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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
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)

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

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

Top down view of red pot filled with cooked browned beef chunks and carrots in a brown gravy and tomato sauce.

Beef Goulash Stew with Spaetzle

Top down view of white bowl with chopped greens and sauce in it. Small bowl of chili flakes on the side.

Simple Vegetarian Collard Greens

Brown bowl full of bone in chicken legs and thighs in a red stewed tomato sauce with rice on the side in a tan bowl.

Stewed Chicken and Tomatoes with Rice

White shallow bowl filled with a red green sauce with pork and green chiles. Spoon hangiing out the bowl and tortilla and napkin on the side.

My mamma's Pork Green Chili

2 small wood bowls filled with brown miso soup with green onions and sliced mushrooms floating. 2 traditional Japanese spoons. Top view.

Easy Miso Soup

Top down view of cooked boneless skinless seared chicken thighs in a yellow cream mustard sauce in a dark pan.

Pan Fried Chicken Thighs with Dijon Cream Sauce

Slice of meat lasagna on a white plate with another slice in the background. Close up.

Beef and Italian Sausage Lasagna

Side view of wood bowl of chicken soup with egg noodles, carrots, and peas.

Easy Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup with Egg Noodles

Beef Bolognese on a white plate with a plate . Close up. Parmesan Cheese garnish on plate in background.

Traditional Beef Bolognese

Top down view of white plate with rice and red curry garnished with sliced green onions and green herbs. Silverware on the side. Close up.

Roasted Mashed Eggplant Tomato Curry with Rice

Beef and bean chili in a large brown bowl with a small wood bowl of chili with grated chatter and a spoonful of sour cream.

Easy Beef and Bean Chili

Browned sausage meatballs in a tomato sauce with olives and capers. Close up.

Sausage Meatballs with Puttanesca Sauce

Top view of bowl of beef stew with green olives, carrots, green chilis, garlic, and tomatoes. Salt shaker, spoon, and bottletop drink on the side.

Vaquero Beef Stew - Cowboy Stew

Yellow Spanish Rice With Peas and Carrots In a Brown Bowl With a spoon On a Dark Wood Table.

Easy Homemade Yellow Spanish Rice

Top down view of pasta on a white plate. Pasta is filled with ingredients and has lemon zest and parsley on the top.

Mushroom Zucchini Pistachio Pasta with Parmesan

Lamb & Barley Stew in Wooden Bowl with spoon sticking out. Top view.

Lamb And Pearl Barley Stew

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