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9 comfort food recipes to make on a Sunday afternoon

By Amanda M. Rye 4 weeks ago

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When you wake up on a Sunday — you know, one of those when you have absolutely no plans — it’s like taking a breath of fresh air. Your schedule is totally up to you, and if you want to spend the day sleeping in, watching movies or reading a book, you can do it. But when it comes to food, while it might seem tempting, skip takeout and use your free time to make something extra delicious — you won’t regret it.

These comfort food recipes are worth every minute you spend standing at the stove or waiting by the oven. Actually, some don’t take that long

Food & Cooking

24 Comfort Food Recipes You Can Make in Your Cast-Iron Skillet

By Amanda M. Rye 1 month ago

24 Comfort Food Recipes You Can Make in Your Cast-Iron Skillet

Cast-Iron Skillet Pizza with Red Peppers, Chicken & Spinach

Grab your cast-iron skillet and make one of these warming and delicious recipes. From breakfast to dinner to dessert, these comforting dishes are perfect when you want something familiar. Recipes like Cast-Iron Skillet Pizza with Red Peppers, Chicken & Spinach and Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie are comfort food at its best.

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Skillet Ravioli Lasagna

This easy inside-out ravioli lasagna is the ultimate weeknight comfort food–no layering or mixing bowls required. Feel free to swap in ground turkey for the beef. Look for fresh mozzarella balls (also called “pearls”) in the specialty cheese section of your grocery store.

Food & Cooking

Dining Downstairs at Downton Abbey: 3 British Comfort Food Recipes

By Amanda M. Rye 1 month ago

Cynthia Ross Cravit | March 6th, 2021

All food photos courtesy of Weldon Owen/John Kernick

As fans of the hit series Downton Abbey know, food is often the centrepiece of life at the country estate. While elegance, not to mention a double dose of delicious drama, is served up in Downton’s grand dining room, there’s nothing like a trip downstairs to visit the steadfast cook Mrs. Patmore’s bustling kitchen when comfort food is required.

Tuck in on a snowy, wintry evening with these classic recipes from esteemed British food historian Annie Gray’s The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook. The book, which has been dubbed the Downton food “bible,” includes more than 100 recipes that reflect the influences on tables during the Downton era between 1912 and 1926.

Book cover for the Downton Abbey Cookbook

1. Beef Stew with Dumplings – Serves 8

Beef stew is a true servants’ dish: cooked low and slow, hard

Food Traditional

How Comfort Food Can Sharpen Your Mind and Support Weight Loss

By Amanda M. Rye 2 months ago

Good Spanish food doesn’t get much better than paella,” tweeted Jamie Oliver in 2016, before casually mentioning that his recipe for it included chorizo. The response from Spain was immediate – and brutal. Some compared the unconventional addition of the spiced meat to the desecration of the Ecce Homo Jesus fresco in Zaragoza; others went as far as suggesting that they’d kill him. “I had death threats,” Oliver said on The Graham Norton Show, “because of a bit of sausage.”

a pan of food on a wooden table: There's more to your bangers and mash than you think

© Tatiana Volgutova
There’s more to your bangers and mash than you think

It was yet another manifestation of Oliver’s apparent war on the world’s traditional rice recipes, whose front lines have extended from a flagrantly inauthentic egg-fried rice to a parsley- and-coriander-loaded joll of rice that seemed closer in spirit to West Acton than to West Africa. But the anger of the purists is, perhaps, misplaced. These dishes are

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