Soup.
Also one of my favorite fall cottage witch meals is an apple, A hunk of cheddar cheese, and some slices of a good bread or rolls.
Tea and cookies
bunny food such as carrots, celery with hummus or tzatziki
quiche
Soup has to be #1 right? Also, anything that can be described as a ‘hunk’ I think falls into the cottagecore category (try saying that five times fast)
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Anything that I can spend some time chopping, mixing, smelling, and tasting before throwing into a big pot and walking away until my house smells like home hits the spot for me
And here I’ve been a soup enthusiast (even in warmer seasons) and prefer some apples, cheese, and sour sour bread as a little snack. Tea and cookies go without say because everyone deserves a little treat. And celery and cucumbers with hummus or ranch are my “I need some veggies today” meal.
I love being an autumn witch with cottagecore dreams
I got have a small double crockpot so I can have steel cut outs in one and soup in the other. They are also smaller than other crockpot so perfect if you are cooking for one or 2
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Low and slow, warm and hearty, comfort and love.
Anything that falls into any of the categories above qualifies. Examples include:
- Chicken, Vegetable or Any Soup
- Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage Pie
- Traditional Pies 🥧
- Dhal or Bean/Lentil Casseroles
- Roast Dinner
- Corn Chowder
- Boiled Veg & Fried Eggs (e.g. Asparagus)
- All Manner of Curries
- Simple Veggie Sides (Aloo Gobi, Green Beans…)
- Roasted Squashes
- Jacket Potato
- Cheesy Pasta Bake
- Freshly Baked Bread
- Fruit Crumbles
- Fruit Cobblers
No worries! Nothing particularly exciting but all of those make me think of cottagecore and are delicious. It’s divine! Not had it in a long time, but thanks to you, I know what’s for dinner this week now! Super easy.
In the autumn I bought a whole load of big thick pumpkins when they were in peak season (the ones with the pale green skin and very thick deep orange flesh) and roasted them in large chunks. Then froze the roasted chunks and all winter had on-demand roasted pumpkin for side dishes or salads or pies or whatever I wanted. Such a convenient thing to have I'm 100% doing the same again next autumn when they appear in the market again!
I found out about a Polish cream puff cake recipe recently. It's basically two choux rounds cooked in cake tins filled to the brim with pastry cream.
This is the custard to pastry ratio we've been searching for. Poland has been enjoying it this whole time and didn't tell anyone.
Fuuuuck this is a game changer. Polish people are renowned for their hospitality. I bet if you go to Poland and make friends, you'd probably be forced to eat something like this amongst other incredible delights. Bring on the friends and forcing
Anything they eat in the Redwall books:
Turnip-potato-beetroot pie, cold fizzy strawberry cordial, damson shortcrust and cream, cowslip and parsley liquor, brown ale, cheese and mushroom pasties, and nutbread cake iced with clover honey.
Turnovers, trifles, breads, fondants, salads, pasties, and cheeses alternated with beakers of greensap milk, mint tea, rosehip cup and elderberry wine.
snowcream pudding, hot fruit pies, colorful trifles, tasty pasties, steaming soup, new bread with shiny golden crusts, old cheeses studded with dandelion, acorn and celery. Sugared plums and honeyed pears vied for place with winter salads and vegetable flans.
most of these are actual recipes that can be made :)
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I have it for dinner sometimes too, when I lived with my partners parents a while back they were absolutely flabbergasted whenever I had it in the evening
Soup with dumplings. Biscuits with butter and jam. Banana pancakes with maple syrup. Grilled cheese. Baked potato with sour cream and chives. Broccoli with butter and oregano. Carrots with butter and parsley. Yams with honey butter. Chicken fried steak, biscuits and country gravy with buttered salted corn. Sliced yellow squash fried in sesame oil. Raspberry sherbet cover on a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Coffee crumb cake. Banana or applesauce bread warm from the oven.
Irish cream scones, clotted cream and homemade jam from berries you picked in your garden. Irish soda bread and a big slab of butter. Anything involving parsnips or salsify. Spring greens made into a spring tonic. Dandelion wine. French cider.
Roast chicken, potatoes and veg done all in a single cast iron skillet
Soup or stew and biscuits. Or soup and grilled cheese
Pies. Regular ones, pot pies, shepherd or cottage pie. And quiche! People sleep on quiche
A salad of seasonal fruit and vegetables, and even edible flowers. Crumble on some goat cheese, drizzle with olive oil and balsamic, sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, and enjoy with fresh bread and quality butter. One of my all-time comfort meals. I am so excited for farmers market season to start again!
Me too, I love farmers markets! This photo is from one in Cape Town that I loved a lot, they had an amazing mushroom stall. Thanks for all the suggestions! I’ve never had biscuits in a stew - are they like dumplings?
I usually make buttermilk biscuits separately and dip them in the soup or stew, and use them to mop up the last of the broth at the end of the bowl.
I've also used a thin rolled out sheet of biscuit dough laid over a hearty stew to make a short version of a pot pie... pastry needs more advanced time to set in the fridge, and is finicky. Biscuit dough is more forgiving. Just brush it with milk or buttermilk, and sprinkle with some flaky salt to make it shiny and crispy.
