Out of curiosity...
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Out of curiosity...
Just curious, really.
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Comfort food to me is macaroni and cheese eaten straight from the cooking pot.


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Food writers started to apply the term to any traditional family-type food, even things like tacos. I don't think they really understood what Fisher was trying to say--and Felix, I think you do. What she meant by "comfort food" was something that gives you a physical or emotional lift.
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Me, comfort food is something that is stick to your gut, good homey, food grandma used to make, family recipes. It can be anything.
It isn't necessarily a casserole for me; but, it might be.
It might be meatloaf, mashed potatoes and peas
Chicken and dumplings
Scalloped potatoes, ham and broccoli (casserole)
Mac and cheese with ham
Chili or a pot of soup
But, I think the term comfort food for me means:
1. simple, foods, classic recipes
2. nothing fancy or too unique
3. good down home cooking, and stick to your gut type of food
4. I guess something that just makes me feel warm, happy, and content.
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But yes, everyone has different tastes and different ideas of what they call comfort food.
Maybe because a casserole is usually a 1 pot dish and it is comforting that make, bake and serve. It also has cheese, potatoes, rice or noodles, and meat; so maybe that is why it gets it's name.
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I think of chicken & dumplings, hot chicken soup with homemade noodles, meatloaf and mashed potatoes, meaty main dish casseroles, etc all to be comfort food for me. The sort of food that I want when I want to feel warm and homey and don't give one seconds thought about calories or health - just yummy, warm, filling food that would make me feel good or that i might bring to a sick friend to cheer them up.
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I cannot imagine that most people growing up in the mid-west, or the west coast, finding this particularly comforting....yet there are some who will.
As kids, we also ate things like chocolate "gravy" over hot buttermilk biscuits, peanut butter mixed with Grandma's Molasses, "sopped" up with biscuits, and red eye gravy over toast or biscuits or rice....these were breakfast foods, perish the thought in todays world, but to me, they mean "comfort".
We are a diverse nation. Amen!
