comfort food

Heinz tomato soup with bread in or spaghetti on toast, both of which my Mum used to give me when I was poorly as a child.

Mince and tatties....the mash creamy and buttery and the mince rich and moist accompanied by anything green. Yum.

We are on comfort food today. The dreaded lergy that won't go away for keeps and keeps coming back has struck again today so it is off to the freezer for the steak and kidney pudding. Hot and meaty and stodgy, doesn't need preparation, which rules out macaroni cheese, and will be served with brussel sprouts and lots of gravy.

Just writing it all down makes me feel better.

Mine is 2 poached eggs on toast yummy

I love 85% of other GNers comfort foods, also bread and milk.
3-5 day old organic unsliced small 'tin' loaf cut into fairly thick cubes then drowned in hot milk with a small sprinkling of demerara sugar.
I also love Original Farley's rusks in hot or cold milk, 4 at a time as they mush to nothing.
Home made semolina pudding and rice pudding with a good skin on the rice.
The list is endless.

I amazed that people still eat bread and milk. I thought it was a thing of Victorian nurseries. (Shudder)

I luuuuuve it.
It's comfort food.

Fish finger sandwich, floppy white bread I wouldn’t normally touch with a barge pole, and loads and loads of butter - yum!

Yesssss, especially with Waitrose chunky cod fish fingers and Heinz ketchup.

Cheese on toast - mature Cheddar only - with onion and lots of Worcester Sauce. Or Welsh Rarebit, if I can be bothered to make the real thing..

Or a big jacket potato - well mashed with salt, pepper and butter first, then beans and cheese on top.

Dh might well say school dinner mince - though I'd hope mine is rather better than his school dinners! - with boiled or mashed potatoes and peas.
Funnily enough I have a big batch on the go now, but I always add quite a bit of finely chopped carrot, celery and mushrooms, and often a handful,of red lentils too. Not just to make the mince go further, but to add to the veg intake - not that dh needs any encouragement to eat plenty of veg.

Another one for macaroni cheese! My absolute favourite meal, sadly my husband can’t see the attraction, thinks it’s bland! We have agreed to differ on that one for 40 years!

It is interesting that so many people's favourite comfort foods seem to be bland stodge, stodge, stodge and more stodge ... with a bit of cheese thrown in! Maybe these are comforting foods not because of the taste, but because they remind them of childhood meals, which perhaps were quite bland and thought to be appropriate for children. My ultimate comfort meal would be sausages, bacon, black pudding, chips, fried bread, baked beans and fried tomatoes, with a big mug of strong tea, scorching hot. (Which would probably be followed by a heart attack. But I would be so happy!)

Hello,
talking about food.
Well. this is my all-time favorite topic to discuss one.
I like Sandwich, and fruit shake at any time and anywhere.

Well, I am again here to discuss my favorite food.

Mmm GG54 I hardly ever agree with you about anything, but I'm in complete agreement about thick cubes of white bread with hot milk and sugar - yummm!

Yes, your combination also sounds so yummy. But I didn't try it before. Gonna try it soon.

Apple Pie with Ice Cream

If we're taking really lazy comfort food, then it's pasta, boiled in chicken stock (a cube) with a load of grated mature Cheddar on top. Minimum effort, maximum yum.

Have had this at least twice while dh is away and I don't feel the need to cook Proper Food.

Talking, not taking! When are we going to get an edit facility???

I'm eating one of my favourites right now: homemade pea and ham soup. Even though I can't taste it properly because of a bad cold, I'm still enjoying it ☺

Pancakes with maple syrup.