Winter/Cozy Food thread

What do you cook when the temperature starts dropping?

Leftover chili right now, but I'm looking for some ideas from the rest of you guys.

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>beans
That's not chili, m8

im poor so i make the same thing year round
cabbage, onion, potato, bean, spaghetti soup. its much more satisfying in the winter because its warm. i also put different spices in there during the winter i guess

I cook up a batch of potato and bacon soup, cause I'm poor, can store it in bulk, as it's fucking delicious

I'm not from Texas, m8

I can tell since you don't know how to make chili, m8

Not OP but the fuck you got against beans? Fuckin idiots thinking that the only real chili is their generic spiced meat slop.

Meat stews and meat with pan gravies, mostly. Basically, what northern European cultures eat pretty much all the time.

It's not quite cold enough where I am for that sort of thing, but I'm already excited to whip up my first pea soup of the season.

Muh recipe:

Cold-smoked bacon, streaky type, chopped, 100g
Onion, chopped, 1 large
Dry green peas, split, 250g
Smoked ham bone/s, 250ish g
Veg stock, 500ml
Stewing carrots, peeled and cut into half-moons, about 200g
Stewing potatoes, peeled and cut into quarter-or-half-moons, about 200g
Veg celery, sliced, 100g
Smoked sausage, cut into rounds or half-moons, about 200g

In a pressure pot, cook bacon at low heat until it renders as much fat as it can then up the heat to crisp the pieces; remove solids and set aside.
Add onion and salt generously; cook to translucent.
Add peas, ham bone/s and veg stock and lid the pot.
Cook at high pressure 30 minutes then allow to depressurise on its own.
>because pressure pots don't "boil" with all the motion as normal cooking does, most of the peas will not have broken down so you're gonna have to...
Remove the ham bones and blitz the peas smooth. Stick blender is the easiest way to do this.
Strip bones of their meat, if any is present; discard bones and cartilage and reserve meat.
Add carrot and cook a few minutes.
Add potato and cook a few minutes.
Add celery and cook a few minutes.
Add sausage pieces (also stripped ham, if you have any), lid the pot and off the heat to let finish the veg through and bring the meat/s to temp; meanwhile, tidy up after yourself.
Bowl up the soup and top with the bacon bits from earlier. Also crispy onion, if you have any.

Also looking forward to making pork and paprika stew. Why is pork stock just not common in most of EU and unheard of in US?

So what do rednecks put in their chili if there's no beans? Is it just tomatoes and meat? That's fucking boring.

Everyone always goes for the one-pot meals, like chili, soups, chicken and dumplings, etc. Don't get me wrong, those are great, love them, but I also really like the slightly more composed meals. Like braised beef shanks with potatoes and red cabbage, porchetta with cheese polenta and arugula salad, roasted chicken and vegetables, homemade yeast breads with homemade apple butter, braised lamb shanks with basmati rice, coq au vin......etc.