Comfort food weekend

[serenecooking]

(Posted on Usenet, too; sorry if you see this twice or three times.)

It's been a hell of a week. Both of my partners have been ill; my mom's been in and out of the hospital (she should go home again tomorrow, yay); the teenager's been her normal level of irritating, but it's been irritating us more than usual; I've needed to work extra hours to help with finances; and I'm still not really recovered from the trips to San Diego last month.

So I cook. :-)

(And when I cook after a stressful week, it's almost always from the list of things I think of as "comfort food".)

Last night, I made knaedlach soup (chicken soup with matzoh balls) that tasted just like my mom's.

This morning, I'm simmering garlic in butter. Not even sure what I'm gonna do with it, but I'm leaning toward stirring it into a batch of polenta, then topping the polenta with sauteed onions and peppers and a little asiago cheese.

In the fridge is a batch of bread pudding with ground almonds added in. It needs to rest a bit before baking. I'm going to heat some of Barb's Boozy Floozy Peach Jam to pour over the top, unless I decide it needs caramel sauce or good vanilla ice cream.

Maybe for dinner I'll make mom's chicken and rice casserole, but make the cream-of soups myself so I don't get an MSG hangover.

Ooh, potatoes. I think I'll make these potatoes that I just saw linked in rfc: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/06/crash-hot-potatoes/ -- they'll be great with chickpea gravy. Gravy is the *ultimate* comfort food.

What's your comfort food?

Comments

[jeliza]

At the moment, artichoke dip and tortilla strips, which I (having no skills) did not cook myself. Guacamole would have been ideal, but I'm picky and the grocery store had none that meet my standards. (And it has been a hell of a morning.)

Having suffered through the same anxiety spike, my partner went for root beer.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Mmm, comfort foods.

Right now the house smells like turkey broth (destined for pantryslut and her household). Soup isn't really a comfort food for me, but broth on the stove is a comfort smell big time.

My comfort foods are all high-carb: mashed potatoes, french fries, pasta.

Glad you're comforting yourself.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Soup isn't a comfort food for me if it's not either (a) mom's soup; or (b) basically a cream sauce with stuff thrown in -- cream of broccoli soup is not about the broccoli for me. :-)

[loracs.livejournal.com]

Potatoes in almost any form (except chips) - my favorite is a piece of garlic bread covered with mashed potatoes and creamed corn. It was usually a left over from dinner type of breakfast. For probably the first 10 years stonebender and I were together, I thought creamed corn was his favorite, so we would have it at least once a week. He told me he didn't like it mixed in with his other food, so I would put it in this little brown melamine bowl and he would finish every bite. One day we were talking about food and stonebender admitted he didn't like cream corn at all and never had. I have no idea where I got the idea he loved it. Now I haven't bought cream corn in years, so I haven't had garlic bread/mashed potatoes/creamy goodness in years.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

You should totally make it for yourself! You probably eat a meal or two a day that stonebender doesn't share, anyway. :-)