Comfort Foods

By Jen -
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 - is missing.

I've spent a lot of years creating comfort food because I was raised to value the magic as much as the nutrition. It didn't matter how elaborate the meal was - what was important was the heart that brought the ingredients together.

What are your comfort foods? Why?
I can't wait to hear your stories!

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  1. JessJuly 18, 2016 at 3:33 PM

    Your lasagna. Bacon and pancakes when there's at least two packets of bacon and dad's cooking them but we're watching him like a hawk to make sure he doesn't overcook them. And then snatching the bacon off of the plate before it even makes it to the table.
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