Favourite cold weather foods

[Homburg]

When cold weather rolls around, my taste preferences change a bit. Soups and stews become much more interesting to my pallete, along with sundry other dishes. I was wondering if anyone else had the same change, and, if so, what sort of dishes do you enjoy?

Mine is my wife's Pumpkin Sausage Curry Soup. A major reason for starting this thread was to share this recipe, as a number of people had requested it (and I can't recall who all wanted it now). Here it is, enjoy.

Sausage Pumpkin Soup

1 lb hot Italian sausage
Onion powder to taste
2 cups chicken broth
2 cups pumpkin puree
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon curry powder (or to taste)
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup half&half
1 cup water

Brown sausage and drain fat. Add remaining ingredients except for half&half and water. Cook uncovered for 15 minutes. Add half&half and water and cook another five minutes (do not boil). Salt and pepper to taste.

 

[FurryFury]

Hot chocolate and chilli come to mind.

Recipe:

Buy at store, add water and/or milk, warm and enjoy.

LOL!

 

[intothewoods]

Hooray! Thank you to you and v.

 

[graceanne]

Potato Soup

4 medium potatoes, cubed
1 medium onion, sliced
1 lb of bacon, also sliced (in thick pieces)
1 can of evaporated milk
salt to taste

Add potates, onion, bacon, and salt to pot and cover with water. Boil until the bacon is cooked and the potatoes are soft. Pour out half the water, and pour in can of evaporated milk. Take potato masher to LIGHTLY mush the ingredients together. Tastes great with corn bread.

Corn Bread

1 c cornmeal
1 c flour
2 tbsp sugar (optional)
4 tsp bak'g pwdr
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 c margarine
1 c egg
1 c milk

Preaheat oven to 425 (farenheit). Grease a square cake pan or 10" cast iron skillet.

Blend all ingredients, pour into pan and bake 20 to 25 minutes.

 

[EmpressFi]

oooh I like this idea

I'll let Malin post what he wants..but when it gets cold like this.. I want my mother's vegetable beef soup. I can still remember sitting in the kitchen and watching her make this.. letting it simmer all day (not that it really takes that long..) and talking with her and listening to her sing along to the radio.. anyway... here it is...

1 pot roast (about 1 lb) cubed
2-3 soup bones (you can get these at your butcher's counter)
2 cans of whatever veggies you like: (I use...)
corn
green beans
carrots
lima beans (1 can - just for malin)
peas
whole potatoes (I cube them as I'm putting them in)
whole stewed tomatoes (I shred these by hand when putting them in
(with the veggies.. I usually drain 1 can, put 1 can in without draining)
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 small head of cabbage, chopped
1 large can of Campbell's tomato juice

Place the potroast and soup bones in the bottom of a large soup pan, season with salt and pepper and I add worchestershire sauce, then cover with water.
Place over medium to medium high heat and start it to simmer
When the meat is completely cooked through, start adding your vegetables.
I normally add the tomato juice, then tomatoes, then other canned veggies then finish with the celery and cabbage.

Cover and simmer until the cabbage is tender and translucent. Remove soup bones.

I apologize that I'm not so specific. This was my mom's recipe and her way of cooking and it almost always differs every time. But.. it's good, hearty soup that hits the spot on cold winter days

 

[graceanne]

Beanless Chilli

1 lb hamburger
1 can chopped chillies
1 medium onion
2 green bell peppers
2 c salsa
2 cans chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp diced garlic
1/4 c chives
salt and pepper to taste


Fry the hamburger, chillies, onion, bell peppers, garlic and chives together. Add salsa and chopped tomatoes. Simmer for 20 to 30 minutes. Also very good with corn bread (see above). If you like your food spicy make sure that the chillies and the salsa are hot. If you don't, get everything mild.

 

[doveofserenity]

Fi, yours sounds heavenly; accept for the cabbage...allergic to it.

i love Soup Bean and Ham with dumplings, with Pigs in a Blanket on the side, and a hot cup of creamy cocoa on the bitter cold days.

 

[graceanne]

Peppermint Patties

1 mug of hot chocolate, made to taste
a TINY BIT of peppermint schnapps

Also very festive.

 

[Homburg]

Hooray! Thank you to you and v.

You are very welcome, my dear. You are one of the ones that I know wanted the recipe.

(I'm not completely clueless, yay!)

 

[HottieMama]

All my recipes are guesstimates from learning to cook from my grandmother. I can try to type some out if anyone wants...

