/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Turkey, heh

>>12611250
lmao (captcha is gay)

>>12611244
Chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes is a classic comfy family dish for me too. But, there's lots of others. My mom cooked nearly every day, and on special occasions, there was a multitude of things.
One of the things that makes me feel comfy as fuck was my mom's beef stew, which was a very classic beef stew. But, with the leftovers, she'd put it in a baking dish and top it with homemade buttermilk biscuits and bake it, which also made it's own gravy at the same time.
Also, homemade potato soup when I was sick. Every time. So comfy, so delicious.
Another was fresh strawberry pie. Still my most favorite pie ever.
Mom also made a lot of vegetable dishes. We NEVER had a meal without at least 2 vegetable dishes, and they were never just plain ass vegetables. Roasted, sauced, gratined, casseroled, baked, fried, salads of all kinds, vegetables make me feel super comfy because of that. At least once a week, we'd have a "vegetable plate" where Mom would make (or use leftovers to make) a variety of vegetable dishes and we'd eat all those with a loaf of fresh bread and butter and a plate of sliced tomatoes and onions in vinaigrette.
Oh, and roasted chicken. Man, she made really good roasted chicken.

>>12611264
Sounds great anon, thanks for sharing. My mom never cooked, and when she did, it wasn't that great. Grew up mostly on fast food, frozen dinners, canned soups, and bologna sandwiches. My dad was a truck driver, so he was rarely home. But sometimes if it was just the two of us, he'd fry up canned corn beef hash, eggs, and toast. Then he'd top it off with gravy he made from the fat. It was nothing special, but I remember those times really well.

>>12611244
Gnocci

>>12611244
That's an amazing crust and it looks like real pan gravy, little bit of Maillard color on it.
>comfort food
Meatloaf. Not nearly enough emphasis on trad American meatloafs these days. Always someone trying to spice it up because they're afraid of being white.

>>12611486
I agree about that gravy. There's nothing more disappointing than a white, floury, pasty gravy.

My mom makes a fucking killer lasagna. That's my nostalgia comfy food.

>>12611486
>>12611244
Yea french onion soup is maximum comfort but personally, when its cold and i feel like shit. I make hot chicken. two slices of bread with mayo on them, some gravy on the chicken, more gravy on top. serve with fries and peas and you cant beat it. Especially if its a really rich and hot gravy with deep brown colors and a really meaty flavor. Its simple, cheap as nails and really delicious.

Pasta al ragù, but the real thing not your average amerimutt interpretation of the recipe

Pancakes and waffles are a must. Highly customizable too.

>>12613640

Never had it with mayo, but I grew up on this shit. So fucking good. Hearty, a little salt, some moist bread. Jesus Christ, I just had my first erection again.

>>12613788
oh yea. mayo isnt normal but personally i quite like it. just adds a bit of fatty taste that really ties it together. and it mixes in with the sauce in a beautiful way. The thing's already gonna become moist pudding so adding more stuff dosent hurt that much imo.

>>12613806

You don't need to convince me about mayo. I fucking love it. And now I need to cook a bird, make gravy and build this goddamn homunculus you've described so I can taste it!

>>12613671
So the exact same thing?

>>12611486
I still like meatloaf topped in ketchup. People putting bbq sauce on it, it's just to sweet.
What do y'all use as filler? Most recipes I see call for breadcrumbs but we just use crushed saltines. My ma used oatmeal.

stews are comfy
any good meat with mashed potatoes is comfy
dishes eaten with knodels are comfy, duck preferably
thick and hearty soups are comfy
good frikadellers are comfy, but they can be also total shit
pies and gugelhupfs are comfy ..btw cheesecakes are NOT comfy, regardless of how good they are

>>12614000
I am not german though, I had to google these things as I didn't know the english names and apparently lot of them don't have proper english equivalent, only german origin words

>>12611244
Corn Beef Hash, Eggs on top and ketchup slathered all over. Reminds me of a better time.

