The clocks go back this weekend so when it's cold and dark outside what is your ultimate comfort dish?

Mike Robinson will be making his favourite (individual melting steamed chocolate puds with blackberries and stem ginger) on Monday but we want to hear the recipes that you snuggle up with. We'll read out some of your suggestions on Monday's Good Food Live

Thanks for all your postings about vanilla.

Sara

My favourite is my grandmothers beef ghoulash with bread dumplings. She is from Vienna and although I can make it its never quite the same as hers...she doesnt have an exact recipe I can follow, its just a pinch of this and a dollop of that and it tastes divine.

I love burritos stuffed with chilli, crispy gem lettuce leaves, chunky salsa and grated mature cheddar - I could eat them all day everyday!!

Anything that has beans in it. Sausages and beans, bean soup, pasta with beans etc etc. Only problem being the next day!!!
Bubbi

sONIA, how do you make bread dumplings? they sound very comforting. Just the thing for a cold winters evening, on top of a lovely veggie casserole.

I do a potato kugel for comfort food. It's a layer of mash potatoes made with butter and milk. The I add a layer of carmelised onions, fried mushrooms, and lightly sauteed broccoli. I finish it with another layer of the mash potato, dab some butter on the top so it will brown and be a bit crunchy. Put it in the oven until it is lightly brown on the top. If I feel really down then I will add some grated cheese on the top before putting it in the oven. :D

Thats a good question Jennifer! You have to use crusty rolls or a loaf, has to be a day or two old, torn up in a mixing bowl with a bit of water to moisten...add salt, a beaten egg and some plain flour and mix with your hands until you have a moist dough. Form into balls about golf ball size and boil in water until they float...you can also cook them in the stew. It is all very vague, my nan hasnt got any measurements for any of it! We tend to use a small bloomer or about 8 rolls but thats about the only guide I have!! Sorry.

I'm with Trudi on this one. There's nothing beats hot creamy mashed potato for the ultimate comfort food. For dessert it would be home made apple pie and custard! Lovely!!!

For dessert it would have to be something steamed and spongey with custard...chocolate pudding maybe? Sticky toffee? Treacle?

cheese on toast...mature cheddar,thick,white crusty bread and a dash of worcester sauce...plus a cup of tea always does it for me!

Home Made Soup - simple simon - boil the chicken carcess with any veg in the fridge. Strip the bones and and put it with the veg into the magimix. Season and reeheat with lentils, split peas etc. Nice big crusty piece of brown bread to dunk. Real runny nose job. Yum Yum - well my family love it!

Hi Bubi,

hav eyou seen the beanbook. A gem in my collection at £9.99 isng 0-600-60628-7. It makes bean burgers, great for vegie friends, bean tagine cassoles.

Worth every penny and more.

MMMmmm! The good, old-fashioned Welsh dish, Cawl, is one of my favourites. Easy, delicious, hearty & decidedly comforting. Same goes for Irish Stew, a very similar & equally comforting meal.

Has anyone noticed how many of the "comfort foods" have potatoes in them? My favourite has to be potatoes that my mum used to bake in the ash pan below the fire. Used to scent the whole house, and you could smell them at the front door when you came home from school. She also used to do a baked egg custard that she used to make with self raising flour and when it baked the pastry would rise above the custard. Complete accident but we loved it.
Thanks Sonia for the recipe. All the best things never really have a proper recipe its instinct!!

I know I have posted this before but my favourite comfort food has to be lasagne and chips with mayonnaise - more potatoes I'm afraid!

Chocolate in unhealthy amounts.

I have to go with the potato theory. and it's got to be mashed.

Lindsay

For me it's all according what time of day it is. If it up early on a sunday for the local car boot then it would have to be a good English breakfast for brunch. After a long morning at work it would be a big bowl of tomato soup with bread and if it was the evening it would be a nice sausage stew with mash.
Saying that scrambled egg on toast goes down well at any time.

Creme caramel, not brulée, the totally soft version.

hi everyone, mine has to be steamed bacon pudding with loads of gravy and pudding has to a creamy rice pudding, baked in the oven version, or spotted dick and custard.

Its got to be really nice sausages, oodles of mash and really good onion gravy. Hmm, Winter food!

Got to be mashed potato, but I like mine slighly lumpy. Best served with peas. When I have had a bad day at work I always ask my hubbie to make this for me and I will just sit there and eat it - makes me feel so much better, its like a wonder drug

I'm another one with Trudi,

Gorgonzola Mash with Stilton Sausages and Fennel and Shallot Gravy i'm in heaven whenever i eat that.... and for dessert it has to be Rhubarb Crumble with Hot Steaming Custard but i don't like my custard to thick....
Oh i think i may have to do that for tea now...It's got my taste buds drooling

Definately mashed potato, especially with cheese. My creamy Brie mash is still mine and my families favourite. Like Trudi says, lots of gravy is a must.

It would have to be a huge plate of cream of broccoli soup with stilton toast on top, then mince n tatties - bein THE most traditional scottish food that everyone likes - but with a huge serving of mushy peas - cooked with bacon - with loads vinegar and salt.
Then homemade apple crumble and custard - then a huge hot chocolate with marshmallows and whipped cream - you only live once - maybe thats why come summer time i can never fit into my "last summers" clothes - cos im like ahamster in the winter!!