What Are Your Favorite Comfort Foods?

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Although I was born in California, I grew up overseas in Ghana, Thailand, and El Salvador. As an adult, I have also worked in Saudi Arabia and Beirut, Lebanon.

My comfort foods tend to be somewhat eclectic.

In Ghana I developed an appreciation for grilled yams. In Thailand I bought deep fried bananas from street vendors while walking home from school. Our cook made Pad-Thai and on the weekends, we feasted on dim sum at a local Chinese restaurant. In El Salvador I encountered paella and real refried beans (which are unaccountably neither refried or even fried here in the U.S). In the Middle East I discovered pita bread with hummus, baklava, and schwarmas.

I also remember my mother's cooking. Since my mother didn't know how to cook, she used convenience foods like canned ravioli or Kraft instant Mac and Cheese. On cold rainy days, I sometimes find myself craving these foods.

What are your comfort foods?
 
mac-n-cheese with a cross rib roast.My birthday dinner.(cooked by someone else)

A fish fry! Fresh fish and veg dipped and ate outside right of the fryer.

Grilled whole fish with ponzu and wasabi

Roasted chicken and mashed potatoes.

Shrimp and grits!

Lamb in any way shape or form!

Spinach and veal canaloni with white sauce.

Good Hummus!

Grilled Veggies!

Salsa!

garlic and chili edamame

Poke

potstickers

My beanless chili

My MIL's chicken stew served on Chistams eve. (Reveille or something close to that)

Almost worth a heinous crime to gat all these in one sitting!Problem being it would be last taste too.
 
Chicken noodle soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, homemade chocolate chip cookies.
 
Especially if I am not feeling up to par, it is mashed potatoes and gravy, hands-down.

Not so much a comfort food, but more of a "feel good" food is chips and salsa, and guacamole. :cool:

:)Barbara
 
For me it's meatloaf and mashed potatoes, I mean we are talking comfort foods here and not culinary masterpeieces. My husbands favorite comfort food is something he calls Russian Fluff. I have never made it but it involves hamburger and canned Franco American spaghetti (uggg!).
 
Cottage pie
Shepheard's pie
Fish pie
Steak and chips and gravy.
British fish n chips
Beef stew and beef suet dumplings
 
Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich.
Mac 'n cheese with tuna.
Ramen noodles and crackers.

and one I haven't had in a very long time:
Mac and tomato sauce, it always ends up with lots more in it.
 
  • Chicken Noodle Soup
  • Mashed Potatoes
  • Mac & Cheese
  • Chicken Pot Pie
  • Chicken Alfredo
  • Grilled Cheese
  • Jasmine Tea
  • Black tea with milk and honey
 
I had to google the fish pie.

I am soooo going to make that!

It's especially nice when slices of hard boiled egg are placed on top of the fish before the sauce is poured over and the mashed taters are doffed on.

I like my fish pie's topping nice and crispy. To achieve this we mix sourdough breadcrumbs with finely grated Parmesan and sprinkle over the mashed taters.

A word about adding prawns and shrimps. Don't use pre-cooked as they will be tough. I leave them out in preference to using smoked haddock, and cod or whatever fish might might be available at the time. I have a liking for adding some freshly poached salmon. That's rather nice finding its pinky flesh mixed around, but peas - please - they have no place in fish pie.
 
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Warm Peach Cobbler.........
Pecan Pie with Pecans from behind the house....
Banana Pudding.....
Smoked Duck & Andouille Gumbo over a wood fire.........
Fried Chicken.....
Fried Catfish & Hush Puppies.........
Mustard/Turnip Greens/Roots fresh from the Garden.....
Hot Buttered Cornbread........
Country Ham & Red-Eye Gravy.....
Hot Buttered Biscuits......
Grits.....
Baked Sweet Potato drizzled with Steen's Cane Syrup.........
Red beans & Rice........
Raw Oysters........
Chocolate Ice Cream..........
 
  1. pizza
  2. mac n cheese
  3. grilled cheese and tomato soup
  4. lasagana
  5. chili
  6. beef n noodle casserole
  7. pizza
  8. meat loaf/mashed potatoes/gravy
  9. tuna noodle casserole
  10. spaghetti / ziti and meat balls / sausage
  11. pizza
  12. chinese take-out
  13. 5 Guys burgers and fries
  14. real buffalo wings
  15. pizza
 
coconut cream pie, my recipe

lasagna

Pot roast

pot pie filling over biscuits (Ina Garten's recipe is so so good, I just make the filling)

my dad's leftover turkey soup

my mom's ugly apple pie

macaroni and cheese

Spaghetti and meatballs
 
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