What's Your FAVORITE comfort food

[RitaFajita]

Mashed potatoes or potato soup. When I get stressed out, I lose my appetite. But I can always eat potatoes. Mac and cheese is great, too, as are sauteed mushrooms (w/butter & garlic), home canned green beans, grits cooked all day, and warm biscuits.

I have to admit, I also have a thing for canned clam chowder

RF

[fyfas]

Chicken Pot Pie; sometimes with green chiles as part of the mix. In the dead of winter - fireplace time - a beef stew.

[chunghan]

I think it'd be a toss up between german lentil soup and kim chee with bacon. My korean roommate introduced me to this one. Basically it's just kim chee stir fried with bacon, but the bacon is only cooked long enough to be done. So it's really fatty meat with kim chee. It's oily and spicy. It taste so good, but you just feel like you're going to have a heart attack afterwards.

[chefgirlrd]

Turkey dinner.....mmmmmmm
with homemade stuffing and mashed potatoes
and cranberry sauce. yummy!!!!
I think thats what I'll make sunday!

[bubbamom]

chicken, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, home-made mac and cheese or - - CHOCOLATE

[Pete]

I have a lot of comfort foods. It really all depends on the time of year and the mood I am in. Some of my favorites, all ready mentioned, are Mac & Cheese, MASHED POTATOES, stuffing, MOM's Meatloaf, Clam Chowder, Stew.

Others, not already mentioned, are Chili, BLT's (can't believe no said this one), Hamloaf, Lasagna, Dream Sandwiches (Grilled cheese and bacon, dipped in French Toast batter and topped with real maple syrup!!).

[elakinsouth]

I love that.
Regards,
Ed

Originally Posted by cape chef

American Pate,

aka "meatloaf" mashed potatoes with lots of butter

Sweet peas

My Tanta Bella's ladkis.

[shroomgirl]

Markets opened this week and a couple of the farmers brought in Eng. or shell peas....NOT sugar snaps.....YUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMM.....must have gone through a couple #'s sharing, shelling......my mom used to give us a block of frozen baby peas instead of popsicles when we were little, nothing like them! Sugar sweet with no additives. Really funny how many people asked how I would fix the peas......um, what do you mean?!~ they never make it home. Why would I cook um? The carrots were exceptional also.

[PhishCake]

I work at a steakhouse and the price of beef is expected to rise--(as everything else) so my boss and I are trying to work out some new "comfort foods " to add. We already have Beef stew on the menu ( utilize leftover prime rib) as well as meatloaf ( utilizing meat scraps- we grind it down)

any idea for more "cost effective" comfort foods....I'm thinking......




spag & meat balls
chili
shepard's pie
(all of which use up excess ground beef)

and ....

chix & dumplings
mac& cheese




the thing is........the line is tiny!

we use a skeleton crew ( chef, me, salad guy, 2 or 3 dishwasheers)

and we do close to 450 on a busy Sat night in the winter (ski resort town)


So to ad these new $$$$$ opportunities , things need to be stirred up a bit, and .....right now ...how things are, it's smooth! we can do 450 covers off this tiny line w/ two of us!!

So......the dilema we face is how to implement these other dishes ...and still have things run smooth? And (knowing my tight assed boss) how to do it w/out adding more labor???

(btw--I think what the 2 or 3 of us do is amazing, but he's come to expect it from us)

[RPMcMurphy]

cheese burger.

[siduri]

well, apart from sweets, i'd say a really good chicken pot pie, with mushrooms, peas, celery, carrots and onions, a real veloute' sauce and biscuit crust with just a hint of sugar in it or a cornbread crust.

But since the only way i can get that is to make it myself where i live, i have to say cheerios with raisins and milk.

Oh, and do pancakes count as sweets? If not, buttermilk pancakes with homemade blueberry syrup (don;t bother to put the blueberries inside, you don;t taste them anyway, but the blueberry syrup is another story). They're so easy to make i can count it as comfort even if i have to make them (and if i don.t i won't get those either)

[humpty99]

Rigatoni pasta with a garlic tomato cream sauce with either sausage or short rib pieces finished with a hunk of goat cheese.

[yorvo]

Breakfast. Two easy eggs, sausage, and hash browns or some sort of fried potato. Ketchup for the potato.

[elizabethbryce@]

Congee -- any sorts, fish, chicken, pork, shellfood.

[MikeLM]

Well, I'll jump on the Mac and cheese bandwagon- a favorite from my childhood but now made with imported pasta and designer cheeses. We like to top it with Wheat germ flakes instead of bread crumbs. They brown up nicely and ease your conscience a little.

Another childhood favorite is franks split down the middle and stuffed with what my mother called "rat trap cheese" (as I remember, the sharpest cheddar available in those days), and yellow mustard, and topped with a big mound of mashed potatoes. Baked in the oven until cooked through, cheese melted, and the potatoes slightly browned.

Again, it's now designer sausages, aged cheddar, and Dijon mustard. But - God help us - my wife sometimes uses instant mashed potatoes!

I try so hard to be sophisticated...

Mike