Hearty Dishes and Decadent Desserts From Nino Salvaggio's Will Help Keep the Winter Chill Away

The beauty of living in Michigan year round is the ability to experience all four seasons. Through winter, spring, summer and fall, Michiganders have the pleasure of exploring seasonal flavors, produce, local foods and culinary cuisine.  We just wrapped up an incredible fall filled with pumpkins, caramel apples and cider here at Nino Salvaggio International Marketplace. Thanksgiving turkeys and all the fixings have come and gone. Now it's time for comfort food!

Are you ready to bundle up, hunker down and transition into winter with delicious grub for cold, cozy and snowy nights at home? The Nino’s team is ready and waiting to assist! 

We celebrate winter here at Nino’s with robust offerings for the holidays! However, we also bring winter into our stores and your homes through our tummy and heart warming comfort foods. Our chefs do an excellent job of making sure our customers have all their comfort food needs whether cooking themselves or bringing home our freshly made prepared foods to eat fireside.

Here are some of our favorite Nino’s comfort foods to snuggle up with this winter. If you choose to eat them in your robe, fleece PJ’s and slippers we won't tell anyone!

Nino’s Macaroni & Cheese (Original or Lobster) 

Made fresh daily with the best quality ingredients, our Nino’s Mac & Cheese is filled with elbow macaroni and blended with butter, cream and mild cheddar cheese. It's an all-time classic that dates back to 1769 England and was brought to the US by Thomas Jefferson in 1802, where he served at a state dinner. 

Gluten Free Macaroni & Cheese 

Nino’s also offers Beecher’s World’s Best Gluten Free Mac & Cheese, made from Beecher’s Handmade Cheese straight out of Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington.  According to the Beecher’s website” By starting with fresh, pure milk from local farms and applying the traditional methods used by cheesemakers for thousands of years, our cheeses are free of artificial ingredients – making them just as delicious as the milk they are made from”. Beecher’s Gluten Free Mac & Cheese is available in our Frozen Department.

Looking to make your own Macaroni & Cheese at home? Check out our blog post Mac and Cheese ... With A Little Has Attitude, from Nino Salvaggio. 

Nino’s Lasagna, Meat and Vegetarian

We offer whole sheet pans of lasagna ready for you to take home and bake for the entire family. Enjoy layers of lasagna pasta with seasoned ground beef, ricotta cheese, mozzarella and Parmesan Cheeses and Salvaggio’s Old World Marinara Sauce in our meat version and our vegetarian is layered with seasonal vegetables. 

Pot Pie

Nothing is more synonymous with comfort food than pot pie. Nino’s offers a delicious freshly made Chicken Pot Pie available in both individual serving sizes as well as a 9 inch pie for the whole family. Our Chicken Pot Pie is filled with tender chicken mixed with vegetables surrounded by the flaky, buttery crust that melts in your mouth is ideal for bitter cold temperatures. Additionally, Nino’s is proud to offer Glatt Kosher pot pie in our frozen section made by Meal Mart and available in both chicken and beef varieties.

Looking to make your own Pot Pie at home? New York Times Cooking has a plethora of pot pie recipes including turkey, chicken tarragon, mushrooms, creamed greens, curry, ratatouille and sausage, rabbit and cornish hens! 

Meatloaf

Taking it back to the meatloaf mom used to make, our Nino’s Country Meatloaf is not only nostalgic but delicious. Paired with mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables such as broccoli or carrots and a warm biscuit with butter, you’ll have an easy dinner sure to please. 

Looking to make your own Meatloaf at home? Check out these recipes from our Nino’s Chefs for Italian Meatloaf and Country Meatloaf 

Chocolate Cake

No hearty meal is complete without a decadent dessert! We just love a rich, satisfying chocolate cake to bring home the final finish to a comforting meal.

Nino’s Bakery is full of chocolatey desserts ready to take home. 

Our most gratifying favorites include:

• Bill Knapp’s Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake
• Sanders Chocolate Bumpy Cake
• Nino’s Chocolate Snickers Cake
• Nino’s Tuxedo Shortcake
• Nino’s Flourless Chocolate Cake
• Nino’s Black Forest Shortcake
• Triple Chocolate Bundt Cake 
• Antonina’s Gluten Free Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream

While the weather outside may be getting frightful, we are always offering a warm welcome at Nino’s to help you prepare your meals.  We look forward to seeing you in our aisles to stock up before the cold, dark winter nights fast approach!

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