Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Helen Date: 05 Oct 04 - 04:57 AM ellenpoly, That sounds like a serious problem, not wanting chocolate! Maybe you need to see a specialist about that. :-) Helen |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: GUEST,James Date: 05 Oct 04 - 08:49 AM Corned Beef and Cabbage, Mackeral,new Potatoes and Beet Greens, Cottage Pie(with lamb)Pasties, Pasties,Pasties. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Oct 04 - 10:17 AM This thread is making me hungry. It's a cloudy drizzly day so I'm going to run over to the grocery and buy a nice inexpensive pot roast. Given a whole day in the crock pot on high with potatoes, carrots, onion and garlic, that cut of meat will taste like a million bucks! I'll make a loaf of whole wheat bread to go on the side. . . I challenge anyone to come up with a more powerful walk-in-the-door-visceral one-two punch than the smell of the pot roast and freshly baked bread! SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:04 PM A good Aussie pie, Steak (chunky) & Kidney, with inserted (cut open the top and add) mushy peas. I only wish commercial pie shops made them with a 'cottage pie' (potato) top, that would be bliss! |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: MMario Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:17 PM yup - was at a get-together yesterday - pot roast, carrots, potatoes, a cucumber salad and deviled eggs. Pineapple ricotta pie for dessert. yum. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: CarolC Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:40 PM We have our Jigg's Dinner without the meat and pudding. It's still quite good that way. We use sesame oil to add flavor in the absence of the meat. Then, the next day (that was yesterday for us), JtS makes bubble and squeak with the leftovers (he fries them up with onions). mmmmmm bubble and squeak mmmmm... Someone (can't remember who) once told me that the name 'Jigg's Dinner' came from a comic strip character named Jigg (or Jiggs) who likes to eat this kind of boiled dinner. If so, I guess it might be more correct for me to spell it Jiggs' Dinner. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:44 PM I miss having Rick Fielding post some of his cooking stories and questions about cooking. I wonder what he'd be cooking up these days if he were around? Or would he have burned down his kitchen by now? SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: GUEST,mmlilac Date: 16 Oct 04 - 03:36 PM I've been buying Reese's Pieces just recently at King Soopers in the US. Perhaps they've started making them again? |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Ellenpoly Date: 16 Oct 04 - 05:17 PM REALLY depressed today, and still didn't buy chocolate. But added to my list is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: Sweet, salty, crunchy, and chewy. Maybe it's something about keeping my mouth busy, instead of my brain. ..xx..e |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 16 Oct 04 - 09:26 PM Bread or toast, spread with marmite (or vegemite or any of the salty equivalents) & honey... Salt & Sweet... |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Oct 04 - 10:58 PM I made a batch of homemade (vs. packaged) cinnamon rolls tonight. With raisins and icing. Mmmmmm! The house smells marvelous! |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Nov 04 - 08:37 PM How could I be so foolish not to trace this thread? I wanted to look back for some good recipes and ideas. It's getting to cooking season again (it warmed up for a couple of weeks, but the weather folks assure us it WILL GET COLD finally on Thursday. Good. Nothing like keeping the house warm by baking and cooking on the stovetop or crockpot. Tonight I am baking a chicken in a terracotta covered baking dish that was my fathers--called "Römertopf." It really is wonderful, and rather unusual, in that you soak the clay pot in water for a while and start it in a cold oven. A friend of mine has one and told me how to use it, and the bird bakes at a high heat for about 90 minutes with onions and seasonings and veggies all tucked inside. We'll have some baking powder biscuits on the side. It comes out tender and falling off of the bone, the consistency of stewed chicken, but much richer and moister because there wasn't any water to remove the oil from the meat. Anyone else revving up the stovetop or oven as winter settles in? SRS |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Jul 22 - 11:57 AM I think that answer went to the recipes thread. Back [bwahaha] to comfort food. Pre-keto: mom's scratch macaroni and cheese, my spaghetti in meat sauce, chicken noodle soup, curry lo mein. Tomato soup but not creamy. Grilled ham&cheese sandwiches. Baguette with butter and preserves... Now: riced cauliflower in chicken broth, simple salads (chopped bibb-type lettuces, garden tomatoes chopped with seeds and juices, cukes chopped small, vinaigrette) eaten with a spoon. A big bowl of mixed almonds pistachios peanuts with one dark-choc-covered caramel, that I stick nuts to so any bites of caramel are mostly nut. Seafood fra diavolo. Creamy mushroom sauces over anything. Things fried in duck fat, goose grease, or butter. Scrambled eggs in lots of butter, also eaten with a spoon. The nut bowl is especially popular as I can eat that lying flat. Anything changed for anybody else? |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 14 Jul 22 - 01:00 PM Comfort food for the mind and and body is a true vegetarian affair. For people who insist they know whats what for everybody and insist upon adherence to fixed ideas, true comfort food should be 125 mg of mescaline. After that, Amazonian cubensis psilocybin will provide a more visual and symbolic communication that speaks through the heart and visually delights. The eating of plants should not be criminal but be a guaranteed right for the pursuit of hppiness. Judge Scalia wrote that "a plurality of the fredom of religion is a luxury we can no longer afford". This not only removed the sacrement of mescaline from native Americans but threatened all religions except christianity. I do not view the true vegetarian psychedelic comfort foods as a religious key to god but rather a key to consciousness and well being that benefits self and the planet. