Comfort Food (Yum)

Anything Chocolate is one of my comfort foods. People may freak out to my other comfort food, but I'll add it anyway. It's very simple to make, and my dad made it all the time especially when my brother and I were kids growing up.

My other comfort food is Cream of Mushroom soup mixed with a can of tuna over toast. I prefer Star Kist tuna or Chicken of the Sea tuna packed in water. Simply mix the two ingredients together, heat it over the stove, and pour over toast.

You'd be surprised with how good it tastes. I eat it all the time, and it's packed with vitamins such as Vitamin B, Vitamin D, Protein and Niacin.
 
Simone411 said:
Anything Chocolate is one of my comfort foods. People may freak out to my other comfort food, but I'll add it anyway. It's very simple to make, and my dad made it all the time especially when my brother and I were kids growing up.

My other comfort food is Cream of Mushroom soup mixed with a can of tuna over toast. I prefer Star Kist tuna or Chicken of the Sea tuna packed in water. Simply mix the two ingredients together, heat it over the stove, and pour over toast.

You'd be surprised with how good it tastes. I eat it all the time, and it's packed with vitamins such as Vitamin B, Vitamin D, Protein and Niacin.
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Sounds good. I will have the soup and you can have the tuna over toast. I will really not be upset that you won’t share your tuna; I might give you a bit of the soup if there is some left over.
 
Simone411 said:
Anything Chocolate is one of my comfort foods. People may freak out to my other comfort food, but I'll add it anyway. It's very simple to make, and my dad made it all the time especially when my brother and I were kids growing up.

My other comfort food is Cream of Mushroom soup mixed with a can of tuna over toast. I prefer Star Kist tuna or Chicken of the Sea tuna packed in water. Simply mix the two ingredients together, heat it over the stove, and pour over toast.

You'd be surprised with how good it tastes. I eat it all the time, and it's packed with vitamins such as Vitamin B, Vitamin D, Protein and Niacin.
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My dad used to make us that creamed chipped beef on toast. I doubt there is any nutritional value at all but we loved it. He and his military buddies called it **** on the shingles. ?.
 
Simone411 said:
Anything Chocolate is one of my comfort foods. People may freak out to my other comfort food, but I'll add it anyway. It's very simple to make, and my dad made it all the time especially when my brother and I were kids growing up.

My other comfort food is Cream of Mushroom soup mixed with a can of tuna over toast. I prefer Star Kist tuna or Chicken of the Sea tuna packed in water. Simply mix the two ingredients together, heat it over the stove, and pour over toast.

You'd be surprised with how good it tastes. I eat it all the time, and it's packed with vitamins such as Vitamin B, Vitamin D, Protein and Niacin.
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My Mother made something similar for 'sick food' -- tuna with milk (thickened with corn starch), served over toast. I still like it, not sure any of my sibling do -- and my husband hates to even see it! So it's comfort food when he's not here.
 
My maternal grandmother and mother fixed creamed tuna on toast and dried creamed beef on toast. (I didn't learn its crasser name until college.) I tried to make it as a homesick young adult and found it hardly palatable. I think it was a childhood thing for me.
 
Japanfan said:
In view, pasta needs a fat. If not the better in KD, then some olive oil, or a roux.
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That's the way my mother made it for me when I was little. No fat needed for me. Picture a sick 8-year-old whining "Mom, can I have some macaroni and tomatoes?" slowly and pretty loud. It's always been my sickly comfort food.
 
I loved creamed asparagus on toast and would give a lot to have my mother make it for me again. I do make it but no longer save any for my husband who tolerates it but that is not good enough for me to share.
 
I was watching "A Chef's Life" and Chef Vivian was going to a book signing for cookbook author and "Southern food storyteller" Sheri Castle who said that casseroles serve a purpose of feeding the "hungry and heartbroken."
The guests were served a chicken poppyseed casserole which was warm and creamy with chicken, vegetables with a crunchy topping. Yum. Some of my favorite cookbooks are really just binders full of recipes put together by church ladies.
By the way is the term "hot dish" a casserole in Minnesota?
 
Cachoo said:
My dad used to make us that creamed chipped beef on toast. I doubt there is any nutritional value at all but we loved it. He and his military buddies called it **** on the shingles. ?.
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I wish there was a don't like button. BLEAH. I want to throw up thinking about it. I used to get to have a grilled cheese or something when my mom fixed it for my dad. She didn't like it that much either.

Oh, there's my comfort food - grilled cheese. I couldn't really think of anything. And we're having another "fall" weekend again. I wish I would have bought bread at the store today.

But thumbs up on the name. My dad did too (ex-navy).
 
