What are your favorite comfort foods? I was enjoying perusing the store yesterday, looking at the

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shopping carts. Made me smile how everyone seemed to purchase different items.

Woman in front of me on line purchased 3 lbs of brussel sprouts

Man behind me purchased these gorgeous thick steaks

lots of mac and cheese in a box

Thomas English muffin end aisle display was completely empty

I went with the chicken soup / chili / ice cream / popcorn / sausage & peppers / Ropa Vieja route. We can be here for days.

Storm was a miss for us. 6 inches, no school,.... But all back to normal.

So, when you think comfort food, what comes to mind?

 
My first thought was braised beef in wine served over garlic mashed potatoes

then seafood pasta came to mind, then winter hearty soups.

 
hmmmm. grilled cheese and tomato soup. tuna salad sandwiches and chips. pork and kraut and mashed

potatoes. split pea soup and homemade bread. French onion dip/chips. and blue box mac n cheese if I can at least boil water.

 
Angie, did you ever try my recipe for that blue box mac and cheese?

I tastes exactly like it and just as easy.

 
Comfort food is my grandmother's kitchen...

And we just wallowed over that through December:

Pot roast, mashers, and gravy.
Meatloaf and baked macaroni and cheese.
Baked Ham and more baked macaroni and cheese.
Beef and noodles, really dumplings, but that was what was called. Egg dough rolled out, cut into strips and cooked in tender nirvana in the beef broth which is then shredded and stirred back in after it has cooked with onions, carrots, and celery into tender yumminess.
Pot Pies. God I love these. I made three different ones in December: Chicken, Beef, and Sausage with my sweet mustard crust. TDF!
Fried chicken, mashers, and cream gravy. Oink.
T-bone steaks, grilled and dripping garlic butter with hand cut pommes frites fried in duck and beef fat.

And on and on it went. No wonder I resemble the Hindenburg.

I can barely fit into my clothes after the above and all the homemade breads, stollens, cookies, cakes, pies, etc. I made 14 loaves of bread in December! They were devoured, hot, and slathered with melting butter. LOL

And today, I am on day two of Atkins reduction. smileys/frown.gif

Pain!!!

An oink, is an oink, is an oink.

 
You made Semmelkn

the Semmelknödeln using the large soft Bavarian pretzels (Bretzeln)?

It is otherworldly.

Or as we called them when I was student in Austria: Big Gravy Soppers!

 
my DH makes the from scratch mac cheese---I didn't grow up with that and not a specialty

so every once in awhile I just make a box of macncheese just because! I usually doll it up, but he makes the real stuff.

 
Richard, is this your Oma's kitchen? because I'm surprised at the mac and cheese---not really a

German thing, at least not in our house. I love it now, but didn't grow up with it.

 
Oh Ang, I love the blue box stuff too and this recipe is IT. It tastes

exactly like it. I make the fancy "real" mac and cheese too. My favorite is one from Martha Stewart but sometimes we just have the blue box kind. That's when I pull out the recipe I posted up above. A couple of hot dogs and some canned beets and we are in heaven. Try it sometime, I think you will be shocked.

 
I read with interest the string where you shared that. It sounds so good!

I haven't made it, for the main reason that I don't know of a place here in Phoenix to get the pretzels. They have bakeries that do that in San Diego, but I'll have to search for them here.

The recipe I use is very simple, and is from my Mom. You probably already figured that out. We grew up on it, and Sunday dinner or birthdays were always great when Mom cooked those up. Plus, we always loved the dumplings sliced and fried in butter. Oh. My.


I can't think of another dish we prepared when I was growing up that is any more comforting to me (and now my family) than that one.

Marble Cake, also from my Mom's family, is excellent as well, and was always our birthday cakes growing up. I bake two at Christmas, and a few here and there during the year.

Good stuff!

Michael

 
Be sure and let me know what you think. When you refer to the

"blue box" I assume you're talking about the "Deluxe" right? The one that has the little can of cheese along with the macaroni. I never liked the other smaller boxes that you add milk to some powder stuff. Yuck. But the deluxe is fantastic. I haven't bought a box since I came across this recipe.

 
Pasta, potatoes, bread, biscuits.....all starch!

I remember the day after my dad passed away. He was 86, lived a fantastic life, and died instantly--such a blessing-- but still, we were shaken. I woke up with the overwhelming urge to bake bread. (I knew there would be lots of relatives flying in and my family would be serving lots of dinners, but I was responding to a more primal urge.) I remember while I was at Trader Joe's buying flour and other supplies I bought their biscuits in a can, baked them, and ate the whole pan for lunch while the bread was rising. I couldn't wait for it! It was sublime.

 
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