Stay home and cozy up with your favorite winter recipes

“Six more weeks of winter,” says our local groundhog celebrity, Punxatawney Phil. As Pennsylvania tradition has it, February 2^nd (or Groundhog Day) is a day we call on the famous future-telling Phil to gain insight on the upcoming weather. The joke is on us, though, as he always seems to be forecasting only more winter. Groundhog Day ends up being a fun way to remind us of what we already know: winter isn’t going anywhere.

But why not celebrate? The way we see it, the cold is a great reason to stay in and cook up some of your favorite winter time comfort foods: hearty soups like Pasta Fagioli, gnocchi dishes, creamy risottos, lasagna and other baked pasta dishes, classic polenta… you get the idea.

So if winter has you down, we’ve got the cure. What better way to fight off the cold-weather blues than with a hearty lineup of Italian-style comfort food classics?

Here are a few of our favorites to fend off the chill: