The Breakfast Stack talks food!
If you have already started tucking into bowls of comforting soup or spicy curries to melt the icicles away from those fingers and toes, then read on.
Darren Maule and The Breakfast Stack have paged through their personal recipe collection to share some of their favourite winter comfort food.
For Darren, a plate of pork bangers, mash and mushy peas is the ultimate treat.
The Breakfast Stack jock says he usually buys his mushy peas in a can. He prefers lumpy mashed potatoes to the creamy, smooth kind and sometimes adds some corn to his, to give it some texture.
Darren says he remembers eating the meal while on a school trip to Pilgrim's Rest in Mpumulanga. He says after ordering it at a restaurant there, he asked his mum to make it for him when he got home. He had eaten sausage and mashed potatoes before but that bangers and mash meal was prepared so well that it became his favourite.
The man who likes all kinds of foods says the meal he puts away in winter is apple crumble with "the works".
By works, Samson Oduntan means custard, cream and ice-cream. Shew!
Sam says he buys the treat from a bakery; he wouldn't dare take a chance in the kitchen with this meal. He says he heats the desert in the microwave for a long time until it's too hot to eat. He says he loves it that way. "It needs to be piping hot when it enters my mouth."
The Breakfast Stack co-anchor says he first tried apple crumble when he was at university. After tasting it for the first time, he wanted to eat it over and over again but couldn't afford it. "Now that I'm working, I can. In fact I eat three in one go. No, I'm not kidding," he says.
The rose among the thorns, Natarah Nadesan, never lets a bowl of creamy butternut soup go to waste. She also says her mum's delicious chicken curry made with thick gravy, soft potatoes and served with pickle and flaky roti is her favourite winter meal.
"This Durban style curry that my mum cooked was a family favourite on a Saturday afternoon. We ate it late in the afternoon so that we could eat lots of homemade bread pudding."
Gorgeous George says his go-to comfort meal in winter is a mutton bunny chow.
"Another thing I really love that I can eat every single day is Thai sweet chili basil chicken curry. It is so yummy!"
George says his bunny must be spicy with lots of gravy, tender lamb and melting potatoes.
Wezzle Pezzle also enjoys a bunny chow. He prefers either broad beans or mixed vegetable curry. The Breakfast Stack technical producer says it's a good bunny when the cook adds lots of fresh veggies and chillies!
He says, "I like my curries super hot, I must sweat during my meal. Basically, if my nose isn't running then I'm not enjoying my curry!"
What's your favourite Winter meal? Let us know. Email [email protected] and send through a photo of what you love to 'chow'!
- Natarah Nadesan
Twitter: @NatarahECR