Good food warms the body and great food warms the soul.

As the nights get chillier, we found ourselves in need of a few good recipes to stave off the cold.

Thanks to Boothbay Register/Wiscasset Newspaper food columnist Paula Anderson, we’re able to do just that.

Here are our top five favorite columns (and recipes) from Paula.

Switching out beef for turkey

This column includes recipes for spicy apple sausage patties, Southwestern stuffed peppers, Thai turkey burgers, turkey black bean chili and “waistline-friendly” eggplant casserole.

Here a chick, there a chick, everywhere a chick

This column includes recipes for stuffed chicken cacciatore, Asian glazed chicken thighs, white chicken chili and boneless oven-fried chicken breasts.

Recipes dads will love

This columns includes recipes for breakfast biscuits and gravy, bacon-wrapped cherry pepper poppers, four-napkin barbecued baby back ribs, corn and black bean salad, cheddar biscuits and mixed berry crisp.

Incredible, edible egg

This column includes recipes for avocado spread, broccoli salmon quiche and Southern bread pudding with bourbon sauce.

Unexpected ingredients

This column includes recipes for banana split muffins, bacon-wrapped water chestnuts, slow-cooker barbecued chicken and simply sinful tomato soup chocolate cake.

Super Bowl snacks

This column includes recipes for pizza and spinach dip, chicken and sausage chili, bourbon and molasses glazed chicken wings, “The Colonel's” cole slaw and dessert pizza.

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