When you want to cook your favorite comfort food what do you cook?

Feel free to share recipes if you have a good one.

Thanks!!!!

My favorite isn't one that I cook but will go to a restaurant for: #1 Chicken Fried Steak, gravy, mashed potatoes (or hashbrowns), green beans...

#2 is a Thanksgiving style dinner, with roast turkey, dressing (not stuffing), gravy, green beans, corn or succotash, cranberry relish, collards, corn bread and some sort of pie. Give me a few hours and I can pull #2 together. #1 is a lot quicker.

Macaroni and Cheese, but a unique kind that my mother made for me when I was a very ill toddler and she was trying to get me to eat again. Thankfully, my wife has continued the tradition.

I don't know the full recipe in detail, but it adds a lot of milk and several eggs in with the cheese and macaroni and it gives a unique texture, especially if it is not overcooked.



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My mom’s chuck roast, mashed potatoes n gravy, green beans and Rhodes rolls. 2nd place is thanksgiving dinner which is essentially the same with turkey.

Mom's chuck roast, Mom's fried chicken, and when she asked me what I wanted for my birthday dinner it was always the same answer- chicken and dumplings that she made from scratch. Nowadays, my wife gets the same answer. Almost as good as Mom's was... Almost.

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes with gravy from meatloaf, green beans. Dutch apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream for dessert.

Shrimp Etouffee, gentlemen! With a side of hot french bread (no butter, no garlic), and a cold Arnold Palmer.

Mac and cheese with small cubes of Spam cooked with the macaroni.

We call it shells. It's shell pasta, hamburger, cheddar/colby cheese, onion and tomato juice.

Brown hamburger with the onions then mix the hamburger/onions, aldente shells and diced cheese together hold some cheese back for a topping layer, dump into a casserole dish. Then add tomato juice until dish is full, add either shredded or small cubed cheese on top. Bake at 350 until cheese on top melts and browns.

Sounds weird, but very tasty.

Unfortunately I must eat all of my comfort foods when my wife is out of town as she does not like any of them.

1 - Biscuits and gravy.
2 - Any type of stew.
3 - Chicken and Dumplings.

Maybe you see the theme. She does not anything thick or gravy like.

Only at Thanksgiving will she possibly put a little gravy on the turkey knowing it took me hours to make that wonderfully flavored gravy. However for me, these are my comfort foods I grew up loving.

I guess she could say the same for me as one of her favorites is Menudo and hell no I won’t eat that.

Brisket.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Unfortunately I must eat all of my comfort foods when my wife is out of town as she does not like any of them.

1 - Biscuits and gravy.
2 - Any type of stew.
3 - Chicken and Dumplings.

Maybe you see the theme. She does not anything thick or gravy like.

Only at Thanksgiving will she possibly put a little gravy on the turkey knowing it took me hours to make that wonderfully flavored gravy. However for me, these are my comfort foods I grew up loving.

I guess she could say the same for me as one of her favorites is Menudo and hell no I won’t eat that.

Chuck roast and Thanksgiving turkey dinner gets smothered in gravy on EVERYTHING. Gravy bread for a later that night "dessert".

Cheesesteak and onion rings.

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Originally posted by P220forever:

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Unfortunately I must eat all of my comfort foods when my wife is out of town as she does not like any of them.

1 - Biscuits and gravy.
2 - Any type of stew.
3 - Chicken and Dumplings.

Maybe you see the theme. She does not anything thick or gravy like.

Only at Thanksgiving will she possibly put a little gravy on the turkey knowing it took me hours to make that wonderfully flavored gravy. However for me, these are my comfort foods I grew up loving.

I guess she could say the same for me as one of her favorites is Menudo and hell no I won’t eat that.

Chuck roast and Thanksgiving turkey dinner gets smothered in gravy on EVERYTHING. Gravy bread for a later that night "dessert".

Gravy is great on so many things and meant to be mopped up by bread. She leaves Tuesday for almost a week so here comes my meals!!!!! Homemade biscuits and gravy is first!

A beef rendang recipe from Cooks Illustrated.

Da-YUM.

Beef stew with cornbread, chili with cornbread, or beans with cornbread.

Its not for everyone, but I love me some Matzah brei. With a little cottage cheese and strawberry preserves.

SALTY shrimp and SALTY pork (belly), eaten with rice in lemon water. That’s food heaven for me and Mrs. Q. Nothing could top these two simple dishes.

The 'Wick Fowlers' 2 alarm chili kit from Kroger.

I use all the red pepper in the kit so it's got some spice to it (not really HOT tho) and add the following:

2lb 80/20 ground beef, I cook the beef for 20 minutes in oven at 350 to get a lot of the fat out of it. Then break it up into small chunks.

One large or two medium white onions chopped up into small pieces.
16oz of tomato paste
Two 16oz cans of petite diced tomatoes
4 stalk of celery chopped into small chunks
If I'm the only one eating it, I'll also slice up about 4-5 jalapenos, or possibly 3-4 serrano peppers.

Just cook it in crockpot on high for a few hours.

For the most part, I don't use peppers in it (in case my son will be eating some too). I usually just add some crushed red pepper flakes and a little but of cholula "extra hot" sauce into each bowl as I eat it.

I actually made a pot of that Friday night, and I finished it off Saturday night. My son wasn't really wanting any, so I ate it all...

Oh man great question. Lasagna, stuffed shells and the GOAT I have a meatball recipe that uses a ton of olive oil and veal!