Favourite Comfort Food

Toasted teacakes with loads of Lurpak.
My Grandma's cheese-on-a-plate - grilled Cheshire cheese sitting on top of a little milk on a Pyrex plate, topped with sliced onions and mustard and surrounded with streaky bacon. Mopped up with white bread.

I made a big pan of dal last night - will finish that off today!

Red lentils, green chilli, onion, garlic, cumin seeds, salt and turmeric...
with basmati rice - brilliant.

The Indian restaurateur, Reza Muhamad, describing his life at public school in India said they relied on LSD... Life Saving Dal, for comfort food!

Oh I loved that program Reza Muhamad did on TV feetlebaum what was it called again? I am sure it was set in France, or was it?

He's made quite a few - each more camp than the last, bless 'im!
There was Delhi Belly, Coconut Coast and A Place in France, which must be the one you mean. There was at least one more, in which he visited different parts of India, and talked with local royalty about traditional cooking.

I spelled his name wrong, by the way - it has two 'm's - Muhammad.
His restaurant is The Star of India.

He's made quite a few - each more camp than the last, bless 'im!
There was Delhi Belly, Coconut Coast and A Place in France, which must be the one you mean. There was at least one more, in which he visited different parts of India, and talked with local royalty about traditional cooking.

I spelled his name wrong, by the way - it has two 'm's - Muhammad.
His restaurant is The Star of India.

Wrong again - it's 'Mahammad'. D'oh!

Cheesy mashed potato, haven't had it in years.

Today, after going to a talk and finding it cancelled came home craving DH's home made veg soup.

I wonder if they are available "on line" feetlebaum ? I would love to see them.
Yes you are right the one I have seen is a place in France. Thank you for that.

Just reading the words baked apples make me feel better...honestly... for me comfort food is spaghetti Bolognaise or lamb stew with lovely dumplings.

Steak and kidney pudding. Waitrose do perfect individual ones. I always have a pack in the freezer

We had cottage pie this evening and sausages are defrosting for tomorrow. This is not the right time of year for dieting and the next two days look like it will be comfort food all the way.

Having mentioned macaroni cheese, I had to have some today and it is now sitting on my stomach. Serves me right.
G'night all

Marmite toast-nuff said.

Mashed potato. I rarely do it but did last night. DH stacking the dishwasher licked the spoon and commented that it was "the perfect food"

Jess I love mashed potato, especially with a large dollop of mayo! Ambrosia creamed rice out of the tin does it for me as does semolina from a packet

I love fried egg and mint sauce with a couple of slices of bread.

Nigella's sticky toffee pudding, so easy to make - makes its own sauce as it bakes.
If I want something instant I always go for crusty bread and stinky cheese, I could live on it!

Does it have egg yolk in it? I have an allergy to yolk. Ok with the white!
I would die at the moment for some form of treacle pudding!

Even if it got me sent to room 101,

Dinner last night was, I realised on finishing it, good comfort food: sausages baked in the oven and cauliflower cheese.

I've decided, on this cold and wet, low, grey-skied day, to make French Onion soup and go the whole hog and include the large bread croutons smothered in gruyere cheese, toasted until it bubbles and runs.

jeni, in the interest of science only I shall try a pud with egg whites only, don't see why it wouldn't work. I only use a quarter of the recipe so that I am not tempted to eat the lot!

Baked potato with butter; thick sliced toast with butter; any sort of pasta with a spicy tomato sauce and garlic bread. Oooooh butter! Don't have it in the house very often..

What a yummy thread

When I woke yeserday to find everywhere covered in snow, my first thought was 'pan of home made soup'. Some sort of primal instinct?

I make sponge puddings in the microwave for grandsons, they love them. For the chocolate one I use chocolate syrup, so easy.

Lots of reminders here of food I love but no longer eat....marmite on toast, cheesy mash, toasted tea cakes.

I agree about butter, ariadne. Love the stuff. I have it in the house all the time and use it all the time, so I differ from you in that respect .

I never avoid using butter, except when I think another fat would work even better, such as in a frying pan, when I'm more likely to use goose fat or lard or beef fat. Why? Quite simply for taste and food value. See Jennifer McLagan's book Fat: an appreciation of a misunderstood ingredient with recipes. The book backs up what I've always thought.

On the fly leaf: "For all of history, minus the last thirty years, fat has been at the center of human diets and cultures..... according to Jennifer McLagan, not only is our fat phobia overwrought, it also hasn't benefited us in any way. Instead it has driven us into the arms of trans fats and refined carbohydrates."

It has struck me on this thread just how many of the comfort foods people go for are high in fat. There's a good reason for that. Fat is good food.