Topic: Comfort foods

[Peripatetic Phil]

Livo's recent statement that :

The good old fashioned Aussie sausage curry is one of the worlds best comfort foods.

reminded me that I am regularly indulging in a comfort food of my own creation, which I thought I should share.  Unlike my other comfort foods (Primula cheese, Edam, Brussels' p

[fried]

Corned beef hash, 2 fried eggs on top and a handfull of spring onions does the job for me.

[Garp]

A four-pack of Stella with two packets of Pickled Onion Monster Munch.

Barring that, oatcakes with butter, blue cheese and onion relish or sweet chilli sauce 

[Madrasandy]

Couple of Reapers and a Fatalii Gourmet Jigsaw does it for me. Seriously though , a ploughmans with some chilli jam washed down with some cider

[livo]

Tom yam gai mien is getting close to infringing antidiscrimination laws phil.  It sounds pretty nice though and almost in the 4 ingredient cookbook category for simplicity.

[sp]

if you're talking meals, sausage and bean supper (sausages, beans, carrots and lots of chilli powder!), or my childhood favourite smoked haddock with mash and white sauce (make a roux from the milk you cook the haddock in, dash of salt and pepper, and thicken with cornflour, pour over the mashed potatoes - delish!)

for snacks, can't beat a nice selection of strong and smelly cheeses and biscuits; www.damnfinecheese.co.uk do some lovely cheddars with a twist... or as Garp suggests I'd settle for a big bottle of Thatchers Gold with some Roast Beef Monster Munch

[livo]

or my childhood favourite smoked haddock with mash and white sauce (make a roux from the milk you cook the haddock in, dash of salt and pepper, and thicken with cornflour, pour over the mashed potatoes - delish!)

Now that is comfort food, and again something I have only eaten once in many, many years and even that was about 3 years ago.  I'll have to add that to the "to do" list.  It used to be a regular along with sausage curry when I was a kid.

I do still regularly hot smoke my own catch sometimes and it's not bad either.