Turkey bone gumbo, cabbage roll soup, pork and sauerkraut

Simple pizza from scratch. Having the oven super-hot helps to heat the house.

sausage and cabbage with cornbread

I used to make those Bisquick fluffy dumplings. Soooooo good.

Homemade chicken noodle soup (sister's recipe), lasagna, perogies, cabbage rolls, pancakes.

I wish I could narrow it down! February is a rough month for me and I have been eating everything in site for two weeks now! So far, no comfort.

A good pizza (we almost never eat pizza), homemade mac and cheese, beef stew with lots of carrots and potatoes, fried shrimp, a piece of pie (don't care what kind really because it's a treat).

I make fluffy dumplings too....except I don't use Bisquick. Just self rising flour, buttermilk and butter. One of my favorite comfort foods. Another is shrimp gumbo. If I had a dollar for every pot of shrimp gumbo I have made over the past 51 years, I'd be wealthy. Also my red beans, sausage and rice....the next day I take the left over beans, mash them up and make tostados. I like a good pot of home made soup. A couple of Pinterest recipes that I love are Tortilla soup and a sausage, potato and cheese chowder. I like a copy cat version of Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana too. I also love chicken and cornbread dressing. So many actually.

Hot, homemade chocolate pudding, with a scoop of ice cream dropped in the middle :)

Old fashioned open faced chili burger with cheese and onions.
Fried eggs, bacon and toast.
Plain omelet eaten bite for bite with buttered toast.
Tamales
Lucca beef and spinach ravioli with Lucca sauce.
Chile Verde.
A tripe dish a little Mexican restaurant in Frisco used to make that I haven't been able to dupe. It was a childhood favorite. Not menudo. It was in a really spicy hot red sauce served over Mexican rice. That's a comfort food memory that both I and my brother share. It comes up all the time during conversations.

Warm fluffy tapioca pudding. Add an extra egg to the recipe on the box, and some orange zest. SO good and comforting! If any accidentally is left over, it's also delicious chilled. But warm...that's special!

Macaroni and cheese the way I make it.

Oh yes on the chicken and dumplings with bisquick fluff dumplings. I don't get them very often as hubby likes the slimy small very yeasty dumpling his mom made. Makes me want to hurl.

potato soup, chicken and noodles/dumplins

Forgot to mention rice pudding, and a sister introduced me to the idea of a dollop of whipping cream on top. Yum!

Too many to mention, even though we really don't eat sweet or doughy things anymore. That first winter pot of split pea soup is always greatly enjoyed. I add chopped celery, and onions, as well as make some toasted croutons for Robert.

I do love an authentic Lowcountry (aka Frogmore or Beaufort) stew with fresh shrimp, smoked sausage, cobs of sweet corn, and new potatoes.....all stewed together in savory broth highly flavored with Old Bay seasoning and beer.

Another one for chicken & dumplings. Pot roast with potatoes & carrots-except I do not eat the carrots, but my husband loves them. Vegetable beef soup with a loaf of Rhodes frozen bread-baked of course.

Johnny Macaroni. Stuffed Green Peppers. Sauerkraut and sausage with dumplings on top. In that order.

Mac and cheese, chicken pot pie, anything with gravy.

I'm right there with the chicken and Bisquick dumplings!! Braised short ribs with polenta. Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and gravy - just made this last night. And any kind of homemade soup.

I made Greek soup and lasagna today! It was delicious. I love homemade bean soup.

Bean and cheese nachos

Enchiladas

Potato soup

Thank you everyone. Y'all have me drooling and now have lots of ideas for the next month or so.

Feeling cruddy tonight so I made chicken and dumplings from scratch, my mom's recipe. Another comfort food is her bread pudding....mmmm, perhaps tomorrow?

Chicken noodle soup.

Pizza.

Anglophilia, when my hubs is sick he asks for two things, tapioca pudding the box recipe, fluffy and hot and oatmeal.

Chocolatesnap, homemade chocolate pudding, hot is one of my favorates, yum, but I get terriable heartburn from it so I make sure I have lots of Tums LOL.

My real comfort food is roasted chicken, stuffing, whipped potatoes, gravy,and peas.

Oooh, meatloaf, msh. pot, and gravy......or an open face meatloaf and gravy sandwich.......oh my. I haven't had that in ages. All I had was a salad for supper, now I can't stop thinking of meatloaf.

My mac and cheese, beef stew, porcupine meatballs and real mashed potatoes, chicken and gnocchi soup copied from Olive Garden. Many more.

Homemade chicken and noodles on homemade mashed potatoes or chicken and dumplings, the flat ones all made from scratch and those must be on mashed potatoes too.

Sue

Bakes stuff veal or pork with onions, carrots, turnip.gravy and, of course roasted potatoes with rosemary.

Spaghetti with homemade sauce and hot sausage, mushrooms, and peppers.

