Comfort Food

My emergency 'go to' in reaction to stress is a marmalade sandwich, ideally with thick Anchor butter - I actively do not buy butter any more, too tempting!

When poorly then it's homemade chicken soup with lots of garlic, ginger and chillies. There's always a batch of chicken stock at the ready in the freezer.

Bacon roll
Cheese on toast
Marmite toast
Fish finger sarnie with mayo
Pea and ham soup
Boiled eggs

MARYDOLLScotch broth is a favourite here too,I make mine with a lamb shank or a couple of pieces of lamb flank cooked in the pressure cooker until falling apart and chop the tender meat through the soup.Needs plenty barley and some dried peas .My other go to is eggs hard boiled and mashed in a cup with butter and salt.Arbroath smokies warmed through and eaten with my fingers ,though they can be hard to find .
I have quite a limited diet since I stopped being vegetarian and I live on eggs cooked in lots of ways and pastas usually with mushrooms in a cream sauce or mac and cheese

Does anyone remember having beef dripping (including the jelly) on bread with a dash of salt? Oh, and fried bread.

I also remember having white bread broken up into pieces with warm milk and sugar, as some of you do, too.

Blackcurrant jam on toast when recuperating from illness was another thing, and chicken soup, of course (not together 😂).

Another favourite was a boiled egg with runny yolk (but not runny whites) and buttered bread soldiers to dip in the yolk - yummy!

Warm ribena.

Readybrek for breakfast (and also porridge at other times).

Simple pleasures! 😁

ziplok I loved bread and dripping, still do, if I get a chance, but you need a good fatty joint and to cook it without foil.

paddyann I use lamb lank too. I love the taste of the meat.
I haven't been well this week and have been living on ham bone soup.

Pie and chips from my local fish shop, with lots of gravy 😋

Oh yes fat and bread I’d forgotten about that haven’t had for years, it’d probably give me indigestion now 🤣 when I’m feeling really sorry for myself I’ll buy a box of Farleys rusks, three in warm milk, lovely.

My mother used to out the beef or chicken dripping from the Sunday roast on toast for Monday breakfast. Wonderful, especially the jelly!

I still do that today. And it it was a chicken I will gently fry the liver from the giblets bag and put it on the toast, too.

jackyB my mouth is watering - chicken livers. I planned to have some on toast for lunch one day last week when DH was meant to be out, but his event was cancelled and the chicken livers will have to wait his next absence.

Beef and potato pie with shortcrust pastry!

Dinfords was gripe water, but I haven't seen it sold for decades.

Beef dripping spread on hot toast……now that brings back memories…..and the dark jelly mixed i with it!

Oohh yes Dcba that is a memory from my childhood too. The toast was make on the open fire. 😋

Dadima!
Yes, saps….is this the Scottish connection ?
My dear mother was born during WW1 so this is a distant memory.

Recovering from an op here too and my comfort foods are tomato soup rice pudding and sausage and mash

Toast every time.

Henetha my Welsh dad used to eat bread and sugar in hot milk and called it sop

Proper chips and a jug of gravy, and for something sweet, my home made flapjacks. They're made with chopped prunes, walnuts, cranberries and dark chocolate. I try and convince myself that the oats make them a healthy treat.

dogsmother

Henetha!
This was my mothers thing…….never heard of it any other time.
She was Scottish and I wondered if this was from there?

It was certainly known in my Scottish childhood, personally I disliked it, but love rice pudding. How irrational can one be?

For two days nothing would do for DH than Chinese spring rolls. Fine by me!

Shepherd's pie is one of my favourites.

My comfort food when at home was always cawl (much like Scotch Broth minus the barley) - I can't make it the same as my mother (about the only thing she could actually cook and always made when I returned home after moving away to London) so I rarely get to eat it now unless visiting Wales. A big pot would simmer for days and I would eat nearly all of it.

Cawl is , lambs neck, leek, carrots, celery, a bit of swede and pearl barley., We had it with plain suet dumplings that my mother called ‘dough boys’. But it ever cooked for days.

Minced beef and potato pie and like you, rice pudding, but no nutmeg!

My grandmother called the probs, they were Welsh

Should have read pobs