What are some of your favorite comfort foods
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Comments (52)It's still very cold here, and we have over a foot of snow on the ground. I just though of...Hot Chocolate! (No marshmallows, and made from scratch with Droste's cocoa, sugar and whole milk.) Some shortbread cookies wouldn't be amiss. I hear you on the grilled cheese sandwiches. Of course they have to be cooked on a nice greasy grill to qualify as comforting. Ah, nothing like cholesterol to satiate you. Did I ever mention my one claim to health? I have astounding cholesterol levels. My MD is terribly impressed. If I could find a way to take the *caolries* out of this stuff or to distribute the fat somewhere other than my middle...I could eat it all every day!...See MoreWhat's your favorite convience food?
Comments (38)My favorite convenience food is the contents of a grocery store. Everything there is convenience food when you think about it. Otherwise you grow your fruit & veggies, grow and butcher your meat. There, they do the bulk of the work for you....See MoreWeek 105 - Share your favorite comfort food and memories
Comments (31)Yum to everything mentioned! I am waiting for my husband to get home with takeout, and this thread it not helping my patience! My comfort food is usually something warm and soft. Soup. Mashed potatoes. No specific recipe -- I think I tended to eat things that were warm and easy on the throat when I was sick, and that temperature/texture is what defined comfort food for me. I'm not sure that this is quite the same thing as comfort food, but I also get a warm, family sort of feeling from sharing fresh fruit. Stems from my father's immense delight at purchasing fruit/hearing that we enjoyed eating it. His family was quite poor growing up and could not afford much fresh food, so my whole life, my dad's always been immensely pleased to see his family eat well. Drives my mom bananas (pun intended) because she thinks he spends to much on food, but it makes him SO happy. The fruit basket at my parents' house is probably the best stocked in the country. Since that was normal for me growing up, I also always have fresh fruit in my house, and my husband is usually so delighted to help me eat anything I've washed/cut up. It's all very homey....See MoreWeekend Quiz: What are your five favorite culinary/food smells? ...
Comments (16)Love to smell Bread. Baking or just baked. Specifically, a plain, white, highly hydrated bread with crust like plate glass and gaping caverns of chewy crumb. Tomatoes. Ripe, unwashed, freshly pulled off the vine, by and in your hand, en route to your mouth, after a detour to the salt shaker, which you keep on a post in the garden in which you stand, under the hot sun and among the heavy vines, about to be eaten like an apple, that last referring to the tomato, which made its appearance so long ago in this paragraph that we’ve quite forgotten of what we were speaking. Broth. Not the dirty laundry smell of early broth, raw onions, oily fat, and boiling scum. Not even the hearth-and-home smell of middle broth hitting its honest stride after four hours of skimming, with herbs and spices added. I mean the dense, meaty, layered, concentrated, redolent aroma of late, late, late broth simmered overnight and strained and defatted and reduced and clarified to be savored from a highball glass, hot shimmering liquid beef with a splash of vodka and a sprinkle of fleur de sel. Pesto. Basil by the handful, fresh garlic, olive oil, dark toasted nuts, good hard tangy cheese, all those scents liberated, combined, atomized, and flung into the room by the whirring food processor. A food processor is recommended. Pesto made with mortar and pestle has that added smell of effort, sweat, and blisters, that I personally find offputting. I guess if it’s the right comely person working that pestle, while you watch appreciatively with a glass of chilled Prosecco, you could find the sweat sexy, but some uptight SJW will come along and accuse you of exploitation and soon you wish you’d just bought your pesto in a plastic tub from Costco and saved yourself the approbation. Wine. Deep red, room temperature, balloon glass, just poured and swirled. Not, it should never have to be said, a sweet red wine. Meh, intriguing but not emotional to smell Chocolate. That smell means dessert is near, and I like dessert, but I don’t get emotional about it, being more of a ”I’ll share a _____ but only want two bites” person. Unless we are talking about creme brulee or creme caramel. Drat, those should have been in the first list. Bananas. Smell good. Taste okay. Ruins any dish in which incorporated, except ice cream. To this day the smell of Bananas Foster makes me want to vomit, because once it did. Average taco van aka roach coach. A little bit of grill, a little bit of diesel. It’s usually going to be a mediocre meal. You’re going to eat it anyway. Because where there is a roach coach, there by definition is nothing else to eat. A diner, on a secondary road. Smell of weak coffee, hash and grease on the flattop, brown oil in the deep fryer, dirt and jeans, cigarette butts and motor oil. Similar experience coming as #3. Probably. There are glorious exceptions with diners, seldom with roach coaches. Lager or pilsner. Beer is always intriguing, then you get closer and think “crap, its just pilsner (or lager)”, which your subconscious knew from the thin reedy smell, and it emotionally protected you by whispering in your ear ”you’d rather have a spritz”. This happens a lot in France and Italy, where the chances of that beer being an ale, stout, or (non-flavoured, non-hazy, generally non-weirdo) IPA is slim. Hate to smell Durian. Why does every Asian market have this stuff. Most of us don’t eat it. The ones who claim to like it can go live in their own Stinkytown. How can you like the taste of something that smells so bad? Smell is part of taste! Dogs eat stinky cat poop. Be better than a dog. Please. You’re making us look bad. Super sicky sweet stuff. Like cotton candy, inch-thick pink frosting, those volcano things spewing melted milk chocolate, all the other sickness-on-a-stick things you find at the county fair. Espresso shots at most coffee shops in the US, while the ”ooo, light roast, ooo, spe-cial-lity coffee” crowd puts their pale dry rattly beans through espresso machines designed for traditional dark oily roasts, and produce shots so sour that your face looks like your other end is having a rectal exam. On the other hand, I like the smell of espresso shots in France and Italy. Standard hot dogs, boiled. Meaning your basic Oscar Meyer or equivalent weiner. The smell itself isn’t bad, but its the association with the soft, mushy, tasteless, oversalty, sack of meat byproduct that it precedes. Some food with cooked oranges in it. I like fresh oranges. There is something about some ways of cooking oranges that makes me think of the Porcelain Bus. Roasting is ok, stewing is not. Canard a l’orange is ok, having warm sour-sweet acid in my throat is not....See More
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