When I went to college, I realized that I could live out my childhood dream of eating dessert for dinner! I bought tubs of Kozy Shack chocolate pudding and rice pudding and ate it for dinner, and quickly gained my “freshman 15”! Those were the days. Kozy Shack sets the bar for rice pudding in my book, and it’s a unicorn I’ve been chasing for a long time. 

When I think of the ideal cozy weeknight dinner, this is the kind of recipe that I dream about. It’s a one-pot wonder that comes together in under 30 minutes, with barely any chopping. It’s the kind of meal I would make if I were staying in a snowy cabin with friends and wanted to make a dinner with minimum effort. There’s nothing better on a cold day than a soul-soothing soup that tastes like it’s been cooking for hours.

Making homemade blueberry buttermilk pancakes and drenching them in warmed-up maple syrup and melted butter is, in my opinion, one of the se