Dutch Oven

Caramelized onions, melty Gruyère, and a deeply savory broth deliver the kind of comfort that doesn’t need improving.

The creamy texture and rich flavor of this hand-whipped fudge prove the effort is worth it.

This easy orange marmalade recipe requires no obscure equipment and is bound to impress.

This is an ingenious one-pot dish where the pasta is cooked in the richly spiced broth, so there’s no need to boil it beforehand.

A pot roast so good you have to pull your kid out of school early, just to make sure it gets into the oven in enough time to cook. Now that's an endorsement.

Having a dependable turkey chili recipe in your culinary repertoire means that a hearty, crowd-pleasing weeknight dinner is never far from reach.

In this cashew-topped biryani, some of the rice is swapped for marinated spiced cauliflower. 

Serve this dish of dumplings over mushroom stew with a bright winter slaw or some pickles on the side.

Chicken thighs are always delicious, but the briny olives and browned shallots turn these green beans into the star of the show.

Tart Granny Smith apples add zing to this earthy, creamy butternut squash soup, while a bit of bacon lends salty richness.

This chilaquiles recipe is the blueprint for one of my favorite comfort foods. It’s a great way to use up tortillas (or tortilla chips) that are past their optimal freshness.

Add these pickled tomatoes to eggs, soup, sauce, or salsa.

Almost anything—apples, pears, berries, watermelon—can be used in these fruit preserves from Vivian Howard.

Truly a one-pot wonder, this dish is homey, comforting, and weeknight-friendly (thanks to the minimal cleanup). Rinse your rice until the water runs clear before adding to keep the grains from going clumpy or gummy in the pot.

Spiced tomato sauce with bits of creamy paneer fills delicious stuffed peppers here, but it can also be served with flatbread, over quinoa, or in a quesadilla.

Mild, flaky cod gets an ideal counterpart in this silky-creamy miso–butternut squash sauce. The sauce delivers plenty of flavor thanks to miso and ginger, topped with lemon, cilantro, and chili crisp. The cooking time will vary depending on the fish’s thickness, so keep an eye on it as it cooks; you will know it is done when the fish flakes easily at the push of a fork. 

This simple soup packs a lot of flavor thanks to miso and ginger in the base, plus punchy finishers like lemon juice, cilantro, and chili crisp.

The combination of tender chicken and sweet chestnuts makes for classic Chinese comfort food.