Perfect meal for a cold winter’s night. This chicken and dumplings made with southern-style dumplings will warm the cockles of your heart!
comfort food
Chicken Alfredo Pot Pie
If you have leftover chicken and a sheet of frozen puff pastry, this chicken alfredo pot pie should be on your menu!
Beef Ragout
Beef stew or beef soup? You decide which way you want this!
Slow Cooker Braised Steak
Slow Cooker Braised Steak This delicious slow cooker braised steak has only 4 main ingredients. A delicious comfort meal for a cold winter night. Here’s a real winner of a meal that has very few ingredients. No fuss either! I prefer to use blade steaks for slow cooking because they don’t fall apart–they hold their…
Cheesy Sausage Pasta Bake
Cheesy Sausage Pasta Bake This sausage and mushroom pasta bake is cheesy and easy. It’s a nice mid-week meal or buffet dish. The January deep freeze of upstate New York always gets me to thinking about comfort food, casseroles and running my oven to add more heat to the house! Cheesy and comforting…
Cracker Barrel Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli
Cracker Barrel Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli Here’s a great copycat recipe for the famous Cracker Barrel Chicken Broccoli Casserole. Is there anyone who doesn’t love Cracker Barrel’s great comfort food? Cracker Barrel Cheesy Chicken and Broccoli I’ve seen a number of copycat cracker barrel recipes floating around for this chicken and broccoli casserole, but…
Easy Salisbury Steak
Easy Salisbury Steak An old comfort favorite. Ready in 30 minutes. Salisbury steak is a dish I always loved. Making the “real deal” is pretty time consuming–and TOTALLY worth it if you have time (click here for a great recipe from A Family Feast), but a lot of people don’t nowadays. I’ve made the standard quickie…
Creamy Chicken Pot Pie
Creamy Chicken Pot Pie You can’t get more “comfort” food than this. Great dish to use up leftovers–especially with the coming Holiday season. There aren’t too many people who don’t like chicken pot pie, and unlike the frozen, homemade tastes better and is pretty easy too! This is the perfect weeknight meal on cold late-fall…
Mama Marie’s Mini Meatloaves
Mama Marie’s Mini Meatloaves My late mother-in-law’s famous “hamburgers.” These are a family favorite! My mother-in-law always called these “hamburgers,” but to me they were like mini meatloaves made on the stovetop. I decided to honor her by calling them by her name–and it’s alliterative too!!! Actually, my friend Lori told me these are an…
Club Sandwich
Club Sandwich One of America’s all-time favorite diner sandwiches. Easy to make, too. This one has a special sauce. And this uses those Easter ham leftovers too! Who hasn’t ever ordered one of these in a diner? They are filling and very tasty. My version has ham, because that’s what I had on hand,…