>>12611244
Corned beef hash

Fried bread. Didn't matter what had been in the pan beforehand.

>>12611244
Dunhill Internationals with cold Coca-Cola.

>>12613830
oh yea you should. just remember to NEVER toast the bread. i made that error once absentmindedly and the texture was absolute dogshit.

>>12611486
Trad meatloaf really is severely underrated. Meatloaf sammiches esp.

>>12614000
Yo my family made fucking pheasant stroganoff one time and it was some magical shit, so I fully agree

>>12614000
My dude have you had bienenstich/German bee sting cake

My family never did anything like that for me and I grew up on tacos and frozen pizza. Most comfort food for me is just heavy hearty stuff I learned to make on my own. Chicken pot pie and beef stew are the big ones. The beef stew has to be eaten with cheddar drop biscuits though. Not bread or corn cakes. There have been days where I've left work pissed off that I stop and get a burger and milkshake.

>>12611244
Was poor so my comfort foods are shit I'd make myself

>mac and cheese
and when my mother wasn't working
>cream corn
>mashed potatoes
>some well done over cooked meat(usually pork chops)
>peas

>>12613671
good shit

>>12611244
Slow-stewed Beef Chuck in Red Wine with Dumplings. Even in adulthood it lights up dark and cold English winters.

>>12611244
>comfort food

just fucking kill yourself

>>12611244
Isn't that just schnitzel? Am I missing something? Where's the chicken?

Seafood Gumbo. Seafood stock made out of frozen shrimp shells, crawfish shells, and whatever else we might have stuck away. Then we'd chop up our celery, onions, peppers, and tomato (I get its controversial but somehow on her recipe it created something incredible). We'd make the roux slowly and get it almost to the point of burning it before slowly working the stock in. And then wed add whatever - sausage, shrimp, crab, crawfish, scallops, or sometimes just some quick blackened chicken. We generally had more stock to roux ratio so it came out soupier than what is traditional, but I'll always prefer it that way.

>>12617907
>Isn't that just schnitzel
Basically yes. But if you call it schnitzel autistic Germans attack you because it's not authentic.

>>12614785
T. Hunter S Thompson

For me, it’s the mcchicken

>>12617895
what's got you so triggered, zoomer boy?

>>12613640
Fucking nice, feeling hard just looking at it

>>12619502
>>12613788
Didnt think that other people also liked hot chicken so much as i do because it was that simple.

Nice thread OP

>>12617907
It's cube steak. Chicken refers to the way it's cooked not it's ingredients.

>>12611244
Picadillo

>>12611244
Venison Steaks, and Chicken Parm.

>>12622134
Forgot Mac and Cheese and mashed potatoes.

>>12611244
Stuffed yorkies.

>>12611244
Whole roasted chicken, and runny eggs and toast

>>12622283
My man. I think about opening a restaurant that's family style and only serves roasted chicken dinner served at long tables with benches and I just got a bunch of ovens going in the back with all these chickens in em ready to serve piping hot and affordable but made super well.

>>12623559
That sounds amazing

>>12623885
I'd call it Winner Winner.

Shit on a shingle. It's so damn good but I always fuck up the gravy, my mom did it better and died without writing down the recipe.

>>12624039
I've never had chipped beef or even seen it but it seems really unappealing

>>12624060
Done right it's decent but sawmill gravy beats it handily. I'm sure it's a nostalgia thing more than taste for anon.

Enchiladas, specifically the kind that mexicans would bitch over. Beef with taco seasoning, flour tortillas, la victoria red sauce, and cheddar cheese. My mom makes it best and every time I come back home I want them.

for me, it's white trash stroganoff:
1lb ground beef
1 can cream of mushroom
A goodly amount of sour cream
white rice for like 4-5 people
chopped pickles
pepper
brown the beef, drain if it's too fatty for you, add condensed soup, and enough sour cream until it looks/tastes right. serve over rice, top with chopped pickles and ground pepper. My dad still makes this and I still love it, it is our humblest dish, I hope to make it for my kids

>>12623907
Now it sounds gay as hell.