Hot gingerbread with whipped cream

"Comfort food" ... I find just about all food comforting! In addition to 99% of the foods mentioned above, I'd add soup beans -- which is just pintos, cooked with maybe a little ham for flavor and served with chopped onion and ketchup to add to your own taste. And cornbread on the side.

How about recipes for "my mac and cheese" or "mac and cheese the way I make it" etc?

-grilled cheese sandwich
-coffee and peanut butter toast
-turkey soup

Definitely not out of the box! I use every kind of cheese I have; sharp cheddar, pepper jack, colby but have not tried mozzarella, I think that would be too stringy.I make a medium white sauce and put the cheeses in there to melt while the mac is cooking; then stir it all together, throw it all in a casserole dish, crush up some buttery crackers for crunch on top and in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Not for anyone on a diet, though.

Milk and cookies--oatmeal chocolate chip preferred

Any type of pasta dish

Cinnamon toast or English Muffin toast with butter

Popcorn

Grilled cheese

Cheeseburger and fries

Split pea soup with bacon

Stuffed baked potatoes

Spaghetti with homemade sauce and hot sausage, mushrooms, and peppers.

Oh yeah!

Pizza, mac and cheese, pot pies, barbecued ribs

Green chile. Brownies. Chocolate brandy cheesecake.

My all time favourite comfort food for whatever ails me is cinnamon/sugar on toast.

My cold weather comfort food is pasta dishes, any kind as long as there is pasta in it such as pasta primavera or pasta with meat sauce or pasta casseroles.

Stuffed cabbage (golabki) is leaps and bounds my favorite comfort food.

A good meatloaf with mashed potatoes.

Roasted chicken or turkey with gravy, whipped potatoes with a well to hold even MORE gravy, and lots of peas.

Home made chicken noodle soup and pasta of any kind with any kind of sauce. Even butter with salt and pepper will do.

Home made chicken noodle soup and pasta of any kind with any kind of sauce. Even butter with salt and pepper will do.

#1 favourite? Turkey dinner with all the fixings.. second, which I make about once a month? Dredged, then browned bone in porkchops, laid in a baking pan and covered with a tomato soup/vinegar/brown sugar/water mixture..bake and serve over extra broad egg noodles. Broccoli is the mandatory green :) Mom's comfort porkchops..simple and heartwarming

velveta and shells with tuna and tiny peas...

Split pea soup, and also I have a really good recipe for "Thanksgiving Soup" which is a multi-bean soup. Mashed potatoes with lots of butter, too.

My grandmother's chicken & dumplings was a childhood favorite that I have never quite duplicated -- haven't made it for years, but it did have Bisquick dumplings.

Nickel_kg, the first hospital that I ever worked at was a small one located in the downtown of my small hometown. They served soup beans and cornbread every Thursday, and all (it seemed) of the downtown workers would come to the cafeteria for lunch that day. It was always crowded. There were never leftovers served the next day -- and that hospital always served leftovers until they were gone!

A fellow blogger posted this recipe for Taco Soup a long time ago on her site -- http://tommycooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/taco-soup.html -- I don't like a lot of spice in my food, but this is just right (you can add more jalapenos or spicier--type peppers. I like to cook up a nice-size batch of it and have it on cold weekends. I also like to make Crock-Pot Lasagne, a recipe I found here on Garden Web way back when it was part of the HGTV board and posted by shiffysmom. Will post recipe next.

Crockpot lasagna (from shiffysmom):

1 lb ground beef

26-28 oz spaghetti sauce

8 oz tomato sauce

9 oz lasagna noodles (8)

1 lb jar alfredo sauce

12 oz shredded mozzarella

1/4 cup parmesan cheese

Brown hamburger in skillet and drain. Spray crockpot with cooking spray. Spread 3/4 cup of spaghetti sauce in crockpot. Stir remaining spaghetti sauce and tomato sauce into hamburger mixture. Layer 3 lasagna noodles over the sauce, breaking them if necessary to fit. Top with 1/3 of the alfredo sauce, spreading evenly. Sprinkle with 1 cup mozzarella. Top with 1/3 of the hamburger mixture, spreading evenly. Repeat layering twice, using 2 noodles in the last layer. Sprinkle parmesan on top. Cook on low 3 and a half hours to 4 and a half hours. Cut into wedges (8 servings).

You do not have to pre-boil the noodles -- there's enough liquid to cook them through. (Yes, the jarred alfredo sauce has way too much salt in it, as well as calories, but this dish isn't something to have often!)

Taco soup is a winner for me. I make a crock pot full and freeze some. I eat it with shredded sharp cheddar & a spoonful of sour cream on top. And crackers. My recipe is different from the one shared above but that looks good, too. I've made it with shredded chicken too, but my favorite is beef.

Bacon, eggs, biscuits, & gravy. Yum.

Potato soup with broccoli bread. Double yum.

Hands down it's stuffed cabbage (golabki) for me! I've never made it myself but Mom made it for our family as long as I can remember. What I do know is it takes forever to prepare so when Mom would make a couple big baking dishes filled with golabki I would always ask for leftovers to take home.

Kessala