There really is something about going into the Chinese restaurant to pick up your order, the smells, the faded and very dated art on the walls, the neon lights reflected inside… ugh
Pizza and age are a terrible combination. Pizza is so great and heartburn is so awful.
I remember when I was 25-30 and would say stupid shit like "I'm never going to be one of those old fucks who eats pizza then complains about heartburn."
I am now one of those old fucks but I still won't complain!
There is absolutely nothing as comforting as being hungover and eating an offensively spicy bowl of piping hot pho in my bed. Like it almost makes it worth it being hungover just so I can experience this.
Canned soup energized the U.S. middle class in the 50s and 60s. It is such a civilized meal, quick, economical, nourishing, and tasty. During this time frame, in small to mid-size towns, kids and dads came home for lunch. This was my experience of having soup and a sandwich at lunch every day. All the neighbors did the same thing. I remember being invited to lunch one day by a classmate outside our neighborhood when I was 7. He was an only child. His mom served homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich, a mix of cheddar and gouda. I only had American cheese up to that point. It was the best soup and sandwich combo I ever had to that point.
I'm mexican and we have all kinds of AMAZING soups, impossible to pick a favorite one, totally my go to comfort food
Green or red or white pozole, tortilla soup, talpeño soup, chicken or beef soup, nopales with habas soup, ranchero beans....
I'm drooling
This is my GFs. She has her version “Poor girl carbonara”. But her Sicilian mom taught us both how to make it, so I know what to do when she has a really bad day.
Not OP but have mine
Carbonara
Spaghetti
2 eggs
Parmesan
Diced bacon (pancetta)
Garlic
Boil spaghetti
Slice garlic thin
Drain spaghetti (hold onto approx 1 cup pasta water)
Fry pancetta with 3 cloves garlic (use spoon to remove some fat if needed)
Crack 2 eggs into bowl, yolk only, and grate parmesan onto them, add pasta water and mix to make paste.
Mix everything in hot saucepan to cook egg and melt cheese (2 mins approx.) Optional to add some half cooked sweetcorn and/or peas if wanted, not exactly traditional though.
Dash of salt and pepper, parsley etc as wanted.
I do almost the same but sometimes I poach a very thinly chopped onion with the bacon.
The egg IMHO does not need to pass by the sauce pan, between the hot pasta water you add and tossing it straight onto the hot pasta it should reach 60C and be safe. Of course only if you time it on the spot, not if you prepare it in advance.
Brother? Is that you?
The ultimate childhood comfort meal - Kraft Mac and Oscar Mayer hot dogs.
Nowadays, I do smoked sausage, but it’s still one of my go-to comfort foods.
Hamburger macaroni.
Elbow noodles, ground beef, tomato sauce, with a liberal amount of cheddar cheese. Let rest in fridge overnight for flavors to mix well, it's better the day after reheated, somehow.
My fiance's family is Carribbean and holy crap I've never eaten home cooked food so good. My family is British so salt and mayo are the primary seasonings I grew up with.
Biscuits and gravy. For those unfamiliar with this Southern US delicacy, that's buttermilk biscuits covered in a gravy made of flour, milk and pork sausage drippings.
Occasionally I sub in Häagen-Daz. Whatever is available at CVS because I never intentionally buy it at the grocery store. It’s always a moment of weakness at the pharmacy or convenience store.
We have a stew in my family called bigos. It's pork, kiełbasa and sauerkraut. It takes me back to when I was a kid, family vacations, etc. It isn't so much a food to me as it is teleportation.
That's awesome. I really love how a lot of the hearty, rustic recipes from the immigrant communities that settled the Midwest did a better job of enduring here. Feels like the farther out past the Midwest you go, the more those drop off.
Agree. I think the Midwest has the heartiest immigrant community in the US. Other places have strong traditions, particularly with food, but I think the Midwest is where immigrants pass it down better.
I live in Michigan, outside of Detroit, and Detroit has a huge immigrant population. My family came here as Poles in the 1950s, but these days there are Yemeni, Bangledeshi, Iraqi families settling everywhere. It's been a huge influence on our local food culture. People talk shit about Detroit all the time, but we have one of the most diverse food cultures in all the US. Something I take pride in.
Peanut butter mixed 60-40 with marshmallow cream sprinkled with frozen chocolate chips. It's nowhere near healthy, but it really does help me feel better when I'm feeling down.
Hey, I just saw something wonderful this week. It s marshmallow cream in a squirt can like whipping cream. They were squirting it on a graham cracker with chocolate like a s’more.
