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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
Pureed Black Bean Soup In a Brown Bowl (Side Angle) with A spoon with an orange container of lime wedges.

Easy Blended Black Bean Soup

Chicken Stew with Potatoes & Sliced Green Olives In A Red Enameled Cast Iron Pot

Fricase de Pollo - Cuban Style Chicken Stew

Top view of white plate/bowl of white rice covered in a yellow curry sauce with cubed tofu, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, and peas. Fork and spoon on napkin on side.

Tofu Vegetable Coconut Curry with Rice

4 roasted cabbage wedges seared brown sitting in brown broth on a white plate with wood bowls in the background. Top down view, close up.

Seared and Braised Cabbage Wedges

Top down view of a large white bowl of bean soup in broth with bay leaves on top. Close up.

Simple Vegetarian Black Eyed Peas and Rice

Red purple sliced cooked cabbage in a stainless steel pan on a wood table. Close up.

Simple Sautéed Red Cabbage

Sauteed Shrimp In A Red/Brown Butter & Worcestershire Sauce In A White Bowl with a Spoon.

Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire Sauce

Top view (close up) of 3 potato latkes on white plate with sour cream and chopped parsley and a small fork. Baking sheet with 3 latkes in the background.

Crispy Homemade Potato Latkes

Oval baking dish of carmelized Roasted cubed butternut squash. Wood serving spoon in back. Side view.

Easy Roasted Butternut Squash Chunks

Multiple deviled eggs laying on a bed of spinach on a brown rectangle plate with a chive and paprika garnish.

Easy and Simple Deviled Eggs

Sausage & Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms in Yellow & White Baking Pan with a parsley garnish.

Sausage and Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms

Scalloped Potatoes Cooked Golden Brown in Cast Iron Skillet with Thyme garnish.

Cast Iron Skillet Scalloped Potatoes

Side View of a brie wheel laying on a puff pastry and topped with brown sugar and nuts.

Baked Brie en Croute with Nuts

Mashed Carrots and Sliced Leeks in a cast iron pan with a wood spoon on a brown counter. side view

Mashed Carrots and Butter Leeks

Chicken & Sausage Gumbo in a white shallow bowl with sliced okra.

Creole Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

1 oven browned Quiche on white towels in a vertical shot. side view

Easy Quiche Lorraine (Bacon and Swiss)

Sausage & Cornbread Stuffing Recipe in Blue baking dish

Italian Sausage Cornbread Stuffing

Whole golden brown chicken pot pie with one slice missing. Pie slice on white plate in background.

Easy Chicken Pot Pie (Chicken Thighs)

Top view of cooked Broccoli and Swiss Cheese Quiche with a browned crust.

Easy Broccoli and Swiss Cheese Quiche

White Shallow Bowl Filled with Tomato Based Red Stew with carrots, shrimp, and clams.

Classic Cioppino (Fish Stew)

White bowl of tomato based soup with sausage, carrots,arugula, white beans, and garnished with thin slices of Parmesan cheese. Spoon and baguette on the side.

Minestrone Soup with Sausage and Cannellini Beans

White shallow bowl filled with cooked browned beef, chunks of carrots and potatoes in a beef broth with thyme sprigs on top. Spoon and glass of white wine on side.

Easy Crockpot Beef and Vegetable Stew

Creamy Orange sweet potato soup in a wood bowl with a spoon on the side and an orange napkin.

Roasted Sweet Potato Soup

White plate of meatballs with red sauce and spaghetti with grated parmesan cheese and a fork.

Bison Meatball Spaghetti

Spaghetti in a white bowl with a cracked sunny side up egg and basil leaves.

Spaghetti, Fried Egg, Basil, Cheese....

A piece of toast on a wood cutting board topped with pimento cheese, arugula, and sliced small tomatoes. 3 tomatoes in backdrop.

Pimento Cheese & Arugula Tartine

Top down view of open clams and sausage in sauce in a green bowl with a baguette on the side.

Clams and Chorizo in White Wine Sauce

White plate with spaghetti topped with chili and grated cheddar cheese with a parsley garnish

Easy Cincinnati Chili with Spaghetti

Baked Meatballs elevated on a wire rack above an aluminum lined baking sheet.

Buffalo Meatballs with Dill Sauce

Side view of white bowl of orange yellow butternut squash soup with a spoon on the side and toasted coconut flakes and mint on the side. Stainless steel pot of soup in background with a ladle.

Coconut Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Small glass Of fresh jamu juice in front of a blender with a lime on the side

Indonesian Jamu "Juice" Drink

Close up of fresh diced tomatoes, jalapenos, red onions, cilantro in a bowl.

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

Bacon Arugula Tomato Stacked Sandwich on white plate. side view.

Bacon Arugula Tomato Sandwich

sdie View of a Pork Chop on a White plate smothered with chunky mushroom gravy. Fork and knife on the side of plate.

Smothered Pork Chops and Mushroom Gravy

Top view. Stainless steel pan filled with thin noodles in a light soy sauce with garlic, chopped peanuts, and sliced green onions.

Soy Sauce Peanut Noodles

3 shelfs of colorful grains in quart size mason jars on stacked wood shelves

20 Easy To Make Pantry Recipes

Top View Of Toast with Mashed Avocado, Scrambled Egg, and Hot Sauce On a Cutting Board with tomato Slices

Scrambled Egg and Avocado Tartine (Toast)

Sliced Salami, Brie Cheese, Baguette Loaf and bowl of olives,

Salami, Bread, Cheese - Dinner is Done!

Close Up of Beef Short Ribs in a brown sauce with diced carrots, bones sticking out. side view.

Braised Red Wine Short Ribs

White shallow bowl filled with white rice and topped with potato, eggplant, green bean tan curry with a sliced green onion garnish.

Mixed Vegetable Curry and Rice

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