Potato Gnocchi with homemade sauce and Italian Sausage...
Italian Wedding Soup
Chicken Ciacattore
Chili
Mexican Chicken Stew

 

[sanjuaneros]

Tortilla Dumpling Soup
Recipe Ingredients:

6 Fajita Size Flour Tortillas
1 (3-4) lb. Chicken cut into pieces (remove skin and excess fat)
1 Onion chopped
2 cups Celery sliced
1-1/2 tsp. Salt
1/4 tsp. Pepper
1/4 tsp. Thyme leaves
1 cup Carrots sliced


Instructions:

1. Place chicken, onions, half the celery, salt, pepper and thyme in a large pot. Immerse completely with water bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer (covered) for 1 hour. 2. Take the chicken out of the pot and remove the meat from the bones (set aside). Place bones back in pot and continue cooking for 1 hour longer. 3. Strain broth and return to pot with remaining celery and carrots. Cook 20-30 minutes longer. 4. Stir in cooked chicken and top with tortilla pieces. Simmer for 5 minutes longer. Serve soup with remaining tortillas.

 

[myinnerslut]

macaroni and cheese. i have a recipe at home in which i cook in soy for protien and you absolutly cannot taste/ smell/ or otherwise know that it is in the recipe. but it makes it that much healthier and is delicious.

 

[graceanne]

All my recipes are guesstimates from learning to cook from my grandmother. I can try to type some out if anyone wants...

Potato Gnocchi with homemade sauce and Italian Sausage...
Italian Wedding Soup
Chicken Ciacattore
Chili
Mexican Chicken Stew

Mine are all guestimates, too. A lot of the measurements I'm not positive on. lol

 

[doveofserenity]

Homemade Buckeyes

1lb. chocolate chips
1 square of cooking wax
2lb. powdered sugar
2 jars smooth peanut butter
1 1/2 cups soft butter or margerine

In a double boiler, melt the chocolate chips and cooking wax together. Gently simmer while preparing the mix.

Pour both jars of peanut butter and the margarine into a BIG mixing bowl or kettle. Add in about 1 lb of powdered sugar.

Heres where it gets a little messy. Mix all the ingredients well, with your hands. Making sure the mixture is completely smooth. No powder sugar lumps or bumps.

Test mix by rolling some into a ball in palm of your hand. If too soft, slowly add in more powdered sugar; 1/2 cup at a time...blending and checking after each time.

When a firm ball of mix is made, then its ready to start rolling them all.

Wax paper on tray and make the balls about the size of a quarter to half dollar.

Chill in fridge for 30 minutes. Then take out, put toothpicks in center of each ball, and dip one at a time into melted chocolate. Come up to the top of the ball, but not over the top. Set back on wax paper. Once all are dipped, chill in fridge for at least 1 hour.

Makes approximately 5 dozen Buckeyes.

i make them and homemade mint patties every year for Christmas.

 

[EmpressFi]

Homemade Buckeyes

1lb. chocolate chips
1 square of cooking wax
2lb. powdered sugar
2 jars smooth peanut butter
1 1/2 cups soft butter or margerine

In a double boiler, melt the chocolate chips and cooking wax together. Gently simmer while preparing the mix.

Pour both jars of peanut butter and the margarine into a BIG mixing bowl or kettle. Add in about 1 lb of powdered sugar.

Heres where it gets a little messy. Mix all the ingredients well, with your hands. Making sure the mixture is completely smooth. No powder sugar lumps or bumps.

Test mix by rolling some into a ball in palm of your hand. If too soft, slowly add in more powdered sugar; 1/2 cup at a time...blending and checking after each time.

When a firm ball of mix is made, then its ready to start rolling them all.

Wax paper on tray and make the balls about the size of a quarter to half dollar.

Chill in fridge for 30 minutes. Then take out, put toothpicks in center of each ball, and dip one at a time into melted chocolate. Come up to the top of the ball, but not over the top. Set back on wax paper. Once all are dipped, chill in fridge for at least 1 hour.

Makes approximately 5 dozen Buckeyes.

i make them and homemade mint patties every year for Christmas.

I know this recipe.. it's the same one my mother used to make

 

[Essene]

When cold weather rolls around, my taste preferences change a bit. Soups and stews become much more interesting to my pallete, along with sundry other dishes. I was wondering if anyone else had the same change, and, if so, what sort of dishes do you enjoy?

Mine is my wife's Pumpkin Sausage Curry Soup. A major reason for starting this thread was to share this recipe, as a number of people had requested it (and I can't recall who all wanted it now). Here it is, enjoy.

