20 Cold-Weather Recipes

A white bowl filled with carrot ginger soup, with a spoon resting inside and a plate of carrots beside it.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Carrot Ginger Soup1/20

Easy, healthy, simple, vegan, and done in an hour. And, most importantly, absolutely scrumptious.

A cast iron skillet filled with baked macaroni and cheese

Baked Macaroni and Cheese2/20

This toss-it-together-and-shove-it-in-the-oven casserole is exactly what macaroni and cheese ought to be—easy, cheesy, crumb-topped, and knee-wobblingly indulgent.

Glass jar with a cold and flu drink with a cinnamon stick, a spoon with ginger

Cold and Flu Elixir3/20

Made with honey, ginger, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, and cayenne, this sweet sipper is incomparably better than those blechy-tasting, over-priced, brand-name cold medicines.

A pot roast with potatoes and vegetables on a decorative platter with a serving fork on the platter and a napkin on the side.

Easy Pot Roast, Potatoes, and Vegetables4/20

This classic, hearty, homey dish—just like something your grandma used to make but better—is an ideal one-pot meat-and-potatoes meal. Includes oven as well as slow cooker instructions.

A bucket of maple syrup in the snow with streaks of maple syrup snow nearby

Maple Syrup Snow5/20

Indulge your inner Laura Ingalls Wilder with this charming caramel-like candy made by drizzling maple syrup onto fresh snow. Its provenance may be outdated but its appeal transcends time.

A white bowl filled with quick chicken chili with a spoon resting inside and a lime wedge on top.

Quick Chicken Chili6/20

Exactly what you want—nay, need—when you're crave something that's satiating as heck but you need it to be quick and with some semblance of healthy.

Cinnamon Rolls7/20

Time to change into your baggiest sweatpants—the ones with the no-longer-elastic waistband. (We can't be the only ones who keep those around, can we?!)

A ceramic bowl filled with hot and sour soup.

Hot and Sour Soup8/20

This is, quite frankly, the loveliest hot and sour soup we've ever had, with none of the usual gloppiness of takeout Chinese. And it's on the table in just 20 minutes.

This spaghetti and meatballs from Dorie Greenspan is, as you'd expect, easy and delicious. #spaghetti #meatballs #spaghettiandmeatballs #doriegreenspan

Dorie Greenspan’s Spaghetti and Meatballs9/20

Everything you'd expect from a Dorie Greenspan recipe—easy, utterly delicious, and crowd-pleasing.

A metal casserole dish filled with a cooked lasagna Bolognese, with three forks and a stack of plates beside it.

Lasagne Bolognese10/20

Think you know lasagne? As Giuliano Hazan explains, what you know may be sadly mistaken. His recipe will fix that.

Mexican Chicken Soup11/20

This Mexican chicken soup is authentic Yucatan fare that's simply broth, avocado, lime, tortilla, and rice. The sum is far more than the parts. And it's comforting as heck.

White bowl of dark beef chili with chocolate on a black slab

Easy Cincinnati Chili12/20

Regardless of whether you're from Cincinnati or have ever experienced Cincinnati chili, you've gotta try this recipe. Trust us.

A white bowl filled with pasta soup with potatoes and pancetta on a linen cloth with a spoon resting on the edge of the bowl.

Pasta Soup with Potatoes and Pancetta13/20

This good old-fashioned soup has a frugal heartiness once needed by day laborers. And a satiating subtleness now appreciated by foodies.

Coq au Vin14/20

Coq au vin, aka chicken soused in wine, is a French classic that exists in countless incarnations. This rich, soulful riff is from Julia Child.

Shrimp Risotto15/20

Super-size-me shrimp stud this creamylicious risotto which takes its astoundingly complex taste from simple shrimp shells.

A spoon of a red chicken curry held above copper pot filled with the Indian stew

Lahori Chicken Curry with Potatoes16/20

A can't-resist curry brimming with fragrant spices--ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, peppercorns, coriander, cumin...yup, they're all here.

A white bowl of caldo verde, or Portuguese kale soup with thinly sliced kale and a single chorizo coin floating in the center.

Caldo Verde ~ Portuguese Green Soup17/20

Considered Portugal's national dish, caldo verde, or green soup, is a homey dish of potatoes, kale sliced whisker thin, and smoky pork sausage.

Lemon Pound Cake18/20

When life hands you lemons, make this lemon pound cake. Guaranteed to give you a far more favorable outlook on everything.

A clementine cake on a round silver platter with one slice on a plate beside it.

Clementine Cake19/20

Looks like upside-down cake. Tastes like upside-down cake. Yet this sticky citrusy dessert couldn't be more right side up as far as we're concerned.

A molten chocolate cake on a plate with the filling oozing out and a few pieces of dark chocolate on the side.

Molten Chocolate Cakes20/20

Sometimes called a volcano cake, this much ballyhooed molten dessert is, quite literally, bursting--er, oozing--with chocolate.