On a chilly night following a long day, sometimes all you want is something steaming to eat that will warm your bones and soothe your soul. We’ve found that the most comforting of recipes come with a heaping serving of toasty warm nostalgia, too. When you find those meals that are cozy for your stomach and your memories, that’s when you’ve struck comfort food gold. That’s why we’ve dug through our archives for the most old-school recipes that taste like they’re straight from Grandma’s kitchen. It’s an infallible truth that Southern grandma’s do it best, and their recipe cards are things to be cherished and called when in need of a comforting supper. These are the recipes that light up your tastebuds and ring with fond memories of Grandma’s famous cooking. Here, we’ve gathered our most nostalgic comfort food dishes, from hearty sides to casseroles and sweets, that satisfy and soothe like only Grandma’s cooking can.
Victor Protasio; Food Styling: Torie Cox; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of digging into a hearty shepherd’s pie in the evening. Grandma knew that better than anyone. That’s why this signature recipe is made with love, and lots of patience; It cooks up low and slow for peak tenderness.
Photographer: Fred Hardy II, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Props Stylist: Christina Brockman
Eating your veggies doesn’t have to be a chore. This old-school recipe, a meat-and-three classic and once Grandma’s church potluck go-to, builds in comfort with melty cheese and a buttery cracker topping.
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This Tex-Mex staple casserole relies on a couple cans of creamed soup, just like all of Granny’s most comforting old-school recipes do. Use rotisserie chicken as an additional shortcut to save time.
Beth Dreiling Hontzas
Shrimp and grits can often be a time-consuming labor of love. While we’re grateful that Grandma used to take the time, we’re also thankful that this version will have dinner on the table in under an hour. We use quick-cooking grits to make one-pan supper that’s short on time but big on flavor.
Hector Sanchez
Browning the butter guarantees this classic sweet potato pie a rich, nutty flavor. It might not be the old-school way of doing things, but you’ll have to trust us on this one.
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Served with mashed sweet potatoes, green beans, and biscuits, this dish will transport you to way back when. Best of all, classic pork and gravy will be on the supper table in just 30 minutes.
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Cheese grits have long been a staple on Southern breakfast tables, and we won’t be sick of them any time soon. This straightforward recipe delivers an old-school casserole you’ll wake up excited for in the morning.
Hector Manuel Sanchez
Homemade chicken pot pie, not frozen, is an essential recipe for any Southern cook. There’s nothing quite like the comfort that comes from breaking through that buttery, flaky pie crust to scoop up creamy chicken filling.
Southern Living
A good cornbread is essential at any Southern gathering. Whether the occasion is a church potluck, cookout, or Sunday dinner at home, this classic cornbread recipe will be a hit.
Southern Living
This is our most popular fried chicken recipe for a reason. We’re going back to the basics to fry up chicken so decadent it could only come from the recipe box of a Southern woman.
Beth Dreiling Hontzas
A chef and master baker, Grandma could do it all. These treats use not one, but two types of chocolate and oats in the batter to make them stand out.
Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
Also widely known as “Funeral Potatoes,” Southerners have long recognized this casserole’s comforting powers, even in the most dire situations. It’ll also strike up warm and fuzzy feelings at any light-hearted occasion and at any time of day.
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A steaming bowl of chicken and dumplings will warm you up from the inside out. We’ve found that buttermilk is the key to the lightest, most delightful dumplings.
Will Dickey
A buttermilk biscuit recipe is a must for any Southern lady to have in her arsenal. The legacy of these treats speaks for itself, though the recipe can be mastered even by first-time biscuit makers.
Courtney West
A scoop of this cheesy casserole over rice and pasta turns veggies into a comforting main course. Make this recipe ahead of time by putting the assembled casserole into the refrigerator instead of the oven until you need it.
Photographer: Stacy K. Allen. Food Stylist: Ruth Blackburn, Prop Stylist: Christina Daley
While now the mac and cheese queen is likely one auntie or another, once upon a time, this was Grandma’s specialty. The secret to ooey-gooey pasta is cubes of cheddar cheese that will burst in your mouth.
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This take on a classic Southern side dish is a Southern Living favorite. It’s delicious and rich as can be, yet comes together in under an hour and with only eight ingredients.
Photographer: Fred Hardy II, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Props Stylist: Christina Brockman
During sweltering summer months in the South, nothing hits the spot quite like peach cobbler with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream. One Southern Living reader suggests adding both cinnamon and nutmeg rather than one or the other.
