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Posted: 6/3/2008 4:09:42 PM | k, fine.
I'll tell ya what I feel comfort food is/was/supposed to be.
It's food you bring to the neighbor who just lost a loved one, and won't eat.
Like Swans, humans tend to starve themselves, or drink or whatever to occupy this time. Those who don't indulge in unworldly favors, just sit at home, in a box. Alone and away. That's their way of dealing with pain.
Comfort in food is for that purpose. We make them eat, cuz they feel guilty if they don't, fow we cooked for them, and them expressly.
I may be off base, but this is MY terminology and description...Correct me if I am wrong....
God Bles,
Scott. | |
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Posted: 6/3/2008 8:16:17 PM |
but this is MY terminology and description...Correct me if I am wrong....
OK- You're wrong. I, and others, have already described comfort food as being food for the soul not the stomach. It's specifically NOT what you give others, but what you give yourself. It's to make YOU feel better. It's NOT the "Deli Tray" special to bring to a funeral or wake, it's NOT leftover almost-out-of-date canned or frozen crap from the cupboard.
We make them eat, cuz they feel guilty if they don't, fow we cooked for them, and them expressly. sic
If that's YOUR definition of comfort food, I'd rather have Hannibal Lector cooking for me.
Of course, all opinions being valid it is YOUR terminology and description, and if it works for you... | |
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Posted: 6/3/2008 11:45:36 PM |
You'll probably get a dozen opinions for every 10 people, but in my opinion comfort foods are those things that remind us of home & hearth- foods that not only feed the belly but also the soul. They are the foods we grew up eating that remind us of mom's (or dad's) cooking... the aroma of which instantly transports us to the kitchen of our youth, and a taste floods not only the mouth but the memories.
Well said!
This takes me back to my childhood, when every Sunday, after church, there was always a fine meal prepared. Chicken and dumplings (the fluffy, biscuit dough dumplings, not he flat rolled kind), pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and celery cooked in the broth, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy with buttermilk biscuits and green beans cooked with a few strips of bacon. I fortunately learned how to cook all these foods, which is becoming a lost art in the day of microwaves and little spare time.
It is too bad that this kind of food is so bad for you. | |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 12:33:37 PM | While many "comfort food" memories come from our own childhood, I do find that some of my favourite ones are connected to my children's reactions to things I cooked in their childhood. This is one my son readily identified by the aroma - I can remember his running up the stairs to home, opening the door with a big grin. It had the appeal of being ever so easy, too.
Hot German Potato Salad
Cook 6 medium potatoes, sliced thin, in salted boiling water until done. Drain well.
Fry 6 finely chopped bacon slices until crisp; drain off half the fat.
Mix 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cider vinegar, and 1/2 cup water; pour over bacon in pan.
Mix 1/4 cup water and 1 T. flour; pour into bacon mixture and stir for one minute.
Add cooked potatoes; simmer 5 minutes. Serves 4. | |
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Posted: 6/5/2008 6:47:49 PM | | MMM on the grilled cheese and tomato soup! Toss a little cheese and dill on top of the soup and MM MM GOOD! Add a HUGE glass of milk! HEAVEN!!! | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 6:51:21 AM | Hi Rover  you are definitely a person I have missed.
Charon, will you marry me? LOL you are truly a poet. I know you probably won't see this, but I hope you are having fun.
Comfort food, yeah, what Charon so eloquently said. My favorite comfort food? I don't let myself eat any of my comfort foods, because they are all bad for me, EXCEPT Matza Ball Soup, but I don't make it much because it is time consuming and I will eat it ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL in way too short a time, so that is bad too.
I love my mothers meatloaf, which is the one I make. I will make it about once every two years. For a Jewish girl, I suspiciously love garlic fried pork chops with mashed potatoes and peas. I have those about once a decade.
I guess my new comfort food is my old stand-by go to 15 minute meal that you have seen me post 20 times...spicy shrimp and avocado soft yellow corn tortilla tacos with onions and cilantro and sweet potato fries. Can't beat it! | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 2:12:57 PM | It would have to be my Mother's Dutch Pea soup... I do make it but it will never be the same as hers. She was the WORST cook .... Awful! But there are a few things that were wonderful. Her Red Cabbage and Meatballs, Pea Soup, Butter Cake and Turkey Croketts. Other then that Look out!
Those are my comfort foods...
~Charmed~ | |
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