Sunday afternoon recipes

[hillvalley]

What do you have simmering on Sunday that tastes good all weekend long?

With this cold rut the most country seems to be stuck in I have started craving stews, lentil soups, braised beef, etc. I need ideas, recipes, inspiration. I found nothing that looked good after researching ideas from the Cold weather food thread. Help! It sounds like many of you are eating very well and I want to join you.

I am looking for great, rib sticking recipes that do not involve alcohol and take a few hours to cook.

Thanks

[Suzanne F]

A couple of weeks ago I set out to make some cowpeas with smoked neck bones, to eat over rice with greens. Added a few quarts too much water, though, and ended up with some pretty good bean soup. Try it either way.

[MobyP]

Shame about no alcohol.

In New Mexico they have a fantastic pork, black bean and green chile stew with beer and lime. I look forward to it every year.

[jackal10]

Lancashire hot hot or Irish stew: onions, potatoes, lamb.

Layer, top layer sliced potatoes. Leave in a medium oven, uncovered

Top should be brown and crispy

Eat with good bread and sharp pickled red cabbage

[Mabelline]

Hot about a kick-butt Chicken and Dumplings? Chili, chili, chili (I love chili). Thai roasted green curry pork. Posole!

[jvcap]

One of my favorite savory slow-cooker standbys is braised chicken thighs (which I braise in red wine and some reliable store-bought demi) served with polenta (cooked for 2 hrs. minumum) topped with wild mushrooms, a dry blue cheese and fig balsamic. Oh yeah, and something green on the side.

[Mayhaw Man]

Hot about a kick-butt Chicken and Dumplings? Chili, chili, chili (I love chili). Thai roasted green curry pork. Posole!

I am making chicken and dumplings for a rainy Saturday night supper. Nice suggestion.

[JPW]

Yesterday's attempt to warm up the house was an "Old Fashioned Beef Stew" taken from Fannie Farmer. Stewing beef, soup bones, water, onion, spices - 2 hours on stove . Add potatoes, more onion and carrots at the end for another 20 minutes.

[Marlene]

Sundays tend to be "roast days" in my house, but what about a nice brisket, or ribs, or a nice thick stew?

[agnolottigirl]

Any daube-style stew (though they pretty much all have wine)

Cacciatore (I do put wine in there too, but it's optional)

[reesek]

i made black bean chili from the greens cookbook yesterday. i had dried black beans i'd gotten this summer through a farmers market. the recipe is involved, but well worth the extra effort of making powder.

next time i think i'll source some mexican oregano instead of the "plain" stuff i have. it was excellent, but i did find - though i covered amply with water - soaked the dried beans for about 16 hours (changing water and stirring) some of the beans were lovely and creamy - some were harder - not too hard to eat, but hard enough to be noticable. i cooked the beans in a 5 Qt dutch oven (2 c. dry) - once i added everything, there remained about 3 inches of room in the pot. total cooking time was just under 2 hours.

did i not cook it long enough? why do the beans cook so unevenly?

[zephyrus]

baked potato soup with lots of good bacon and cheddar cheese. super easy and tasty when you have a long week ahead and no time to cook.

casey