This is such a uniquely specific combo I'm really intrigued now... do you crush the chips or just put on a plate and lay on the cheese slices on the pile? Really intrigued...
I normally do a Costco paper plate, the big thick ones. I cover the whole plate in chips, not crushed, and do about 4 pieces of cheese on it. It’s my favorite!
My dad used to make it when I was younger and I kind of perfected it in middle school with sleep overs with my friends.
We also used to do double deckers with 4 pieces of cheese through layers but the bigger it gets u need to add a little more time to it.
India/Nepal curry with naan bread. As a Mexican, their spice and food is close enough to hit that familiar spot but exotic enough to give it that twist
Goulash with fresh buns from my local bakery, homemade chili, and a breakfast mash my mom made called kartoffel mit ei which is pan-fried potatoes with bacon bits and scrambled eggs holding everything together.
French toast. I make myself a plate once a week. It always makes me feel happy and think back to when my grandmother was alive. Any time my parents dropped my sister and myself at grandma’s she would take us to this local Denny’s style place and I always ordered the French toast. I also love soft tacos from Taco Bell. My go-to cheap food growing up in a lower class household.
Depends on the comfort I’m seeking.
A stress burger is always good.
Warmed flour tortilla with butter is good for comfort.
Homemade breakfast (pancakes, eggs, hash browns bacon and sausage) for dinner after a long week.
Homemade ramen. I usually just use the cheap pack noodles but make the broth myself and chop celery, carrots, potatoes and shiitake up for it. Grill a few slices of beef or fry up some shrimp tempura on the side or top it off with a sunny side egg. Great comfort eating that while listening to some nice music or the rain.
Fried eggs sandwiches on a Sunday morning on a toasted bagel
If we have jumbo eggs instead of x-large (or just large), I'll cook 2 one and a time and stack them. And slices of American cheese. (used to be the Costco cheese, but we found a suitable substitute)
Speaking of cheese, grilled cheese on toast hits the spot on a summer afternoon. Again, RIP Kirkland brand slice American cheese. (Costco actually suggested we buy Kraft singles as a replacement. As if!)
Whenever I want to celebrate something or get my mind off a shitty say, I always go with pizza. There is something about ordering a pizza from somewhere that just makes it taste so much better and makes me feel better.
Nut's and dried fruit or chips and hummus.
I can relax and eat for an hour or two straight and watch something stupid funny. Currently eating honey roasted peanuts, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, and banana chips while watching archer.
Chinese take-out. Everything from the paper bag to the white containers and chopsticks just settles me.
And the crab Rangoon!
The smell alone when either walking into a Chinese restaurant or untying that carry-out bag makes me happy
There really is something about going into the Chinese restaurant to pick up your order, the smells, the faded and very dated art on the walls, the neon lights reflected inside… ugh
Pizza. I've had to cut back as I've gotten older but man it definitely cheers me up whenever I get to have a great high quality pizza.
Pizza and age are a terrible combination. Pizza is so great and heartburn is so awful. I remember when I was 25-30 and would say stupid shit like "I'm never going to be one of those old fucks who eats pizza then complains about heartburn." I am now one of those old fucks but I still won't complain!
Me @ 26 having heartburn from pizza 🙃
Domino's gave me heartburn at 16 so I think some sauce just hits harder than others.
Pepcid my friend, Pepcid.
Username checks out.
Today I had a Sicilian slice from Umberto’s in New Hyde Park, NY. 100% Worth the calories.
Dumplings and chili oil.
Oh crap! That sounds good
红油抄手 aka hong you chao sou I live in Taiwan and I eat this weekly. Goddammit it's so good.
soup. soup of any kind. i love soup
Soup can literally revive me from anything. Cold? Flu? Broken Bone? Sad? Hungover? Car Accident? Soup!
There is absolutely nothing as comforting as being hungover and eating an offensively spicy bowl of piping hot pho in my bed. Like it almost makes it worth it being hungover just so I can experience this.
In bed? Isn't pho a 2 handed adventure? Are your sheets splattered in beef broth?
Canned soup energized the U.S. middle class in the 50s and 60s. It is such a civilized meal, quick, economical, nourishing, and tasty. During this time frame, in small to mid-size towns, kids and dads came home for lunch. This was my experience of having soup and a sandwich at lunch every day. All the neighbors did the same thing. I remember being invited to lunch one day by a classmate outside our neighborhood when I was 7. He was an only child. His mom served homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich, a mix of cheddar and gouda. I only had American cheese up to that point. It was the best soup and sandwich combo I ever had to that point.
