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A comfort food is often one that brings back a childhood memory. But it could also be a food we associate with being pampered, or one that isn’t necessarily good for us despite the fact that we love it – and so it becomes both an emotional and physical treat.
I have strong memories of eating fried egg breakfasts with a hot cup of tea when I was a teenager. Everyone used to do their own thing on weekdays, but on the weekend my parents liked to fry eggs and bacon for everyone. As I got older, I started to make a sort of hash brown dish with onions, fried potato and bits of bread in it. That, with a couple of sunny side eggs, was my comfort food for many years after I left home.
Do you have a food that has not only a physical significance, but an emotional one?
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Homemade chicken soup with homemade egg noodles. Also, venison backstrap steaks with mashed potatoes, gravy and fresh tomato salad.
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@ruby3881, there is indeed a story behind those, but it would take too long to tell. 🙂 Another such food that is easier to explain is French Toast, which I still love. The explanation is this:
After my mother and father split up when I was six, my brother and I stayed with dad. He really tried, but he wasn’t much of a cook. So for about nine months, breakfast every morning except Sundays consisted of super crispy bacon, hard fried eggs and pancakes that looked, tasted and felt like a frisbee. On Sundays, dad would let us choose breakfast. He actually did a good job on French Toast, so that is usually what we asked for. (Granted, there isn’t a lot to scrambling some eggs, dipping bread in it and frying it, but he still cooked that good. lol) It was a relief from the ‘regular’ fare. To this day, I don’t like crispy bacon, hard fried eggs or rubbery, overcooked pancakes.
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Mine is a sweet pudding my mother used to prepare, with eggs, milk, sugar, and a type of muffins we have here in Spain. Whenever I cook it, well, you know, I feel like at home 🙂 (Oops, it’s name is “pan de calatrava”, here’s the link: https://www.azucardecolores.es/blog/pan-de-calatrava/
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@angeles, though we didn’t make this with the muffin or anything like that, this sounds very much like the first pudding I learned to make, when I was 6-years-old. The only difference is that I added 2 tablespoons of baking cocoa. It was chocolate pudding. 😀
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Chocolate pudding! @rextrulove, I’m addicted to chocolate! 😀
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Well, it sure brought back memories, @angeles. In fact, so much so that I posted Mom’s old recipe…the one I committed to memory so I could make it day after day. lol I still love chocolate, but not as much as I did when I was young.
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Me, my one comfort foods are taho and binatog. Binatog is corn with grated coconut meat, while taho is made up of tofu with sweet syrup.
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From momma, Fried chicken.
For pampering – Cheesecake, lemon pie and key lime pie.
I remember from my past, say in my twenties I used to use pasta as a comfort food and I gained wright and come down with diabetes.
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One of my additional comfort right now is Pancakes. I love pancakes.I even put powdered milk with sugar in it and I love it. i really loving pancakes because that is the only food I can eat right now and even remember my childhood.
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@ruby3881, huckleberry or coffee. I had some that was blackberry and banana, though, that was excellent.
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