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Comfort Food Recipes

What's your favorite comfort food?

My favorite comfort food recipes include noodles, tacos, braised dishes with beef or chicken, beans, stews, carb heavy dishes, and simple classics from childhood.

These comfort food recipes feel heavier and grounded when you need a little extra love, stability, and comfort in life.

My current favorite comfort food dishes include:

  • Red Lentils and Rice
  • Spanish Chicken and Rice ( aka Turmeric Arroz con Pollo)
  • Simple and Easy Tomato Bisque
  • Easy Beef and Bean Chili
Eggs poached in Pork Green Chile in a pan with a napkin and a spoon in the pan with a tortilla on the side. Pan laying on an open newspaper. Cup of coffee.

Eggs in Pork Green Chili

Brown bowl full of cooked diced chicken, diced celery and pickles, diced red onions stirred with white mayonnaise and garnished with parsley. Wood spoon in it.

The Best Cold Chicken Salad

Small blue bowl of off white hummus with a mint garnish. Spoon inserted into hummus.

Simple and Easy Homemade Hummus

Cooked Pickled Shrimp with thin sliced onions In a blue bowl with a spoon sticking out. 2 wood bowls with small forks on the side. close up.

Lowcountry Quick Pickled Shrimp

Close up of white plate with chicken and noodles in an orange sauce with basil leaves on top.

Chicken with Creamy Tomato Sauce Pasta

3 Parmesan Crisps with specks of thyme on a Wood Cutting Board

Easy Parmesan Crisps (Frico)

Sheet pan lined with aluminum foil with cooked meatballs with basil on it. Top view.

Italian Pork Sausage Meatballs

Top down view of barbeque beef back ribs cut into individual ribs. Ribs laying on live edge wood cutting board with a chef's knife and white napkin in the background. Close up.

Easy Oven Baked Beef Back Ribs

Diced egg mixed with thyme, diced red onions, capers, and sliced chives on a bed of butter lettuce.

Simple Egg Salad with Thyme and Chives

Top view of brown plate with diced chicken in brown sauce and sliced green onions on top. chopsticks on the side.

Teriyaki Chicken Thighs With Green Onions

Falafels on a wood cutting board with a side plate of 2 falafels and a bowl of white cucumber tzatziki. side view.

Pan Fried Falafels with Canned Chickpeas

Shredded Mexican Spiced Pork On a Brown Plate with Wood Tongs and a Chopped Cilantro garnish.

Tender and Crispy Stovetop Pork Carnitas

top view of potato salad on a square aqua plate with utensils on the side. Close up view.

My Favorite Potato and Egg Salad

Seared chicken thighs with pearl onions and fresh tarragon with a light brown sauce in a large white bowl with a white napkin with an artichoke on it.

French Tarragon Chicken Thighs

Diced Chicken In A Medium Brown Curry spiced Gravy over White Rice in A large shallow plate.

Indian Curry Chicken and Rice

Diced and roasted Kabocha Squash with Peppers and leeks on a big white plate with a wood spoon. side view.

Kabocha Squash Breakfast Hash

Top view of shallow bowl of beef shanks with marrow in an orange vegetable puree. Garnished with basil.

Osso Buco (Veal Shanks) in Vegetable Puree

White plate of Yellow/ Green Mung Beans (Lentils), over brown rice, garnished with red pepper flakes and green onions.

Easy Kitcheree (Kitchari Or Mung Beans)

White plate of seared slices of smoked sausage on a bed of vegetables or diced red peppers, onions, and zucchini. Silverware, napkins, plates in background. Close up.

Turkey Kielbasa, Onions, Peppers, and Zucchini

Halved Reuben Sandwich with pink corned beef, sauerkraut, melty swiss cheese with thousand islands dressing on a plate. Blue cup in background.

Reuben Sandwich Recipe

Cooked Soft boiled Egg Wrapped in Turkey, Coated With Panko, Baked And Cut In half on a plate.

Oven Baked Turkey Scotch Eggs

Creamy bowl of tan potato and leek soup on a white table with parsley garnish. top view.

Potato Leek Bisque / Soup

Beef, Carrots, Leeks, Potatoes cooked in a red dutch oven pot with a brown gravy. Top view.

Irish Beef and Stout Stew

White shallow bowl of green/brown split pea soup with green parsley garnish. Spoon in the soup.

Vegetarian Split Pea Soup

White bowl of chicken thighs in a yellow sauce with tomatoes, onions, and capers. Yellow Rice in bowl on the side. Top view.

Turmeric Arroz con Pollo (Spanish Chicken and Rice)

Dry Rub Baby Back Ribs Cut With The bones still on and stacked on a wood plate..

Oven Baked Dry Rub Baby Back Ribs

White Bowl With Spoon Filled With Braised Beef and Orange Sweet Potatoes in a Brown Beef Sauce. Side view.

Cumin Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes

Top view. White bowl with spoon of white rice covered in yellow brown creamy lentil puree. White bowl of rice on side.

Simple Coconut Red Lentils And Rice

3 Mason Jars Lined up vertically with rich brown chicken stock in them on a white kitchen towel.

Homemade Chicken Bone Broth Recipe

Close up of pan of fusilli pasta with quartered mushrooms in a light cream sauce with parsley garnish.

Creamy Mushroom Pasta with Lemon

White bowl with black rim of red tomato bisque soup on a wood rectangle plate. Grilled cheese sandwich cut in half diagonally on the side.

Easy Tomato Bisque Soup

Braised Pot Roast on a white dish with a brown sauce with chunked carrots and fennel.

Pot Roast with Fennel and Carrots

2 wood bowls and one pair of chopsticks. Bowls have rice noodles and a tan sauce with cilantro, mung beans, and sliced green onion garnish. side top view.

Coconut Curry Chicken Rice Noodle Bowl

White shallow bowl (side view) of brown/red chunks of lamb with diced carrots and sauce over white rice with a pea, mint, and almond garnish.

Braised Lamb Stew with Peas and Mint

White plate with a piece of meat pie topped with mashed potatoes and a stainless steel dish of a whole casserole in the background. Close up.

Ground Beef Cottage Pie

Close up of wood bowl filled with cooked cabbage slices and topped with sesame seeds with a fork in the bowl. Salt and pepper shakers in background.

Pan Fried Napa Cabbage with Sesame Seeds

Side view of a small bowl of rice pudding with cinnamon sprinkles, whipped cream, and 5 blueberries.

Simple and Creamy Rice Pudding

Top down view of chunky cooked onions, zucchini, peppers on a brown plate with white napkin in background. Close up.

Chunky Pan Seared Onions, Peppers, Zucchini

Shrimp In A Dark Roux With red and yellow peppers on yellow grits on a white plate.

The Best Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits

Mashed Cooked Sweet Potatoes in A white Bowl

Easy Mashed Sweet Potatoes

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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