Comfort food, according to Wikipedia are:
Familiar, simple foods that are usually home-cooked or eaten at informal restaurants. They are foods that are often emotionally significant to a person or group of people and are sometimes related to pleasant associations of childhood
A scene from Pixar’s Ratatouille sums this up very well:
Well, I have a couple of comfort food and most of it has egg as the primary component. I LOVE EGGS.
On top of my list is a dish called “Sarsiado” (soft scrambled eggs with onions & tomatoes). Here in Spain, the equivalent will be the huevos revueltos. And yes, it is a comfort food for me because as defined above it has an emotional significance and is nostalgic to my childhood.
After a stressful day or whatever it may be. When you feel everything seems to fail, comfort foods are there to offer a warm embrace and let you forget the anxieties of adult life. It helps us realize and appreciate again that the simple joys of life are really simple.
So what is your comfort food?
Please share it and as Anton Ego said, “Surprise me!”
3 Comments
mine is cheese !!
My comfort food would be crackers, with Philadelphia cheese and “pimientos del piquillo” although it doesn’t remind me my childhood. In France, we don’t have “pimientos del piquillo”
Some fresh baguette with salted butter and cheese (camembert, comté, brie) would be my official comfort food, but in Spain I can hardly find a very good cheese and a very good bread.
Oh, both milk and eggs are related to my comfort foods. I guess both this ingredientes and olive oil are among the best ones to add real flavor to any dish. Nowadays is really difficult to find real milk. I’m completely ok with people having options for not so fatty milks, or even to add some vitamins, but not losing the chance to dring fresh milk, the kind that only lasts two days at the fridge. Specially for cooking this kind of milk is unbeatable.
Nice redesign of the blog, by the way.
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