Favourite Comfort Food

jeni I have just made a quarter of this recipe using egg white (no yolk), baking for only 25 minutes. I can't tell the difference, it is still yummy!
Nigella easy sticky toffee pudding
If you have no dates, dried fruit can be used, or you can leave them out. I have also substituted various different sugars depending on what I have in cupboard, only alters the colour.

On the subject of butter.....

I've just been looking for an article I was sent, but can't find it. I'm not clear about the actual science, but essentially it was talking about margarines and butter substitutes being bad for you because they are such fake substances.....closely related to plastics? The article said you could leave marge etc for weeks and months but it would not go mouldy.

Apart from being delicious, at least butter is real.

Another fan of butter here [yum yum] emoticon!

Thickly slice bread, toast well under a (preferably) gas grill, score with a sharp knife, slather with real butter.........and relax. I can't think of anything nicer.

In fact I'm just off to do that right now.

Except for the gas grill, sadly I no longer have one.

A log fire and a toasting fork, crumpets with butter soaking into the holes. Yum - calories!

What a coincidence anno. The Gransnet Bolthole awaits with tea and crumpets. Bring that butter, will you?

Bags and other Butter lovers some guy on TV last night was saying we should all eat fats at the moment to keep ourselves warm. Go fill you boots.

notso I think it is about hardened vegetable oils being worse for your arteries than animal fats. Runny vegetable oil good, hardened bad.
That's why the food industry has been reducing some of these "transfats" in products.

The only reason I don't have butter in the house is that I am incapable of using it sparingly! I don't use anything else, though - don't eat much bread either. Theseus has a Flora or Benecol spread, though. But I shall go over to the bolt hole because there are hot crumpets over there with butter on...

Tried all the phoney butter things ages ago - all vile. Nowadays I stick to unsalted Normandy butter.

If you do individual sponge puds in microwave, how long would 4 of them take? DGD likes jam in hers and we all prefer lemoncurd so I usually steam them them. Microwaving sounds an ideal way to deliver their comfort food fast.

Hi Rosiebee, they'll probably take 2 to 3 minutes to do all 4, depending on the size of the pots they're in.

anchor spreadable is pretty good. tastes like butter and spreads quite well I find.
I was wondering today why these warm, stodgy foods are 'comforting"

I have a secret love of fray bentos pies !!!

and crumpets and jam

Swiss cheese bake - potatoes, bacon, onions, huge amounts of swiss cheese, cream, white wine - yummy. Served with pickled gherkins!

Recipe please, kitty!

Sounds disgustingly delicious - I want some

........I'll forego the pickled gherkins tho'

golden syrup sandwiches.

Oh yes! Fray Bentos pies! Reminds me of caravanning days. [sigh]

Ignorance was bliss.

crumpets best with just proper butter. or marmite.

kitty that sounds delicious [yumm] emoticon .Toasted cheese with an egg beaten into the cheese on French toast.I remember Fray Bentos pies from my student days jo

Cheesy muffins with butter is the favourite,they now do Fray Bentos with Steak & Ale I noticed in a local £1 shop.

proper cod fish finger sandwich followed by apple crumble and thick custard x

Mmmmmmmm home made aple crumble and custard, I'm hungry

Something quick and easy. Egg and chips. Or slowly fried onions on bread and butter. No doubt all that oil isn't all that healthy but very comforting.