Comfort Food Again

[Rexedgar]

 

[Jay59]

With cold weather hearty one dish meals are good.

American Goulash​

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1 pound elbow macaroni, cooked to just softened, about 2 minutes​

2 pounds of ground beef​

1 onion, finely chopped​

1 red bell pepper, diced ​

5 cloves garlic, minced​

1/2 can tomato paste ​

1 Tbsp chipotle adobo sauce​

2 tsp dried oregano ​

2 tsp herbs de Provence ​

1 Tbsp onion powder ​

2 tsp garlic powder ​

1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce​

1 Tbsp soy sauce ​

1/2 cup ketchup ​

28 oz crushed tomatoes ​

2 1/2 cups stock ​

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S&P to taste​

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Cook the meat in a little oil until no longer pink​

Add onion and pepper and cook til onions are translucent, about 5 minutes​

Add garlic and cook for one minute​

Add tomato paste and adobo sauce​

Cook until slightly orange, about three minutes​

Add herbs and spices​

Cook stirring for a minute or two​

Add ketchup and tomatoes and cook until slightly reduced, about 7-10 minutes​

Add stock and bring to a low boil​

Add macaroni and stir to incorporate​

Cook for 3-5 minutes, stirring to prevent sticking​

Remove from heat and allow to rest, about five minutes​

If you do not have adoo sauce use smoked paprika. If you leave out the stock and pasta this is a sloppy joe recipe. Add a tablespoon of cumin and some shredded cheese makes it chili mac. Cooking the tomato paste into the meat adds a lot of depth but if you are in a hurry, adding all the ingredients except the pasta works. Bring to a boil and add the pasta as before.

 

[gman]

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, creamed corn or carrots.

 

[MAGAnificent]

Pizza. Fortunately, theres a ton of pizza places near my house, so its not hard to indulge.

Canadian bacon and pineapple with extra cheese.

 

[Risky Thicket]

Black coffee. Cat head biscuits, grits (slow cooked for 25 minutes with a hunk of butter, salt and pepper and NO milk or sugar or other non-Southern contaminants), country ham preferably cured in Smithfield, Virginia and/or thick slices of streak o’ lean or bacon and redeye gravy made made in the cast iron skillet by mixing ham or bacon grease with black coffee, slices of cantaloupe.

 

[Josie]

Whenever I'm sick (like right now), all I really want is a bowl of very smooth mashed potatoes with lots of butter and salt.

 

[dockside]

Whenever I'm sick (like right now), all I really want is a bowl of very smooth mashed potatoes with lots of butter and salt.

I'm with you and Julia Child. That was Julia Child's favorite food, also. She was to have been a guest on our local PBS station but ended up hospitalized in California so the program host called her there and talked with her and asked her what her favorite food was. And it was "mashed potatoes with lots of melted butter."

 

[weaver2]

my present comfort food is … a schnecken.nudel = a sort of Danish pastry

Comfort food is quick to prepare, quick to eat, filling, hot and tasty = Ramen noodles!!

 

[Rumpel]

Canadian bacon and pineapple with extra cheese.

like Pizza Hawaii?

 

[Jay59]

We had an interesting lunch on New Year's Day. A Kurdish couple from eastern Turkey invited us over. Judith brought a vegetable soup with lentils, hummus, pita, and a layered dessert. They served lamb and bean soup and rice pilaf.

It was like an Italian mother in a movie, "Eat, eat, eat. Would you like some more?" Afterward, our wives watched travel videos about Turkey while we played chess. I won but I did not look good doing it.

 

[MAGAnificent]

Comfort food is quick to prepare, quick to eat, filling, hot and tasty = Ramen noodles!!

That was one of my favorite college staples.

 

[Manc Skipper]

like Pizza Hawaii?

 

[Rumpel]

..?.?

 

[Helix]

Someone has listed biscuits and gravy already, so I'll go with chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes with gravy. Honorable mention to fried breaded tenderloin sandwiches with veggies and mayo. My most common comfort food is cheeseburgers, though. All of these are a treat, as I log all of my calories, and I am almost 20 years into my weight loss journey. So far, so good.

 

[MaryP]

Black coffee. Cat head biscuits, grits (slow cooked for 25 minutes with a hunk of butter, salt and pepper and NO milk or sugar or other non-Southern contaminants), country ham preferably cured in Smithfield, Virginia and/or thick slices of streak o’ lean or bacon and redeye gravy made made in the cast iron skillet by mixing ham or bacon grease with black coffee, slices of cantaloupe.

That's it. I've read everyone's, and I'm coming to your house. I should have been born in the south.

 

[MaryP]

I'm with @Josie, here: mashed potatoes with sweet cream butter, s & p, are my ultimate comfort food.

 

[Manc Skipper]

..?.?

Pizza is a basic Neapolitan peasant food item made from local inexpensive ingredients. Pineapple is a luxury foreign food which didn't even arrive in Italy until hundreds of years after the middle ages.

 

[Rumpel]

Pizza is a basic Neapolitan peasant food item made from local inexpensive ingredients. Pineapple is a luxury foreign food which didn't even arrive in Italy until hundreds of years after the middle ages.

True

But we dont live in Middle Ages any more

Our Soups Are also different

 

[Gaius46]

bourbon

followed closely by Halal chicken with a myriad of sauces over rice and a side of chicken wings.

 

[weaver2]

Pizza is a basic Neapolitan peasant food item made from local inexpensive ingredients. Pineapple is a luxury foreign food which didn't even arrive in Italy until hundreds of years after the middle ages.

Tomatoes didn't arrive in Italy until some time after 1512 when they were introduced to Europe. They were treated with suspicion since they belonged to plant family Solanaceae, so they probably were not used in pizza as we know it.

 

[The Mark]

my present comfort food is … a schnecken.nudel = a sort of Danish pastry

I tend to find soups, stews, and other savory dishes most comforting.

Edit: I think the key factor is the warm broth though, so I lean more toward soups.

 

[weaver2]

I tend to find soups, stews, and other savory dishes most comforting.

Edit: I think the key factor is the warm broth though, so I lean more toward soups.

Agree. The broth and warmth of soups and stews are comforting. But the schnecken.nudel sounds awfully good and it's fun to say.

 

[Rumpel]

Asparagus

 

[Infinite Chaos]

I'm going to say cottage or shepherd's pie as my ultimate comfort food - especially in winter here in the UK.

Cottage: made with ground been (we call it mince)
Shepherds: made with ground lamb (we call it minced lamb)

Tomatoes didn't arrive in Italy until some time after 1512 when they were introduced to Europe. They were treated with suspicion since they belonged to plant family Solanaceae, so they probably were not used in pizza as we know it.

About this time, British "lasagne" will have had a tomato sauce applied and we have the current dish we now know. I know that will upset a lot of people (mostly Italians) but the first recorded recipes (in 1390) for "lasagne" were in Richard III's palace cookbook - "Forme of Cury"

 

[weaver2]

I'm going to say cottage or shepherd's pie as my ultimate comfort food - especially in winter here in the UK.
Cottage: made with ground been (we call it mince)
Shepherds: made with ground lamb (we call it minced lamb)

I did not know there was a Cottage Pie. Also didn't know Shepards Pie contained only lamb.

About this time, British "lasagne" will have had a tomato sauce applied and we have the current dish we now know. I know that will upset a lot of people (mostly Italians) but the first recorded recipes (in 1390) for "lasagne" were in Richard III's palace cookbook - "Forme of Cury"

So lasagna must have been just cheese, meat and pasta. No wonder tomato sauce was invented.