With one snowstorm after another, the complaints about the piles on our roofs, the shoveling of walks, and the time we're spending cleaning off cars have become tiresome. We're all in the same boat (or sled).

So enough about snow.

Cooking and eating good hot food is something that comforts and sustains us while we wait for sunshine and warmer temperatures.

During the latest snowstorm that lasted for two days, Feb. 8-9, a lot of us were cheering ourselves and loved ones up by cooking some of our favorite foods.

Here are some of the meals that people in the Boothbay area, and others from as far away as England, (who have family and loved ones who are dealing with the snow, and are therefore empathetic) were cooking for dinner on Feb. 9:

Patricia Moroz in Boothbay had a tri-tip roast simmering in a Crock-Pot with French onion soup and veggies. There were also carrot cakes baking in the oven, but Boothbay's favorite cake lady said those were for a customer.

Julie Hoskeer's kitchen in Boothbay Harbor was warm and aromatic with the apple pie bread and lemon loaf she was baking.

In Wiscasset, Holly Hargrove was enjoying a warm grilled Fluffernutter (peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich). She said it was awesome.

Pat Schmid said her husband Matt had a roast beef cooking slowly in a Crock-Pot in broth and seasonings “till it fell apart.”

In Edgecomb, Anya Heyl was cooking up a hearty pot of sweet Italian sausage with roasted tomatoes, colored peppers, red onion and jalapeño, with a cilantro cream sauce, over penne pasta.

Katrina Clark of Boothbay Harbor was cooking a rotisserie pork roast with vegetables. She said it came out great.

One of the area's favorite lobster chefs, Margaret McLellan, was in her kitchen whipping up an aromatic blend of essential oils, organic sugars and sea salt to make scrubs for her new business, Salt Works. Making scrubs like Maine blueberry, sea lavender, lemongrass, fresh coconut and key lime, dark chocolate and blood orange, she said her home smelled like a feast of exotic fragrances. “After that, it's gonna be Progresso Light soup and spinach.”

Marie Cooper in Edgecomb was making a big pot of minestrone soup, laden with fresh vegetables and pasta, for a neighbor who had just had surgery. Born and raised in New Mexico, Cooper had also fried some tortilla chips with chili pepper, and baked a huge pan of enchiladas. She said the enchiladas had burned “while she was out (expletive) shoveling!”

Boothbay Harbor resident Sue Witt was preparing a gourmet Italian dish for herself and her husband Tom: pasta with prosciutto, tomatoes, garlic and basil.

Witt's sister, Jenn Chipman, who grew up in Boothbay Harbor and lives in Rockland with her husband Ken, was making a taco salad. “It was yummy, with fresh tomatoes, avocado, and all the fixings,” Chipman said.

In Cushing, Richard Provonchee said that after enjoying an “Oscar Meyer jalapeño sandwich (or three) on this dark and stormy Sunday” for lunch, he was preparing chicken wings with olive oil, a little garlic, cayenne pepper and soy sauce for dinner.

The only down side? “I'm eating alone,” he said.

Up the road at Ida and Gary Clarke's there were Swedish meatballs cooking slowly in a Crock-Pot.

In Farmingdale, Susan Colfer had a bacon meatloaf in the oven. It was a bacon-lover’s delight, with a cup of chopped bacon mixed in, then wrapped in bacon strips. She said the family loved it.

Julie Johnson and her grandson, Mason, in Augusta, were being warmed and comforted with shepherd's pie and roast chicken while trying to ignore the latest storm.

South of Boothbay, in Saco, Kelly Thayer was making one of her husband, Oliver’s, favorites, carnitas, described by her as “delicious slow-cooked (five hours in the oven) pork butt in all kinds of goodness … including lard.”

Susan Bauer was relaxing in her cozy home in Bath watching movies, while a pork roast sent out irresistible aromas from the oven. She said she was having a problem getting the sauce for the roast right until she remembered her father had used apricot jam.

In Portland, Teresa LeGrange was making a snowy day staple, homemade chicken soup (with chocolate cream pie for dessert), for her husband Jim and their kids, Gracie and Jack.

While the snow was piling up outside, Mercedes Thayer and her daughter Elloise were feasting on chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, green beens and rolls. Elloise was more excited about the homemade chocolate chip cookies they had for dessert.

At Bates College in Lewiston, a freshman named Sophia was having a typical college freshman meal: a bowl of noodles.

Down in Cohassett, Massachusetts, where the snow was piling up as quickly as it was in Maine, Mary Ellen Pecci, who used to own a restaurant in Bath, was baking a broccoli and cheddar cheese quiche with chive cottage cheese and Greek yogurt.

Over on the other coast, Amy Provonchee was in Portland, Oregon, making donuts with her kids and husband, Joshua, while feeling sorry for her in-laws in coastal Maine. She felt sorry for them because of the snow, and because she couldn't share the warm donuts with them.

In San Francisco, where Heidi Snead said it was a wild and woolly night with wind gusts up to 40 mph, (“But, OK,” she said, “at least I'm not shoveling!”) there was a big pot of autumn vegetable soup on the stove, and whole wheat bread toasting, to be “smothered with butter.”

Jeanne Casey was commiserating with us, having lived at Sugarloaf for many years. While we were comforting ourselves with good food, she was in North Palm Beach, Florida, where she lives now, enjoying temps in the 80s and cooking turkey chili with avocado cream.

Also in Florida, in Port St. Lucie, Elizabeth Petersen, originally from Maine, was barbecuing chicken on the grill. She said it would be a “summertime menu,” with corn on the cob and potato salad.

And across the ocean in Shrewsbury, England, where Chuck Provonchee, from Cushing and Augusta, was visiting with his daughter Christienne, her husband Tom, and their daughter Gwendolyn, dinner on Sunday night was a meatball casserole from Marks & Spencer.

With another snowstorm on the way, get to the supermarket and stock up on ingredients for something hot and delicious to ward off the cold and those unwanted snowflakes.

And pick up a pint of cream for Marie Cooper's favorite dessert (chances are you'll already have the other ingredients), perfect for a snowy day — snow ice cream. 

The recipe: 4 cups snow, packed; 1 cup cream; ¼ cup sugar; 1 tsp. vanilla.

Stir and eat!