~My Three Favorite Comfort Foods For Winter ~

I love cooking, but rarely get the chance to. Winter is one of the few seasons that I actually get the chance to take the time to prepare food properly. My top three favorite comfort foods are ones that I always make every winter and I love sharing with my family.

Broccoli and Cheese Soup- I love this soup. My mom and I, when I was younger, loved to try out different recipes and see what we liked best. We found this recipe at AllRecipes.com. It wasn’t hard to follow the directions and all of the ingredients were easy to find in the local grocery store. We were surprised that it was quick and easy to make, it only took us about forty-five minutes to make it the first time, and now we know it so well that it takes even less time. I love how creamy the soup is and it really fills me up quickly. That just means there are plenty of leftovers.

Indulgent Macaroni and Cheese- I don’t mind Kraft Mac and Cheese, but anytime I get to make this indulgent macaroni and cheese I take it. Now Kraft has the easy mac, that gives you less preparation and cooking time that you have to worry about, but it lacks the cheesy goodness that homemade mac and cheese has. Yes, I will admit that there is a lot of cheese, butter, and cream but you don’t have to tell your doctor. Seriously every once and a while, I have to indulge myself with real macaroni and cheese, not something that comes out of a blue box.

Biscuits and Gravy – I love my dad’s biscuits and gravy… I don’t know how he does it, but he can make the best I have ever tasted. All I have ever seen him do is take the Pillsbury home style biscuits, pop them in the oven and then he makes his own special gravy sauce, which he won’t tell me how he does it, and some sausage. Every winter when I come home and he has time off of work, he will make them, but it’s so far and in between that it seems he never makes them anymore. I always love to see my dad in the kitchen in the mornings, but usually he kicks me out. They are still more fattening than most biscuits and gravy, but how can something that taste so good be bad?