PrintComfort Foods?
I had a rough morning, and for lunch, all I wanted was salami and cheese on butter crackers (a speciality for my mom)...being still in the comfort-food mode, I'm making taco salad for dinner (with that name-brand ranch dressing and too much cheese--another specialty of Mom's). When I'm in times of stress, I reach for those things as well as: bagels with cream cheese and tomato slices, beans and hamhocks with corn bread, lentil soup and a tuna sandwich, peanut butter and jelly on an eggo waffle, or vanilla Brown Cow yogurt with fruit and granola. Got me thinking...apparently I crave dairy, salt and carbs when I'm stressed.
What are your never-fail, always-perk-you-up comfort foods, and why? Mine come from my mom, mostly, but the yogurt and granola thing is my bff, and the bagels and tomato thing is from an old flame's mom. I've already noticed my three-year-old asking for particular foods after particularly "difficult" days...
What do you eat when no one's looking?
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12 Comments:
I made one of my favorite comfort foods last night for dinner: poppy seed chicken. It's just creamy and good - and quite easy. My rice didn't come out quite right (I can make perfect omelets, but never perfect rice!), but the creamy goodness covered that right up. I always think my bf (a seasoned foodie spoiled by years of expense-account paid fancy dinners) won't like it, but every time I make it he devours so much that I have to ask him to stop eating so that I can have leftovers for my lunch the next day.
My mom used to make "bubble pizza" - cut up pieces of flaky biscuits from a can partially baked, then topped with marinara+ground beef and topped with lots of cheese and baked - this was my favorite comfort food for a while, but I only made it here and here in college.
As for food I eat when no one's watching: fast food. I ate WAY too much of this in college thanks to being overly broke and busy, but if I'm feeling down and I don't have someone to eat with, this usually perks me up, despite how bad I know it really is.
joyyy at 6:15PM on 05/13/08
I love mac-n-cheese....especially Martha Stewart's recipe. The yummy taste makes me forget ANYTHING that has happened during the day (or maybe that's the calorie intake.)
I also crave typical comfort foods like tuna noodle casserole or broccoli and rice casserole. Obviously, I was raised on casseroles.
nichole at 6:34PM on 05/13/08
Mac & cheese or Pizza for me... I could live on any combination of wheat and cheese, although my stomach would hate me for it...
MadelynRodriguez at 7:15PM on 05/13/08
My mamaw used to make us chocolate toast. Gooshy white bread, spread with butter and topped with a mixture of 1 part cocoa, 2 parts sugar and a few drops of evaporated milk. Just enough to make it wet and spreadable. Then broiled to the exact moment before the chocolate gets hard. If the chocolate starts bubbling, it's over. It'll stick to your teeth and won't taste right. Fortunately, that doesn't happen.
The white bread is now buttery and toasty, crunchy around the edges. The chocolate is hot, melty and rich. I can taste a little salt from the butter and there's so much chocolate I think I'm going to heaven. Keep your fancy chocolate tarts. Give me Bunny Bread and chocolate toast any day!
Where's my glass of milk?
Editmom at 12:20AM on 05/14/08
sweet potato fries
Frantic foodie at 12:25AM on 05/14/08
Chicken wings - I usually make them with honey and wholegrain mustard and sherry, but really chicken wings in any form will do! Also southern fried chicken. Oh, and a HUGE fry up - I usually don't eat everything on my plate, but just the sight of the sausages, square sausage, bacon, egg, tatty scone, black pudding, fruit pudding...makes everythign better.
My mum makes chinese stir-fried springcake with chinese greens, oriental mushrooms, chicken and spring cake which is the ultimate in comfort food for me. Oh, and her messy cabbage (cabbage, rice noodles and dried scallops) - mmm!
Or tempura udon. Or just any large bowl of steaming hot noodles in soup... *drool*
PrincessOrchid at 8:00AM on 05/14/08
Lasagne and reese's cups. Not at the same time, obviously! Also chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.
embolini9 at 10:24AM on 05/14/08
Pot roast, gravy, egg noodles.
nightmoon at 11:31AM on 05/14/08
To be honest, anything with tomato sauce that can be accompanied by macaroni. And I may only get two or three forkfuls down (depending on the trauma that induced this need for comfort food) but it will do a world of good.
chiff0nade at 12:22PM on 05/14/08
Comfort foods, let's see:
Mac and cheese, grilled cheese, baked ziti, pasta with meat sauce (I pay for that later though) or with butter/garlic/pecc romano, mashed potatoes, white pizza with spinach/broccoli/garlic/ricotta cheese, chili, pb&j, quesadillas, brownies, choc chip/sugar cookies, ice cream, cream cheese and bagels/thomas english muffin. I think I'd eat ANYTHING with cream cheese-i LOVE that stuff.
There isn't anything different for me re: eating when no ones looking. My stomach (and taste buds) are quite finicky so there are only certain things I can/want to eat.
Butrflygirly at 12:55PM on 05/14/08
My mom's poached eggs. I've tried to make them and I fail. You have to have a piece of lightly buttered toast to tear up into little chunks and put it in the mashed up salted eggs. Yum. Now I want that for dinner.
RedSquirrel at 2:58PM on 05/14/08
Pizza...namely Bagel Bites. Macaroni and cheese...all that bad-for-you stuff. And mostly, I just really want to bite into a big juicy burger.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 12:13PM on 05/16/08