>>12624440
People like gay shit I'm tryna make money and franchise the muh fuggah.

>>12624454
no you're not, you're trying to be gay. name it something awesome or i'm gonna steal your idea

>>12624512
The Cock in a Pot, how's that?

>>12624535
Sounds good.
>Take eight Gallons of Ale; take a Cock and boil him well; then take four pounds of Raisins of the Sun well stoned, two or three Nutmegs, three or four flakes of Mace, half a pound of Dates; beat these all in a Mortar, and put to them two quarts of the best Sack; and when the Ale hath done working, put these in, and stop it close six or seven days, and then bottle it, and a month after you may drink it.[2]

>>12624571
Well played

>>12611244
my comfort food is potato soup, topped with cheese and saltines.
It is my greatest dish I have perfected over the years taught to me by my mother as a child. Needless to say she can't compare to me.

>>12611244
the usual thanksgiving fixings; turkey, hammys and yammys with the train of other delicious foods (cranberries, mashed potatoes, creamy beans). i'm also huge on baked mac and cheese - none of these are done homestyle, and always end up having some stupid fucking "flare" to it that the chef does to add "pizazz," but really I just want it like my mom makes it, and that is not done in any special way other than traditionally, and comforting.

>>12623559
So.. Kenny Rogers?

>>12611486
This
I’m tired of people trying to fix something that isn’t broken. I don’t need teriyaki meatloaf, or sweet chili meatloaf, I want meat, and gravy. Hopefully this stupid shit eventually circles back around once people have tainted meatloaf so much that most of the fad following fucks just wanna eat normal meatloaf again

Fresh egg on hot, steaming rice. Seasoned with just a bit of soy sauce.

It got me through rough times, man. I would be stressed and broke, or too tired, or too heartbroken to make anything but this dish was so easy to whip up and it always lifted my spirits up.

It was what my mom's favorite comfort food too when she was alive. She would usually come home late from the hospital, tired and broken down, and this was what she would whip up most of the time. Sometimes 5 year old me would fall asleep on the living room couch adjacent to the kitchen, and I would wake up from the noise. And she would always offer me a couple spoonfuls before she even had any, kiss me on the forehead, and then tell me to go to my room.

I miss her. This food was associated with my fondest memories of her

>>12611244
Shepherds pie.
Had one earlier, was so fucking content.

>>12623559
Turn it into a brew pub u got a gold mine for a couple years.

>>12611244
Favorite comfort foods
>cheesy mashed potatoes
>macaroni cheese
You're going to notice a pattern of warm cheesy carbs, I think.
>shrimp and cheesy grits
>cornbread
>chicken pot pie
>pancakes
>tater tot casserole
>shepherd's pie
>hoppin john

There's some foods that are special to me that are more like poverty meals coupled with she didn't know how to cook as well, that I cherish because my mom made them when she was still single
>ground beef mixed into baked beans
>spanish rice (the Knorr stuff) with slices of smoked gouda (this was a treat for us)

My mom never made anything that made me feel like I was "home," and I learned to make the food I wanted when I was ready for it... something I actually appreciated.

Some of my family tried doing this shit (grandmas, aunts, etc.), and it was always awful, so I really don't get the inspiration around comfort food. It's just always been trash from people who don't know how to cook despite a million years of practice.

I'm not even a good cook, really. But going to a restaurant with someone who did it for a living was always nicer than someone who did it as an afterthought to appeal to everyone's lowest common denominator tastes.

one of my favorite dishes still is a recipe my mom got from some amish lady for "chicken in a cloud". I still request that when coming home, its nothing special or fancy but it tastes good and I know it makes my mom happy to cook that one for me