From Cathy Salter, a fan of recipes with just a few ingredients, this soup is simple and delicious! Adapted from “Tomato and White Bean Soup with Lots of Garlic” (NYT Cooking), this is a perfect cold-weather treat.

Brought to us by Vicki Ott, this sausage spinach tortellini soup is very quick, easy, and delicious!

From featured chef Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, this dish combines shepherd’s pie and an Indian comfort food (keema), and the "warm" spices of cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, dried red chili, and bay. Psst: it was billed as "A flavor-rich version fit for a holiday table," just in time for end of December meals.

Looking for sweets to serve a gluten-free friend? Look no further. This easy to make and tasty dish is a wonderful dessert to bring to a pot luck dinner or a casual appetizer, drinks, and dessert affair.

This Sicilian Orange Bundt Cake is a delicious, light cake perfect for pairing with orange juice!

This is a Martha Stewart recipe that Cathy Salter tried a few years ago when she was looking for a holiday side dish that was completely different from the traditional ones she grew up with. It makes a beautiful addition to your Thanksgiving or Christmas table.

This dish, brought to us by Chef Antwon Brinson and Wine and Country Life, pairs chicken with the sweetness of blackberries to create this savory, Ethiopian-inspired roast chicken. Paired with wilted kale and curried sweet potatoes, this is a must-try!

This is a delicious chicken recipe that is sure to impress!

Upon marrying Appalachian, this Brooklyn girl learned to make biscuits from the sweetest mother-in-law on earth. Join Anne Deaton in this sweet biscuit recipe for 2!

This recipe uses only pre-contact ingredients that Devon’s tribe used (except cranberries that are from the Northeast).

This is a simple, versatile Italian dish that is delicious in different ways, hot or cold, summer and winter! Serve as a side dish, add cooked and sliced sweet Italian sausage, and serve as a main dish with rice, serve on a Kaiser roll for a great sandwich.

Lately, I’ve had a craving for a meal from my mother Alice’s kitchen that is pure comfort food, as good today as it was when I was growing up—meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

Brought by Anna Sophia Deaton, she shares her Grandma Anne Deaton's Apple Pie that is a family favorite! Her Grandma uses a traditional double pie crust, but she loves a lattice top - read to see how it is done!

A treasured memory is of the children picking up ripe persimmons that had fallen from the trees after a frost in November.  I’ve long felt that The Joy of Cooking’s persimmon pudding recipe that I use is the best one.  And, of course, each slice of this delicious seasonal dessert made with native Missouri persimmons should be covered with a dollop of homemade whipped cream.  

This is one of those flexible, “knock-your-socks-off” recipes, that’s downright seductive. A twist on the classic blackberry cobbler, this pear-infused dessert is the comfort food you don’t want to miss.

Almodrote de Berengena (Eggplant Gratin) is a specialty of the Jews of Istanbul, who brought it with them in their exile from medieval Spain.

The recipe is from Matthew Goodman’s cookbook, “Jewish Food: The World at Table.”

Grits were for breakfast…and this recipe shows multiple opportunities to utilize grits. A cherished family recipe from the McKaskle Family Farm, we share this from Braggadocio, Missouri.

This fresh-tasting chicken salad is a favorite of Columbia Mayor Brian Treece and Mary Phillips, both at home on hot summer nights or at church or boy scout potlucks.

Helen Washburn, past President of Cottey College, brings her mother’s treasured eggplant recipe. She sometimes made it with zucchini!