12 Extra-Strength Winter Comfort Food Recipes

You may have heard there's a storm a comin' for us living in the Northeast. This is fact, and the urgency to stock up, hunker down and pack on hibernation fat is real. Well, maybe not the hibernation fat thing, but certainly the rest. Behold: 12 hearty winter comfort dishes that are not messing around. There's bone-in braisables, melty, stretchy cheese, meaty soups and rib-sticking pasta and potato bakes. You'll need your strength to dig out your car.

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