Hoping for some sharing of home cooked Autumn/winter comfort foods.
It was very cold here yesterday, with torrential rain. DH requested chicken noodle soup for dinner. I had already thought of what we call Winter Stew. We ended up making the Chicken noodle soup.
I make both in our Instant Pot.
For the soup I sauté chopped onions, minced garlic, chopped celery and carrots cut in coin shapes in butter. Once a bit softened, I add about 3 cups of DH's homemade stock, salt, pepper, some pepper flakes, some cooking sherry (1/2 cup or so), and dried oregano. I pressure cook on the soup setting. Then add diced raw chicken, some more water, and check seasoning. Pressure cook on chicken setting. When done I added spelt pasta bows and let it slow cook until they were el dente.
So good and warming. Served with cheese and jalapeno bread.
The Winter stew has lean beef in cubes, onions, garlic, carrots, turnip, parsnips, potatoes, and a yam. All cooked in the Instant Pot. I brown the meat, add onions and garlic, soften, and then add worcestershire sauce and a bit of stock. Pressure cook the meat until tender. Add all the veg chopped up, a few allspice berries, a grate of nutmeg, a bay leaf, salt pepper and DH's stock. Pressure cook until veg soft.
Again, warming and tasty. Also nutritious. I love to smoosh the veggies in the stock.
DH likes to buy rotisserie chickens at the supermarket and we use those (after eating the meat) with multiple veg to make stock that we then cool, skim, strain and keep in the freezer in portion sized ziplock bags.
What are your go to warming comfort foods? Do you have a special soup or stew recipe? What about soda-type quick breads to go with? Vegetarian stews?