comfort food

[boxofdelights]

I came home from my house (have I mentioned that I have a house?) in sore need of comfort food. So I boiled some potatoes (well, first I dug up the potatoes) and kale, and smothered them with cheese sauce.

Daughter, who is recovering from flu, ate only potatoes with salt. Son, who is coming down with flu, ate nothing. I left salt out of the cheese sauce, so husband could eat it if he chose, but he is not yet back from evening treatments at the Raptor Center.

I told daughter that when I was a little kid, comfort food was creamed tuna fish on toast. Daughter made vomiting noises.

What's your comfort food? What was it when you were little? Do you ever eat your kid-comfort food now?

Comments

[lizw.livejournal.com]

My childhood comfort food was sardines on toast. I don't eat it any more for environmental reasons. My comfort foods now tend to be things like vegetarian shepherd's pie, apple crumble with custard, and other such British favourites.

[boxofdelights]

Do you ever do a vegan shepherd's pie? What do you put in your shepherd's pie? Also, my daughter would like to know why we call this a pie when it doesn't have a crust.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

No, my version isn't vegan - it uses Quorn, which contains small amounts of egg. "Pie" originally meant a medley - the association with pastry came later, presumably after shepherd's pie, cottage pie etc were invented.