It’s that time of year where wearing big jumpers means you can get away with eating a bit more than you normally would in the summer! So with the cold weather approaching we took a look at hard to resist comfort food!
Comfort Food For Savoury Lovers
Beer Soaked Cheese On Toast
The ultimate comfort ford on this fair isle is undoubtedly cheese on toast! Easy to make with optimum taste impact.
But have I found a recipe to top it? Check out this beer soaked cheese on toast (or as our friends across the pond call it, grill cheese) the recipe is from the Brooklyn Brew Shop.
Sadly it’s in US measurements, and I would probably use extra strong cheddar with this too.
Shepherd’s/Cottage Pie
Is there anything more comforting than Shepherd’s Pie? warm, slightly hered lamb mince with crispy and cheesy potato top, easy to eat, and good for the soul.
It’s a very simple dish so it took me a while to find a recipe that looked like it really hit the spot, but when I stumbled upon Gourmet Travellers shepherd’s pie recipe my stomach rumbled immediately.
Comfort Food For Those With A Sweet Tooth
Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate
I don’t know about you, but when I think of christmas I think of big oversized jumpers, warm fluffy socks, a good festive film like White Christmas and the thickest, creamiest, chocolatey hot chocolate.
I take my hot chocolates very seriously and have tried all sorts of made-from-scratch recipes, but for the winter months I have found this slow cooker hot chocolate which looks like a winner, winner turkey dinner (see what I did there?)
Head to littlespicejar.com for the step by step recipe here.
Rich, Fudgey Chocolate Brownies
One of my fave things about christmas is making brownies, I make the a day or two before christmas day and keep them in the fridge so they are perfect for post-christmas dinner dessert!
The best brownie recipe I have come across is this BBC Good Food recipe, although I have adapted it slightly by using dark brown muscovado sugar because I love that treacly flavour with the 85% dark chocolate, I also throw in sea salt, but you can experiment with what you add in yourself.
As an extra tip, it will still seem liquidy when it comes out, don’t be alarmed, let it cool and then pop in the fridge until totally cooled down (unless you are serving warm and gooey with extra thick double cream) before you you cut up.