Best Comfort Food?

[Bunny]

Poll question: Best Comfort Food?

Which one most reminds you of Momma?

[HEyHEY]

1. I predict KD in a landslide victory

:-)

[Bunny]

3. Who or what is KD?

Sorry if I'm being dense :)!

[HEyHEY]

4. it's

Kraft Dinner silly!

[Bunny]

5. Whoops!

I should have known that! But do you go with the cheese powder and add milk and butter? Or are you rich and snobby and have the cheese in a squeeze pouch?

[HEyHEY]

6. Milk and margerine and powder

But I don't eat it anymore..had my fill by age 15!

[Bunny]

7. Aw, live it up!

Try the squeeze pouch! So gooooood! :)

[MoonGod]

30. Hehe... you crazy Canadians...

... us 'mericans never call it "Kraft Dinner" and there's no way we'd pick up on the acronym.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Homemade Mac 'n Cheese-not the Kraft shit

Or Spaghetti and Meatballs. Yum!

[Ilsa]

12. Homemade mac and cheese is the only way to eat it.

I can't stand the boxed stuff. Tastes like cardboard and glue.

[liberalpress]

8. On the other hand

Today, at the Food Lion, Ramen Noodles 8 cents a package, and store brand mac and cheese 19 cents a box. Plebian, sure, but thanks to W's recession, it's affordable.

[solinvictus]

19. Food Lion

Yep, a while back we used to go to Sav-A-Lot and pay for one part of the grocery bill in cash and the rest on our check card lowering our balance to change. Often, these grocery trips were less than $25 for a week or more. Recessions coupled with really low wages make for a tight grocery budget.

[Interrobang]

9. My mom's Alberta Red-Eye stew...

I can cook almost anything else in my mom's repertoire as well or better than she can, but not that! Mmm....

[Bunny]

10. Well, don't hold back!

What is Red-Eye Stew? I've not heard of it. What's in it? I love stew - perfect for cold winter days. With some good bread, butter, and a nice red wine. Got a recipe?

[Interrobang]

31. Um, let me see if I can reconstruct it...

Assemble

Cubed stew beef
sliced onions
flour
salt
pepper
1/2 cup oil
2 tbsps A-1 or HP sauce
worcestershire sauce (Lea & Perrins!!!)
1 tsp. thyme
cubed peeled potatoes
carrots, sliced in rings
frozen peas
4c tomato juice/V-8
1 bottle flat beer

Take:

Cubed stew beef, boneless and without much fat
Dredge in flour, salt, and pepper
Brown in oil, adding flour until almost all the oil is absorbed, then add the onions
Brown the onions until they are golden and becoming transparent
Add the beer to deglaze the pot, simmer for 1 hr. minimum
Add the tomato juice and the potatoes, plus the spices and sauces, simmer for 1 hr. minimum
Add the carrots, simmer for 30 mins. minimum
Add the frozen peas. When heated through, thicken the stew with the rest of the flour mixture, then serve.

That's a close approximation, anyway. I can't find the actual recipe, but that's close. It's called a "red-eye stew" because a "red-eye" is an alcoholic drink consisting of beer and tomato juice, raw egg optional.

[Ilsa]

11. Homemade chicken and dumplings

No Bisquick allowed! Homemade are to die for. Very satisfying, fattening, comfort food.

[Rowdyboy]

27. Absolutely....

the perfect comfort food!

[Maple]

13. Yuck to all of them

Find your 'comfort' elsewhere

[Bunny]

14. Such as?

n/t

[hlthe2b]

15. I need to add: New England Clam Chowder....

hearty homemade chicken noodle soup, tuna noodle mushroom casserole... just for starters!

[brokensymmetry]

16. Chicken fried steak!

With mashed potatoes and cream gravy!

[GOPisEvil]

17. Oh yeah!!!! That's some serious comfort food!

:9

[Bunny]

Gawd that sounds good!

n/t

[solinvictus]

20. Yep!!

Yummy!! With some bacon laden green beans, sweet tea, and lemon ice box pie.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

18. Mac and cheese...the staff of life!

I love macaroni and cheese and am not ashamed to admit it. I could literally eat it every day. Powdered cheese...pouched...homemade...you name it, I adore it. I have two adult friends who feel the same way and even had a discussion with one of them over various ways to prepare it; she's a real connoisseur. It's definitely NOT just for picky children!

I'd also have to add homemade chicken and noodles and Sunday pot roast with carrots and potatoes, as well as my mom's homemade potato soup (which I have failed to replicate despite many attempts). She used celery seed, and it was the tastiest soup ever. Homemade apple pie with homemade crust...homemade pumpkin pie with pumpkin flesh scraped from a real pumpkin, not out of a can...homemade peach ice cream using an old-fashioned hand-cranked ice cream machine...SIGH. Where are you, Mom and Dad???

[Lizz612]

21. Mashed potatoes, its the Irish in me.

but ONLY homemade. That shitty stuff in a box can stay in the box. And when you have some piece of meat roasting, you take the water the taters were boiling in and use it to make the gravy, that way you get the nutrients that seep out. Mmmmm... Mashed potatoes and gravy...

[baldguy]

22. My grandmother's spaetzles with gravy

[LSdemocrat]

23. Good roast chicken with gravy

Can't beat it.

[sendero]

24. big hot bowl of...

... homemade chili. With maybe a bit of sharp cheddar. And some corn chips or saltines. No beans please, that is not chili :)

[FloridaJudy]

25. Chicken soup, oh yeah!

Hot home-made chicken soup with lots of garlic, onions, and tender dumplings.

Jewish soul food.

[SOteric]

26. Homemade Bread, Egg Pastina, Sfoglia, Cassata,

Fungigli, Pasta Fagiole and stale panetone in armagnac.

[Bossy Monkey]

28. Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiied chicken!

And it's cheaper than Prozac

[MoonGod]

29. Matzo ball soup

I can't be the only one, can I?

[NightTrain]

32. For me, it's ice cream!

A pint of good ol' Ben & Jerry's will always comfort me when I need it the most.

[short bus president]

33. corn fritters

and sausage gravy. :9