65 Comfort Food Recipes to Indulge In All Year Long (2024)
Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to wait until the middle of winter to cook up your favorite comfort food classics! Here, we've rounded up the absolute best comfort food recipes around so that you can satisfy your most tantalizing cravings all year long. Whether it's winter, spring, summer, or fall, giving into your guiltiest pleasures is always fun. Here we come, mashed potatoes!
First things first, though, you'll want to identify what it is exactly that you're craving. Are you looking for something hearty to fill you (and your whole family) up? Check out our queso mac and cheese recipe, which features tomatoes, slightly spicy green chiles, and crunchy corn chip pieces. Alternatively, opt for something vegetable-focused and healthy—yes, healthy!—like a lightened-up Instant Pot soup recipe or a mini carrot pot pie. Not only will you delight your vegetarian guests, but you'll be surprised to find that these dishes are also delicious and indulgent enough for meat lovers to devour too.
Of course, you haven't truly experienced Southern comfort food until you've had a taste of one of the desserts on our list. From a double-crust apple pie featuring the surprising addition of cheddar cheese to an upgraded pecan slab pie, there's something here to appeal to everyone in your family. Now, all you have to worry about is making enough for leftovers!
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Corn Salad with Bacon and Honey
This salad is part sweet, part savory, and all-around delicious. You simply can't go wrong with bacon and honey!
Whether you're hosting Thanksgiving dinner or just need a crowd-pleasing side dish, this homemade cornbread is your new secret weapon. A fuss-free cast-iron skillet preparation makes it easy to serve.
Pecan pie is such a popular dessert—why not make an entire cookie sheet of it? There'll be more than enough to go around with this larger-than-life recipe.
On cool fall days and frigid winter nights alike, a bowl of pumpkin soup is always a good idea. Warm all your guests up with this easy appetizer—then enjoy the leftovers all week long.
A stuffing recipe that comes together in less than an hour? Count us in. Flavorful ingredients like fresh thyme and flat-leaf parsley add to the appeal.
No other dish describes comfort quite as well as chicken pot pie. Made with tender chicken, mixed veggies, satisfying spices, and a delicious pie crust, this is the perfect easy weeknight dinner.
As of Q3 2022, hamburgers, mashed potatoes, and cheeseburgers were the most popular American dishes in the United States. About 84 percent of respondents had a positive opinion of each of the three dishes.
Nearly 15 percent of the 2,252 adults surveyed by Harris listed pizza as their top comfort food, more than twice as many as said chocolate (7 percent) or ice cream (7 percent) and more still than said mac and cheese (5 percent), chips (4 percent), hamburgers (3 percent), steak (3 percent), or either popcorn, pasta or ...
Examples of comfort foods include items like macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, chili, pizza, and ice cream. “In early human development, life-threatening stressors were frequent, and food was scarce,” explained Dorsey. “The uptake in energy storage while under stress may have had adaptive features at this time.
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