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09-08-2006, 12:34 PM
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Sous Chef
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Hermosa Beach, California
Posts: 586
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Pot Roast with Mashed Potatoes and Peas.
Macaroni & Cheese.
Enchiladas (I grew up in SoCal).
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09-13-2006, 04:51 AM
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Master Chef
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Galena, IL
Posts: 7,970
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For most of us, comfort food is what Mommy made us. For me it is a roasted chicken, pork or beef, with mashed potatoes and gravy. Chicken soup. Ice cream. Spaghetti with red sauce. Meat loaf. But it is very different. None of my Hawaiian friends would even imagine a meal without a big pot of rice, and that rice, sitting in the rice cooker when they got home from school would probably be it. My husband also is a rice lover, and rice with an egg and some cheese mixed in is one of his. But mostly comfort food is about something that makes you feel coddled and loved and taken care of -- even if you're making it yourself!
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09-13-2006, 05:39 AM
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Head Chef
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 1,291
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mac and cheese
chicken fried steak
those are my personal fav ideas of comfort food.
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09-13-2006, 05:45 AM
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Master Chef
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: da 'burgh
Posts: 9,673
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to me it's stouffer's macaroni & cheese, grilled cheese with soup, etc.
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09-13-2006, 06:21 AM
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Master Chef
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: da 'burgh
Posts: 9,673
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mylegsbig
mac and cheese
chicken fried steak
those are my personal fav ideas of comfort food.
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jake LOVES chicken-fried steak! does anyone else want to speak with your Mom & ask if she'll cook you a meal?
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09-25-2006, 03:32 AM
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Sous Chef
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 863
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Hello Vagriller
I think, it is food, which is full of calories and fat. I think it is especially comforting for women. It promotes feel good brain chemistry, in us.
Mel
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09-25-2006, 03:45 AM
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Executive Chef
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: USA,Florida
Posts: 3,834
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Home made soup is certainly a comfort food for me. But anything that makes me recall the past with good memories is comfort food.
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09-25-2006, 05:09 AM
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Sous Chef
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 665
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It's got to be particularly therapeutic, so to me that means there has to be something "off" with you when you eat it. You're sick, you're cold, you're tired, you're blue, you're bored ... something's wrong, and it fixes it.
And I'd even get nerdy enough to suggest that the specific food for each of those different "offs" is a bit different!
For coming out of a bad flu or cold? That important first meal your tummy can hold? Sliced bread, cut in cubes, brown sugar, hot milk.
For coming in from outside on a cold winter day when your feet are frozen solid? A hot cup of "nursery" tea, i.e. strong, lots of sugar, lots of milk.
Tired? Fresh scrambled eggs and toast with butter and marmalade.
Blue? Pasta or potatoes with butter, cream, cheese.
Bored? Ice cream sundaes, nachos, popcorn.
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09-25-2006, 07:12 AM
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Senior Cook
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Scotland
Posts: 290
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Some of my comfort foods are eggy bread (reminds me of childhood days when mum used to get up early to make us a breakfast of eggy bread on school days), toast cut into 4 squares, for the same reason, roast chicken cos all the family would sit down together and feast on roast chicken on special occasions, dates because its considered a special food for muslims, every ramadhan, everyone would open their fast with a date
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09-25-2006, 07:43 AM
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Executive Chef
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Mission, Texas
Posts: 2,686
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The reasons that something becomes a comfort food are diverse but include the food's familiarity, simplicity, and/or pleasant associations.
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