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those all sound like wonderful meals during winter!
Your meals all sound delicious! And now I'm starving to death!.
It's not that bad at all outside. No snow....yet. Some days we're really below normal temps; other days, we're higher, so I guess it all evens out. No complaints here.
I'm another oven-user during the fall and winter. After I pull the meal out and turn the oven off, I keep the door open to let the heat dissipate into the kitchen.
My favorite meals for colder months:
We tend to eat more baked goods during the fall and winter, too, and I'm not quite sure why. I always have homemade breads and rolls in the freezer, but we have the fruit pies that I made during the summer and put in the freezer, and we'll always have some cookies or cupcakes. Maybe because of the holidays? I don't know. But Rick has always been a big fan of desserts and, while we don't have them that often in the summer (other than cookies), we do enjoy them in the winter.
- Pretty much any kind of soup or stew: potato chowder is so warming, beef stew, chicken corn soup, etc. Always served with Vermont Corn Bread (made with maple syrup) or some kind of biscuits or muffins for dunking into the soup.
- Baked ziti or rigatoni, again with some hot homemade yeast rolls or slices of bread to clean the plates. A simple goulash works, too. Baked spaghetti.
- There's something about a roast chicken or Cornish hens for dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy. Or with wild rice and butternut squash.
- Cornish pasties filled with beef, onions, carrots, potatoes, and mushrooms and served with a red wine sauce. Yum. Just yum. One of my pastries fills a dinner plate. Rick loves them.
- Pot roast. I just love pot roast. If I'm working, I'll do one either in the crock pot and let it go all day, or in the pressure cooker when I come home.
- Chili, whether it's made with meat or vegetarian. I love both and keep containers in the freezer.
- Chicken fricassee with dumplings and peas (It's an old Bisquick recipe and has stood the test of time in our house)
- When I do need the taste of bbq, I throw a small pork loin in the crock pot and make pulled pork sandwiches
- Pot pie - I like beef or chicken pot pie, but Rick prefers beef and (we are fans of chuck roast for beef pot pie). The meat simmers for hours on the stove, then I roll out the dough and cut it into squares to drop into the simmering pot. There is nothing better than a good pot pie. But we also like a deep-dish chicken pie (and I saved some of our Thanksgiving turkey in the freezer just for a good turkey pie.)
i think i read somewhere that people generally eat more during the winter months than during the warm weather months (at least in areas where you get cold winters), because our bodies burn more energy to keep us warm. i know i eat more hearty or heavier (like with pasta, rice, potatoes) meals during the winter months. maybe that's one reason why people will eat more baked goods during the fall and winter...?