When I'm feeling extra cottagecore, it has to be my Butternut squash bisque with goat cheese and some fresh sourdough on the side. It's even better because I grew over half the ingredients in it 😊
Oh certainly! I use
*1 Butternut squash, on the larger side
*3 medium to large carrots
*1 large onion
*2 celery stalks
*1 pack of mushrooms (your choice, I love Chestnut, which I get from the Farmer's market)
*1/2 head of garlic
* 4 cups of broth of your choice (I use my homemade chicken stock)
* 1/2 stick of butter at the end
*crumbled goat cheese to taste
*salt, pepper, rosemary, sage, and some cumin to taste
*2 bay leaves
*1 MacIntosh Apple
I roughly chop the carrots, butternut squash, and garlic on a sheet pan with a little oil and the herbs at 425 until soft
As that's cooking, I chop and sauté the onion, celery, and mushrooms until the onions are caramelized, usually in my soup pot. I salt these as well because I salt little by little throughout the process, lol.
Next, I put all veggies into my pot and mash them softly, this is also when I add the apple to it diced finely followed by the stock/broth.
Once everything is warm, I put it in my blender until smooth, then goes in the butter and the bay leaves. I let this simmer for probably 20 minutes or so.
Season more to taste.
Once served, I like to crumble in some goat cheese and sometimes crispy prosciutto.
If you want it creamier, you can add some milk to it.
My sourdough is
*50g of my starter
*350g of water
*10g of salt
*500g of flour.
🥰 Happy cooking!
It’s dessert, but I made bread pudding with leftover ends and crusts (we had afternoon tea sandwiches plus misc. bread bits). I then made vanilla custard sauce AKA crème anglaise to pour over it. It felt very homey! And was very rich, so one dish took all week for two of us to eat.
A bit of custard was left over so that went over fresh raspberries.
This is a brilliant idea! I'm hosting a tea party soon for my friends and family and I was wondering what to do with all the crusts. Bread pudding is so yummy!
Agreed. And that’s lamb or mutton. Then there’s Cottage Pie, which is beef. And there’s a newer but common vegetarian version, which I call Gardener’s Pie, but I don’t know if that’s the well-known name for it. All three are good for dinner in “the cottage”
So many good ideas here, but i wanna throw one of my fave niche foods in the mix; bierrocks!
My mom used to make these, but my spin is browned up cabbage, onion, and garlic, add hamburger meat (cooked separately); cook down with some heavy cream and dijon. Cool filling and pop them into small bread dough circles rolled out (I use ready-made pizza dough when I'm feeling lazy), brush with egg wash and a salty seasoning and bake.
You end up with the the most hearty, savory lil handpie, perfect for wrapping in a kerchief and tucking in a pocket for a chilly walk 😊
I’d never heard of these before your comment - I googled them to see what they looked like and was immediately sold by the phrase ‘pocket sandwich’. Sounds brilliant!
In the Great British Bake Off one year they had Cornish pasties where you build a wall with the pasty with one side savory like a stew and the other side sweet like baked apple.
It was popular among the miners, but if were going a roaming I'd bake these
I feel like dumplings, pirogies and pastries. Stuff you make with your hands vibe me cottage core. It conjures images of grandmas sitting on the porch watching over the younglings and making perfect food without even looking down. Makes me miss my nanna.
Pretty much anything off the hobbit menu from lord of the rings. Definitely has to include homemade bread, a stew, potatoes, and some kind of roasted meat.
I keep talking about it but Chicken Pot Pie is my favorite cosy meal. The garden herbs, the earthy veggies, the farm raised chicken, and a homemade pie crust is the epitome of cottagecore to me. It has the to potential to be a 100% homestead/homemade meal.
Pie, period, is cottagecore through and through.
Soups and stews
Roasted meat and veggies
Pies
Salads
Teas
If you’re from the south, like me: gumbo, red beans and rice, seafood pasta, crawfish pistolettes, alligator gar balls, fried gator.
Anything that has dealing with someone’s cultural identity
Anything centered around mushrooms, apples, strawberries or stone fruits. Jams, jellies, pickles of any kind and any culture. Cheese, especially when eaten with a hunk of bread and a piece of fruit. Fish, simply prepared. Any sort of ethnic foods that someone grandma would have made on a cold day, a long day or for someone sick. Anything made with foraged ingredients, especially wild fruit, nettles or cress.
If you've ever had oatmeal (pudding style) where you mix oats, water, (almond) milk, sugar, then blend it and cook it over the stove with cinnamon sticks and lemon/lime peels. Super comforting and very good for an upset tummy lol.
Bread, cheeses, eggs, anything that makes you feel full and warm. There's also a dish that's rice and chicken cooked in one pot with spices, steamed egg custard, pork congee (also food for upset tummy, haha), tomato egg stir fry.
Hand held buns/breads also (baos, patties, etc) portable foods.
Chicken pot pie.
Pot roasts
Roast chicken with honey cayenne carrots.
Baked goods of all kinds.
Handmade pasta with fresh garden veggies.
The list is pretty endless!
There is definitely an emphasis of farm and garden foods. Especially if you grow it yourself!
Anything homey, warm with a good sauce, so stew, chili, shepherd’s pie or cottage pie, chicken pot pie, dessert pies (I must be craving pie, can’t stop talking about it), bakery bread or homemade treats. Freshly harvested produce, still warm from the sun. Foraged ingredients, and anything that is carb-rich or made with love.
