comfort food?

[Peachcreek]

Cheese Fondue. A long slow meal, lots of wine, a little bread, candlelight, dinner music. I get these really good grilled Italian vegetables- artichokes, borrentine onions, eggplant and slice them up on the side. Maybe a few cornochons. Did I mention wine?.....AND I get to sit down and enjoy it!

[cape chef]

A loaded Hebrew Natinal and Dr Browns cream soda

[mirepoix man]

Originally posted by cape chef
A loaded Hebrew Natinal and Dr Browns cream soda

i'm partial to Dr. Browns Black Cherry...never could do the Cel Ray thing!

[Rachel]

Kao Niow Mamuang (Coconut Flavored White Sticky Rice with Mangoes) - warm sticky rice and ripe, sweet mangoes. Drool.

Please, please, please can I have the recipe???

[-d-]

Rachel,

This recipe for kao niow mamuang is from Kasma Loha-unchit Clark, and appears in her book "It Rain Fishes." It is the most precise and, of course, delicious recipe of the dessert that I use.

A few notes: Use good quality coconut milk. In the US, Chaokah and Mae Ploy are the best. Of course, the best ripe, non fibrous mangoes are key. I use "Manilla" mangoes, since Thai mangoes are not available here. My wife doesn't believe me that Thai mangoes are really that good, but that's another story.

With regards to taste, I definitely recommend using pandanus leaves, if possible. It provides a subtle vanilla, floral flavor that's important in Thai desserts. Also, as Kasma notes, there should be a pronounced saltiness behind the sweetness. This is necessary to bring out the sweetness in the mangos and sticky rice.

Enjoy!

[shroomgirl]

Pot Roast made out of chuck with mashed potatoes and green beans
Or roasted chicken
rice pudding...I left it at Momoreg's house....don't send it I'll make some here.
Yep pie and ice cream....apple, berry, cream....doesnot matter all good.

Or meatloaf samdwich on white bread with hellmans and loads of the crusty tomato sauce too.

[Bufano]

To me the best comfort foods are...

a. Pastitsio with lamb and a bechamel topping..all nice and browned on top.

b. Garlic-mashed potatoes (yukon gold that is)

c. Four-cheese rigatoni casserole just oozing with goodness...oh and did I mention fontina...yeah baby!!

d. Pasta - Pasta - Pasta...oh and more pasta!!

[Anneke]

Comfort for the sweet tooth:

tapiocca pudding with coconut milk, ginger and vanilla...

[momoreg]

Shroom, you read my mind...I was actually thinking of sending it to you!!

[PhishCake]

My idea of comfort food is anything that takes forever to cook and makes the house smell sooooo inviting and.......well......comfortable.

Pot roast is good. Espicially when the weather is cold ( I live in Vermont) and we have a fire in my fireplace. But I'm a Chef so my idea of comfort food is anything braised.....short ribs, pot roast, or osso bucco!!! Over spaetzle, rissotto, or polenta....even mashe pot!! ALL GOOD!!!!!

[skatesurfcook]

REALLY PEOPLE!! no one's said mac and cheese yet?!?!... i can't believe it
so ya mac and cheese. anything braised also
o and grits with looooooootsa buta and cheese

[teamfat]

Well, had I gotten around to reading this thread earlier, I could have been the first to say mac and cheese. One of my all time favorite meals is some grilled chicken with tangy Q sauce and mac and cheese on the side.

Also a big pile of pasta just topped with butter, garlic and lots of parm. ( basically just another version of mac and cheese! )

A good country fried steak smothered in gravy.

One of my earliest childhood food memories is the chicken wings my mom used to make. She'd bake up big sheets of wings that were dabbed with sour cream and sprinkled with some green herbs and such. She died when I was 10, so I never got to ask her for the recipe, and my dad wasn't any help. I've tried over the years to make some in a similar style, haven't quite gotten the hang of it. Still good eats, but they never have the right non-culinary ingredients, so to speak.

mjb.

[Ishbel]

Cock a leekie soup

or

Haggis, tatties and neeps

[shel]

So many foods are Comfort Food for me. However, I don't see mac & cheese as comfort food - we never had that at home when I was growing up. Good salads with lots of vegetables is a comfort food, porridge is a comfort breakfast, scrambled eggs with cheese and chile peppers and home fried potatoes (yum!), a big piece of moist chocolate cake or coconut cake, lemony pastries, pasta in many guises (teamfat's description sounds wonderful, great simply prepared fish, really good fried chicken, certain hot dogs on a big toasted sourdough roll with lots of sauerkraut and deli-style mustard, a NYC-style corned beef and pastrami sandwich, piled high, thick, rich vegetable soups, chicken soup, great Texas, KC, and Memphis style barbeque (the slow smoked kind, not the ersatz grilled stuff) ....

shel