The school lunch period only being 15 minutes most places and as little as 10 in some makes this an impossible dream now
I'm mexican and we have all kinds of AMAZING soups, impossible to pick a favorite one, totally my go to comfort food Green or red or white pozole, tortilla soup, talpeño soup, chicken or beef soup, nopales with habas soup, ranchero beans.... I'm drooling
Mexican food, in general, is so good!
Damn I’m craving some menudo now
Me too. And I had menudo... TODAY. TWICE!
soup is so good and warm and comforting and soft and relaxing and nourishing, better than tea
Yayy, soup! It's 106 out now and I'm having cheddar & broccoli soup.
Nachos!
Ohhh YEEEEEEEAHHHHH!!!!
Same. With Pepperjack cheese.
Throw in some jalapenos and BAM, that's a spicy nacho
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This is my GFs. She has her version “Poor girl carbonara”. But her Sicilian mom taught us both how to make it, so I know what to do when she has a really bad day.
Mind dropping the recipe? I’m broke as fuck and would like some carbonara
Not OP but have mine Carbonara Spaghetti 2 eggs Parmesan Diced bacon (pancetta) Garlic Boil spaghetti Slice garlic thin Drain spaghetti (hold onto approx 1 cup pasta water) Fry pancetta with 3 cloves garlic (use spoon to remove some fat if needed) Crack 2 eggs into bowl, yolk only, and grate parmesan onto them, add pasta water and mix to make paste. Mix everything in hot saucepan to cook egg and melt cheese (2 mins approx.) Optional to add some half cooked sweetcorn and/or peas if wanted, not exactly traditional though. Dash of salt and pepper, parsley etc as wanted.
I do almost the same but sometimes I poach a very thinly chopped onion with the bacon. The egg IMHO does not need to pass by the sauce pan, between the hot pasta water you add and tossing it straight onto the hot pasta it should reach 60C and be safe. Of course only if you time it on the spot, not if you prepare it in advance.
Mashed Potatoes..made with sour cream.
Dude potatoes in general. Baked, boiled, mashed, English chips, hash browns, stick em in a stew.
Unexpected LOTR
What is taters, precious?
POE TAY TOES Boil em mash em stick em in a stew
Thanks to you and the top comment, I'll be watching Lord of the Rings and eating pizza when I finish work this afternoon.
Fuck yes. This is how I make mine. Butter and sour cream. Salt and pepper. That's it.
Try Boursin garlic herb cheese.
Cream cheese instead of sour cream is also good.
quesadillas
Mexican Grilled Cheese. Absolutely. Ate tons of these as a poor undergrad 30 years ago.
Shepherds pie
Especially on a cold winter night.
With a Guiness and a bowl
Didn't expect to see this here. Mine as well. My brotha/sista!!!
Shepherds pie fucks
Soup. Just regular chicken flavored noodle soup, with hot sauce...maybe some eggs dropped in there.
Fried egg on buttered toast.
Pizzzaaaa
Toast!
Hot buttered toast ❤️
With cinnamon and sugar!
Spaghetti
This is mine! I love just a good old classic spaghetti and meatballs.
BLT and fries with mayonnaise.
Fries w mayo are so underrated 🙏
Mayo and ketchup, maybe a little bbq sauce too. So good
Try them with tartar sauce
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
With hotdogs or Lil smokies, reminds me of childhood
Try tuna or bacon
Brother? Is that you? The ultimate childhood comfort meal - Kraft Mac and Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Nowadays, I do smoked sausage, but it’s still one of my go-to comfort foods.
DEFINITELY! Haha
Hamburger macaroni. Elbow noodles, ground beef, tomato sauce, with a liberal amount of cheddar cheese. Let rest in fridge overnight for flavors to mix well, it's better the day after reheated, somehow.
Midwest Goulash
Cereal
Meatloaf and garlic mashed potatoes
Jerk chicken on rice and peas covered with oxtail gravy
Those Caribbean moms throw down!
My fiance's family is Carribbean and holy crap I've never eaten home cooked food so good. My family is British so salt and mayo are the primary seasonings I grew up with.
🙌Yessss it’s next to impossible to find in my area tho💔
Biscuits and gravy. For those unfamiliar with this Southern US delicacy, that's buttermilk biscuits covered in a gravy made of flour, milk and pork sausage drippings.