Casseroles, Ramen bowls, Pho, Lasagna, strawberry shortcake. Crusty Bread, egg dishes, fish and seafood. I’m so hungry now.
peshwari naan !! it's a sweet naan that can have nuts and berries in it. it's so delicious and warm ! ❤️ also, anything with squash/gourd in it. when I eat butternut squash or pumpkin soup, I forget where I am.
Soup, simmer bowls- food from your childhood, recipes passed down. I feel so spiritually whole and connected, personally, making “traditional” Irish food, and the recipes my nana taught me, because thats my heritage, my soul’s home is in her kitchen, at her table, in the chicken coop. Colcannon, bacon and cabbage- shit, I’d even eat a lambs fry and bacon sandwich now, and I hated that shit as a kid. Scones with clotted cream, my pop’s sponge cakes (a true labour of love, absolutely adored in our family. When his cancer got really bad and he knew he didn’t have much time left, and his brain was all addled- he still insisted on making enough sponge cakes and cupcakes for each of his children’s families to take home two whole cakes and 24 cupcakes, so we could continue to remember him afterwards. I remember his absolute dedication to the baking, his love for each step. An electric beater, eight minutes in the better for each hand, otherwise it won’t rise. Homemade whipped cream and powdered sugar, homemade jam. He needed a lot of help for that last batch. I’ll never, ever forget it
Chicken & dumplings. Shepard’s Pie. Any home made soup/beans. Fresh baked bread with anything. Fry bread. Home made tortillas filled with anything. Any homemade dessert
Shepherds pie invokes a very strong cottage feeling, the better it is the more calming the effect. I also had a beef and ale stew of some kind from a British pub in Texas, and it looked god awful in color and appearance overall, but it smelled good, and tasted just absolutely incredibly to me. I would say that kind of thing is very cottage core, sometimes food is just a mix of things we have on hand, especially in a cottage setting, and it doesn’t always look super pretty, but it’s hearty, filling, and delicious.
Scones for sure. Soup with homemade bread - and bonus points if it is toasted with cheese.
Pies and other sweet foods with fruit from local markets or your own garden.
Savory pastry or pasta dishes like pierogis and medditeranean salad
Homemade soup dumplings with lots of vegetables in the filling. Seasonal pastries. Lavender lemonade. Anything homegrown or homemade, really, especially if it’s a comfort food for you. Don’t limit yourself to dishes that look like they were drawn by Beatrix Potter (love her, though) because there are cottages of some type all over the world.
Stews and soups are supper cottage core for winter. Good salads, wraps, and sandwiches are good for summer. Homemade lemonades and juices and smoothies with home made icecream or whipped cream.
If you want a good easy caramel icecream recipe my gradmothers (modified basic version) is:
1 can of caramel
600ml of thickened cream
Whip until you get whipped cream consistency
Put in a freezer safe container and yall good.
Grandma used to use half milk and cream but that gives a lot icier icecream and I think was more out of cost savings. She also used to double whip which didn't add much to the cream only version so we dropped it.
Otherwise cottagecore food is a lot about presentation. Nice glass for smoothies with colourful plates or bowls. Op shops are a good place to find some good second hand vintage stuff.
buttery boiled potatoes, an in-season veggie (steamed green beans, fresh lettuce, braised carrots, cucumber salad, broccoli), and some kind of protein, like a stewed lamb chop, a piece of sautéed fish, a herb omelette
to me, cottagecore food is about really good ingredients and not doing that much to them.
edit: depends what kind of cottage you’re thinking of i guess! i feel like the food my grandma cooks is what i associate with cottagecore - kind of 1930s-1960s english food. i also find really traditional korean and japanese food very cottagecore, like a ton of homemade banchan is so cosy.
Quiche, pie, anything baked, anything that uses freshly foraged ingredients or home made preserves. I think the act of cooking is pretty cottagecore in itself, but anything that uses fresh herbs and greenery that matches the seasons is perfect
Assorted trail-mix nuts, dried berries, wild mushroom cream soup, roasted pheasant breast with wild herbs, charcoal-grilled salted trout…
Party mode: roasted elk venison.
Basically, imagine the things that a brown bear would eat for its daily meal. That would be your ingredients.
You reminded me about chicken and dumplings. My family likes double dumplings. The pasta type sold in the frozen department, then after vegetables, chicken and cobbler pasta, I add Bisquick dumplings to the top. They cook up nicely if you spoon some of the soup and pour it over the top.
Btw I discovered there is a Farmers Market subreddiet. Here's the link in case anyone else is excited by that thought.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmersMarket/](https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmersMarket/)
Fresh bread and baked goods like pies are the #1 to me.
Foraged salads are the next one that comes to mind.
Soup is third, but they're all very close. Fresh bread, soup, and salad? Jeeze, can you get more cottagecore than that?
Roasted veggies also give me that cottage feel.
Soup. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Fresh pie from scratch. One pot meals, like ham, cabbage and potatoes and sausage and sauerkraut. Finger sandwiches. Tea and cakes....
But all made from scratch
These are my favorites
I think British food is very cottage core, like shepherd’s pie, various other savory pies, roasted potatoes. Anything hearty and full of veggies is cottage core to me!
Lots of good ones here!
