Your favourite winter comfort foods?

Today is a little chilly and I am bored brainless, so I am just dreaming about some yummy food to eat. I am thinking of all of those yummy foods that just make me go 'ahhhh', like my nanna's baked rice pudding with cream, and lamb stew; or my mum's pea and ham soup, curried chicken/sausages with rice; and my own white bean and bacon soup, self saucing choc pudding, and chiken noodle soup with crusty bread. Or just some yummy crusty bread or rolls heated int he over with butter and vegemite...OMG, yuuuummmeeeeeeee!!!!!! I'm going to have to do some cooking now!

So what are your wintry comfort foods that warm your tummy and make you feel good?? It can be sweets, savoury, a meal, snacks what ever!

Mmm your making me hungry! ;)

I'd have to say curry, pumpkin soup and yummy naughty deserts that are going to prevent me from losing weight! In the last few weeks ive made chocolate self-saucing pudding, sticky date pudding and rice pudding. All great 'winter warmers' :)


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Zucchini soup. I love it so much!! I don't usually make it, I get my mum to. She always add's plenty of curry and ..... oh god, its to die for!!!
I'm sooooo hungry now. Thanks lilias!!!

Also love rice pudding (soo easy to make! Takes only a few minutes), any kind of chunky soup, smooth curried pumpkin soup, soup, soup.....soup.
Can't eat chocolate (allergies) so self saucing pudding is out of the question, but I love lemon self saucing, butterscotch self saucing...
Even just a bag of hot chips.

A pot of hot tea, and hot fresh bread with margarine
Winter is the season for eating, isn't it!

Mum's ox-tail stew, crusty warm bread slathered with butter and my grandma's spetzle and goulash! Delish!

tehehehe reading the OP, i was thinking "pretty much all of this!"

we had curried sausages last night, and i experimented with a new baked rice pudding recipe (normally i do it on the stove top the way a Greek friend showed me how) - it was delish hot last night, and equally delish cold today as i was reading this post!

i LOVE that winter is "better" for roasts. we still have them over summer, but it can be less enjoyable if you get hot and bothered cooking it. tonights dinner will be roast rib eye beef (on the bone) with a garlic and onion crust. YUMMM

love soup - but i have to make the stock myself as any packaged stocks give me terrible reflux so i have to be in the right mood.

I want zucchini soup now!

Yummmmm.

*DROOOL* LOL, yum girls, might have to be getting some recipes and trying some of these :)

Right now, I'm getting me some hot tea and buttered toast....we don't have any yummy crusty bread and the bakery is closed this time on a Sunday :( but toast will do....oohh, I might have some crumpets in the freezer! Yum, buttery honey crumpets! Another wintry fave, along with honey porridge. Mmmmm.

And I'm supposed to be trying to lose weight, lol! Though comfort food doesn't have to be unhealthy! Stews and soups are usually pretty healthy! And rice pudding isn't too bad, without the cream (well, I'm going to convince myself of that anyway!)

Osso bucco that has been cooking in the slow cooker all day, meat meltingly soft, bone marrow plump and juicy, nom nom nom

The only thing that keeps me going through winter is the food. I always look forward to pumpkin soup and my dad's split pea and bacon bone soup - which he'll usually make big batches of and give to us (though I've been doing a pretty good version of my own in the slow cooker this year).

I also really love roasts - beef/lamb/pork - doesn't matter as long as it is with some roast vegies and hot gravy.

I also love using my slow cooker and smelling the foods all afternoon. I'm making a chilli con carne in it this week and looking forward to eating that with some hot crusty bread.

Funny enough these winter foods are usually the easiest to make - just prepare, chuck in the slow cooker or oven and a few hours later - serve!!! Its the easiest cooking season I think.

I'm making Lemon Butter today in my whizz bang contraption. Really easy :D Awesome on Freshly toasted bread with a nice hot cup of tea.

Frangipani there is a great recipe around here for conbread which I make with Polenta and it goes awesomely with Chili.

Curry (but they're great in summer too - nothing like a bucket load of sweat to cool you down)
Slow cooked lamb shanks.

ooooo I want that cornbread recipe!!!!!

