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?

Went looking for an aloo gobi recipe. Wikipedia linked to this ifood.tv video, and it looks like the main ifood site will be pretty cool, so I'm passing it on.