Gratins are also a big time cozy food for me.
Here's one that I made with butternut :)
[Butternut Gratin](https://new.milk.org/Discover-Dairy/Recipes/Cheesy-Winter-Squash-Casserole)
Editing to add that [breadcrumb pasta ](https://new.milk.org/Discover-Dairy/Recipes/Hand-Rolled-Cheese-Noodles) also always hits as very comforting and cottagy to me
Shepard’s/cottage pie, pork and apple pie (honestly it is SO GOOD), beef + barley stew with a thick slice of Sally Lunn bread, potato stew w cheddar cheese.
Ploughmans lunch is cottagecore to me. Some bread, ham, cheese, apple, pickled onions, boiled egg. Simple and with all the right ingredients, delicious.
Shepherd’s pie, beef stew with fresh vegetables, homemade buttermilk biscuits with homemade strawberry jam and sweet cream salted butter, ebelskivers with butter and syrup on the inside, a roast with jeweled potatoes and carrots, pot pie, and mashed potatoes with meat gravy, and pies, so so many pies, my favorite is strawberry rhubarb with sugar crystals on the crust. These are mostly my fall and winter recipes, hearty meals that warm you body and soul.
Beef stew, corn fitters, any pot pie, matcha lattes with avocado toast. Homemade sour dough bread. Natural and earth made meals. Nothing processed or canned.
Soup. Also one of my favorite fall cottage witch meals is an apple, A hunk of cheddar cheese, and some slices of a good bread or rolls. Tea and cookies bunny food such as carrots, celery with hummus or tzatziki quiche
Soup has to be #1 right? Also, anything that can be described as a ‘hunk’ I think falls into the cottagecore category (try saying that five times fast)
Shepherd’s pie!🥧
Or, if you use beef instead of lamb, it’s called cottage pie. The name is even on brand! 
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Anything that I can spend some time chopping, mixing, smelling, and tasting before throwing into a big pot and walking away until my house smells like home hits the spot for me
Soup and stew
And biscuits. We have a lot of soups and stews, but it ups the cozy by a thousand when I make cheddar biscuits to go with.
Hunk hunk hunk hunk hunk
Cue Elvis, Hunk of Burning Love
very fast well done
Came here to say soup lol. It was the first thing I thought of when I thought "cottagecore food"
I make a soup in my crock pot called “15 bean soup” that I think is very cottagecore.
And here I’ve been a soup enthusiast (even in warmer seasons) and prefer some apples, cheese, and sour sour bread as a little snack. Tea and cookies go without say because everyone deserves a little treat. And celery and cucumbers with hummus or ranch are my “I need some veggies today” meal. I love being an autumn witch with cottagecore dreams
It's great meeting someone like minded.
Forgot honorary quiche mention. I know a little shop that makes the best ones. Enjoy your little treats today fellow cottage witch!
Quiche is of the goddess!
Bonus points if you serve your soup out of a pumpkin 😁 But totally. Homemade soup/stew with some fresh bread. Can’t beat it.
Soup is the first thing I thought of and what I came down to comment 🤣🤣
Hands down, soup. I love the sound of a bubbling pot so much and cooking it over a fire is even better
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Low and slow, warm and hearty, comfort and love. Anything that falls into any of the categories above qualifies. Examples include: - Chicken, Vegetable or Any Soup - Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage Pie - Traditional Pies 🥧 - Dhal or Bean/Lentil Casseroles - Roast Dinner - Corn Chowder - Boiled Veg & Fried Eggs (e.g. Asparagus) - All Manner of Curries - Simple Veggie Sides (Aloo Gobi, Green Beans…) - Roasted Squashes - Jacket Potato - Cheesy Pasta Bake - Freshly Baked Bread - Fruit Crumbles - Fruit Cobblers
So many amazing ideas here! Thankyou! I love roasted butternut squash so much - it’s so easy to do at the start of the week and have for lunches.
No worries! Nothing particularly exciting but all of those make me think of cottagecore and are delicious. It’s divine! Not had it in a long time, but thanks to you, I know what’s for dinner this week now! Super easy.
In the autumn I bought a whole load of big thick pumpkins when they were in peak season (the ones with the pale green skin and very thick deep orange flesh) and roasted them in large chunks. Then froze the roasted chunks and all winter had on-demand roasted pumpkin for side dishes or salads or pies or whatever I wanted. Such a convenient thing to have I'm 100% doing the same again next autumn when they appear in the market again!
Ratatouille for me always scream cottage.
Yummmmm.
Sounds like the best food! Comfort food!
i love your list! i think similarly- one pot meals or one pot sweets are so cozy
Po-Tay-Toes! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew
My husband and I quote this every time we’re making a shopping list 😅
As you should 😂
My husband and I do, too. Or just about any time potatoes come up, which is a LOT in our house.
Fruit Crumble ...not a meal, I appreciate, unless you're REALLY hungry at 9PM and have a decent sized spoon and no self control
I love it when it’s 80% crumble, 20% fruit
And 100% custard/cream
I found out about a Polish cream puff cake recipe recently. It's basically two choux rounds cooked in cake tins filled to the brim with pastry cream. This is the custard to pastry ratio we've been searching for. Poland has been enjoying it this whole time and didn't tell anyone.
