Begin your day with Nigel Slater’s savoury croissants or Ravneet Gill’s good blueberry pancakes. For lunch or dinner? Nigella Lawson’s simple tacky chilli, Yotam Ottolenghi’s excellent baked potatoes, or Nathan Outlaw’s toad within the gap. Your midweek deal with: Uyen Luu’s noodles or Amy and Emily Chung’s low cost and cheering household dal. End with Olia Hercules’s baked apples or Lopè Ariyo’s cobbler. A recipe listing that just about reads like a lullaby.
A thick, creamy pottage that’s a cross between a stew and a barely soupy, sticky risotto
Nigel Slater’s recipe for baked croissants with ham and cheese. {Photograph}: Jonathan Lovekin/The Observer
Croissants cooked within the type of ache perdu, full of darkish curls of speck and swimming pools of melted fontina
Trine Hahnemann’s favorite winter stew recipe – labskovs. {Photograph}: Columbus Leth
That is basic Scandinavian consolation meals, a mash cooked with meat and plenty of flavour, served with chives and pickled beetroot
Straight-up macaroni cheese recipe by Laura Goodman. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
For a basic macaroni cheese, it’s good to stand over a big pot of bechamel and personally load it with cheddar
Nathan Outlaw’s toad within the gap recipe. {Photograph}: David Loftus
Stuffed with childhood reminiscences, toad within the gap is straightforward and warming – simply don’t take it out of the oven too quickly
Yotam Ottolenghi’s jacket potatoes with egg and tonnato sauce. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
This brings collectively two of the most straightforward and comforting dishes: a baked potato and a soft-boiled egg
Dal – pe hin recipe by Amy Chung and Emily Chung. {Photograph}: Martin Poole
This dal – perfect for a midweek meal – is such easy-to-make consolation meals: nutritious, filling and low cost
Pumpkin and cardamon soup recipe by Yasmin Khan. {Photograph}: Matt Russell
Enriched with coconut milk and the headiness of cardamom, this soup soothes and comforts past measure
Nigel Slater’s potato, camembert and dill recipe. {Photograph}: Jonathan Lovekin/The Observer
A chilly-weather dish, heavy with starch, cream and cheese that takes its inspiration from tartiflette
Rukmini Iyer’s cherry tomato, leek and artichoke bake with feta recipe. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
Consider this as a cross between a frittata, a toad within the gap and a scrumptious large savoury pancake
Savoy cabbage, roasted cauliflower and cashew chilli noodles – mì xào chay recipe by Uyen Luu. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
There’s something so moreish and savoury about butter and fish sauce, which turns this midweek dinner into an actual deal with
Cheddar on toast with candy leeks recipe by Emily Scott. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
There’s something so good about leeks and cheese collectively. Nothing else is actually wanted
Multigrain porridge with kale, hazelnuts and smoked fish recipe by Claire Ptak. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
Begin the day with a savoury porridge that’s nourishing and nice for wintertime. Add an egg for further protein
Nigella Lawson’s tacky chilli recipe. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
Chorizo sausages mix with mince and mozzarella to make a fast Tex-Mex-inspired bowl of chilli
Ravneet Gill’s recipe for blueberry pancakes. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
Excellent for a weekend breakfast, these pancakes may be made thick or skinny, relying on who you’re feeding
Peanut and candy potato stew recipe by Melissa Thompson. {Photograph}: Patricia Niven
With influences from west Africa and Jamaica, this fragrant vegetarian stew may be prepared in lower than half an hour
Fish pie with a rosti topping recipe by Rosie Sykes. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
There’s no have to mash potato or make a white sauce with this crunchy-topped fish pie
Baked apples with ricotta and raisins recipe by Olia Hercules. {Photograph}: Joe Woodhouse
Bake these apples till the skins burst, the flesh is fluffy and the ricotta is caramelised on high
Plantain cobbler recipe by Lopè Ariyo. {Photograph}: Romas Foord/The Observer
Like a cross between a cake and a scone, this plantain pudding is drenched in a tropical syrup
College-skive semolina cake recipe by Nisha Katona. {Photograph}: Yuki Sugiura
A cake that’s elegant whereas remaining warming, nutty and fully comforting