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My Mom's Velveeta Macaroni & Cheese, topped with lots of Heinz ketchup. :-D

I think for me, it would be baked beans. As I stick to my roots, my wife would stick to her roots and would probably pick Arroz Caldo.

pastina, plain chicken broth, or mac and cheese

linguine, double tomato concentrate, butter, grated parm.

Stouffers frozen mac and cheese

cereal

Tuna noodle casserole, made with egg noodles and cambell's cream of mushroom soup.

Indian dal and rice. Any sort of hot, fresh, rice dish, really. Hot thick soups--cream of broccoli, cream of mushroom, my mom's bean soup. Foods of childhood = ultimate comfort.

a huge bowl of spaghetti with lots of butter, garlic, and freshly grated parmesan cheese, followed by vanilla ice cream with raspberries.

Hmm, a pot roast or a chicken pot pie

Soup in general is my comfort food. Those that come to mind are pea soup, chili, miso, or minestrone.

Pork chops in mushroom soup, baked in the oven, very hot.

I was just thinking about this last night. It has to be good, rich, made from scratch, macaroni and cheese, with the crusty top... mmmmmm...

But it depends so much on one's mood and the recent comfort is needed, don't you think? I mean, for me, soups of all kinds are right up there with M&C. Tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich is in the top five, too...

And if it's late at night or I'm feeling chilled or a bit under the weather, I just love homemade hot cocoa with cinnamon toast (lots of butter). Eaten curled in a chair with my old, ratty quilt!

My childhood favorites come to mind:
Bacon and egg scramble with toast and nestle's qiuk.
Stuffed peppers
Pancakes
Soup- chicken barley/rice/noodle, escarole, pasta fagioli.
Simple barbeque food- burgers, macaroni salad and cole slaw.
Grilled cheese
Chicken croquettes with jellied cranberry sauce.
Good memories always come to mind when I have these favorites.

So many. If sweet: LaSalle Vanilla ice cream between hot buttered waffles and strawberries in sugar syrup.
If savory: nothing tops macaroni baked with sharp cheddar cheese sauce and topped with heavily buttered breadcrumbs, baked in a glass dish until there's a lot of crust all over.
If super quick: cinnamon toast along with a cup of strong tea with a little milk.

Traditional stodge. Shepherd's pie or fish pie, served in a ceramic soup plate. Stamppot zuurkool, or my Norwegian boyfriend's fish stew with soured cream and boiled potatoes. Or, if I'm feeling unwell, poached eggs on buttered toast.

Any starch is good eats for me!

Anybody but me notice that most of the above mentioned favorite foods are white? Same with me - my go-to is my mom's potato soup recipe, unlike any I've ever seen. I think it's a variation of something my Italian grandmother used to make. Put a huge chunk of butter in a pot of salted water, bring to boil, add diced potatoes, a 1/4 cup of rice, a handful of broken spaghetti and cook until it becomes one glorious pot of starch, then add pepper and as much parmesan cheese as your arteries will hold.

It used to be homemade mac & cheese, but then I tried Simon Hopkinson's linguine with pesto % new potatoes (starch, starch, starch but delicious) which I make without the mint, which I find a bit odd. The recipe appears here if you don't have his second cookbook: http://www.oneforthetable.com/oftt/stories/linguine.html

scalloped potatoes or eggs over easy with buttered toast.

Not comfort food for me but I second the Simon Hopkinson recommendation! Mark Bittman has a similar pasta w/ pesto and potatoes - they're both good.