What is your favorite cold-weather meal?  

in where i am there are no season like fall and winter. though i experience winter and fall already while working abroad. stew and soups are the best for cold season. and of course coffee. it is funny to see children who still eat icecream on a winter season but i find to realize that we also still drink hot coffee on a hot day.

stew is also my favorite, i love corn beef stew and mince beef stew, i love the smell wafting through the house on an afternoon as it is cooking ready for tea that night.

I love soups and stews, they are absolutely delicious, I could eat them anytime of the year. With my thyroid condition, I also feel cold all the time so I need warm foods to make me feel warm.

When I was younger living at home, my mom - a single mother with little money, used to make what she called goulosh. Really it was just fried hamburger, diced potatoes and whatever vegetables we had on hand. She would make a thick gravey. It didn't taste like stew as stew so often has a tomato background to it.

My mom was the best tortilla maker in the world. She learned from a Mexican lady we lived next door to when I was a baby. She would make tortillas to go with the goulosh. It was the best cold weather meal.

My mom is gone now and I am always sorry that I didn't have more interest in learning how to make flour tortillas the way she did. You know, when you are younger you just don't have a lot of interest in things like that. Her tortillas were always thick and slightly chewy. I can almost taste them right now.

I love beef stew and chili but I also luck heavier meals like beef stroganoff and chicken paprika. I agree that I use my crockpot alot more and I begin to use my oven again. I rarely use it in the summer to avoid heating up the house. I tend to make more roast and roast chicken and turkey. My favorite lunch during the winter months is soup. In the summer I eat salads alot for lunch but it is definately soup in the winter. I also start drinking hot chocolate. It is a great night time snack curled up on the couch as the snow flies.

My favorite cold weather meal is a hot bowl of chili or homemade chicken noddle soup. Its getting close to that time where the weather is going to get colder and a hot bowl of soup would be great.

Hello my friend newtondak Ji,
We north Indians prefer to make and eat Carrot-sweet-dish ( Gazar Ka Halwa) as below :- http://edit.journals.aol....

Gajar ka Halwa


Gajar Ka Halwa (carrot sweet dish )
Tips : carrots should be selected of medium size neither too hard nor tender

Ingredients :

Carrots - 2and half kilogram

Milk - same as carrot weight

Sugar- half of carrots weight (adjust as per your test )

Cream- 1 cup

Ghee 2spoon

Ilaichi 4 Nos

Dry Fruits almonds , kaju , pista , khopra sliced

Decoration chandi ka wark (should be genuine other wise do not use it

Wash carrots thoroughly peel and grate by grater

Take a iron karahi of thick base put ghee/oil heat and put two nos ilaichi add

Grated carrots , milk , and let it be cooked on full flame till milk is fifty perecent absorbed rest should be cooked on moderate heat till it is dry add sugar and again cook on low flame until sugar is totally melted and remaining water is also absorbed.

While cooking on full flame all ingredients to be stirred frequently to avoid burning

Add fried dry fruits , ilaich powder , fresh cream before serving , serve hot .

( to save time carrots may be cooked in pressure cooker with milk and water can be dried on full flame burner)
We are pure Vegetarians. have a nice time.

Beef Stew, chili, lasagne, beef and noodles, potato bacon casserole are all good cold weather dishes. Chicken Noodle soup is a really good cold weather meal that is fast just heat it up in the microwave. My kids love spaghetti and garlic bread any time of year.

with cooler temperatures, i undoubtly prefer eating hot dishes... in particular lasagne!! i love pasta cooked into the oven, with a lot of tomato sauce and mozzarella... i would like to learn how to cook this dish, because i don't like industrial lasagne!!

oh, my favorite time of the year, too.

i love pot roast, meatloaf and mashed potatoes, soup,
chili with crusty bread.

now i'm getting all hungry and it's mid 80's !
LOL