Spoonable bread is the closest thing we know to heaven. This savory pudding is a cross between cornbread, a cornmeal soufflé, and cornbread dressing and has long been one of our favorite side dishes.
Jennifer Causey
This homey dish comes together in just one pan… Hallelujah. We use sausage, milk, and Southern-style biscuits to make this dish taste just like the biscuits and gravy we were all raised on.
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If you’ve seen Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy series, you might’ve caught the man himself waxing lyrical about a seemingly humble dish of spaghetti with courgettes – or zucchini to the Italians. In a picture-postcard scene, Stanley samples the dish at a cliffside restaurant with views of the sea, before confidently claiming it’s “one of the best things he’s ever eaten”. The dish in question? That’d be spaghetti alla Nerano.
Spaghetti alla Nerano is a dish of pasta, fried courgettes and cheese that hails from the southern Italian region of Campania. More specifically, the dish’s origins can be traced back to one woman and one Campanian village. That woman is Maria Grazia, who created the dish at her namesake restaurant, Mariagrazia, in 1952. Hidden away in the picturesque fishing village of Nerano, on the sun-kissed Amalfi coast, the restaurant (and the recipe) have been passed down the generations – and both are still going strong today.
The dish itself is a lesson in how to make simple ingredients sing; the original recipe involves little more than pasta, courgettes, Provolone del Monaco cheese and basil. Provolone del Monaco is a buttery, somewhat spicy cow’s milk cheese that’s typical of the Sorrento region, but it’s much harder to find than regular Provolone in the UK. If you can’t find either, a mix of Pecorino and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese works well.
Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 minutes | Cook time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
400g spaghetti
6 medium courgettes (roughly 1kg), sliced into thin rounds
Handful of fresh basil leaves, torn
200g Provolone (or 100g each of Pecorino and Parmigiano Reggiano), grated.
500ml sunflower oil, for frying the courgettes
50g butter
Salt and pepper, to taste
Method:
Heat the sunflower oil in a large, high sided frying pan. You want the oil to be hot, so test it by dropping in a single disc of courgette and checking if it sizzles.
Once the oil is suitably hot, add your sliced courgettes and deep-fry until golden (you might need to do this in batches depending on the size of your pan).
Remove your courgette rounds with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper, then put them in a bowl and leave to cool to room temperature.
Next, bring a pan of well salted water to the boil and start cooking your pasta – aim for a couple of minutes less than the packet instructions.
While the pasta is cooking, put a frying pan on medium and heat your cooled courgette, stirring occasionally and adding a couple of ladles of pasta water.
Once the courgettes start to soften, add the butter and stir until it melts, breaking the courgettes up with the back of a wooden spoon as you go.
Once your pasta is al dente, drain it (reserving some more pasta water) and add to your pan of courgettes, along with most of the cheese.
Remove your pan from the heat and toss to combine, adding more pasta water if you need (you’re looking for a silky sauce that coats your pasta).
Season to taste, then serve sprinkled with more cheese and some torn basil leaves.
Looking for comfort? Reach for layers
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Looking for comfort? Reach for layers. Only today, they’re not in the form of a worn-in jumper or fluffy fleece, but layers of golden fried aubergine, melting mozzarella and smooth tomato sauce. Aubergine parmigiana – or parmigiana di melanzane to the Italians – is a true comfort classic, and for good reason.
From just a handful of ingredients, some gentle frying and a healthy hit of Italian cheese, comes a warming dish rich in savoury flavour. In contrast to many other comfort foods, aubergine parmigiana is also low-carb (and no less delicious for it). It’s very easy to make too, with the only real effort coming from frying the aubergine slices in batches (a crucial step, so don’t rush it).
Like many classic Italian dishes, the origins of parmigiana di melanzane are contested. The regions of Campania and Sicily both claim to have birthed it, but we like to think of aubergine parmigiana as a collaborative effort; it was likely that it did first emerge from the island of Sicily, where Arab colonisers first introduced the aubergine to Italy. The dish was then improved on in Naples with the addition of milky mozzarella.
Serves: 4-6
Prep time: 20 minutes | Cook time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
4 large aubergines
100ml olive oil, for frying and drizzling
300ml homemade tomato sauce or shop-bought passata
300g mozzarella (two balls)
150g parmesan, grated
15g fresh basil leaves, torn
50g breadcrumbs, fresh or dried
Chef’s tip: If you want to make this dish vegetarian, just swap out the parmesan for a vegetarian alternative.
Method:
Prep and fry the aubergines.