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 14 Jul 22 - 01:59 PM Although it is linked to organic ergot, LSD is not organic but look what it has done; It inspired Apple computer inventor Steve Jobs, For the first time kids did not march off to war like good little soldiers, When the CIA tried it they were looking for a bio weapon but ended up with a new generation that saw through the old CIA. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20181016-how-lsd-influenced-western-culture |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 14 Jul 22 - 02:25 PM Society is waking up. Here is a hospital that uses magic mushrooms for healing purposes. https://www.adventisthealthcare.com/locations/profile/shady-grove-adventist-aquilino-cancer-center/ A good overview of the subject is in the documentary 'How to change your mind' It can be found on netflix |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Charmion Date: 14 Jul 22 - 05:02 PM It’s nice to see this old thread back on the board. Stilly, do you still use your Römertopf? It’s my favourite way to bake chicken. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Jul 22 - 05:49 PM Organic, in chemistry, only means containing carbon. LSD is indeed an organic molecule. But not exactly comfort food... |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Steve Shaw Date: 14 Jul 22 - 06:56 PM You were sort of wanting to refer me to the police, Donuel, when I mentioned recently your undoubted advocacy of magic mushrooms. Have you changed your mind then? |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 14 Jul 22 - 07:10 PM so many names from the past & some interesting food choices, tho as I only looked at a few familiar names, I certainly missed many equally interesting posts. It's an hour since I woke & I've not yet showered & had breakfast (hard boiled egg & baked beans followed by 2 prunes (yum!), but I have had a crunchy date & apricot cracker a yummy snack which comes in a small packet & doesn't last very long! sandra (signing off) |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Steve Shaw Date: 14 Jul 22 - 07:23 PM Well this morning (are you listening, Sen?) I looked up recipes for eggy crumpets. There are quite a few online, some of which make a full meal of it by adding bacon and grilled tomatoes, etc. That looked so promising that I thought I'd try the basic unadorned eggy crumpets, whereby you beat up a couple of eggs, season them, add a pinch of chilli, soak the crumpets in the mix and fry in a bit of butter for a few minutes. I should say that I think you need one egg per crumpet... Well I found it to be very promising, and Mrs Steve has, in principle, agreed that we can try it one evening with the full works, in other words with cheese, bacon and the grilled tomatoes. This could be the start of something big... |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Joe_F Date: 15 Jul 22 - 05:59 PM Schnecken! No, not escargots, but cinnamon rolls made with maple syrup, raisins, and candied fruit peel.ff |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 15 Jul 22 - 06:56 PM You said posession, not advocacy steve. At any rate it was you who had a message to the police if they are listening. Its all in black and white so why deny like Trump? Feel guilty? My advocacy POV is for the mental health psychologists who believe people can mentally be set right like setting a broken ankle. Quick treatment and healing. I have no personal experience with MMDA. Romertopf makes fall of the bone meat every time. If you get one delivered it may take a couple tries because they can break. Recently we made croissant crust pizza. Its good. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Steve Shaw Date: 15 Jul 22 - 07:04 PM If you honestly think that resort to magic mushrooms can do any good to anybody, well all I can say is that it explains an awful lot about some of the weird stuff you post. Some of us prefer to live in the wonderful real world, consciousness unvaried. And don't feel so hurt, eh? |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Senoufou Date: 16 Jul 22 - 02:05 AM Your eggy crumpets do sound very tasty Steve. But I'm off crumpets now and have lost two stone in weight. I eat mostly salads and a bit of cold chicken or smoked salmon. No sugar, no cakes, no desserts, just fruit. However, I have to confess I have a new 'sin' developing. Every weekend when my errant husband appears, we trundle off to a McDonalds and I have a plain burger in a bun and a packet of their teeny weeny chips. But that constitutes my 'one meal of the day'. I reckon this comes under the 'comfort food' definition eh? I wonder if I should attend McDonalds Anonymous meetings? "I'm Senoufou and I'm a Mcdonaldaholic". |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Steve Shaw Date: 16 Jul 22 - 05:23 AM I used to be an all-night Wimpy 'n' chips man during my time at university, especially after a pint or eight (ah, the sins of youth...), but I've never even set foot inside a McDonalds. I found two stray crumpets this morning so breakfasted on scrambled eggs on 