HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I was just breathing in the wonderful aroma of a homemade chicken and vegie soup and thinking about how womderful that particular smell is, and how it makes you feel better even before you eat it. Comfort food. What is yours and why? My mother would always make chicken soup when we were ill, but I think I like it even more now that I am an adult (and I know the effort that goes in to making a good pot of chicken soup). My boys really enjoy it. It is NOT the same if the whole bones and all chook is not used - something about cooking up chicken bones in the stock that has curative powers. I tend to add an entire bulb of garlic to my big pot of chicken soup when illness is around too. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Mine would have to be my mums (sweet and hot) rice pudding. With some home made plum jam on top. Oh yes. Actually a lot of my mums food now because I don't often get to eat it. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Pies. A local shop back in Wigan makes very probably the best pies and pasties in the world. No kidding. When I go back home, I go there on the first day back and a few more times as well. My mother makes a brilliant hot pot / scouse as well. No-one has ever re-created the magnificence of that. Link to post Share on other sites
r45 4 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I will call him Hairy Insect. Link to post Share on other sites
r45 4 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 sorry wrong thread! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Unless of course Hairy Insects are your comfort food Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 let me describe this: fried rice with egg, roast pork, chicken, prawns. Curry sauce onto the rice Lettuce to wrap the curry sauced rice and stuff the bundle into mouth. My mum's idea of snack food. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 MB is your chicken soup recipe a hotly guarded secret or can you spill the beans....I love a good pot of homemade chicken soup. My mum makes some that I always thought of as being oriental because she'd put rice into it as well!! (I was young!) But i could eat that every day for the rest of my life if I had to. she doesn't mash up the vegetables but leaves them chunky, the rice soaks up a lot of the moisture so the broth is not watery..mmmmm. My granny's Scotch Broth is another winner on a cold winters day!! Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Whenever I get a cold I have to have my homemade Corn Chowder or Minestrone. Served with Bagels and Cream cheese of course!! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 bangers and mash OR a roast dinner. Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 If I had a cold... or want to detox Chicken soup. Soup made out of chicken+Tomato+Garlic makes your blood flow smoother physically in your body. It is the chicken fat + garlic +tomato combined effect that makes this therapeutic effect. Never mind standardization. Depressed... Roast dinner Tired and want something easy to digest... Ocha-Zuke or Nattoh with raw egg yellow with bit of soy and mustard with rice. or Mash Winter... Sweet rice pud or Nabe Breakfast any time Porridge with a bit of natural salt sprinkled on it. with/without a bit of cream or yogult The more comfort food available, the better for me ! Link to post Share on other sites
PWL 0 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Grans Yorkshire pud! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Sunday roasts were good. A huge roasted sirloin with home made yorkshire pud, roast potatoes, gravey Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Sausages. Miss good sausages so much. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I still like the simple stuff like Lancashire Hotpot, Shepherd's Pie, Cottage Pie, Spaghetti Neapolitan, Carpaccio, Sapghetti Genovese, yum. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Just went outside to the freezer (long story but my kitchen has an industrial fridge but not freezer - so we have two upright freezers in the garage) and one of the freezers packed it in! I have salvage 99% of the contents (mainly meat) as it was only partially defrosted. SO I am having a big cook up today. A casserole in the slow cooker already - steaks for tonight - and mince to make a shepherds pie tommorrow for starters.... wasnt my plan - but OH well! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 that 1 percent would be ice I gather. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Reminds me - need a new fridge here too. The one I have is noisy and too small. New ones might be fairly cheap now with all these Ecopoints going on must take a look Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Yeah the ice is pretty cactus Thursday - draining all over the garage floor. Although there is a silver lining - no need to mop it up as it is just water and it is a concrete floor! LOL Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I had a big freezer, too. The problem is the electricity company failing to supply for what ever the reason... Most likely, the possums doing the high wire thing, tree branches falling on them during storms. Link to post Share on other sites
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