Thread: Your favorite "It's freezing outside" food?

Nexis wrote:
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside?

Soup. I made potato soup with bacon today (and onions, and homemade
chicken/duck stock, and duck fat, and celery, and parsley). It was perfect.

As for what to eat, I'm always in the mood for hot, cooked food, so
that's always going to be my preference, in summer or winter.

Serene

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Nexis wrote:
>
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside as
> well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the kitchen
> nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold! So I bake
> bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol None of which are
> particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem to enjoy them
> quite a bit But my favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside is
> chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It just seems like the
> perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the fire.
>
> How about you?
>
> kimberly
> --
> http://eating-sandiego.blogspot.com

Cream of XXXX soup (broccoli, asparagus, mushroom, etc.)
Grilled cheese w/ tomato soup
Fresh baked cinnamon raisin bread
Hot chocolate, real stuff, not packet, Mexican or regular home made

On Feb 8, 10:41*pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside as
> well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the kitchen
> nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold! So I bake
> bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol *None of which are
> particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem to enjoy them
> quite a bit * But my favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside is
> chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It just seems like the
> perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the fire.
>

Onion soup made with red wine/beef broth, with Gruyere toasts.

Braised beef ribs with root vegetables.

Mushroom toast while I'm waiting for the long slow cooking to complete.

In article <9FNjl.4089$[email protected]>, "Nexis" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> But my favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside is
> chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It just seems like the
> perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the fire.

I'm not too different. A beef dish from stroganoff to stew to beef and
barley soup or chicken and dumplings come to mind for me.

leo

On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:41:26 -0800, Nexis wrote:

> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside
> as well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the
> kitchen nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold!
> So I bake bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol None of
> which are particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem
> to enjoy them quite a bit But my favorite thing to eat when it's
> cold outside is chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It
> just seems like the perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the
> fire.
>
> How about you?

I love stew during cold weather. Usually Lamb, Bunny or Wallaby stew -
or a combination thereof, slowly cooked on top of the wood heater in a
dutch/camp oven. Yum.

"Nexis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:9FNjl.4089$[email protected]..
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside
> as well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the kitchen
> nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold! So I bake
> bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol None of which are
> particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem to enjoy them
> quite a bit But my favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside is
> chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It just seems like the
> perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the fire.
>
> How about you?
>

Hot Soup. If it's hot soup, must be fall/winter.

Debbie

Nexis said...

> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside
> as well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the
> kitchen nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold!
> So I bake bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol None of
> which are particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem
> to enjoy them quite a bit But my favorite thing to eat when it's
> cold outside is chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It
> just seems like the perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the
> fire.
>
> How about you?
>
> kimberly
> --
> http://eating-sandiego.blogspot.com


I tend to heavy up on foods that stick to the ribs. PB&J, Tuna'd M&C, Split
pea soup (of course!), creamed chipped beef on toast, lasagne.

Andy

On Feb 8, 10:41*pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside?

soup glorious soup! Tonight's dinner is a hearty Smoked Salmon
chowder in pink: salmon, sweet potatoes, shredded carrots in a milk
broth. Onion and garlic as well.

From the oven, skillet corn bread.

maxine in ri

maxine in ri wrote:
> On Feb 8, 10:41 pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
>> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside?
>
> soup glorious soup! Tonight's dinner is a hearty Smoked Salmon
> chowder in pink: salmon, sweet potatoes, shredded carrots in a milk
> broth. Onion and garlic as well.
>
> From the oven, skillet corn bread.

Fancy! Very nice. When it turns cold, I get a craving for
pot roast. I love the smell of that cooking all day while
outside it's just freezing.

nancy

On Feb 8, 10:41*pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside as
> well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the kitchen
> nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold! So I bake
> bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol *None of which are
> particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem to enjoy them
> quite a bit * But my favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside is
> chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It just seems like the
> perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the fire.
>
> How about you?
>
> kimberly
> --http://eating-sandiego.blogspot.com

Soup (ribollita is a current favorite) or homemade mac-n-cheese.

I also like to bake when it's cold out, but I don't always have the
time. (2 young kids and all...)

Kris

On Feb 8, 10:41*pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside?

It's cold outside for about 5 months here. I have a wide variety
of things that I cook when it's cold outside. Some of those
things I also cook in the summer. A couple of weeks ago
I was grilling hamburgers outside in 14 F weather.

Still, I have a few things that I mainly cook when it's cold out.

Pot roast, roast turkey, beef stew, scalloped potatoes.

Although if DH gets a yen or any of those during the summer,
I treat the gas grill like an oven and cook them anyway.

Cindy Hamilton

On 8-Feb-2009, "Nexis" <[email protected]> wrote:

> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside?

Chili

> And is the favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's
> cold outside
> as well?

Not quite; but it is an ingredient in my favorite "miserably cold outside"
dish - Slinger. Slinger is a St. Louis diner tradition, available at just
about every diner in town, and easily made at home for a hearty (but not
heart-healthy) meal. It is a, sometimes two, hamburger (sausage can be
substituted at home) patty, fried potato slices, two eggs as-you-like-them
(I prefer scrambled), smothered in chili (typically no beans or tomatoes in
this chili, meat and ground chiles are the main ingredients) and topped with
shredded cheese (cheddar is traditional) and chopped onions.


