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Post by maddocgrotsnik on Feb 19, 2023 7:05:29 GMT -5
How do!
A thread that is close to my heart, because it’s about comfort food.
Could be something your Granny specialised in. Could be a childhood favourite. Could be something you discovered later in life. Provided it’s food, and it’s a dish you go to when you need a little pep, it counts.
Mine are fairly basic fare, as I suspect most, but not all, such dishes will be.
1. Chip Butty. Freshly cooked chips, slice of buttered bread, party political broadcast of salt. Just absolute heaven. I do prefer chippy rolls, but any white bread will tickle my pickle in the circumstances. Chips the way Granny did them - oven chips, deep fried. Except I use my air fryer these days so I can enjoy them for years to come.
2. Stovies. A Scots classic dish, with as many recipes are there are families. What’s critical are beef dripping (ideally from a roast you did yourself) spuds and sliced onions. It stick to your ribs, and your arteries. Proper “peasant food” originating as it did from Frugal Necessity
3. Macaroni Cheese, the way Mum made it. Any pasta can of course be used, but elbow Macaroni is standard. Home made cheese sauce with the sharpest cheddar you can find. And when putting it in to bake, mix in frozen chopped onions. Just absolute fucking heaven.
and that’s it for now. As my tum rumbles, expect more!
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Post by maddocgrotsnik on Feb 19, 2023 15:34:20 GMT -5
On the Mac and Cheese? If like me tonight you can’t be bothered to cook? You can do a lot worse than Cathedral City Mac & Cheese. I get mine from Icelands, and it may be exclusive to them. It’s amazing!
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Post by tannhauser42 on Feb 19, 2023 17:59:13 GMT -5
I like to make my own Mac and Cheese these days. Sodium Citrate is fairy dust, it can turn any pile of shredded cheese into creamy goodness.
Anyway, my own comfort foods would be pizza (the super extra cheesy kind) and chili. I like to make a big ol' pot of chili every now and then.
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Post by easye on Mar 6, 2023 16:21:33 GMT -5
As I am from the Upper Midwest a favorite of mine is a Hamburger, corn, and white rice hotdish/casserole which uses a Cream of Celery/Mushroom/Potato binder and flavored heavily with black pepper.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Mar 8, 2023 6:02:12 GMT -5
I do miss my gran's meatballs, potatoes and gravy. She gave me the recipe before she passed a few years ago but it's not the same. I'm trash at cooking but my dad's not, and he can't get it right either.
I've taken to home-made burgers as a comfort food. If you skip fries, various dressings and the like it's honestly not bad food.
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Post by herzlos on Mar 8, 2023 6:37:17 GMT -5
We usually cheat with the mac and cheese and use Asdas own brand white cheese pasta sauce.
The same for most sauces actually, the jars aren't quite as good as cooking from scratch, but a lot quicker.
Comfort food options here are:
1. Dirty fries. Chips, chilli (however you like it, I usually do beef mince, mixed beans, pepper, onion), cheese, jalapenos, salsa.
2. Tacos. Chilli, salsa, sour cream, lettuce in a warmed tortilla wrap.
I want a chip butty now, though.
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Post by maddocgrotsnik on Mar 8, 2023 10:06:29 GMT -5
For dirty fries, I use Stagg Extra Hot Chilli. Because I am a Dirty Boy.
Yes I am.
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Mar 8, 2023 10:54:15 GMT -5
Tacos are good, I'd probably be devouring them at a frightening pace if they weren't impractical as work food.
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Post by Haighus on Mar 10, 2023 16:05:08 GMT -5
Spag bol* is the main one for me. The more cheddar on top, the better.
*Well... what I call a bolognese. It would probably give an Italian an aneurysm.
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Post by Haighus on Mar 10, 2023 16:05:41 GMT -5
Tacos are good, I'd probably be devouring them at a frightening pace if they weren't impractical as work food. Big fan of burritos, fajitas,and quesadillas too. |
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Post by bobtheinquisitor on Mar 10, 2023 18:58:03 GMT -5
The comfort dishes we keep returning to (besides soup) are tacos/burritos, crockpot chicken, shakshuka and tuna melts. When we really get lazy, naan pizza, nachos, matzah nachos or even our patented Matzahcan Pizza: matzah, retried beans, another matzah crosswise to prevent shatter, more beans, chili lime Cholula, cheese (and ground meat if one is okay mixing meat and dairy), then popped into the toaster oven until the cheese is melted.
Also cookies. During the pandemic my wife made sourdough while I mastered cookies.
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Post by bobtheinquisitor on Mar 10, 2023 18:58:50 GMT -5
As I am from the Upper Midwest a favorite of mine is a Hamburger, corn, and white rice hotdish/casserole which uses a Cream of Celery/Mushroom/Potato binder and flavored heavily with black pepper. What is Hot Dish? I’ve heard the term, but don’t know anything about it. |
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Post by maddocgrotsnik on Mar 10, 2023 20:24:39 GMT -5
Oooh. Take Away Curry.
Bit of a treat these days due to Cost Of Living. But man. Find the right curry house, and there’s nowt better!
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Post by Haighus on Mar 11, 2023 4:47:38 GMT -5
The comfort dishes we keep returning to (besides soup) are tacos/burritos, crockpot chicken, shakshuka and tuna melts. When we really get lazy, naan pizza, nachos, matzah nachos or even our patented Matzahcan Pizza: matzah, retried beans, another matzah crosswise to prevent shatter, more beans, chili lime Cholula, cheese (and ground meat if one is okay mixing meat and dairy), then popped into the toaster oven until the cheese is melted. Also cookies. During the pandemic my wife made sourdough while I mastered cookies. Also learnt how to make cookies during the pandemic! I like big soft chewy ones made using brown sugar. Add white choc chip and macadamia nuts and its just mhmmm The toasted matzah sounds great. My partner loves matzah (apparently it is very common in Poland) so would probably enjoy the veggie version. Our gerbils also love the odd bit of matzah as a treat! |
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Mar 11, 2023 7:24:24 GMT -5
Spag bol* is the main one for me. The more cheddar on top, the better. *Well... what I call a bolognese. It would probably give an Italian an aneurysm.
Spag bol is my staple workplace food because you can make a big batch, freeze it, and have lunch for two weeks. It's great food, you don't get hungry after an hour, and it's practical.
The Italians would kill me if they saw the recipe though.
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