'em. Very nice. I hope you realise that crumpets are made without added fat and are less than 100 calories each. Much lower-calorie than bread. The thing is, though, the butter... |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Senoufou Date: 16 Jul 22 - 05:50 AM Ah yes, the butter! I used to pile it on inches thick. But I never buy butter nowadays, which must also be contributing to my weight loss. The trouble is, my skin is now hanging off me like a curtain. (bingo wings, wrinkly face etc). The two stone I've lost obviously took up a lot of space inside my skin! |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 16 Jul 22 - 07:02 AM For people who have never gone to Yellowstone Park or know a thing about it, Yellowsone would not seem real. It does not mean that people who have gone there are deluded in any way. In fact they are enhanced by the experience. Those who are ignorant of Yellowstone and cast stones at people who have been there are doubly ignorant. Comfort foods are often buttery, fatty, salty and/or sweet. Are there any healthy comfort foods? |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 16 Jul 22 - 07:07 AM my recent crumpets had avocado (good!) & cheese (hmmmm, but yummy) on them ... |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 16 Jul 22 - 07:56 AM Avocado has so much natural fat that cats will eat this fruit as readily as tuna which has less fat. We must have 11 different cheeses in the fridge. I googled comfort food and got mostly savory foods with one apple pie comfort foods |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stanron Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:56 AM The nearest I get to comfort food these days is red lentils. For some years now I've been on a low carbs regime. No spuds, no rice, no sugar and no grain based flour. I eat lots of vedge, salad, meat and fish. I've never done much in the way of butter, That started with Mad Cow disease and I never really got back to it. I do eat cheese and yogurt, full fat of course. And hemp seed oil and rapeseed oil in moderation. This started when a blood test suggested oncoming diabetes. I've gone from 18 stone down to 13 1/2 and there have been no repeat warnings. As a result of the low carbs thing, well cooked red lentils, what is it 40% carbs? taste amazing. It's almost like raiding the sugar bowl as a kid. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 16 Jul 22 - 09:15 AM Quick morning comfort pancakes. for 6 pancakes; Mix 3 eggs, 1 glug of oil, a sploosh of milk and finally belgian waffle mix to a semi thick consistancy. Then mix 1 can drained sliced peachs cut into ~1cm pieces and alot of fresh blueberries OR strawberry slices. Fry 3 at a time ladled in large pan with more oil. I add a bit of pecan pieces to the mix. no syrup or butter. Belgian waffle mix will brown quicker than pancake mix. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 16 Jul 22 - 11:15 AM From: Mrrzy; "Organic, in chemistry, only means containing carbon. LSD is indeed an organic molecule. But not exactly comfort food..." Hell no. Its a synthetic. However the seeds of many species of morning glory contain a naturally occurring tryptamine, lysergic acid amide (LSA), which is chemically similar to LSD and has similar effects. Seeds are used for their strong psychedelic or hallucinogenic mental effects. The toxin lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide, which has one-tenth the potency of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). The toxic effect, at an equivalent dose, is similar to that of LSD but like any ergot the hangover is painful and unpleasant and not reccomended unless a chemist does a complicated procedure. Two thumbs down. LSD is a bucking bulldozer but psylocybin is a cosmic cruise ship with the best library in the universe. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Jul 22 - 12:52 PM I don't know that it's comfort food, but I love making a banana strawberry yogurt smoothie every day or two usually for breakfast. It's very appealing food. Much healthier than something like ice cream or a milkshake. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: BobL Date: 16 Jul 22 - 04:25 PM My favourite comfort food is still the Martini Spritzer - one part Plymouth Gin, 1 part Bianco, 2-4 parts tonic water, plus ice & slice. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 16 Jul 22 - 06:38 PM banana smoothies, YUM! I turned up 90 mins early for an appointment with my Doctor recently (silly me not checking my diary, tho of course much better than turning up 90 mins late!) so went to the food court & had a banana smoothie & read the paper. I also like vanilla malted milk, a small bottle doesn't last long so one day I found a 2 litre bottle & decanted it into a number of small malted milk bottles sitting in the recycling bag & froze them, much more economical. I don't have either treat daily, tho a brekkie banana smoothie would be yummy ... sandra |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Charmion Date: 17 Jul 22 - 09:01 AM That Martini Spritzer is a great idea, BobL. Slice of lemon or lime? I have retired the blender to the basement, but banana smoothies are such a good idea that I might just haul it upstairs to the kitchen again. Even in summer, my favourite comfort food is a large cup of cocoa made with whole milk and Fry’s cocoa powder. I tried several more expensive brands — Callebaut and Ghirardelli (sp?) in particular — but Fry’s delivers the slight bite I like at an acceptable price. