To ask for your favourite wintery food/drink?

[SneakyGremlins]

Need some ideas for food and drink I can use to warm up when it's cold outside!

Stew and dumplings

Sausage casserole

Butter pies

Chicken soup and tiger bread

And of course hot chocolate with all of the trimmings

Can you tell I'm northern

Beef stew with dumplings
Mash
Cheese on toast
Roast

Porridge with stewed plums/pears/apples and cinnamon.
Minestrone soup.
Toast with ricotta, roasted leeks and balsamic.
Lentil shepherds pie.
Jacket potatoes and bean chilli.
Warm mince pies.

Tomato soup with massive chunk of salt and pepper tiger bread.
Corned beef hash.
Shepherds pie with melty cheese on top & fresh broccoli.
Pumpkin risotto.
Black cherry hot choc or mint hot choc
Mulled wine.
Cheese that’s crumbly and crunchy, crackers, fig chutney, celery.
Chilli on jacket spuds.
Sticky toffee pud with a mother tonne of vanilla custard.
Jamie Oliver’s sprouts with chestnuts and chorizo....ommmmmmm

I LOVE wintery foods, stews and soups, stick to your ribs fare!

re-writes shopping list

Spiced winter berries drink from "belvoir"

Oh my god I forgot the bubble and squeak!!!!

Hot choc with your shot of alcohol of choice. Mine is cognac. ZZZZ after that. What's not to like?

Home made tomato soup with crusty bread
Buttered crumpets
Cup of Bovril

Ohhh toad in the hole, mash, veg, gravy
Cottage pie, veg, gravy
Chicken pie pie, mash, veg gravy

Also chilli spuds
Any topping crumpets

Highly recommend (well I would )

My spiced carrot and roast butternut squash soup (ingredients on my shopping list this week)

Garlic roasted butternut squash
Roughly equal amount of carrots
Approx half diced onion, 2 sticks celery and garlic. Veg stock.
Curry powder, dried or frozen coriander.

Put squash in oven studded with garlic to roast.

Prep carrots

Fry off in a little oil the onion, celery and couple cloves garlic. Once translucent/soft add stock, spices & carrots and boil till carrots soft.

Remove from heat.

Add scooped out squash.

Blend until smooth and creamy.

Haven't given spice amounts as its to taste.

Also nice with a swirl of natural yoghurt or creme fraiche.

Rounds of smoked salmon sandwiches eaten in front of the fire
Skye G’s Oxtail casserole

Hot vimto.
Apple strudel and custard/cream.
But hot vimto above everything else.

Winter Pimms. It's a special type, add Apple juice and warm up. I'm looking forward to my first of this winter at the weekend

I'm sure the local shops only have sugar free Ribena now

Then you need to move!!

I love pea and ham soup, our butcher does lovely off cuts really cheaply, I also make good use of the slow cooker, Morrisons's had reduced shin beef last week, bought loads, cooks all day with onions, carrots etc., delicious and the house smells great, there's also lots of gravy left over for other uses!

Ooooh I've got so many new ideas!

Winter Pimms in hot apple juice.

Davros beat me to it!

A mountain of carbs. Any carbs will do, as long as they're covered with butter.

Pie.

Christmas dinner. 

I used to love warm ribena. But they've ruined it with sweeteners.

English Heritage Ginger Wine. I can't buy it til close to Christmas as I drink it all and have to re-buy. Not overly keen on ginger usually, and was put off ginger wine decades ago by an old aunty who made her own … it was bloody awful stuff. But the EH one is so yum and warming.

Discovered this completely by accident - I was making mulled wine, grabbed what I thought was the cinnamon and then realised I’d tipped in a load of garam masala. But it REALLY works. Gives it a lovely spicy, warming kick.

Oh the best recipes are the accidental ones!