What Is Your Favourite Cold Weather Comfort Food?

[aquarius1984]

Mike

would the best chippy happen to be King Louis in Tarporley? lol

I would say thats the best chippy round here!

Nick

 

[aquarius1984]

HAHAHAHA!

Lancashire HotPOINT lol I like

 

[chestermikeuk]

Lancashire Hotpot!!!!

Cheeky, never noticed that...LOL

Recipe:

"Hotpot has its origins in the Lancashire cotton industry, a quick and simple dish to prepare with long slow cooking, the story goes that female mill workers would prepare the dinner in the morning, place the Hotpot in the range ovens and many hours later it would be ready when the family returned home. Others suggest that it was a dish prepared for pit workers to take to the mines wrapped in a blanket, it would keep hot and make a nourishing lunch in the cold and difficult conditions under ground. The aristocracy claimed that it was a wonderful dish to prepare and take to the races, made in tall pots and also wrapped in a blanket. Traditionally, Hotpot dishes would be quite tall as the hill sheep were very long boned and the chop would stand in the dish. The farming community maintain that it was a family dish often eaten by shepherds on the moors with the same principle as the miners."

Legend also has it that a Lancashire woman’s prowess in Hotpot making determined the marriage prospects of their daughters, but that is the North of England for you!

Heres the BBC recipe link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/traditionallancashir_70908.shtml

 

[aquarius1984]

But can you make COLD HOTPOT?

Nick

 

[foraloysius]

Mustard soup

Italian beef stew with red wine, tomatoes and chestnut mushrooms

Sauerkraut dish from the oven with lots of cheese melted on it

"Iles flottantes"

Warm apple pie with whipped cream and hot chocolate with a shot of Amaretto

Split pea soup (love Steve Gyrafoam's recipe for the slowcooker)

"Bonen voor een heer van stand" or Gentleman's beans. Sort of an Indosean stew with beans and smoked sausage.

 

[aquarius1984]

I also love

"Bigos"

A national Polish dish of Saurkraut, onions, Wiejeska sausage, Kabanos or Podlaska (interchangeable) and bacon.

I beleive the recipe changes from house to house in Poland and every recipe in books ive come across has tomatoes in it.

The one im used to only has the above ingredients stewed in chicken stock, no tomatoes for some reason.

Consumed with a generous amount of Zubrowska in our tradition at christmas.

Nick

 

[cleanfresh]

Great idea, Launderess!!!

You hit a good nerve cause I looove to cook and eat. Here are my favs:

I love apple crisp, too. And, you're right it smells divine while its baking.
Banana pudding w/vanilla wafers. I'm making some tonight, in fact.
My meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes and french cut green beans
Baked macaroni and cheese
Sweet potato pudding with carmelized brown sugar topping
Baked bananas with butter rum sauce spooned over-It should be against the law for something to be this good!!!
Hot blueberry dumplings
Oxtail soup
Tuna macaroni bake
Perfect potluck casserole
Spaghetti pie
Pot roast with potatoes and carrots
Sheperd's Pie-I have an easy recipie that's to die for!
My turkey chili seasoned to perfection with chili powder, ground cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and seasoned salt.

 

[aquarius1984]

my Nana used to . . .

Heat milk in a pan and add chunks of real Cheshire cheese, (Joseph Helers is very good and my current local cheshire cheese in stock) then mix. The result was something that looked curdled, yet was so tasty with lots of black pepper and chunks of crusty bread. We sometimes had grilled bacon with it too. Double mmm. Nick

 

[launderess]

Wot? Not One Mention of Curry?

Now that cold weather seems to have finally arrived for abit,am thinking of doing a nice lamb curry this week.

L.