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Mrrzy Date: 17 Jul 22 - 09:19 AM Lots of synthetic molecules are organic, because organic, in chemistry, only means containing carbon. It does not mean naturally-occurring. On a label: natural flavor = synthesized in a lab to be the same molecule as occurs naturally. Whether synthetic or not, if carbon is in the molecule, the molecule is by defitition organic. But LSD is not, to me, comfort food, much as I have enjoyed it. Meanwhile, why did it take me so long to use cauliflower rice as rice? |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: BobL Date: 18 Jul 22 - 03:29 AM Charmion, whichever you prefer. Must be Plymouth gin though, although Sipsmith is a good alternative and there may be others. Warning: Martini Spritzers are like lovers - one is not enough, two are too many (apologies if I've said this before). |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jul 22 - 10:34 AM My smoothies are made with frozen fruit; I've seen people make them on recipe programs with ice, but that waters it down too much for me. My smoothie starts with a ripe banana, then I scoop in about a 1/2 cup of plain or vanilla yogurt, add about 1/4 cup of milk (this is my "super calcium" recipe - omit the milk if you're not keeping track of your calcium intake), then a handful of frozen strawberries. Enough for the flavor and frozen consistency, but not so many that it's too thick to suck through a straw. (I have a jar full of reusable acrylic straws and a couple of brushes for cleaning them next to the sink.) This is made in the tall Oster type blender. For the process, I usually give the bananas and yogurt a quick spin to smooth them out then I add a teaspoon full of powdered gelatin (this is for strengthening my nails, it doesn't make the smoothie any thicker - I just don't have very many ways to get gelatin regularly, so this is it.) Give that a quick turn so the gelatin doesn't become an inedible lump. Then drop in the strawberries and pulse it till the mix is smooth. If you like your smoothie a little sweeter a little stevia will do the trick; add it with the yogurt stage. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 18 Jul 22 - 11:20 AM hmmm When my bananas ripen enough I might just get some milk to add to the yoghurt sitting in the fridge Fresh strawberries are a waste of money - anytime I buy them it's a case of hope over experience - I might have to investigate frozen ones sandra |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Steve Shaw Date: 18 Jul 22 - 11:34 AM I agree that strawberries are nearly always disappointing. They are generally picked under-ripe and they never achieve that aromatic sweetness you expect. However, this year we've found that Morrisons sell a variety called "Eve's Delight 2" which is lovely. M&S sell one called "Red Diamond" which is USUALLY really nice. Whatever you buy, it's imperative to have them with clotted cream. Nothing else does it for us. Mrs Steve chops hers up and adds sugar, a travesty in m'humble. Of course, this advice doesn't wash in Oz! |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jul 22 - 12:00 PM I shop at a store that sells produce in flats for a very good price because they buy surplus from grocery distributors. I will wash and core all of the strawberries (sometimes a flat is 10 quarts for $2 - this place is great if you're willing to do the work) then freeze them on baking sheets before bagging them. We are the grocery gleaners, we are. Costco sells frozen organic strawberries that are pretty good, but not nearly as inexpensive as the other place. But the other place has them until they're gone and then you keep your eyes open for when they get more strawberries. I get my blueberries there also and freeze the same way. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Donuel Date: 18 Jul 22 - 12:03 PM The nose knows which strawberries are delicious but they are mostly all treated with the most chemicals in the produce aisle. Drop a fresh strawberry in salt water and watch micro worms emerge. Growing your own is more fun. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jul 22 - 12:48 PM Strawberries, peaches, spinach, some of the most popular are also on the "dirty dozen" list as far as pesticide use. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jul 22 - 12:49 PM The same group also puts out a "Clean 15" list. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Steve Shaw Date: 18 Jul 22 - 01:05 PM Pick over the strawbs and give them a good wash BEFORE you core them, then they won't get waterlogged. The last time I grew a bed of strawberries, the whole lot were trashed by a pair of badgers apparently making love on them (I caught them in flagrante delicto). I also had a lot of trouble with those pesky flat-bodied beige millipedes eating them (not the black snakey ones). I gave up on strawbs. Too much trouble. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:31 PM Yeah, when I try I usually only get a few and eat them out in the yard. They never make it into the house. My sister is having good luck with a tall structure intended for putting in lots of strawberry plants all around the sides and apparently it's protected from a lot of the ground predators. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Raggytash Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:41 PM Oh SRS believe me it is not. I our place in Ireland we live in an apartment which is at least 20ft above the stream that adjoins our property. We have a balcony on which I have a few 40 litre tubs which attract a good number of snails, how they manage to ascend that height I know not. |
Subject: RE: BS: Comfort food From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:59 PM Raggy, I do. My back wall (brick) is covered with small snails that are always crawling up and dying. No idea why, but there they are. |