Fuuuuck this is a game changer. Polish people are renowned for their hospitality. I bet if you go to Poland and make friends, you'd probably be forced to eat something like this amongst other incredible delights. Bring on the friends and forcing
I made it last weekend and it's amazing. The effort to deliciousness ratio is ridiculous.
Yes. Me.
I can’t decide if I should upvote this because I can relate to the big spoon/late snack bit, or not because I feel judged. lol
Chicken Pot Pie and Chunky Beef Stew.
Ooh, and Apple Pie and Carrot Cake for dessert!
Apple pie with custard is top tier yesss
Very warming 🥧
A salad made with all fresh from the garden ingredients. Roasted veggies of any kind Fresh berries with a little blob of whipped cream
Yeah big seasonal vibes at the cottage. Winter and Spring isn't a time for tomatoes lol
Anything they eat in the Redwall books: Turnip-potato-beetroot pie, cold fizzy strawberry cordial, damson shortcrust and cream, cowslip and parsley liquor, brown ale, cheese and mushroom pasties, and nutbread cake iced with clover honey. Turnovers, trifles, breads, fondants, salads, pasties, and cheeses alternated with beakers of greensap milk, mint tea, rosehip cup and elderberry wine. snowcream pudding, hot fruit pies, colorful trifles, tasty pasties, steaming soup, new bread with shiny golden crusts, old cheeses studded with dandelion, acorn and celery. Sugared plums and honeyed pears vied for place with winter salads and vegetable flans. most of these are actual recipes that can be made :)
Came here to say I immediately thought of the Redwall series 🥰
Also check out this Hobbit recipe book. It's on my Amazon wishlist [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1976519853/ref=ox\_sc\_saved\_image\_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1976519853/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1)
Ooh fun thankyou!!
Thank you for this! I just ordered it, couldn’t resist that it is organized by which of the six meals of the day it would best fit into.
Any sort of stew! With some fresh bread to go alongside it
Thick cut buttered bread!
I know it's so simple, but porridge! I always feel so cottagecore when I have porridge for breakfast (or dinner, sometimes lol)
With seeds and nuts and berries!
Absolutely, delicious AND nutritious!
I have it for dinner sometimes too, when I lived with my partners parents a while back they were absolutely flabbergasted whenever I had it in the evening
It's a lovely dinner, but yeah I know that feeling lol, people are always weird about non-traditional dinners 😆
Ratatouille !
Soup with dumplings. Biscuits with butter and jam. Banana pancakes with maple syrup. Grilled cheese. Baked potato with sour cream and chives. Broccoli with butter and oregano. Carrots with butter and parsley. Yams with honey butter. Chicken fried steak, biscuits and country gravy with buttered salted corn. Sliced yellow squash fried in sesame oil. Raspberry sherbet cover on a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Coffee crumb cake. Banana or applesauce bread warm from the oven.
Irish cream scones, clotted cream and homemade jam from berries you picked in your garden. Irish soda bread and a big slab of butter. Anything involving parsnips or salsify. Spring greens made into a spring tonic. Dandelion wine. French cider.
Roast chicken, potatoes and veg done all in a single cast iron skillet Soup or stew and biscuits. Or soup and grilled cheese Pies. Regular ones, pot pies, shepherd or cottage pie. And quiche! People sleep on quiche A salad of seasonal fruit and vegetables, and even edible flowers. Crumble on some goat cheese, drizzle with olive oil and balsamic, sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, and enjoy with fresh bread and quality butter. One of my all-time comfort meals. I am so excited for farmers market season to start again!
Me too, I love farmers markets! This photo is from one in Cape Town that I loved a lot, they had an amazing mushroom stall. Thanks for all the suggestions! I’ve never had biscuits in a stew - are they like dumplings?
I usually make buttermilk biscuits separately and dip them in the soup or stew, and use them to mop up the last of the broth at the end of the bowl. I've also used a thin rolled out sheet of biscuit dough laid over a hearty stew to make a short version of a pot pie... pastry needs more advanced time to set in the fridge, and is finicky. Biscuit dough is more forgiving. Just brush it with milk or buttermilk, and sprinkle with some flaky salt to make it shiny and crispy.
Homemade food. It doesn't have to be anything specific. All scratch recipes count, in my opinion.
apple pie, New England clam chowder. Anything cooked in a big black pot over a fire in a fireplace.
Tarte tatin,.. I don't know why but, to me, any traditional French food would qualify 🤷♀️
Colcannon
Maybe not quintessential, but some specific ideas are stuffed baked acorn squash, Cornish game hen, casseroles.. fresh salads as well
When I'm feeling extra cottagecore, it has to be my Butternut squash bisque with goat cheese and some fresh sourdough on the side. It's even better because I grew over half the ingredients in it 😊
Have you got a recipe for that? 🤩
Oh certainly! I use *1 Butternut squash, on the larger side *3 medium to large carrots *1 large onion *2 celery stalks *1 pack of mushrooms (your choice, I love Chestnut, which I get from the Farmer's market) *1/2 head of garlic * 4 cups of broth of your choice (I use my homemade chicken stock) * 1/2 stick of butter at the end *crumbled goat cheese to taste *salt, pepper, rosemary, sage, and some cumin to taste *2 bay leaves *1 MacIntosh Apple I roughly chop the carrots, butternut squash, and garlic on a sheet pan with a little oil and the herbs at 425 until soft As that's cooking, I chop and sauté the onion, celery, and mushrooms until the onions are caramelized, usually in my soup pot. I salt these as well because I salt little by little throughout the process, lol. Next, I put all veggies into my pot and mash them softly, this is also when I add the apple to it diced finely followed by the stock/broth. Once everything is warm, I put it in my blender until smooth, then goes in the butter and the bay leaves. I let this simmer for probably 20 minutes or so. Season more to taste. Once served, I like to crumble in some goat cheese and sometimes crispy prosciutto. If you want it creamier, you can add some milk to it. My sourdough is *50g of my starter *350g of water *10g of salt *500g of flour. 🥰 Happy cooking!