Drain the mozzarella and cut into thin slices.
Slice the aubergines into 5mm rounds.
In a deep frying pan, heat two inches of oil until hot.
Fry your aubergines in batches until golden on both sides.
Remove from the pan and drain on a baking tray lined with kitchen roll.
Assemble your parmigiana: in a large rectangular baking dish (pyrex is perfect), make a layer of aubergine slices, overlapping them as you go.
Cover your aubergine base with a thin layer of passata, then top with a quarter of the mozzarella, parmesan and basil.
Repeat the layers in this pattern (aubergine, sauce, cheese) until you’ve used it all up, (don’t worry if you end on a layer of aubergine).
Top with a final dusting of parmesan, a scattering of breadcrumbs and a drizzle of olive oil.
Bake your parmigiana: preheat your oven to 180C (160C fan/gas mark 4).
Once hot, bake your parmigiana for 30 minutes, or until golden.
Remove your parmigiana from the oven and leave to rest, before serving warm.
Chef’s tip: If you have time to get ahead, your parmigiana will benefit from being left to sit for 4-12 hours after the first bake. This intensifies the flavours and helps the parmigiana layers to firm up. When you’re ready to eat, simply reheat at 180C (160C fan/gas mark 4) for 10-15 minutes, then slide under a hot grill for a few minutes until the top is a riot of golden bubbles.
Spaghetti alla chitarra translates to ‘guitar spagehtti’
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Spaghetti alla chitarra – which translates to “guitar spaghetti” – is so named because it’s made by pushing a sheet of pasta dough onto a wooden pasta cutter lined with guitar-like wire strings. The chitarra cuts the dough into long strands that resemble a thicker, squarer spaghetti – qualities that make this pasta shape an ideal partner for creamy sauces and chunky meat ragú.
Traditionally made from a fresh flour and water dough, spaghetti alla chitarra is a typical shape of the central Italian region of Abruzzo, as well as its neighbour Lazio (where it’s instead known as tonnarelli). In Lazio, you’ll often find this shape paired with cacio e pepe, but in Abruzzo it’s more commonly served alongside the region’s famous lamb ragú.
Abruzzo’s rocky, mountainous interior is prime sheep-rearing country, and you won’t go far without spotting a flock of hardy sheep roaming the craggy hillsides. It’s no surprise then, that the Abruzzese love to eat lamb. Arrosticini – skewers of lamb roasted over an open fire – are a big favourite, but this lamb ragú with red peppers is the area’s signature pasta sauce. The sweet peppers cut through the rich lamb perfectly, creating a sauce that’s good all year round.
Serves: 4
Prep time: 15 minutes | Cook time: 2 hours
Ingredients:
400g spaghetti alla chitarra, fresh or dried
400g lamb shoulder, cut into small cubes
2 large red peppers, deseeded and cut into thin strips
3 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced
1 tin of peeled plum tomatoes
500ml lamb or chicken stock
125ml dry white wine
2 tbsp olive oil
3 bay leaves
Salt and pepper, to taste
50g grated pecorino, to finish
Method:
Put a large saucepan over a medium heat and add the olive oil. Once hot, add the lamb and fry until evenly browned.
Add the garlic, bay leaves and a pinch of salt, then fry until the garlic is golden (be careful not to let it burn). Pour in the wine and let it reduce by about half.
Add the tomatoes and red peppers, breaking the tomatoes up with the back of a spoon. Pour in half of the stock, stir and bring to a simmer.
Cover and reduce the heat to low, then let everything bubble away for 1½ – 2 hours, until the lamb is tender. Add more stock if it starts to look dry.
Boil a large pan of water. Salt well, add the pasta, stir, then cook until al dente (3-4 minutes for fresh, 2 minutes less than the packet instructions for dried).
Drain the pasta, reserving some cooking water. Transfer the pasta to your pan of ragú and toss until well coated, adding a splash of pasta water to loosen.
Divide between bowls, season with salt and pepper and top with a generous handful of pecorino. Buon appetito!
Pasta alla gricia is one of Rome’s most quintessential pasta dishes
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Pasta alla gricia is one of Rome’s most quintessential pasta dishes. Combining guanciale (cured pork cheek), pecorino romano cheese, black pepper and a swish of pasta water into a silky sauce, pasta alla gricia packs a rich, porky punch despite its deceptively simple ingredients list.
