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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Iuka, Mississippi Zone 7b
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Let's hear about some of your "comfort foods" that you and the family enjoy...
Ours is homemade chicken and dumplings... it can be blistering hot outside and a pot of chicken and dumplings will still be no.#1 at this house. ![]()
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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Before I run off to the store to get fixings for a hamburger.
I have discovered that there are four definitions of comfort food. Nostalgic. Indulgence. Convenience. Physical. Mine would fall under nostalgic. I would guess I dont eat anything but comfort food. What else is there, Foo Foo food. ![]() The list would be great for me but I will try. Chicken fried steak. Fried chicken. Soups chowders and stews of all types. Hamburgers. Spaghetti and meat balls. Fried catfish etc. To me the food I suspect to be in on the Convenience list, (Fast Food?) would be defined as garbage. ![]() Worth |
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Grandma used to make a fine bologna salad when I was a kid.
My indulgence food is pimento cheese spread. I had it last week with a fresh jalapeno chopped up in it. Hot peppers and cheese balance each other out very well. |
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Virginia
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Along the same lines of enjoying comfort food in the heat, one of my "comfort foods" (being 100% Bohemian Czech) is Chicken in Sour Cream Dill Sauce with Czech bread dumplings. When the garden dill was bountiful in mid-summer, this often graced our family table growing up, & it's been comfort food for me well into adulthood.
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Czech republic
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Chicken in Sour Cream Dill Sauce with Czech bread dumplings. I would like tasted it, I have never eaten. Vladimír |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MA/NH Border
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Number one on my list would be a crusty loaf of bread while it's still warm, hold the butter.
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Virginia
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Another purely nostalgic comfort food I enjoy from time to time - as horrible as it sounds - is commercial fish sticks with tartar sauce & commercial macaroni & cheese on the side. Sometimes I do buckle under & make my own homemade & healthier "fish sticks" using fresh Cod, & these days I also add fresh broccoli florets to the mac & cheese, but other times the old childhood favorite is what I need to hit the spot.
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brownville, Ne
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Beef and noodles over mashed potatoes made from real potatoes.
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Southeast Kansas
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Chicken fried steak WITH mashed potatoes and cream gravy.
Ham hocks with new potatoes and green beans from the garden. Biscuits and bacon gravy. Sooo bad for you but so good. |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Iuka, Mississippi Zone 7b
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OMG... Anyone that knows me well knows I would try and eat a rock it if was wrapped in BACON... ![]()
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Virginia Beach
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Tonight's dinner might fit the bill. My husband smoked baby back ribs over cherry wood most of the day and finished them with a sweet/spicy sauce. I spent most of the weekend shelling White Acre peas (a variety of field pea/southern pea). I cooked those down with bacon drippings and a bit of sugar, salt and pepper until they were creamy and perfect. I crumbled the bacon over the top. They are a pain to shell out but so good. I froze the rest for later. And we had sliced tomatoes out of the garden (Stump of the World tonight). And some small baked potatoes about the size of an egg, which is just right, IMO. I have sour cherry pie here and vanilla ice cream but I'm still too full for dessert.
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Join Date: May 2006
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Southeast Kansas
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Cook your bacon off until crispy and remove from pan. Add enough flour to the bacon grease to absorb all of it. (This part is best done with the pan OFF of the heat.) I'm guessing I use 2-3 heaping tablespoons of flour. Back on the heat and whisk in milk/cream. 2 cups for extra thick almost stands up on it's own gravy. 3 cups for thinner gravy. Bring the gravy up to a low boil stirring constantly. Cook for 2-3 minutes. This removes any flour taste. Crumble the bacon up and stir into the gravy. Best served over baking powder biscuits made from scratch or eaten straight from the pan with a spoon! |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Iuka, Mississippi Zone 7b
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin
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Meat Loaf
Grandpa's "Prisoner Stew" AKA Lamb stew A great Italian Beef sandwich
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