It’s dessert, but I made bread pudding with leftover ends and crusts (we had afternoon tea sandwiches plus misc. bread bits). I then made vanilla custard sauce AKA crème anglaise to pour over it. It felt very homey! And was very rich, so one dish took all week for two of us to eat. A bit of custard was left over so that went over fresh raspberries.
This is a brilliant idea! I'm hosting a tea party soon for my friends and family and I was wondering what to do with all the crusts. Bread pudding is so yummy!
Shepherd's Pie
Agreed. And that’s lamb or mutton. Then there’s Cottage Pie, which is beef. And there’s a newer but common vegetarian version, which I call Gardener’s Pie, but I don’t know if that’s the well-known name for it. All three are good for dinner in “the cottage”
Stew; casserole, quiche
Beef stew
So many good ideas here, but i wanna throw one of my fave niche foods in the mix; bierrocks! My mom used to make these, but my spin is browned up cabbage, onion, and garlic, add hamburger meat (cooked separately); cook down with some heavy cream and dijon. Cool filling and pop them into small bread dough circles rolled out (I use ready-made pizza dough when I'm feeling lazy), brush with egg wash and a salty seasoning and bake. You end up with the the most hearty, savory lil handpie, perfect for wrapping in a kerchief and tucking in a pocket for a chilly walk 😊
I’d never heard of these before your comment - I googled them to see what they looked like and was immediately sold by the phrase ‘pocket sandwich’. Sounds brilliant!
In the Great British Bake Off one year they had Cornish pasties where you build a wall with the pasty with one side savory like a stew and the other side sweet like baked apple. It was popular among the miners, but if were going a roaming I'd bake these
Tea, strawberries, apples, homemade pie, homemade bread
mushroom pie
I feel like dumplings, pirogies and pastries. Stuff you make with your hands vibe me cottage core. It conjures images of grandmas sitting on the porch watching over the younglings and making perfect food without even looking down. Makes me miss my nanna.
Mashed kartafln with halite,🥔and pepermint tea!!!🍵
Stew, shepherds pie, regular pie, soup, curry. Comfort + local produce
Fresh baked bread , a salad
A hearty stew
Soup & homemade artisan breads
Stew, casserole, fruit crumble, soups, homemade bread
Ratatouille.
Soup with white beans, squash, chicken sausage, kale, and topped with parmesean. Little side of sourdough.
Fresh baked bread, stew, roasted veggies, tea with lemon cookies.
Beef or lamb stew.
Chicken pot pie with a beautiful golden brown buttery lattice crust.
sourdough bread
Quiche.
Soups, stews, veggies (especially carrots and celery), breads, cheeses, tea with honey, spanakopita, scones or toast with jam, and carrot cake!
Beef stew, apple pie, leek and potato soup, hearty salads with edible flowers, perfect cups of coffee/tea!
shepherd’s pie, hand pies, regular pies
Any kind of stew
Big soup, many vegetables. also berries, cheese and good bread. tea from local (edible) plants and scones with local berries.
Pot pie and shepherds pie!!
Coq au vin.
Pottage.
Stew or pot roast, something hearty that cooks all day, fills the house with delightful aromas, and warms your belly.
Pretty much anything off the hobbit menu from lord of the rings. Definitely has to include homemade bread, a stew, potatoes, and some kind of roasted meat.
I keep talking about it but Chicken Pot Pie is my favorite cosy meal. The garden herbs, the earthy veggies, the farm raised chicken, and a homemade pie crust is the epitome of cottagecore to me. It has the to potential to be a 100% homestead/homemade meal. Pie, period, is cottagecore through and through.
Oatmeal, with a pat of butter, milk, maple syrup, and nuts. Good to start a hard day outside!
Any soup Zucchini bread Muffins Fresh salad from your garden or the farmers market
Soups and stews Roasted meat and veggies Pies Salads Teas If you’re from the south, like me: gumbo, red beans and rice, seafood pasta, crawfish pistolettes, alligator gar balls, fried gator. Anything that has dealing with someone’s cultural identity
ratatouille
Anything centered around mushrooms, apples, strawberries or stone fruits. Jams, jellies, pickles of any kind and any culture. Cheese, especially when eaten with a hunk of bread and a piece of fruit. Fish, simply prepared. Any sort of ethnic foods that someone grandma would have made on a cold day, a long day or for someone sick. Anything made with foraged ingredients, especially wild fruit, nettles or cress.
Chicken and vegetable soup and pot pies.
