Comfort Foods
Creamy soups, casseroles, pies, and slow-cooked dishes give this comfort-food collection its familiar character. The recipes bring together substantial textures and preparations associated with home cooking, while allowing room for newer interpretations of those flavors. Find a dish that suits the kind of comforting meal you want to put on the table.
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Instant Pot Baked Potatoes
Learn how to make Instant Pot Baked Potatoes recipe easy and fast in a pressure cooker with fluffy, tender insides, and crispy, seasoned skins. Ingredients 6 medium Russet…
Cranberry Millionaire Salad
Cranberry Millionaire Salad! If you love Ambrosia salad, you’re going to go crazy for this dish! Perfect served along side turkey dinner! Ingredients 1 8-ounce tub cool whip,…
Holiday Cranberry Salad
Ingredients 1 10-ounce package fresh cranberries 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 small package cranberry jello 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice…
Texas Chili
Ingredients 12 ancho chiles, stems and seeds removed 7 pasilla chiles, stems and seeds removed 2 1/2 tablespoons cumin seeds, toasted, then ground 1 tablespoon whole coriander seeds,…
Instant Pot Polenta Cacio e Pepe
Ingredients 1 cup polenta (not quick-cooking) 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more Freshly ground black pepper 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 4 ounces Pecorino and/or Parmesan, finely grated, plus…
Texas State Fair Chili
The following recipe, which appeared in Texas Co-op Power’s 60 Years of Home Cooking, won Gay Dixson (then a member of Pedernales EC) the Texas State Fair El…
Amish Onion Patties
While everyone has heard of onion rings before, my favorite friend onion was always the patty. Onion patties as a side for meatloaf…yum. Throw one on a thick…
Creamed Spinach
Creamed Spinach is about as classic as it gets for a steakhouse side. It’s simple, yet indulgent. Special, yet cozy and down to earth. Something you want to…
Garlic Thyme Fondant Potatoes
Garlic Thyme Fondant Potatoes – a homey yet elegant side dish that proves delicious taste never goes out of fashion. Perfect for dinner parties or Sunday dinner. Ingredients…
Creamed Spinach and Feta
Ingredients 2 Tablespoons butter 1 onion, finely chopped 4 garlic cloves, minced and divided 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided 5 sun-dried tomatoes,…