My favourites are a good beef/lamb curry, chilli, casserole, porcupines (from my childhood!), risotto.....

Any sort of old fashioned pudding...sticky date, self saucing, golden syrup dumplings, rice pudding, bread and butter pudding....I also LOVE a good fruit pie or crumble!!

MMmmmmm, having a comfort food day today. DH is making roast butternut pumpkin soup and I'm making roast beef with veggies and gravy. I love winter sunday cooking.

I just made some homemade Sausage Rolls, a delish pie for tea and the prep work for the yummiest meatball soup ever. My house smells yummy and my DH is complaining that he has eaten to much.

Rouge, I love lemon butter, haven't had it since I was a kid.

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I'm making Lemon Butter today in my whizz bang contraption. Really easy :D Awesome on Freshly toasted bread with a nice hot cup of tea.

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Oh boy, that sounds amazing Rouge. I used to make Lemon Butter with my nan as a little tacker, such lovely memories.

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Any sort of old fashioned pudding...sticky date, self saucing, golden syrup dumplings, rice pudding, bread and butter pudding....I also LOVE a good fruit pie or crumble!!

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You're a girl after my own heart n2l, not much stands between me and a good pudding. Golden syrup dumplings, om nom nom. Do you make them??

Other winter favourites are mac & cheese, lamb stew with herb dumplings, fish pie and anything with polenta. Baked potatoes with all the fixings. Campfire/bonfire food, like damper and toasted marshmallows. Endless cups of tea with apple tea cake or warm banana bread.

So. Hungry.

Okay...this thread is evil....

I just made golden syrup dumplings to have after our Maggie Beer roast chicken.

Had run out of golden syrup so using treacle. Also added some ground ginger to the dumplings....

I also have cream and blue ribbon vanilla ice cream....

will let you know how they turn out :)

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Okay...this thread is evil....

I just made golden syrup dumplings to have after our Maggie Beer roast chicken.

Had run out of golden syrup so using treacle. Also added some ground ginger to the dumplings....

I also have cream and blue ribbon vanilla ice cream....

will let you know how they turn out :)

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OMG yum....might have to see of I have the ingredients....I know I have icecream!

I made them a few days ago, OMG, diabetes inducingly sweet, but sssoooo good with custard.

i also love any sort of pudding...rice pudding and golden syrup are my favourites, am currently making sticky date muffins!
i also love pumpking soup and freshly butter rolls, as well as my chicken noodle soup.
im making chili jam tomorrow

Mmmmm sticky date pudding.

We just had a red duck curry, that was pretty comforting. :)

yum JM!!

I love, love, love golden syrup dumplings!

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Okay...this thread is evil....

I just made golden syrup dumplings to have after our Maggie Beer roast chicken.

Had run out of golden syrup so using treacle. Also added some ground ginger to the dumplings....

I also have cream and blue ribbon vanilla ice cream....

will let you know how they turn out :)

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Okay...we have a winner ;)

I'm going to try those golden syrup dumplings tonight too n2l! I have no cream or icecream though, I might have to make some custard!

This thread has made me drool more then my 7month old :)
I love a few Maltese dishes that I have learnt from MIL but Brodel (soup) and baked rice are my fav.
But I can't go past a lamb shanks cooked nice and slowly in the oven followed by apple pie or crumble.

went searching for some soup recipes and found this thread so thought i would bump it so you can drool too. i think plan for today is to make cauliflower soup (dd will usually eat this one), and maybe a chicken noodle soup with lots of vegies and ginger and herbs (this is what i want) and if i get to it some golden syrup dumplings for dessert.

love pumpkin soup, but dd is not too keen. and we used to do an awesome green soup made from broccoli and zucchini and celery and other green vegies, but i don't know if dd would be keen.

Mmm all these winter warmers have given me a few ideas for the day! Might give some pumpkin scones a go (never tried making them before, anyone have a good recipe?) and I think I'll light the fire early and put a soup and loaf of bread on for dinner... Yum!

Does anyone have a recipe for zucchini soup? Sounds interesting...