This recipe for Leftover Thanksgiving Chickeny Turkey Soup with Buttermilk Dumplings produces a comfort food that can stand up to the dreariest, early-winter chill.
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Rosemary Chicken and Chèvre Stuffed Portabellas
Rosemary Chicken and Chèvre Stuffed Portabellas: pick up a rotisserie chicken on the way home from work, and these large, meaty, cranberry-studded mushroom caps will come together quickly and easily.
Bacon Wrapped Chicken Thighs Stuffed with Portobellos, Rosemary, Pistachio, and Goat Cheese
(Bacon Wrapped) Chicken Thighs Stuffed with Portobellos, Rosemary, Pistachio, and Goat Cheese. Need I say more? Whether or not I need to, I will: elevated, sophisticated, almost too good to be home cooking.
This Hearty Spinach Soup Is Packed with Meat and Veggies
This homemade and hearty Spinach Soup is packed with (leftover) vegetables (such as Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, and potatoes). It’s comfort food for the veg-friendly.
This Maple Whiskey Glaze Goes with Everything
This homemade Maple Whiskey Glaze is brilliant with beef, but I’d bet it’d be unbelievable with bacon and wicked with chicken.
Graham Cracker Chicken Thighs
This recipe for Graham Cracker Chicken produces tender and juicy – and savory – results. It’s not at all sweet, nor does it taste like graham. It just tastes like incredibly good, well-seasoned chicken. It’s serious, everyday, comfort food cooking.
Kentucky Bourbon Alfredo: It’s Out of This World
This Kentucky Bourbon Alfredo uses a cheese sauce who’s main ingredient is Kentucky Bourton Bellavitano (which is a cheddar-Parmesan hybrid). Not comfort-foody enough, pasta lover? The recipe also calls for mushrooms and chicken … it’s gonna put you down.
Tuna Two-Way: Pollo Tonnato
Pollo Tonnato is slices of cold, poached chicken in a easy-to-make sauce consisting of canned tuna, mayo, lemon, capers, and olive oil. It’s a riff off an Italian summer dish: vitello tonatto. I like to garnish this dish with olives to really bring out the Mediterranean flavor.
French Indian Curry: Chicken, Mushrooms, Garam Masala
French Indian Curry doesn’t use tomatoes like a traditional garam masala curry, but it is loaded with juicy chunks of chicken plus a ton of mushrooms and vegetables. And of course, it has cream sauce.