Sausage Pumpkin Soup

1 lb hot Italian sausage
Onion powder to taste
2 cups chicken broth
2 cups pumpkin puree
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon curry powder (or to taste)
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup half&half
1 cup water

Brown sausage and drain fat. Add remaining ingredients except for half&half and water. Cook uncovered for 15 minutes. Add half&half and water and cook another five minutes (do not boil). Salt and pepper to taste.

Actually I've been meaning to ask you for this one as well. I'm psyched that you listed it. I'll definitely have to do some soul searching to figure out my favorite cold weather food. I don't know that I really have one seeing as it's cold here for much of the year...or so it seems anyway.

 

[Homburg]

Actually I've been meaning to ask you for this one as well. I'm psyched that you listed it. I'll definitely have to do some soul searching to figure out my favorite cold weather food. I don't know that I really have one seeing as it's cold here for much of the year...or so it seems anyway.

That's because you live in an evil place that is not meant for human habitation.

 

[Essene]

That's because you live in an evil place that is not meant for human habitation.

Well you have to admit. It's even more evil since I've been living here, and it has nothing to do with the weather.

 

[Homburg]

Well you have to admit. It's even more evil since I've been living here, and it has nothing to do with the weather.

It's true, I know that I've personally raised the EQ (Evil Quotient) of my own town by at least a few points.

 

[Netzach]

Aloo Gobhi.

(Potatoes and Cauliflower)

Ingredients :
1 large cauliflower
2 potatoes, boiled & peeled
1 tbsp coriander, finely chopped
1 green chillies
1 onion, finely chopped
¼ tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp dhania powder
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp curds
½ tsp cumin seeds
3 tbsp oil or ghee

To be ground into paste :

2 tbsp coconut, grated
¼ cup coriander, chopped
3 green chillies
½ tsp ginger grated
1 tsp garlic grated
1 onion
½ tsp wheat flour


Directions :

Break cauliflower into florettes. Simmer in boiling water for 3 to 4 minutes.
Drain, keep aside. Chop potatoes into medium chunks.
Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, allow to splutter.
Add onion and green chilli, saute till pink.
Add paste, turmeric powder, dhania powder, saute for 2-3 minutes.
Add curds, stir continuously, till boiling resumes.
Add potatoes, cauliflower, cook till gravy thickens.
Stir occasionally to avoid burning.
When gravy is thick and oil separates, add lemon juice and it is done .
Garnish with coriander, serve hot. Enjoy!


I was eating this long before Bend it Like Beckham was a twinkle in Keira Knightly's gym shorts. I don't know what dhania is - maybe asafoedtida? Works fine without it. I assume "curds" can be approximated with plan yogurt - and I go nuts on the ginger, way more than 1/2 tsp.

 

[NALA CAYENNE]

All of the recipe's look yummy...here's mine

Cream of Crab Soup

4 tbsp butter

1/2 cup finely minced onion

1/2 cup flour

1 1/2 cup chicken broth

1 cup milk

1 cup heavy cream

1/2 tsp Old Bay Seasoning

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp white pepper

1/4 tsp celery seeds

1 lb. lumb crab meat, cartilage removed


1. Melt the butter in a double boiler. Add the onions and cook until they are soft.
2. Add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon until combined.
3. Add the chicken broth, stir frequently until the mixture thickens.
4. Add the cream and the milk keep stirring. Th soup should thicken enough to coat the back of a spoon. This will take at least 20 minutes.
5. Add the Old Bay, salt, pepper and the celery seeds.
6. Stir in the crab meat.

 

[Millificent]

My Chicken and Dumplings! Yum!

 

[NALA CAYENNE]

My Chicken and Dumplings! Yum!

Milificent!!!!!!!

 

[the captians wench]

I make soups and chilli, but I only make them once each and that makes enough to share and to last me the winter cravings. I don't have a recipe tho, I just go to the store and buy what ever veggies look good and throw them in with some meat I've slow boiled for a day, adding water as needed. The chicken noodle tured out really good this year. the beef didn't do as hot. *shrug* ya win some you loose some.

 

[SubKekiLee]

Caldio

This is a spanish soup they use to give to sick people to make em better..... I got it from an ex and my kids still make it to this day ..

1 lb LEAN ground beef
1/2 Yellow onion, minced
1 can yellow corn
1 can green beans
6 chopped potatoes( med size)
Stewed tomatoes 2 cans I ususally use the one with Jalepenos and onions in it already
Green Tabasco

Fry the ground beef with the onion, drain excess fat off
add the corn and green beans, tomatoes with the juice and add water to cover the potatoes and boil until potatoes are soft to fork add tabasco to taste ( the hotter the better)

I serve with grated cheese and french bread

YUM when it is cold.. =0)