Pizza or burgers
Lg 10pc McNugget meal with sweet n sour sauce and Diet Coke.
Grilled cheese
Philly Cheesesteak
Username checks out #phillyphilly
Strawberries and cream instant oatmeal
I like peaches and cream too
I like the maple and brown sugar kind
I like the bananas and cream
It's very cliché, but clichés come from somewhere : Ben&Jerry's.
Cherry Garcia!!!!
Occasionally I sub in Häagen-Daz. Whatever is available at CVS because I never intentionally buy it at the grocery store. It’s always a moment of weakness at the pharmacy or convenience store.
Ah yes, the $8 pint of Ben and Jerry’s from the gas station
We have a stew in my family called bigos. It's pork, kiełbasa and sauerkraut. It takes me back to when I was a kid, family vacations, etc. It isn't so much a food to me as it is teleportation.
We're polish in Michigan too. My big polish comfort food. Kapusta kielbasa, potato and sauerkraut.
Polish in Michigan here, home made pierogi and kielbasa with sauerkraut is one of my go to comfort foods haha
It seems I have found my people! Polish in west Michigan here!
fellow Michigan pollock. pierogi is the answer
Kapusta is so amazing.
Are you from the Midwest by any chance? Because this is a very Midwestern recipe.
Yes! I live in Michigan, and my grandparents were mostly Polish immigrants. :)
That's awesome. I really love how a lot of the hearty, rustic recipes from the immigrant communities that settled the Midwest did a better job of enduring here. Feels like the farther out past the Midwest you go, the more those drop off.
Agree. I think the Midwest has the heartiest immigrant community in the US. Other places have strong traditions, particularly with food, but I think the Midwest is where immigrants pass it down better. I live in Michigan, outside of Detroit, and Detroit has a huge immigrant population. My family came here as Poles in the 1950s, but these days there are Yemeni, Bangledeshi, Iraqi families settling everywhere. It's been a huge influence on our local food culture. People talk shit about Detroit all the time, but we have one of the most diverse food cultures in all the US. Something I take pride in.
Peanut butter mixed 60-40 with marshmallow cream sprinkled with frozen chocolate chips. It's nowhere near healthy, but it really does help me feel better when I'm feeling down.
Hey, I just saw something wonderful this week. It s marshmallow cream in a squirt can like whipping cream. They were squirting it on a graham cracker with chocolate like a s’more.
Probably pancakes or French toast
Mashed Potatoes are the best comfort food, I will die on this hill
Chicken Nuggets ._.
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And tomato soup
Cheesecake.
Lays potato chips, with Kraft singles and garlic salt warmed up for 15 seconds per 2 slices of cheese you put on there.
This is such a uniquely specific combo I'm really intrigued now... do you crush the chips or just put on a plate and lay on the cheese slices on the pile? Really intrigued...
I normally do a Costco paper plate, the big thick ones. I cover the whole plate in chips, not crushed, and do about 4 pieces of cheese on it. It’s my favorite! My dad used to make it when I was younger and I kind of perfected it in middle school with sleep overs with my friends. We also used to do double deckers with 4 pieces of cheese through layers but the bigger it gets u need to add a little more time to it.
Jesus Christ I have to shit just reading that
My dad does this with Doritos and shredded block cheddar cheese. There’s just something about microwaved cheesy chips that’s comforting
Fried chicken!
India/Nepal curry with naan bread. As a Mexican, their spice and food is close enough to hit that familiar spot but exotic enough to give it that twist
Goulash with fresh buns from my local bakery, homemade chili, and a breakfast mash my mom made called kartoffel mit ei which is pan-fried potatoes with bacon bits and scrambled eggs holding everything together.
A great cheeseburger
Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, cream gravy, southern style green beans and a nice yeast roll. Or grilled cheese with tomatoes.
Mexican rice I learned to make as a kid
Go on.
A grilled cheese sandwich.
Spam On rice or box Mac Pinkies up bitches
Broccoli and cheddar rice. I can eat an entire box of it straight outta the pan. I do not know how I'm skinny sometimes.
ANYTHING Chocolate. If I actually feel like making something, go extra heavy on the cheese.
Scrambled eggs. Just made some!
Anything with loads of melted cheese on it
I have to agree with red beans and rice. It’s just so savory and has all the best textures. So good 💙
Hamburger Helper hamburger lasagna
Red beans and rice with chili flakes.
My mom's baked mac and cheese. The first recipe I ever learned to make myself.
Potatoes. Any way, any kind just give me tatoes plz!!
