Cooking Up Cold Weather Foods

30
Jan

Dear home cook,

When a day like this comes, it’s a great idea to cook up those traditional cold weather foods. As I write this from Southwest Virginia, we are getting 8 to 12 inches of snow. The high temperature is expected to get a whopping 21 degrees. It is cold. And very beautiful!

January 30, 2010 Snow Scene - From My Back Porch

A snowy day is a great day to make a chili, stew, or bisque. Something hot and hearty. When you look outside and you see the scene above, one of the last things you want to hear is: “Hey honey, how would you like a nice cold salad?” Brrrr!

No thanks! For me, it has to be hot and hearty.

In my food shopping, I picked up a couple pork chops, a sashimi tuna steak, and some tilapia fillets. The pork chops I’ll be brining this evening to braise tomorrow. The tuna steak is for lunch today, where I’ll be making a yogurt dill sauce to pour over the top. And the tilapia will end up in a fish stew.

For beverages, days like these scream to me “hot tea!” I like the products from The Republic of Tea. What I’m drinking now as I write this is their Daily Green Tea Ginger Peach. It has a great green tea mellow flavor with ginger and peach. It’s very good. Another one of my favorites is their Pomegranate Green Tea. Very tasty!

And if you want to liven it up a bit, add a little blackberry brandy to it! Or Amaretto. Or any other of your favorite cold weather adult beverages! But I’ll let Corky write about his adventures in those areas.

How about you? What do you like to eat or drink when the weather is frigid outside? Do you have a favorite chili, stew, or bisque you like to make? Tell me about it in the comment section below.

I wish you great adventures having fun cooking!
Mark

PS. If you like tea, here’s some things I recommend:

Pomegranate Green Tea by The Republic of Tea - 50 tea bags, without Caffeine