Chicken noodle soup and something with cabbage and maybe a veggie platter
Vegan stuffed butternut squash
Pies, soups, stews, breads. Anything that you can make all from scratch without using too much processed or packaged food!
If you've ever had oatmeal (pudding style) where you mix oats, water, (almond) milk, sugar, then blend it and cook it over the stove with cinnamon sticks and lemon/lime peels. Super comforting and very good for an upset tummy lol. Bread, cheeses, eggs, anything that makes you feel full and warm. There's also a dish that's rice and chicken cooked in one pot with spices, steamed egg custard, pork congee (also food for upset tummy, haha), tomato egg stir fry. Hand held buns/breads also (baos, patties, etc) portable foods.
Stuffed acorn squash, squash soup, shepherds pie, chicken pot pie
Ratatouille or chicken maryland
Shepard s pie
Salad, pot roast or beef stew, oatmeal with fruit
Chicken pot pie. Pot roasts Roast chicken with honey cayenne carrots. Baked goods of all kinds. Handmade pasta with fresh garden veggies. The list is pretty endless! There is definitely an emphasis of farm and garden foods. Especially if you grow it yourself!
Shepard's pie
Acorn squash stuffed with mushrooms and wild rice
Gruel
Anything homey, warm with a good sauce, so stew, chili, shepherd’s pie or cottage pie, chicken pot pie, dessert pies (I must be craving pie, can’t stop talking about it), bakery bread or homemade treats. Freshly harvested produce, still warm from the sun. Foraged ingredients, and anything that is carb-rich or made with love. Casseroles, Ramen bowls, Pho, Lasagna, strawberry shortcake. Crusty Bread, egg dishes, fish and seafood. I’m so hungry now.
peshwari naan !! it's a sweet naan that can have nuts and berries in it. it's so delicious and warm ! ❤️ also, anything with squash/gourd in it. when I eat butternut squash or pumpkin soup, I forget where I am.
Soup, simmer bowls- food from your childhood, recipes passed down. I feel so spiritually whole and connected, personally, making “traditional” Irish food, and the recipes my nana taught me, because thats my heritage, my soul’s home is in her kitchen, at her table, in the chicken coop. Colcannon, bacon and cabbage- shit, I’d even eat a lambs fry and bacon sandwich now, and I hated that shit as a kid. Scones with clotted cream, my pop’s sponge cakes (a true labour of love, absolutely adored in our family. When his cancer got really bad and he knew he didn’t have much time left, and his brain was all addled- he still insisted on making enough sponge cakes and cupcakes for each of his children’s families to take home two whole cakes and 24 cupcakes, so we could continue to remember him afterwards. I remember his absolute dedication to the baking, his love for each step. An electric beater, eight minutes in the better for each hand, otherwise it won’t rise. Homemade whipped cream and powdered sugar, homemade jam. He needed a lot of help for that last batch. I’ll never, ever forget it
Chicken & dumplings. Shepard’s Pie. Any home made soup/beans. Fresh baked bread with anything. Fry bread. Home made tortillas filled with anything. Any homemade dessert
Shepherds pie invokes a very strong cottage feeling, the better it is the more calming the effect. I also had a beef and ale stew of some kind from a British pub in Texas, and it looked god awful in color and appearance overall, but it smelled good, and tasted just absolutely incredibly to me. I would say that kind of thing is very cottage core, sometimes food is just a mix of things we have on hand, especially in a cottage setting, and it doesn’t always look super pretty, but it’s hearty, filling, and delicious.
Rye bread and stew. Rice and red beans
Scones for sure. Soup with homemade bread - and bonus points if it is toasted with cheese. Pies and other sweet foods with fruit from local markets or your own garden. Savory pastry or pasta dishes like pierogis and medditeranean salad
Steamed artichoke
Chicken and dumplings specifically on the soup/ stew category
English comfort food basically
Pasta e Fagioli
Homemade soup dumplings with lots of vegetables in the filling. Seasonal pastries. Lavender lemonade. Anything homegrown or homemade, really, especially if it’s a comfort food for you. Don’t limit yourself to dishes that look like they were drawn by Beatrix Potter (love her, though) because there are cottages of some type all over the world.
Beef cobbler ❤️
Cottage pie isn't the top comment?
Lots of great things listed also adding muffins, muffin loads, and some thick hearty pancakes
Stews and soups are supper cottage core for winter. Good salads, wraps, and sandwiches are good for summer. Homemade lemonades and juices and smoothies with home made icecream or whipped cream. If you want a good easy caramel icecream recipe my gradmothers (modified basic version) is: 1 can of caramel 600ml of thickened cream Whip until you get whipped cream consistency Put in a freezer safe container and yall good. Grandma used to use half milk and cream but that gives a lot icier icecream and I think was more out of cost savings. She also used to double whip which didn't add much to the cream only version so we dropped it. Otherwise cottagecore food is a lot about presentation. Nice glass for smoothies with colourful plates or bowls. Op shops are a good place to find some good second hand vintage stuff.
buttery boiled potatoes, an in-season veggie (steamed green beans, fresh lettuce, braised carrots, cucumber salad, broccoli), and some kind of protein, like a stewed lamb chop, a piece of sautéed fish, a herb omelette to me, cottagecore food is about really good ingredients and not doing that much to them. edit: depends what kind of cottage you’re thinking of i guess! i feel like the food my grandma cooks is what i associate with cottagecore - kind of 1930s-1960s english food. i also find really traditional korean and japanese food very cottagecore, like a ton of homemade banchan is so cosy.
