What is comfort food to you?
For me, it’s foods I am familiar with from my childhood, or tasty things that make me feel all warm, fuzzy and satisfied when I eat them.
Tartiflette is a comfort food for me — sliced potatoes covered in Reblochon cheese and Fermier bacon? Bring it on.
This is from Pho Lien in Toronto
Ramen with a cracked egg in it used to be a comfort food for me, but now my body just rejects it by feeling sick or dizzy after eating it.
So now I eat Vietnamese pho (see photo above) as my comfort food.
Even a Polish hot dog is comfort food to me — smothered in sauerkraut, onions and a tiny bit of ketchup, I couldn’t think of something more delicious to eat (although very processed).
My newest comfort food is miso soup (preferably with bonito extract) with wakame seaweed. I absolutely love the light, tasty soup that warms my tummy as I eat it.
I also really like hummus, shawarma and fresh sashimi on rice with just a hint of soy sauce.
A lot of people I know cite Kraft Dinner with ketchup as THE ultimate comfort food, (read: Kraft Dinner — Comfort Food or Crap?), but after trying what they considered to be their comfort food, I wasn’t convinced.
To me, it was too orange, sticky, chewy, fake and too sweet with the addition of ketchup, but then again — that wasn’t what I ate as a kid! Everyone has different tastebuds and their favourite foods change as they get older, just as mine have.
So what is comfort food to you?
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Scalloped potatoes. Baked chicken. Chocolate cake.
Mashed potatoes and gravy is the ultimate one .. but lately I’ve been craving avocado California rolls and steamed veggies with satay sauce .. yum!
Comfort food for me is tea with milk and warm croissants – my favorite meal in the world. I also love lentil soup (reminds me of being a kid). Really anything that reminds me of my childhood is comfort food for me.
I agree with you on the Kraft Mac n’ Cheese though… the unnatural colour turns me off.
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I think comfort food is often nursery food. In my case, carbs and dairy usually, and traditional things like sweet porridge, rice pudding, baked beans on toast, Shepherd’s pie, the German cheesecake my Oma made, the nutty cinnamon rolls we used to eat, fresh bread and butter, thick soups… I came to a lot of exotic foods quite late, so much as I love all kinds of things now, comfort foods are cosy, childhood treats.
Apple pie (wih a slice of cheddar cheese), homemade soup, especially potato, and this simple casserole that is essentially ground beef, onions, potatoes, carrots and cheese. Also, a big glass of cold homo milk.
I have to drown KD in ketchup just to eat it, but the rest of my family loves the stuff.
I love sushi and it is my comfort food. Odd? Maybe. Also fried ice cream. I like miso soup but not the extend of a comfort food. I looked at that photo in the post and it does look somewhat unappetizing to me. lol Tastes differ, don’t they?
I do enjoy KD once in a blue moon, though I feel kinda icky after eating it, especially since I learned to cook and stopped eating processed foods regularly. Homemade turkey soup (like my dad makes with barley), and my mom’s pasta sauce also jump to mind.
Green tea lattes (homemade with vanilla soy milk and matcha powder, or from Starbucks!), mint Aero chocolate bars, ham & cheese paninis (these remind me of living abroad in Prague, listed on menus as ‘toasties’), and Cinnabon cinnamon buns. I loved reading the comments for this post!
Pho is by far one of my most favourite dishes. In fact, I want to visit Vietnam just I could really good (and cheap) pho 🙂
Almost anything is comfort food to me.
A nice bowl of pho, some congee with black egg, lasagna (i die…), creamy soups, brie de meaux with red pepper jelly and strawberries (try it!), or a nice hot cup of jasmine tea. Comfort food just makes me feel at home and satisfied. And it can be almost anything…just depends on my mood 🙂
It used to be warm fresh bread with real butter and earl grey tea with milk and sugar. You could say that’s the English in me coming out. My mom ran a bakery out of our home when I was a kid, so fresh bread was a must have for me until my mom and I found out that it was actually the cause of some of our stomach problems 🙁 Still working on finding a decent replacement for that.
Ramen with the wontons I make are my comfort food for sure 🙂 and also gravy with mashed potatoes and some macaroni and cheese…. 😛
Being of British descent, my go to food to feel better (either physically, emotionally or spiritually ) is Shepherds Pie (simple one with just meat, gravy, peas and mashed potatoes). Yorkshire pudding is a close second, but is not quite as versatile.
Probably trusty old spaghetti bol. Also, nachos. Oh, and curry laksa.
Perhaps not comfort food, but certainly familiar foods growing up that I will always love, include mashed potatoes, beef rendang and nasi lemak.
Polenta and Frico.
This is a regional northern Italian dish. Polenta is just cornmeal with water and optionally cream or parmesan cheese until it resembles grits. The best part is the smell because it is cooked in a cast-iron pot. Frico is Fruilano cheese (soft italian cheese) with sliced potatoes (Yukon Gold) until it is fried into 1 big piece. So tasty.
Since I moved to Barbados comfort food are things I can’t get here. So chocolate chip cookies from La Gourmand on Spadina and Queen (heaven), and my mom’s collard greens. My stomach just rumbled!
Anything with rice, bread, potatoes, beans, etc. Basically, if it’s loaded with carbs and can be served warm then it’s comfort food for me. I love comfort food. I used to LOVE Kraft mac ‘n cheese, but it’s not really my thing anymore. I do think “comfort food” is usually dependent on what you grew up eating, or what’s associated with good memories.
Noodle soup or congee. I think partly because it is food I ate as a kid and because the warm soup makes me feel better and I love carbs. My husband likes American food as comfort food (pot roast, mashed potatoes) which is kind of weird because he wasn’t really raised eating that stuff.
Home-made mac n’ cheese is more comforting that KD, any day! Might take longer to make, but the end result is scrumptious.
You’re so right about comfort food being the stuff you ate as a kid. Mine is curd rice and potato curry, because that’s what I ate at home when I was sick. (Hmm… I think I know what I’m making for dinner tonight!)
And I’ve never had Kraft Mac n’ Cheese, and after reading your description, I don’t think I want to!
Same as you, anything from my childhood or soups/stews that make me feel all warm. My favourite comfort food is pork chops smothered in mushroom sauce and rice…so delish.
I used to love Kraft Dinner, but I would never say it was a comfort food for me…and smothered in ketchup? Yig. Your description sums it up, LOL>
Comfort food for me is Korea food. Love it!
Well, comfort food is by definition anything food that comforts you. For most people, this is something warm. Probably reminiscent of some sort of food they loved when they were young (hence why many Canadians love KD. But most Asian kids reach for instant noodle and congee.) Sometimes comfort food can be greasy (ie: like some soulfood – fried chicken).
For me, comfort food is mostly food from my youth… So fried rice noodles and fried chow mein. Not the kind you’d get at Manchuwok but the authentic type in restaurants and chinese take-out stands. Anything starchy usually reminds me of those youthful days. So Shanghai food. Pho. Congee. etc. Although, it doesn’t fit with my above comments, sushi is a comfort food for me as well.
I’m not a huge fan of KD, but I’d have to say that homemade macaroni and cheese is a comfort food, as well as indian food – any of it, really, but particularly dahl makhani and jeera aloo.
Mashed potatoes are definitely a comfort food for me, too!