Guanciale is the heart and soul of this dish. Across Rome, salumerie counters are piled high with thick slabs of this fat-marbled marvel, which is made from salt-cured pig cheek. Fattier than its famous cousin, pancetta, guanciale releases this deeply flavoured fat when fried – enriching pasta alla gricia with its seriously savoury flavour.
Although it’s less well known than the three other classic Roman pastas: carbonara, amatriciana and cacio e pepe, pasta alla gricia has actually been around for a lot longer. Indeed, pasta alla gricia is commonly thought of as the foundation on which these dishes were built (add egg and you have a carbonara, add tomatoes and you have amatriciana).
As a dish that relies on very few ingredients, using the best quality you can lay your hands on is important – for Romans, it’s not pasta alla gricia unless you use guanciale and pecorino romano. When it comes to picking the right pasta shape, we’d lean towards the sauce-catching ridges of rigatoni, but spaghetti is also a traditional pairing in Rome’s trattorie.
Serves: 4
Prep time: 5 minutes | Cook time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
400g rigatoni (spaghetti, bucatini or penne would also work well)
250g guanciale, cut into thin batons
120g pecorino romano, grated
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Chef’s tip: If you’re struggling to find guanciale, replace it with the same amount of good quality, unsmoked pancetta – we promise not to tell any Romans.
Method:
Bring a large pan of water to the boil, salt generously, add the pasta, stir, then cook until al dente (typically 2 minutes less than the packet instructions).
While the pasta cooks, add the oil and guanciale to a large frying pan and put on a medium heat.
Fry gently, until the fat has rendered and the guanciale pieces are starting to turn golden.
Add a ladle of your pasta water to the pan of guanciale, turn the heat down and let it bubble away until the pasta is ready.
Once the pasta is ready, drain, reserving some of the pasta water. Add the pasta to the frying pan along with two-thirds of the cheese and toss well.
Continue adding splashes of the reserved pasta water and tossing everything together until you have a glossy sauce.
Remove from the heat, top with the remaining cheese and a healthy grind of black pepper, then serve immediately. Buon appetito!
In Puglia, one pasta shape dominates
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In Puglia, the sun-soaked heel of Italy’s boot, one pasta shape dominates. Named after the ‘little ears’ that each shape is said to resemble, orecchiette (pronounced oh-reck-ee-ET-tay) are a prime example of the region’s simple, rustic cuisine. From a vegan pasta dough of flour, water and salt, Pugliese nonne have been hand-rolling orecchiette since the 12th century. Even today, in the cobbled old town of the region’s capital, Bari, women craft orecchiette on tables along la strada delle orecchiette (an unofficial, but fitting moniker).
Puglia’s classic and most authentic orecchiette dish is orecchiette con cime di rapa – which sees the shape paired with a sauce of garlic, anchovies and cime di rapa. Known in the UK as turnip tops or rapini, cime di rapa has a mustardy, slightly-bitter flavour profile. Once boiled, its bitter-sweetness comes to the fore – making it a perfect match for this salty, savoury sauce.
Although it’s popping up more and more in greengrocers and farmers markets, cime di rapa can sometimes be hard to find in the UK. If you’re struggling to source it, chard, kale and spring greens are all good substitutes.
Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 minutes (plus 1 hour to make the fresh pasta) | Cook time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
500g turnip tops, tough stalks trimmed and cut into 4cm lengths
8 anchovies
3 garlic cloves, sliced
½ teaspoon red chilli flakes
100ml extra virgin olive oil
50g pecorino cheese, grated (optional)
Salt and black pepper, to taste
400g dried orecchiette
Chef’s tip: If you want to keep this dish vegan, you can leave out the pecorino cheese and anchovies
Method:
Put a large pan of water on to boil for your pasta.
Put half of the olive oil in a wide frying pan with the anchovies and garlic, then put on a low heat.
Warm gently for 6 minutes, or until the anchovies dissolve. Add the chilli flakes, then take the pan off the heat.
Once the pan of water boils, add salt, then throw in the turnip tops and stir.
If you’re using fresh pasta, let the turnip tops boil for 5 minutes, then add the orecchiette and cook for another 3 minutes.
If you’re using dried pasta, add it at the same time as the turnip tops and cook for 2 minutes less than the packet instructions.
Drain your pasta and turnip tops, saving some pasta water, then add them to the anchovy and garlic pan and place over a medium heat.
Toss everything together with a ladle or two of pasta water, until the pasta is well coated.
Serve drizzled with the remaining olive oil and a dusting of grated cheese, if using.