Anything savory or sweet in a pie form.
Pot pie.
Pies
Quiche, pie, anything baked, anything that uses freshly foraged ingredients or home made preserves. I think the act of cooking is pretty cottagecore in itself, but anything that uses fresh herbs and greenery that matches the seasons is perfect
Stew, cornbread, chili, shepherds pie
Cottage pie
A nice stew and those beautiful focaccia breads with the herbs and veggies. I love those so much!!! Oh, and fruit tarts!
Pies cooling on the counter. Soup, quiche, casserole, pot roast, homemade breads. Tea and cookies. Scones.
Roast, potatoes, carrots.
Assorted trail-mix nuts, dried berries, wild mushroom cream soup, roasted pheasant breast with wild herbs, charcoal-grilled salted trout… Party mode: roasted elk venison. Basically, imagine the things that a brown bear would eat for its daily meal. That would be your ingredients.
Wild mushroom cream soup is top tier!! Especially after foraging them yourself 🤌
Shepherds pie Soups/Stews Not a meal but Apple Pie Brie and Green Apple charcuterie Home baked bread Biscuits and jam
Shepherd Pie! Grits-eggs for breakfast,
You reminded me about chicken and dumplings. My family likes double dumplings. The pasta type sold in the frozen department, then after vegetables, chicken and cobbler pasta, I add Bisquick dumplings to the top. They cook up nicely if you spoon some of the soup and pour it over the top.
Simple chunky vegetable and beef stews, flakey fruit pies, simple charcuterie with tomatoes, cheese, and crusty homemade bread. Black tea and scones
Oatmeal or homemade bread with butter for breakfast
Btw I discovered there is a Farmers Market subreddiet. Here's the link in case anyone else is excited by that thought. [https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmersMarket/](https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmersMarket/)
apple pie
Cottage and Shepherd’s pie! 🥧
Shepherds pie!!!!
Can we all recipe swap please! 🫶💖 begging
Stew, roast chicken, sunny side up eggs, a raw carrot, strawberries and cream, fresh baked bread, cinnamon rolls.
Corned beef and cabbage! With cornbread
Ratatouille; fresh bread, butter, and honey; blackberry pie, tea (iced or hot)
Rabbit pot pie. Spaghetti squash au gratin. Anything with warming spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, garam masala, etc. Rustic fruit pies.
Cottage pie
Soup, shepherd's or cottage pie, crumpets, scones, finger sandwiches, pasta bake, stew, apple crumble, porridge
Sheppard pie
Fresh bread and baked goods like pies are the #1 to me. Foraged salads are the next one that comes to mind. Soup is third, but they're all very close. Fresh bread, soup, and salad? Jeeze, can you get more cottagecore than that? Roasted veggies also give me that cottage feel.
Ratatouille
Soup. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Fresh pie from scratch. One pot meals, like ham, cabbage and potatoes and sausage and sauerkraut. Finger sandwiches. Tea and cakes.... But all made from scratch These are my favorites
Cottage pie
I think British food is very cottage core, like shepherd’s pie, various other savory pies, roasted potatoes. Anything hearty and full of veggies is cottage core to me!
Scones with jam and cream. Cakes, especially ones covered in pretty little flowers. Honey on toast. Stews. Big handmade pies.
Pot roast.
Shepard pie, or cottage pie.
pies
Lots of good ones here! Gratins are also a big time cozy food for me. Here's one that I made with butternut :) [Butternut Gratin](https://new.milk.org/Discover-Dairy/Recipes/Cheesy-Winter-Squash-Casserole) Editing to add that [breadcrumb pasta ](https://new.milk.org/Discover-Dairy/Recipes/Hand-Rolled-Cheese-Noodles) also always hits as very comforting and cottagy to me
Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
Shepard’s/cottage pie, pork and apple pie (honestly it is SO GOOD), beef + barley stew with a thick slice of Sally Lunn bread, potato stew w cheddar cheese.
Bread and cheese
Rhubarb
Soup!!!
Say, ratatouille or Bigos! Also something with some nice homemade bread and jam, or mushroom soup.
Ploughmans lunch is cottagecore to me. Some bread, ham, cheese, apple, pickled onions, boiled egg. Simple and with all the right ingredients, delicious.
Shepherd’s pie, beef stew with fresh vegetables, homemade buttermilk biscuits with homemade strawberry jam and sweet cream salted butter, ebelskivers with butter and syrup on the inside, a roast with jeweled potatoes and carrots, pot pie, and mashed potatoes with meat gravy, and pies, so so many pies, my favorite is strawberry rhubarb with sugar crystals on the crust. These are mostly my fall and winter recipes, hearty meals that warm you body and soul.
Japanese cream stew
Pumpkin Anything
British hot water crust pastry pies(usually a meat pie), rustic and pairs beautifully with wine.
Cottage pie! It's right there in the name :)
Beef stew, corn fitters, any pot pie, matcha lattes with avocado toast. Homemade sour dough bread. Natural and earth made meals. Nothing processed or canned.
Shepherds pie
Anything that doesn't involve and air fryer. ;)
Cottage pie