with lashings of white rum sauce...