299106 Thu Nov 04 17:06:55 -0800 2004 51 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1655717 OK. Say you have a serious need for four years worth of comfort food. What would you put on the list? I've got the mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese covered. Thu Nov 04 17:06:55 -0800 2004 0 Ellen 1 1655719 Ice cream A simple one layer chocolate cake with frosting A big glass of red wine or port Chicken & dumplings Fried chicken Biscuits with lots of butter & honey Homemade soup Pimiento cheese Creamed spinach Scrambled eggs with cheese A big pot of tea, a plate of tea sandwiches, warm cookies and no interruptions Soft polenta with ragu My Mom's Hamburger Noodle Casserole (a bastardized lasagne involving layers of 1. tomato sauce & ground beef, 2. egg noodles and 3. cream cheese with scallions, 4. topped with cheddar cheese) Thu Nov 04 17:22:08 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Jennie Sheeks 1 1655725 Dark chocolate Grits Cheese Grits Sage sausage fresh ham lobster stew there is a french salad made with lintels de Puy, fresh greens, lardons, and has a poached egg on top. Yum. Gotta have some of that soon! Thu Nov 04 18:07:49 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Candy 1 1655727 Grilled cheese sandwiches, fried egg and cheese sandwiches. Meatloaf, beef stew. Hot tea and gingerbread. Flan. Thu Nov 04 18:08:49 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Caitlin Wheeler 2 1655792 Campbell's Tomato soup with milk stirred in to go with that grilled cheese. Fri Nov 05 01:47:57 -0800 2004 1655727 0 Emme 3 1655853 And a pat of butter on top. Fri Nov 05 11:42:58 -0800 2004 1655792 0 Caitlin Wheeler 4 1655870 ---with a little basil sprinkled on top. Dry kind okay. Fri Nov 05 12:49:27 -0800 2004 1655853 0 Plano Rose 5 1655876 That is the ultimate! Fri Nov 05 13:21:59 -0800 2004 1655870 0 Sweet Pea 1 1655731 Great topic!!!!! Beef vegetable soup (homemade, natch) Roasted chicken Fried chicken!!! Spice cake with a confectioner's sugar glaze Apple crisp Fried ham sandwiches with sharp cheddar cheese and lots of mustard Hot crab dip with Triscuits Thu Nov 04 18:43:43 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Absonot 1 1655734 It's especially comforting when someone cooks for me. Wake up Funwithfood, that never happens! Grilled Cheese w/Applewood Smoked Bacon Sandwiches (on a good bread) Chicken Noodle Soup (with buttered saltines) Brown Butter...anything! Pot Roast with Cabernet Au Jus Killer Chili w/Cornbread BBQ Ribs Yams (in any form) Thu Nov 04 18:57:05 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Funwithfood 1 1655736 Cheese fondue Shepard's pie Beef or Lamb stew Anything au gratin Baked french onion soup Goulash Ham and scalloped potates Potato pancakes Spatzel Roast turkey, chicken, duck Thu Nov 04 19:04:39 -0800 2004 1655717 0 bryan 1 1655742 cold meatloaf sandwich with lots of mayo and ketchup cold turkey sandwich with lots of mayo and cranberry sauce peanut butter and apricot jam sandwich with a tall glass of cold milk tacos made with ground meat and topped off with a thick slice of avocado tostadas with fried beans, onions, chile, lettuce, tomato and thick slices of avocado big bowl of guacamole with fresh made tortilla chips warm brownies with tall glass of cold milk clam dip with Poore Bros jalapeno potato chips penne arrabiata made with homemade marinara sauce (Rao's recipe) Thu Nov 04 19:32:49 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Neta 1 1655744 Great thread! Homemade chicken noodle soup mashed potatoes made with cream and butter fettucini alfredo fried bologna sandwiches on white bread (it's a fond childhood memory!) Thu Nov 04 19:45:23 -0800 2004 1655717 0 FlyerFan 1 1655747 "Puny Soup" This is what my Honey makes for me when I feel puny. It's basicaly chicken noodle soup with a twist: Chicken broth Chicken meat LOTS of fresh sliced ginger garlic Sliced onions (sweat in oil) 1 dried hot pepper (usually habanero) - DON'T leave it in there, don't break it up. Take it out as soon as you serve the soup the first time. salt and pepper to taste When the flavors please you, add noodles of your choice and cook until done. A twist of lime is not a bad idea. It's good for what ails you, opens your sinuses and sends you to bed for a good, restful sleep. Last night (after wrecking my car) my Sweetie made me a variation: Beef broth (from our freezer that he made last month) star anise fresh sliced ginger from the front yard freshly ground black pepper rice noodles faint drizzle of