my favorite winter recipes

mostly soups, but not entirely

Feb 10, 2026

this winter in berlin has (apparently) been one of the coldest in 16 years, and it definitely feels like it. more days than not, the windows of my apartment have been iced over, obscuring most of the precious light we get on any given day and melting into annoying puddles of water that pool up on the windowsills.

thanks to all the snow this year, sidewalks all around the city have also been iced over, leading to a simmering annoyance with my daily dog walks, where i have to choose between shuffling across sheer ice on the paths next to the river and through the parks, or turn to the main thoroughfares and pluck tiny stones out of my dog’s paws every few minutes (she’s sensitive).

it hasn’t been all bad though. the unusually cold and snowy winter here has come with more sunshine (always a plus) and when the snow coats the city it does make it feel a little, well, prettier, and more like home. it’s also given me just one more reason to stay in (as if i truly needed one), light a candle or two, and eat soup.

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i have strong feelings about soup making and soup eating, many of which are reflected in best food blog’s 10 soup commandments, the most important being that you can probably make soup right now with ingredients you already have sitting in your kitchen and pantry. this is a good thing to remember and to believe in as we enter the last few weeks (months?) of this very cold winter.

if you’re not a soup person, i do not understand and i ask you to sound off in the comments; i can’t and won’t protect you from bullies and/or trolls. no matter your stance, you will find more than soup in the 16 recipes i’ve handpicked from the the darn good archive below. i wouldn’t say they’re exclusively winter recipes, but they do taste especially good when the air is cold and the nights are long.