FiveRinger said:
:D That's exactly how I feel about potato salad and cole slaw. Cold potatoes and cold cabbage are NOT what's up!!!
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Would you like to eat potato salad warm? I think the heat would melt mayonnaise. You would just have warm potatoes with oil. Same with coleslaw - it wouldn’t work hot.
 
Hot potato salad (German-style) is made with vinegar and oil, not mayonnaise. At least, the recipes I've seen. Sometimes broth is used also to moisten it, I think. It can be very good and tangy.

I too used to hate all those types of "salads." Then gradually, over the past couple years, I started to actually like coleslaw (that is, good coleslaw) and macaroni salad. And I don't mind potato salad, as long as it doesn't have hard-boiled eggs in it.

Egg and tuna salads are still a bridge too far for me.
 
clairecloutier said:
Hot potato salad (German-style) is made with vinegar and oil, not mayonnaise. At least, the recipes I've seen. Sometimes broth is used also to moisten it, I think. It can be very good and tangy.

I too used to hate all those types of "salads." Then gradually, over the past couple years, I started to actually like coleslaw (that is, good coleslaw) and macaroni salad. And I don't mind potato salad, as long as it doesn't have hard-boiled eggs in it.

Egg and tuna salads are still a bridge too far for me.
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Yes to cole slaw - the creamy kind they have at Kroger (and Big Boy restaurants) and the one they have at Red Lobster.
Yes to tuna salad (not with white albacore though) - We used to make it with hard boiled eggs and Kraft sandwich spread (it has the relish-like stuff already in it)

No to potato, egg, ham, macaroni, anything else salads. I used to like the chicken salad with grapes and nuts in it, but I got tough or stringy chicken a couple times and couldn't eat it without gagging, so I can't even look at it anymore.
 
Simone411 said:
I LOVE Miracle Whip, and I can't stand Mayo! Maybe my taste buds are a little off! :rofl:
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My father, with his "chef-sensitive" palate, referred to Miracle Whip as "spoiled mayonnaise".
He believed that chicken, cooked by any method, needed to be generously seasoned.
 
I love cole slaw, buy not the watery awful kind with mayonnaise. I make mine with an old-fashioned “boiled” dressing made with vinegar and sugar and celery seed. Delicious and crisp, not watery and limp, keeps well for several days. Yum.
 
emason said:
I love cole slaw, buy not the watery awful kind with mayonnaise. I make mine with an old-fashioned “boiled” dressing made with vinegar and sugar and celery seed. Delicious and crisp, not watery and limp, keeps well for several days. Yum.
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On the way home from the Aurora Games in Albany, we stopped at Bear's Smokehouse in Windsor, CT whose barbeque is stellar(brisket and burnt ends-yum) and coleslaw as exactly described as above. Wish I had their recipe which I think also may contain a bit of horseradish.
 
I am not sure if this is a Canadian thing but we eat BBQ beef (I cook a roast in the crock pot with ketchup, brown sugar, etc. until it is shreddable and juicy) on a bun with nice, crisp cole slaw. I made it for our kids at the lake this summer and our American kids had to be instructed as to what to do with the cole slaw but really liked it. I think the tastes enhance each other. When we lived in Samoa we could not get Miracle Whip and missed it.
 
Simone411 said:
I LOVE Miracle Whip, and I can't stand Mayo! Maybe my taste buds are a little off! :rofl:
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LOL. I think the mayo/Miracle Whip is really a personal thing. My husband and I both grew up in "Miracle Whip households," in which Miracle Whip was the only creamy condiment available. I always disliked it & converted to mayo when exposed to it in college. :lol: My husband, OTOH, still prefers Miracle Whip to this day and won't eat mayo. :D
 
Comfort food, like many things, certainly differs by culture - some of the things brought up as comforting here are :scream: for me.

What works for me:
  • Mashed potatoes.
  • Soup with rice vermicelli (my grandmother's trick - they don't become all mushy!)
  • Milky, with the whipped cream eaten last.
  • But after eating all this carby stuff, I just end up craving salad. A day without fresh fruits or veggies is just sad.
I will now go make a salad.

p.s. salad should not have mayo in it!
 
Salad definitely should have at least bit of mayonnaise or some mayonnaise looking dressing, like Caesar salad dressing, blue cheese dressing etc. I really don’t understand how some people put just oil-vinegar dressing on their salad.
 
hanca said:
Salad definitely should have at least bit of mayonnaise or some mayonnaise looking dressing, like Caesar salad dressing, blue cheese dressing etc. I really don’t understand how some people put just oil-vinegar dressing on their salad.
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Lemon, not vinegar! Well, depending on the salad. Green salad gets balsamic vinegar.

A simpler dressing lets the ingredients shine. You do need quality produce for that to work, though :)
 
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