Give me your best winter warmer dinners

[Elizabethandfour]

We are only at the beginning of October and I am already in a rut. Please give me some family pleasing meals for the coming months.

Mine on repeat are:
Coq au vin
Steak, veg, roast potatoes
Slow cooked beef curry
Creamy salmon pasta
Salmon soup
Roast chicken, veg, mash.

Any kind of meal-in-a-bowl soup, like
Smoked haddock chowder
Scotch broth
Lentil soup
Leek & potato
Pea & ham

Any kind of stew or casserole

One-pot meals

Cottage pie, although I make mine with turkey mince & pearl barley.

Frititta.

I make caulifower cheese alot. With roast potatos, peas, honeyed carrots. It's our standard Boxing day meal with ham for thos ewho eat meat. But I'm making at least once a fortnight really.

We do a slow cooker chicken thing.

Brown skin on chicken legs and put them in the slow cooker
fry chopped bacon and onion, add to slow cooker
add chopped potatoes and carrots
add chicken stock
stir in a bit of mustard, salt and pepper
slow cook for however long

just before serving, stir in a couple of spoonfuls of creme fraiche.

I serve it with some tenderstem broccoli but it’s got potatoes and carrots in the dish so you could just serve it from there with no extras.

I also do a nice sausage and chilli bean casserole, think it’s a hairy bikers recipe. Sausages, bacon, onion, chilli beans, passata, red wine, carrots, paprika, stock. Served with jacket potatoes.

Butternut squash and sage risotto
Sausage and carrot & swede mash
Toad in the hole
Steak and stilton pies
Curried parsnip soup

Lamb Tagine - I do Mary Berry's and I do it in the slow cooker

Pork and pineapple curry from the 1990’s dairy book of home cookery. Not a traditional curry by any means, but quick, easy and a lovely meal for a cold evening.

Macaroni cheese with bacon and a tiny bit of truffle. Even better with a breadcrumb topping

Beef or chicken goulash. From the Good food website

Soup. Usually some sort of spicy butternut squash soup made out of frozen squash - can’t be faffed with cutting it up, or a spicy lentil soup.

Delia’s, no stir, bung it in the oven, mushroom risotto.

Beef casserole:
large 2 inch chunks of decent braising steak
chunks of carrot, onion and potato

layer up in a big casserole, sprinkle with a bit of plain flour, 2 crumbled oxo cubes and salt and pepper. Add a bay leaf and some fresh thyme.
cover with boiling water just over the contents of the dish. Cover.

put into a hot 210 degree oven for 30 mins then turn down to 140 and give it a couple of hours. Add a tin of baked beans and / or some sliced mushrooms and some frozen peas. Cook 20 mins or so. Check meat is tender.

serve with crusty bread.

elizabethandfour what’s your creamy salmon recipe, please!

Also
Delia’s winter collection is full of lovely warming dishes, her Irish stew is great.
We make a lot of Cullen Skink and Cock a leekie soup as well.

Bacon and butternut squash/broccoli pasta.

Lamb and spinach curry.

Spaghetti and meatballs.

Egg curry.

Cannellini bean and chicken tray bake.

Sausage casserole.

Butter chicken in the slow cooker
Steak Diane in slow cooker or pressure cooker
I made a recipe from BBC food last week called Keema Hotpot which was delicious
Chilli con carne
Sausage casserole
Baked risotto with chicken
Shepherds or Cottage Pie
Fish pie
Any form of pastry pie
Stew with dumplings
Lasagne
pasta bakes
Cauliflower cheese
Mac and cheese
jacket potatoes with fillings or twice baked
Boerenkool stamppot (kale hash with smoked sausage)
Corned beef hash
Paprika chicken

Slow cooker beef stew and dumplings (make 2x as much and the next day have it as a pie minus the dumplings
Salmon and chorizo pasta (creamy sauce with red peppers)
Jambalaya
Cottage/shepherds pie
Cauliflower, leek and onion macaroni cheese bake
Sausage and chorizo pasta (tomato sauce with chopped peppers and a spoon of cream cheese mixed in)
Marry me chicken

Have a look at Jamie's ' five ingredients 'recipe book . They are really quick and easy and delicious..I do several of those and rhey never fail. ....pasta, noodles, chicken pie, etc. Really nice.

Beef stew and dumplings
Cottage or Shepherd’s Pie
Various kinds of soup
Sausages and mash
Toad in the Hole
Roast Dinner
Cheesy pasta or cheesy mash
Crumble and custard

Fry onions and garlic.
Add cream, paprika, salmon,
Season, sometimes add more paprika.
Add cooked penne.

My kids love it.

smoked haddock cooked in milk in the oven, then stir spinach into the milk to made a sauce. With ready made mash with some grainy mustard mixed through it. I'll sometimes cook the haddock in foil instead and do some leeks, spring onions and cabbage in butter to have on the side.

Sausage pasta.

Smoked haddock or cod or similar - put in dish in oven with cream or creme fraiche and spinach stirred through and topped with cheesy breadcrumbs. Serve with tender stem brocolli.

Specifically Winterish meals I make are:
Minced beef and vegetable hotpot
Beef goulash
Chicken stew with herby dumplings
Beef stew with semmelknödel
Bangers and mash
Pork in cider, mustard and mushroom cream sauce
Good old shepherds pie
Various pasta bakes - bacon, mushroom and spinach in cheese sauce etc
Moussaka
Lasagne
For sides I do:
Slow roasted red cabbage with apple, red onion, cinnamon and nutmeg, you can batch cook and freeze it in bags as one red cabbage makes a lot!
Roasted polenta cubes
Cauliflower cheese
Vegetable gratin
Potato gratin

Soups:
Roast butternut squash and red pepper soup
Pumpkin and apple soup with toasted walnuts, croutons and blue cheese topping
French onion soup

Dessert:
We're all about the crumble in this house. I preprepare crumble mix and freeze portions for a last minute crumble, and keep tins of pears and jars of gooseberries in the cupboard.
Apple slump
Bread and butter pudding (with brioche if I feel a bit fancy 😂)
Rice pudding
Microwave jam sponge pudding

Lunches:

If not leftovers:
Roasted pumpkin, onions, peppers, courgettes with couscous and a spicy tomato sauce
Jacket potatoes with cheesy beans or tuna and sweetcorn in mayo.

Gosh, completely forgot about toad in the hole. Will make that this weekend I think! Thanks for the reminder @warmapplepies

Also love a cheese and potato pie in winter!

Chilli with rice - beef or veggie
Goulash with mash - beef or chickpea and root veg
Wild mushroom and butternut sage risotto - or chicken and pea risotto
Chicken and barley soup or casserole with lots of root veg
Boeuf bourguignon with herb dumplings
Lamb hotpot with finely sliced potatoes that turn crispy on top
Stuffed peppers
Ramen bowls with soft boiled egg and spicy broth and lots of green veg and shredded chicken with ginger

Thank you!

Place marking so I can come back and read later

Beef chilli
Red lentil dahl
Sausage and leek pasta bake
Tuscan Sausage and bean casserole
Beef stroganoff
Mexican chicken

Lasagne
Pie and mash

Sausage casserole
Keema curry
Shepherd's pie or cottage pie
Chilli con carne
Chicken chasseur
Bangers and mash
All the soups!
Cassoulet
Lasagne
Macaroni cheese
Pasta bakes
Roast dinners

Honestly, the list is endless for autumn and winter food in this country. I find it far harder to think of a variety of evening meals when it's hot and you don't want to have the oven or hob on.