Comfort Food

Discover the best comfort food spots in Illinois! Birrieria Zaragoza's award-winning Mexican stew and Omega Restaurant Bakery's 35+ years of homemade goodness await you.

Over the weekend, I got an email note from a friend who formerly lived here in the Rockford area. In the email, he included a link to a piece about "classic" Midwestern food dishes he found on a website.

Over the weekend, I got an email note from a friend who formerly lived here in the Rockford area. In the email, he included a link to a piece he found on a website.

Did you find yourself cooking more during 2020? Between lockdown, pure boredom, and watching way too many cooking videos online, I feel like I actually cooked more than I ever have before. I think my favorite part of all the cooking was that we turned to our favorite comfort foods to keep up sane last year...

With this Arctic blast we experiencing, all I want for dinner is some good old comfort food. Don't you? Nothing is more comforting than Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup.  However, I found an even cheesier yet so tasty Grilled Cheese you've got to try. Inside Out Grilled Cheese.

I love the crisp fall days. It just gets me in the mood to cook and bake. Fall just wouldn't be fall with out making one all twelve of these classic fall comfort foods.

When you need a quick cheer you up, what is you go to for comfort food? For me it's a giant Coke from McDonald's. According to Thrillist.com the top comfort food for Illinois is deep dish pizza. Ooooh! Yum. I love deep dish pizza. In Rockford Giordano's is the place to go ...