Whats your go-to severe ice storm or severe snowstorm cozy food?

Hot apple pie with creamy vanilla ice cream on top….
And plenty of it!

Mac-n-cheese, soups of all kinds, home made and canned, chicken pot pies ( home made and store bought ), my yummy home made chili or spaghetti and, one of my favorites, a big baked potato with the works.

Mexican—always! Nothing like enchiladas on a cold day.

Polish Hunter’s Stew or Bigos which is something like this.

Also do Chili, chicken and clam. Another chili I use black soybeans instead of beans. Crock-pots are your friend.

Hot chocolate and Keebler’s chocolate chip cookies.

Since the power tends to go out during ice storms and we don’t have a fireplace, our comfort food has to be something we can make using water we’ve heated up in a fondue pot. So it’s either instant chicken noodle soup or hot chocolate. I keep meaning to pick up another fondue pot so we could actually use it for fondue during an ice storm.

When really cold and hungry, I like cream of wheat with milk, or oatmeal with milk.

I make chicken soup.

I don’t make many things. The other thing I make (and make well, to my liking), is baked chicken with a little barbecue sauce on it. I add some spices to the barbecue sauce. I like it with rice and peas or string beans.

One of these days I want to make a beef stew. My mom and my grandmother made the best beef stew, and I didn’t appreciate it but now I want to learn how to make it.

Soup. Split pea sounds good to me right now. Soup and some really good bread.

Hot chocolate at some time during the day.

Wow! There are great comfort foods above. I’m trading my enchiladas for some of them, you bet.

Thick, creamy country gravy; over toast, or biscuits.
I also like to bake when a storm hits. It gets the house all cozy with smells and warmth.

My favorite snack used to be hot chocolate and chocolate chip cookies. When you’re snowed in, making both by scratch is a nice way to pass the time in a warm kitchen with a lover. I miss that part of snow days.

A lot of bisques and hearty stews made from scratch.

Homemade bread; warm right out of the oven with real butter. It’s an art, not rocket science.

The two places to be in that kind of weather is in bed with a lover or a good book and in a warm kitchen with a lover and a good cook book.

Protein, carbs and another warm body will keep you warm and happy.

Soup and hot chocolate.

@jca Their secret for beef stew was probably slow and long. Slow cook it for a long, long, long time! I use a crock pot. It’ll cook for 8 hours, easy. Cook for another 8 the next day.

Lots of folks on FB are talking about chili.

Bake brownies and cookies; eat chili or soup or grilled cheese.

@janbb I love brownies. That sounds so good right now. My husband bought me one of those special brownie pans.

Did someone mention special brownies? haha

@Coloma Stop it. Special brownie pan. Lol.

@JLeslie LOL

I’m starving now.

Thick, juicy bacon cheeseburger, with three kinds of cheese.
Hash browns on the side instead of fries.
Green m&ms.

That sounds so good. Makes the oatmeal with crunch pb and wild blueberry preserves I just had seem so wimpy.

I saw once when Alton Brown had his show, he put oatmeal in the slow cooker on “low” with nuts and dried fruit (apricots, raisins, whatever floats your boat). He put some kind of liquid, I’m not sure if it was milk or water or whatever. You could also put nuts, anything. Wake up and you have a nice hearty breakfast.

When I was a kid, my dad made oatmeal on the stove overnight – every night. The slow cooker suggestion is good – I may try it with the mini slow cooker that came packaged with the big one. I’ve got some steel cut oats that need to be cooked up – as well as some spare craisins and apples. <off to find a recipe>

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/overnight-oatmeal-recipe.html

Made the oatmeal in the mini cooker. Steel cut oats/water/nutmeg. None of it measured. Pretty tasty with some brown sugar this morning. Will try it with apples etc in the next round. The texture of the steel cut oats is excellent.

I did it once in the slow cooker but not overnight. I’m a little paranoid about fires and stuff, so I was afraid to leave it on overnight while I was sleeping. I put it on in the morning on high, with the cut up dried fruits and added walnuts. It was really good!

It was good enough that Setanta asked for a round of it – turns out it takes about 3 hours in the mini-slow cooker. He had his with salt and butter. Different strokes eh.

I boiled a brick.
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