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As winter draws in upon us... what are some of your more comforting food choices for the winter months?

Im happy to sit with a bowl of Hot Irish Stew:

Amounts of each depending on how much you make... this is for a 10L stew pot.

6 neck fillets of Lamb diced
1Kg of filleted Lamb steaks or chops with the fat left on... diced
1KG Parsnips peeled and coarsley sliced
2KG Carrots peeled and coarsley sliced
4KG Peeled and coarsley chopped potatoes.
a punch of sea salt
about 2 litres of water to cover the lot all in the pan... all from cold.

Stick it on the hob at a medium to low heat and allow to cook for 5-6 hours stirring regularly.

Now comes the good bit... you can take the first helping on the first night... but each day/night after then you can simply heat up the pot and each night it gets thicker and IMHO tastes better each night.

Now share your favourite winter warmers

Gotta be teh famous pee wack soup for meh xD

My favourite winter warmer

Coming from Wales it's great at keeping the cold / colds at bay. Funnily enough it's quite similar to Irish Stew, but then that's the Celtic heritage for you

The regional stew for Stoke-on-Trent, England (where I live) is known as "Lobby". It's a real Winter warmer:-

1LB Stewing Steak, diced
1 Large Onion, chopped
2-3 Potatoes, cubed
1 Small Turnip or Swede, cubed
3-4 Carrots, sliced
1-2 Parsnips, sliced
1-2 Sticks of Celery, sliced
Salt & Pepper
2 Beef Oxo Cubes

Put meat and onion in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to the boil, then simmer gently, stirring regularly for 30-40 minutes.
Add the rest of the vegetables and top up with hot water from a kettle just covering the vegetables. Add the Oxo cubes and salt and pepper to taste. Continue to simmer for about another hour until everything is softly cooked stirring regularly so as not to stick to bottom of pan.
You can eat it just as it is, or with crusty bread, with or without Butter.

However, if you want a REAL Winter warmer, this mulled wine recipe hits the spot everytime. It takes a day to prepare, as the spices need to infuse into the wine, but it's worth it.

Empty one or two bottles of red wine into mixing bowl.
Get an Orange then stick Cloves into it and place in the wine.
Add 2 Cinnamon sticks and some grated Nutmeg (about a teaspoon).
Add a few Juniper Berries (optional, as they impart a slight bitterness, which some may not prefer)
Allow to infuse for 24 hours.
Strain the wine through a sieve into a large saucepan.
Add about half a bottle of Vodka.
Heat gently on the stove until hot, but not so hot as to cook off the alcohol.
Serve into goblets, using a ladle. You can also try igniting the wine as you serve it, for effect.

Tomato Soup

or

Irish Coffee (microwaved version ala Tesco)

A hot finnish woman is better then all the above!

Quinlan wrote:A hot finnish woman is better then all the above!

/Agree

...I hope you mean one within resonable age...since everyone in finland use the sauna you might end up with an 80 year old "hot" finnish woman.

/Ankh

he he

The limit is from 23 to 29

well from experience I would have to say that hot Finnish women are pretty high on the list alright... just 2 nights in Helsinki taught me that... and thursday nights were alledgedly ladies night, when the girls ask the guys to dance...