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"Nancy Young" <[email protected]> wrote in news:qnVjl.3130$4%2.2486
@newsfe12.ams2:

> maxine in ri wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 10:41 pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
>>> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside?
>>
>> soup glorious soup! Tonight's dinner is a hearty Smoked Salmon
>> chowder in pink: salmon, sweet potatoes, shredded carrots in a milk
>> broth. Onion and garlic as well.
>>
>> From the oven, skillet corn bread.
>
> Fancy! Very nice. When it turns cold, I get a craving for
> pot roast. I love the smell of that cooking all day while
> outside it's just freezing.
>
> nancy
>

For me it is clam chowder...warms the cockles- (of my heart) on a cold
blustery day

--

The beet goes on -Alan

"Nexis" <nexis1@c[email protected]> wrote in message
news:9FNjl.4089$[email protected]..
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside
> as well?
(snippage)
> How about you?
>
> kimberly
> --

Even when I lived in Memphis it never got cold outside for more than a
couple of months. I don't have a favourite thing for cold weather. I
haven't been around long-lasting cold weather (definitely not snow!) for a
very long time.

I make and eat hot soups and stews all year long. What they are depends on
what mood strikes me and what ingredients are on hand. I might make potato
soup; I might make chicken noodle soup or chicken & dumplings. I might make
lentil soup. You never can tell

I have my German grandmother's recipe for white bread. I used to bake it
when I was in my teens and early 20's. And for a while I'd bake
refrigerator [yeast] rolls from a cookbook my father gave me when I was 18.
The recipe for both has been posted here many times. But I haven't baked
bread for many years. I don't eat a lot of bread.

Jill

"l, not -l" wrote:
>
> On 8-Feb-2009, "Nexis" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside?
>
> Chili
>
> > And is the favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's
> > cold outside
> > as well?
>
> Not quite; but it is an ingredient in my favorite "miserably cold outside"
> dish - Slinger. Slinger is a St. Louis diner tradition, available at just
> about every diner in town, and easily made at home for a hearty (but not
> heart-healthy) meal. It is a, sometimes two, hamburger (sausage can be
> substituted at home) patty, fried potato slices, two eggs as-you-like-them
> (I prefer scrambled), smothered in chili (typically no beans or tomatoes in
> this chili, meat and ground chiles are the main ingredients) and topped with
> shredded cheese (cheddar is traditional) and chopped onions.

Does it come with an AED on the side?

On Feb 8, 10:41 pm, "Nexis" <nex...@cox.net> wrote:
> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside as
> well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the kitchen
> nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold! So I bake
> bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol None of which are
> particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem to enjoy them
> quite a bit But my favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside is
> chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It just seems like the
> perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the fire.
>
> How about you?
>
> kimberly
> --http://eating-sandiego.blogspot.com

Cold? San Diego?? :-)

But seriously, folks. SOUP, as a bunch of other posters have said.

This past weekend the city of Lowell, Massachusetts held it's annual
Winterfest. Lowell is an old mill town, birthplace of the American
Industrial Revolution, somewhat rundown but coming back nicely with
mill-to-condo conversions and no small amount of civil pride/
boosterism, and a huge melting pot of people from the waves of
immigrants who came to work in the mills (and the second largest
Cambodian population in the States).

Anyway, a staple event of Winterfest is the Soup Competition. 16
restaurants or organizations set up shop in the Masonic Hall and for
$5, you got to sample as many as you like. Each gave you a little
styrofoam cup with about 1/4 cup of soup in it. You can go back for
seconds. Your first reaction is "That's It?!" but by the time you've
tried as many as you're going to and gone back to the best for
seconds, you're stuffed and realize it's a true bargain :-)

The soups and their sources are described in this short article:
http://www.lowellsun.com/celebrities/ci_11633955

I think I tried them all and all but one (an overly floury-thick clam
chowder - this is New England - what were they thinking!?) were
marvelous. I voted for the smoky tomato cream and sausage soup as the
winner. Yum. Oh, yum! I just *have* to make some kind of cream soup
this week!

So, if you ever find yourself near Lowell in early February, check it
out.

(Also slightly food related: Lowell holds the Lowell Folk Festival
usually on the last weekend in July. It's billed as the largest FREE
folk festival in the country. They close off downtown, set up stages
in all sorts of places and showcase all sorts of folk music. And
there are lots of food booths. And that relates to my "melting pot"
comment above; the food booths illustrate the waves of immigrants.
You will find African (east and west), Irish, Italian, Greek, French-
Canadian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Portuguese and some ordinary white
guys :-) food booths. Quite a treat. So, if you're ever near Lowell
then, do check it out.)

--
Silvar Beitel
(not a Lowellite, although I did work there for a few years)

In article <9FNjl.4089$[email protected]>, "Nexis" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What's your favorite thing to cook when it's cold outside? And is the
> favorite thing to cook your favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside as
> well? I like to bake when it's cold, because the oven warms the kitchen
> nicely, and I can stand the heat in the kitchen when it's cold! So I bake
> bread or a cake or muffins or cinnamon rolls. lol None of which are
> particularly my favorite, but the people I feed them to seem to enjoy them
> quite a bit But my favorite thing to eat when it's cold outside is
> chicken soup with homemade noodles, or beef stew. It just seems like the
> perfect thing to have in a big mug, sitting by the fire.
>
> How about you?
>
> kimberly
> --
> http://eating-sandiego.blogspot.com

Hot cocoa with a shot of brandy...
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-- From "Batman Begins"

Omelet said...

> Hot cocoa with a shot of brandy...


That reminds me, a BUM!!! o' mine in Kalifornia had the unusual habit of
adding a shot of Bailey's Irish Cream to his morning coffee rather than half
& half or cream. I tried a cup once. It was delicious!

Andy

In article <[email protected]>, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Omelet said...
>
> > Hot cocoa with a shot of brandy...
>
>
> That reminds me, a BUM!!! o' mine in Kalifornia had the unusual habit of
> adding a shot of Bailey's Irish Cream to his morning coffee rather than half
> & half or cream. I tried a cup once. It was delicious!
>
> Andy

Bailey's is good any way you fix it. ;-d
--
Peace! Om

"Criminals thrive on the indulgence of societies understanding."

-- From "Batman Begins"