Keeping out the cold

Last night it was liver and bacon casserole with jacket potatoes. Today, homemade spicy vegetable soup for lunch, with wholemeal bread. Then this evening it was chicken tikka biryani - ready meal, I'm afraid, we've had a busy day! I have spent the afternoon baking fruit cake - my response to cold weather is always to eat more carbs, unfortunately, so I'm really hoping the temperature rises soon, or I shall undo all the good work I've done so far this year

I made leek and potato soup yesterday for lunch. Chicken and prawn stir fry tonight - my husband's favourite meal. Suddenly fancied making oat biscuits this afternoon but, to be honest, I thought they were a bit so so. More sugar next time, I think.

I’m sure I read somewhere that when you are almost, nearly snowed in and it’s very cold and windy outdoors, calories in your food are reduced by about, oooh..... 95%.
And if it’s fruit or vegetable based ie. rice pudding and stews then there aren’t really any calories to speak of at all

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I cooked a chicken curry last night and I will heat up the remains tonight- yummy.

Home made soup every day this week, and a lovely fruity crumble with porridge oats topping. And lashings of custard.

Leek and potato home made soup at lunchtime.
Chicken casserole with dumplings tonight.

I don't often wish I was still doing the cooking but reading the above and looking out the window I could wish to do it now. I couldn't believe it when DH gave me salad on Tuesday! Snow has started heavily again and no comfort food in sight. Did have porridge for breakfast though.

I've had a bowl of homemade soup every day this year,far exceeding my daily vitamin C quota.
I'm convinced that's why I,m still standing whilst EVERYONE I see on a daily basis have been dropping like flies with all these flu bugs etc.
In fact I've never felt better..... (touching wood!)

It has been home-made soup all the way for me as I am watching the calories. Unfortunately I keep craving rice pudding. If I make Mary Berry's family size version I could eat it all in a day. Resisting so far!

DH has made some leek and potato soup. Yum. Last night as we were in a bit of a rush we had baked potatoes, bacon and beans. Lovely.

I'm just about to start another pan of soup. DH requested more of the same lentil soup. This time, I'm adding tomatoes and smoked paprika, for a more barbecue type flavour.

Dumplings just hit the spot in this weather, lovely.
We have friends coming over tonight so it's scallops with haggis and pea puree, duck breasts, raspberry pain perdu.
Light diet over the weekend then ☺

Grannyknot, thank you for that. I shall tell DH tonight when we eat the leftovers

I did roast chicken last night so will probably be making a curry with the leftovers for today.

We have DH’s signature bean and bacon soup today with crusty bread. It’s very filling and tasty. morethan home made soup is always worth the effort ?. There are fish pies in the freezer and cauliflower cheese to fall back on. Over the weekend there will be home made chicken curry.

I had a vegetarian chilli last night with remainder for my lunch at work today bulked our by some home made garlic bread.
I too go for spicy food in cold weather❄️ though also, now I think about it, all year?
yesterday I made one of my favourite quick supper dishes of pasta tossed in garlic infused olive oil,with sautéed courgettes, onions and mushrooms (also sautéed in olive oil) and with garlic pepper added liberally, while cooking and then all added to the pan of pasta with the addition of some chive flavoured cheese, melted in for a bit and then serve! It’s so tasty?

I’ve been making lots of soup for my husband to take to work in a flask. I do wonder if it’s worth the effort when you can open a carton or tin.

I lean towards spicy food when it's cold - gets the circulation going. So we had "Mexican Mince" with paprika, cumin and chilli, with black beans in. I also overcooked the rice a bit Flo so I just call it "Sticky Rice".

It’s fish, chips and peas today with a touch of tartare sauce. Not a lettuce leaf in sight.

You can't beat stew and dumplings in this weather. We make it to use up any past it's best veg so it's money saving too!

We've just had a spicy jambalaya. I overcooked it rather, the rice a bit stodgy, but it went down well. This morning I made a quick and easy fruit cake, that also went down a treat.

OOOhhh Dumplings.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, improves a soup, stew or casserole in weather like we are experiencing than a good 'Rib Sticking' dumpling. One of the best comfort foods ever.
A warm hug in a bowl.

I have 2 dgc with me today and have made stew with dumplings and crusty bread. They've never had dumplings before and just loved them.

We had home made lentil soup followed by burgers and chips. At the moment DGS 2 and I are waiting for the bread machine to finish the dough and then we are going to make coconut milk sugar buns. They taste as good as they sound.

We’ve just had home made chicken soup, I threw some dumplings in it and put some pieces of crispy bacon on the top and it was lush, told DH that tomorrow we would go for a walk in the snow and come home and finish up the soup, he said he would prefer just to do the latter part of that sentence.
Oh and a glass of wine has just appeared....