sesame oil salt to taste There may have been other ingredients. He won't tell. It was so good! B Thu Nov 04 20:10:12 -0800 2004 1655717 0 BeaN 2 1655780 ....matzoh ball soup. I made some just last night, and added little egg noodles to it. A full-blown Mish-Mosh soup is best (add rice, kasha, and a couple of nice kreplach to the foregoing), but noodles and homemade matzoh balls in a nice homemade stock is really all you need on a cold, rainy evening. Fri Nov 05 00:01:46 -0800 2004 1655747 0 peg 1 1655750 Short ribs Brisket Cornbread stuffing Well, cornbread, now that I mention it (with lots of butter) Thu Nov 04 20:38:27 -0800 2004 1655717 0 felix 2 1655762 And no sugar in it. Crispy from a blisteringly hot cast iron pan and maybe some crackling mixed in to the corn bread. Heaven! Thu Nov 04 21:13:00 -0800 2004 1655750 0 Candy 3 1655764 Cornbread and milk (like my grandfather used to) Thu Nov 04 21:14:26 -0800 2004 1655762 0 mayjay 1 1655752 big fat dark chocolate chip cookies frappes & root beer floats cinnamon buns pickles dark chocolate banana bread (actually, any good kind of bread will do- sweet or savory or a standard loaf of french... you get the idea) tasti-d gelato olives beef stew good wine and a non-standard one: a huge salad Thu Nov 04 20:54:13 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Meils 2 1655813 I agree with the huge salad idea - lots of veggies chick peas, tosted sunflower seeds, fresh sprouts, avacado and blue cheese is a must! Add a glass of wine and an old movie and I'm set for the night. Fri Nov 05 09:07:51 -0800 2004 1655752 0 Aimee 1 1655766 tuna cheese melt- olives on the side-open faced broiled until-blackened bubbles appear on top!!grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches with olives and chips-cold meatloaf sandwich on white bread with ketchup! Left over roast turkey (white meat) On white bread with leftover stuffing-cranberry sauce and pepper -cube steaks fried pan add water to hot pan for 'GRAVY" and serve on white bread! I guess the only time I use white bread is on comfort food!! Thu Nov 04 21:22:44 -0800 2004 1655717 0 sandramr 1 1655769 tuna cheese melt- olives on the side-open faced broiled until-blackened bubbles appear on top!!grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches with olives and chips-cold meatloaf sandwich on white bread with ketchup! Left over roast turkey (white meat) On white bread with leftover stuffing-cranberry sauce and pepper -cube steaks fried pan add water to hot pan for 'GRAVY" and serve on white bread! I guess the only time I use white bread is on comfort food!! Thu Nov 04 21:24:39 -0800 2004 1655717 0 sandramr 1 1655770 tuna cheese melt- olives on the side-open faced broiled until-blackened bubbles appear on top!!grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches with olives and chips-cold meatloaf sandwich on white bread with ketchup! Left over roast turkey (white meat) On white bread with leftover stuffing-cranberry sauce and pepper -cube steaks fried pan add water to hot pan for 'GRAVY" and serve on white bread! I guess the only time I use white bread is on comfort food!! Thu Nov 04 21:25:20 -0800 2004 1655717 0 sandramr 1 1655772 for me? anything homemade that isn't "dinner party" food. (Anything that has to be 'plated' in the kitchen and then served is not comfort food.) Anything homemade and served family style with friends/family in a kitchen or homey dining room is comfort food. Basically anything my mother cooks for me, even when it's not great. (just in case she's reading- it's ALWAYS good.) Thu Nov 04 21:50:19 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Tamar G 1 1655793 Glazed old fashioned donuts from K's Donut Emporium Mac n Cheese Oreo Cookies and milk Fudgy, chewy brownies The Potato knishes that came from the freezer in that blue box and had the hard skin/crust instead of that filo/puff pastry crap. Hot open faced turkey sandwich on white bread, with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, and jellied cranberry sauce. Candied yams with marshmallows Cheesecake Lasagna (no meat) or manicotti with buttery garlic bread Buttermilk biscuits with butter Belgian waffles with butter and real maple syrup Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls (terrible but yummy IMNSHO) Thick crust pizza from Numero Uno Thrify's Mint Chocolate Chip and Oreo Ice Creams (also Oreo Shakes) Cream cheese frosting... on a spoon Nutella... on a spoon I'm sure I'll think of a few more as soon as I hit Post. Fri Nov 05 01:55:05 