Comfort Foods
What are your comfort foods? In asking this question to some of the people around me part of the answer lives in childhood memory - and in relationship to other people. The way my grandmother made... My mother's ... Great grandpa's sausages... For myself, comfort food begins with someone I love cooking for me. Comfort food was anything that my mother put on a plate when I came home from the hospitals with new babies. Simple things like rolled roast beef with cream cheese or leftover cold green beans with a little vinaigrette. Homemade macaroni and cheese, pot roast with potatoes and carrots, swiss steak and my mother's fried chicken - all evoke comfort to me - when cooked by her. I have found that meals prepared by my daughter, daughter-in-law and best friend M always feel like comfort food. My daughter made me a cup of coffee the other day - it felt so comforting. Comfort food isn't something that I can ever get in a restaurant. That magical ingredient - love - i...