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Numerous of the recipes that have develop into iconic American dishes were initially engineered by the manufacturers advertising you the substances, only evolving later on into multigenerational mainstays. It’s what food stuff writer Cathy Erway calls “Brandma Made”: the plan that particular commercially produced recipes inevitably identified their way into spouse and children cookbooks, handed down throughout the decades.
As all this has unfolded, makes have stored a thing of a veil more than their actual recipe builders. In the meantime, the corporations have developed exponentially and globally, and the resulting dishes (highlighted on the back again of the box) have arrive to define American cuisine. Who these cooks are and how they created their way into client brands’ test kitchens is an significant part of our culinary background.
How company examination kitchens came to be
According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Heritage, the concept of “advantage foods” came to prominence in the 1940s. With soaring purchaser demand from customers in shelf-stable pantry foodstuff, firms such as Campbell’s started to seek out opportunities to satisfy that need. The Campbell’s check kitchen area was established in 1941 and house economists have been employed to test out the soups.
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Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, check kitchens grew to become acknowledged as the “consumer sciences” section. At some point, they evolved into a culinary kitchens, extending outside of recipes constructed principally on the notions of practicality and performance.
Culinary kitchens, this kind of as the Conagra workforce, hire a range of marketplace industry experts who are not only passionate about food but occur with a distinct pedigree. Numerous have college levels in nutrition science or skilled chef certifications, along with working experience in other realms this kind of as food items images, food items styling, and cafe administration.
The invisible faces of recipe improvement
Chef Helen Roberts has been working at Kikkoman for almost 4 many years. In the course of her time with the firm, she has developed lots of recipes, sometimes five for every day. But numerous do not know that it was she who created the common turkey brine recipe that boldly works by using an full bottle of soy sauce.
Roberts joined Kikkoman three many years immediately after the enterprise opened its U.S. subsidiary in 1957, a time when a lot of Americans ended up unfamiliar with soy sauce, or at minimum unaware of how useful it could be in their cooking. Nevertheless the recipe does not bear her name, it aided consumers perspective the product or service differently and take into account it a much more multipurpose ingredient than they realized.
Jane Freiman, founder of Good Kitchen area Insights Team, is an additional veteran of the take a look at kitchen entire world. She invested 27 several years at the Campbell’s Client Test Kitchen area and helped produce many recipes, this kind of as the preferred one particular-dish Chicken & Rice Bake. The Campbell’s kitchen area has, of course, brought many recipes into the American mainstream: the late Dorcas Reilly is credited with creating the green bean casserole in 1955, a dish that has come to be shorthand for domesticity.
It is not just century-previous manufacturers and mega-companies that have robust take a look at kitchens, possibly. Independent specialty foods producer Stonewall Kitchen and its City Accents line of seasonings and spices location a great deal of emphasis on this do the job. Sarah Beth Tanner, artistic advancement chef for City Accents, is credited with making a lot more than 200 recipes during her five-yr tenure with the enterprise.
The upcoming of recipe advancement
A lot of of the recipes developed in companies’ check kitchens have been originally made to promote additional merchandise. The idea was straightforward: give shoppers a information for how to place the product to use. The far better the recipe, the larger likelihood that the consumer will obtain the solution all over again. But current decades have presented new opportunities and challenges. Buyers have become extra health and fitness-conscious, and businesses like Kraft Heinz are spending interest.
The brand’s key exploration and development heart, located in a Chicago suburb, is led by Robin Ross, a 25-yr Kraft veteran. Ross thinks that the key impediment to men and women not trying a new recipe is mainly because they do not have the appropriate elements. Her team’s work is to transform that, or to continuously innovate, revising outdated classics to meet up with latest trends—or producing new recipes completely.
These times, recipe developers not only operate in collaboration with other departments, together with marketing, strategy, and customer insights groups, but also with 1 yet another. Many rounds of screening are done to make sure that a recipe is foolproof, and selected regulations need to be adopted ahead of a recipe is deemed correct for the company’s web-site and package labels. Online customer reviews are also study and evaluated, according to Tanner. (Which is as very good a purpose as any to keep your criticism constructive.)
The cleverness of the again-of-the-box recipe has stood the test of time, developing into a enormous selection of recipes on each company’s web site and social media web pages. And the unsung heroes who have used several hours in their check kitchens know how significant it is to produce recipes that complement consumers’ life. But while we never ever see the names of these chefs mentioned on the packaging, several note they aren’t in this for the fame. For them, the fulfillment comes from only knowing that folks are out there building reminiscences, one recipe at a time.
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