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Emme 2 1656282 Hey, I love those knishes also! My HS cafeteria used to serve a round version and we would dip them in sour cream. Tue Nov 09 22:40:18 -0800 2004 1655793 0 chowmeow 3 1656293 Do you happen to know the name of the brand of the knishes??? I've been struggling for months to remember, or track them down! Wed Nov 10 02:57:01 -0800 2004 1656282 0 Emme 4 1656314 My brother recently found them frozen in one of those bulk-food stores like Costco. Will ask him and get back to you. Wed Nov 10 10:26:02 -0800 2004 1656293 0 chowmeow 4 1656416 Sorry, my brother couldn't remember the brand either! But he bought them frozen at BJ's near Hoboken, NJ. Perhaps they carry them nationwide? Thu Nov 11 08:57:08 -0800 2004 1656293 0 chowmeow 5 1656504 Thanks for the effort.... I must continue to seek out Jewish friends that may have had grandmothers that served these frozen delicacies to us along with Stouffer's. Thu Nov 11 23:30:12 -0800 2004 1656416 0 Emme 1 1655795 For that very reason, Sunday night, my friends and I are having meatballs. All-day, Sunday gravy with my mom's recipe for meatballs. Cooked in the sauce with homemade pork sausage and pork country ribs in an obscenely large pot. Enough, one hopes, to sustain us for at least a week. And for the vegetarian (and the rest of us if there is any room after the meatballs), grandma's eggplant parmagiana. And enough for an eggplant parm sub the next day for lunch. Yesterday, though, it was a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich. Never, ever, under any circumstances, should you underestimate the power of a good PB&J. And today, a good, gooey brownie with a thick, goopy icing. I firmly believe that chocolate gains much of it's comforting power in it's warmest and goopiest forms. Back in college, although dining hall food was freakish enough that Cinnamon Life was often my dinner choice, they used to have this dessert every so often that we called Primordial Fudge. It was sort of a warm, goopy, brownie pudding with hot fudge on top. The suggestions about tuna melts I'll go with too. Just make sure it's got plenty of yellow mustard, and I might well be back home, safely in the den, sitting down to an episode of MASH, wrapped up in a comforter, blissfully unaware of the big bad world out there. Mashed potatoes work too. But make sure to use LOTS of butter and heavy cream. And thick, rich pan gravy from whatever roast you serve them with. Veal stew. My dad's ham and cheese omelets. Chicken cacciatore over linguine. Pan-fried chicken. Dad's cast-iron-skillet buttermilk cornbread with butter. Buttermilk biscuits with apple butter. Steamed blue-claw crabs. turkey and havarti sandwiches with lots of yellow mustard. Describing those things, I should be gaining 300 pounds. Thank goodness vaguely inappropriate thoughts about rich, butter-laden foods have no calories! Fri Nov 05 02:18:39 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Bunny-Bunny 2 1655863 can i come live with you? lol...no really Fri Nov 05 12:28:24 -0800 2004 1655795 0 amysuehere 3 1655988 Amysue, consider yourself adopted. If you're ever in Seattle, give me a holler. I just had dinner at a place in my neighborhood that knows comfort food like the back of its hand. Gumbo, corn bread, collard greens, fried catfish, grits, pan fried chicken. And a big "it'll all be ok" hug when we walked in. The leftover greens are calling already. They'll be so lovely in scrambled eggs in the morning. Sat Nov 06 03:58:49 -0800 2004 1655863 0 Bunny-Bunny 1 1655812 Painkillers. Strong ones. Fri Nov 05 09:06:51 -0800 2004 1655717 0 GG Mora 2 1655976 Myself. I'll send you one of my "Re-Discover Marijuana" bumperstickers and a recipe for laudnum cookies. I predict sedatives to be the new national craze. Fri Nov 05 22:04:22 -0800 2004 1655812 0 flavrmeistr 3 1655980 Thanks for making me laugh. That was the first good laugh I've had in days. Sat Nov 06 00:14:45 -0800 2004 1655976 0 Tracy L. 1 1655823 marshmallows. Fri Nov 05 09:59:51 -0800 2004 1655717 0 efdee 1 1655834 hot dogs and beans - back to afternoons in front of the tv after school homemade double chocolate brownies -- mom didn't bake, but I learned quickly... chocolate chip cookie dough, raw with lots of Kahlua -- avoiding studying went better this way in college huge salad with lots of toppings and plenty of poppyseed dressing with warm, soft wheat bread a la Intermezzo soup, soup and more soup - pureed veggie, French lentil, hot and sour, coconut-chicken, tampopo perfection