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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
One plate of browned strips of beef with cooked cabbage and a baked potato with sour cream. Bottle of red wine, 2 full glasses and a bottle of sriracha hot sauce.

Sriracha Skirt Steak And Cabbage Stir Fry

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

Italian Pork Sausage Meatballs

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

Top down view of two plates of ragout: cooked sausage, sliced seared zucchini, chopped kale, white beans, and tomato. Side of hot chili flakes on the side.

Sausage And Bean Ragout with Kale (AKA Ragu)

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

Verticle Bowl of Corn Chowder w/ Sweet Potatoes, Bacon, Cilantro, and Avocado Garnish. Close up.

Sweet Potato and Corn Chowder

Stainless steel deep skillet filled with white beans and diced tomatoes with a lightly pulsed pesto of kale and almonds.

Cannellini Beans with Kale Pesto

Shrimp and Chorizo Stew w Potatoes and Corn Recipe in A White Bowl - Eat Simple Food

Shrimp and Chorizo Stew with Kale

White bowl of shrimp in red tomato sauce over white rice and garnished with peppers and chopped celery leaves.

Easy Shrimp Creole with Rice

Shrimp Salad w/ Horseradish, Chives, Lemon In A White Bowl.

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

White bowl of orange soup with green garnish with blue napkin and silverware on the side. Top View

Carrot Soup with Coconut Milk

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

Roasted Whole Baby Potatoes With Rosemary in Shallow White Serving Bowl

Easy Roasted Whole Baby Potatoes with Rosemary

2 spring rolls cut in half (4 halves) filled with avocado, grated carrots and red cabbage, rice noodles, green lettuce on a wood cutting board.

Healthy Vegetable Spring Rolls

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 Chile

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

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.

Easy Chicken with Creamy Tomato Sauce & Pasta

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

Indonesian Jamu "Juice" Drink

Top view. Chunks of shredded chicken, with whole cashews, raisins, and celery in a yellow curry mayonnaise dressing. White bowl.

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

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

Easy Homemade Hummus

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

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

2 Plates with one taco each. Flour tortilla filled with sliced cooked steak, tomato salsa, red cabbage, tomatoes, and cilantro. sliced radishes on the side. Glass of water, fork, knife and napkin. Top view.

Easy Skirt Steak Tacos

2 Ground beef tacos in flour tortillas filled with tomatoes, guacamole, goat cheese, sliced radishes, peppers and cilantro. Bowl of salsa in background.

Easy Ground Beef Tacos with Fixens

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

Brown Roasted Crispy bacon on an elevated wire rack over an aluminum lined sheet pan.

Easy Mess Free Oven Bacon

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

Sliced Pepperoncini, caper, mozzarella cheese, browned pizza topped with fresh sliced basil.

Homemade Pepperoncini & Caper Pizza

¾ of a plate filled with browned gnocchi, sautéed kale, and ground sausage. On a white plate with a white napkin with small colorful flowers. Top view.

Pan Fried Gnocchi with Sausage and Kale

Stacked & Fried Eggrolls On a Tan Plate with a white blow of guacamole. side view.

Crispy Southwest Vegetarian Egg Rolls

Bowl of Fresh Littleneck Clams on ice in a stainless steel bowl. clos up.

Linguine with Fresh Clam Sauce

Brown Fried rice with scrambled eggs, toasted almonds, soy sauce, and fresh microgreen salad on top. White plate.

Vegetarian And Egg Leftover Fried Rice

Chicken, Oranges, and Toasted Almonds with Brown sauce over a bed of couscous on a white shallow bowl. Garnished with chopped cilantro.

Slow Cooked Citrus Chicken

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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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