Comfort 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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Location: Carpinteria, CA
About: Single mom and former restaurant manager, now home cook extraordinnaire (if I do say so myself).
Favorite foods: Cheese, cheese and cheese. I'm an ale snob, having managed a kitchen in an award-winning microbrewery. I also love good cuts of rare beef...I actually kind of eat like a cavewoman, come to think of it..
Last bite on earth: Big ole wedge of triple creme brie with a fresh raspberry and a spiced walnut half. Perfection.