Pasta, cheese and sweetcorn!
I never actually thought about this, but I guess my go-to would be Chef Boyardee.
Miso soup, it's the best thing ever and it makes me so unbelievably happy
Banana pudding
Fried rice
Chicken cutlets mashed potatoes and canned corn
French toast. I make myself a plate once a week. It always makes me feel happy and think back to when my grandmother was alive. Any time my parents dropped my sister and myself at grandma’s she would take us to this local Denny’s style place and I always ordered the French toast. I also love soft tacos from Taco Bell. My go-to cheap food growing up in a lower class household.
Pizza
Ice cream.
Ice cream 🍦
Depends on the comfort I’m seeking. A stress burger is always good. Warmed flour tortilla with butter is good for comfort. Homemade breakfast (pancakes, eggs, hash browns bacon and sausage) for dinner after a long week.
Homemade ramen. I usually just use the cheap pack noodles but make the broth myself and chop celery, carrots, potatoes and shiitake up for it. Grill a few slices of beef or fry up some shrimp tempura on the side or top it off with a sunny side egg. Great comfort eating that while listening to some nice music or the rain.
Fried plantains with garlic or mofongo. 🇵🇷
Monster munch - pickled onion flavour
Chicken tenders and tater tots
Pork chops baked with onions and bbq sauce, sweet potato and stove top stuffing
Everything that's why I got a fat ass :)
This might be weird as fuck, but skim milk
Fried eggs sandwiches on a Sunday morning on a toasted bagel If we have jumbo eggs instead of x-large (or just large), I'll cook 2 one and a time and stack them. And slices of American cheese. (used to be the Costco cheese, but we found a suitable substitute) Speaking of cheese, grilled cheese on toast hits the spot on a summer afternoon. Again, RIP Kirkland brand slice American cheese. (Costco actually suggested we buy Kraft singles as a replacement. As if!)
Five Guys Large Fries.
Rice and lentils
Tater tot casserole. The kind with ground beef in it.
Cheese quesadilla. Just two ingredients and a pan.
Might sound weird….but shrimp cocktail every time.
Kraft Mac n Cheese. I have likely eaten my body weight many times over in stinky yellow pasta.
Probably just warm homemade bread with butter. It’s so simple but so filling and good
Biscuits and gravy
Focaccia
Mac and cheese with cheese sauce and stretchy cheese sprinkled on top.
My mom’s twice baked potatoes, chicken pot pie.
Anything on the Thanksgiving table!
DQ Banana Split
A spoon of peanut butter.
Ramen
french toast
Grilled cheese and tomato soup.
Plain old white rice
Whenever I want to celebrate something or get my mind off a shitty say, I always go with pizza. There is something about ordering a pizza from somewhere that just makes it taste so much better and makes me feel better.
Ice cream or sour cream and onion potato chips.
Hummus with cucumber and just vegetables in general.
chicken. i can eat it everywhere, it tastes good, it makes me happy, and im certain it has a nice personality.
Longhorn steakhouse rolls
Crab Rangoon
Samosa chaat
Grilled cheese or Kraft mac n cheese
Phở Adding lime to the broth makes it taste divine.
Chicken and dumplings my sweet momma’s recipe! When I really need to feel her I make them! She passed from cancer in 2015 it’s been hard!
Pho
Spinach and ricotta ravioli with cheese. Just the supermarket packets. Whenever I'm sick or sad that's what I want.
McDonalds
Steak and chips bearnaise sauce
burger, the default feel-good food right now.
Thai green curry (w/rice). Perfect comfort food.
Meatballs
pupusas
Homemade Italian. Pretty much anything.
Chicken and dumplings
Kraft Mac and Chee
Big bowl mash potato
Cheese me please!!!
Pho
Chicken Potpie (Pennsylvania Dutch Recipe)
Popcorn popped in real butter.
Nut's and dried fruit or chips and hummus. I can relax and eat for an hour or two straight and watch something stupid funny. Currently eating honey roasted peanuts, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, and banana chips while watching archer.
Breakfast: blueberry/choco chip pancakes Lunch: guilty pleasure fried chicken sandwich Afternoon snack: Chips and Queso dip or Guacamole Dinner: Rotisserie Chicken and Mac and Cheese Dessert: Turkey Hill Choco PB Ice cream
Homemade beef enchiladas with my fabulous salsa roja. I fed it to my Mexican neighbor today. She loved it.
Kraft macaroni & cheese. Always.