I second the smores...marshmallows idea..yum.. Fri Nov 05 10:26:29 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Starfish 2 1655949 Clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl! Fri Nov 05 17:39:49 -0800 2004 1655834 0 Emme 1 1655859 Cream of Wheat, slightly lumpy, with a pat of butter in the middle, served on a tray to a person in bed. :) Fri Nov 05 12:14:40 -0800 2004 1655717 0 neighbor 1 1655860 Cream of Wheat, slightly lumpy, with a pat of butter in the middle, served on a tray to a person in bed. :) Fri Nov 05 12:15:27 -0800 2004 1655717 0 neighbor 1 1655880 Chicken and dumplings (bisquick-style puffy-type, not noodles) Pot Roast with carrots and onions and mashed potatoes Macaroni and cheese (as you already said) Spaghetti carbonara Smothered pork chops Chow Fun w/ beef and black bean sauce Congee with chinese donuts Pho chocolate tapioca pudding bread pudding Fri Nov 05 13:38:12 -0800 2004 1655717 0 SeaGal 2 1655883 I LOVE beef chow fun in black bean sauce. Definitely on the list, along with Singapore noodles. Fri Nov 05 13:45:13 -0800 2004 1655880 0 Ellen 1 1655885 Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans. Beef Stroganoff with egg noodles. Matzo ball soup, roast beef brisket, latkes w/ sour cream. Fri Nov 05 13:51:02 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Sam D. 1 1655891 tomato and american cheese sandwich with Miracle Whip on white bread. I am 45 years old and has some minor surgery recently - I was recovering at my mom's and that is exactly what she made me! It was as good as ever! Fri Nov 05 14:12:00 -0800 2004 1655717 0 kim shook 1 1655923 Stew. Popovers. Braised carrots. Warm gingerbread with whipped cream. (And that, plus a salad, pretty much describes tomorrow's dinner.) Baked apple pancake. Eggs and bacon. A huge stack of wheat toast, buttered with or without cinnamon-sugar. Blueberry pie. Spaghetti and meatballs. Hermits. Clam chowder. Roast pork shoulder. Turkey legs. Fri Nov 05 15:52:53 -0800 2004 1655717 0 curiousbaker 2 1655934 Thanks for reminding me about hermit cookies - I need to make some soon. I was very sick with the flu a few years ago and my daughter made me hermits - all I was hungry for. I swear they helped me recover faster. For other sweet comfort foods: cinnamon toast, raisin bread toasted, and cornbread with honey. D. Fri Nov 05 16:41:52 -0800 2004 1655923 0 Donna - MI 1 1655983 Chicken Donburi Phad Thai Tuna Helper Campbells tomato bisque with egg drop Chinese pepper steak served with mashed potatoes instead of rice. Any baked item that has the word rum, brandy or whiskey in the title. Ditto for Caramel Soup from whole foods, they usually have a good variety so there is always one that appeals. Penne ala Vodka Pumpkin Pie with lots of whipped cream. Biscuits and Gravy Sat Nov 06 00:33:05 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Tracy L. 1 1655993 Peanut butter & banana sandwiches Really gingery, treacly gingerbread Codfish cake on a hot cross bun Bread pudding Warm fudgy brownie with vanilla ice cream Warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream Apple crumble with even more vanilla ice cream Braised lamb shanks with mashed potatoes Sat Nov 06 08:34:54 -0800 2004 1655717 0 Athena 1 1656007 Home-baked custard in a Pyrex bowl with nutmeg on top. Baked rice pudding Orzo with butter and parmesan cheese Cream cheese and jelly sandwich on cinnamon bread Fried clams and peppermint stick ice cream for dessert (preffered birthday menu in childhood) Fresh, thick stalks of asparagas, steamed and buttered with shavings of parmeggiano reggiano A ripe pear with chunk of Gouda Indian pudding Sat Nov 06 14:10:59 -0800 2004 1655717 0 berklaybabe 2 1656045 "Home-baked custard in a Pyrex bowl with nutmeg on top." Ah, yes...a staple dessert of my childhood - ours were in Pyrex custard cups - that I haven't had since then, but of which I have an acute taste memory. I can't imagine how tragic baked vanilla custard would be without nutmeg on top. Sat Nov 06 21:27:04 -0800 2004 1656007 0 Caitlin McGrath 1 1656281 Ummm, Congee with an array of condiments Lumberjack breakfast - eggs sunny side up Ramen kyushu style with thick, rich pork broth Tacos with carnitas or chorizo McD's french fries w/black and white shake from somewhere else Nabeyaki udon Soup dumplings Ravioli in beef broth w/arugula Meat loaf and mashed potatoes Coconut custard pie Rice and broiled, salted mackeral And please, no onions or scallions w/any of the above! Tue Nov 09 22:29:51 -0800 2004 1655717 0 chowmeow