What Are Your Favorite Cool Weather Recipes?

[dreamvision]

While it hasn't quite started getting cool here yet I still love to make Chilis, stews and soups. Yesterday I made a big batch of Chili Mac, nice and spicy! I can't wait for the cooler weather.

[cookie]

Chili mac that sounds really good love it!! Cookie

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Yeah- I'm like Cookie, Barbi... chili-mac RULES!

[jfain]

I seem to do a lot more Italian cooking in the fall. All of a sudden bolognese, lasagna, risotto, polenta & oso buco just seem right. It's funny I've noticed over the years I tend to go through different ethnic foods with the seasons. Fall and winter are for Italian and French. Lots of carbs, roasts and long braises. After the new year I usually go on a serious Thai and Chinese kick. Lots of stir fried veggies and fish. Then I go into spring which first comes as Indian then Mexican after that I do a lot of Greek and other Mediterranean foods.

[cookie]

I have never made risotto. I was watching 'Dancing with the Stars" and a dancer on the show was a cook & he made his dance partner some risotto, it looked so good! He made it look so easy, but I was thinking it was a hard dish to make.

It sounds like your a seasonal cook, that's good! Cookie

[jfain]

I don't know. everyone says they think it's hard honestly I never had any problem with it. Like most things that have few ingredients it's just about following the right technique. But then I'm a little strange I guess. The first dish I ever made was fillet of sole with dill burre blanc sauce. It turned out so well I used to make it once a week after that. It wasn't until many years later I learned that was supposed to be a hard thing to make.

[cookie]

Some of the easiest things are the hardest sometimes. It's when you make it Look easy You must be good or doing something right! Cookie

[Figgnbama]

Cool weather I think chili or stew. I devoted several winters tring to find the best chili recipe I could make. I make 2 or 3 gallons at the time.