Comfort food to get you over the weekend

How quickly the evenings are closing in and now there’s a proper excuse to light a crackling fire, cuddle up in an armchair and tuck into a big bowl of comforting stew or colcannon with a nice lump of beautiful butter melting in the centre.

You don’t need a special reason to eat comfort food. We need it all the time but the term comfort food conjures up warm and fuzzy images of rich, snooze-inducing dishes.

They certainly don’t have to be heavy or stodgy. We all have our own ideas of what constitutes comfort food.