Comfort foods of my youth

[Haggises]

Fried egg and chips was my meal of choice. Brother would ask for steak, but fried eggs always did it for me.
Mince n tatties - ground beef in a thin gravy with diced carrots, onions and a large mound of mashed potatoes. My father made the best, I've never come close.
Chip butty - white bread, salted butter, good old animal-fat-fried chips, not these thin, young whippersnappers you see these days.



A cheesesteak comes close to getting that gooey fat/carb/protein deliciousness of the above, but not quite.


What's your simple food, for the times when lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce just won't satisfy a craving?

 

[Rushman2112]

Egg and chips, all the major food groups, easy and cheap, star meal.

Decent bit of ham and fresh crusty bread, usually best in France with a "demi", can't be bad.

 

[YetiDave]

You're missing out on the sausages and Heinz baked beans with the egg and chips! Awesome looking chips though! I wish they were still cooked in beef dripping

My quick and easy comfort food is a carbonara. Can't wait for my pancetta to be ready so I can give it a try with that

 

[oakeshott]

Peanut butter and jelly (grape or strawberry). One of the greatest inventions ever and easily packable for hunting or fishing trips.

 

[Mundus (Jennifer)]

Cream of wheat in the morning is my comfort food. I second oakeshott on the peanut butter & jelly (grape for me) also.

 

[greenie]

Seamen steak ("Merimiespihvi" in Finnish) is probably the most comforting food from my youth that comes to mind. Pretty close by are cabbage stew and this certain type of pasta, that my grandmom used to make - like all of the others, too.

 

[Shave_Rat]

I'd say the great gooey creamy awesomeness that is macaroni and cheese, with ham or bacon pieces added in. Served with some nice crusty bread and butter.

 

[auk1124]

Country ham, cat-head biscuits, and gravy. Fried eggs and sliced tomatoes are optional but good if you have them.

 

[packersfan117]

Cornbread, macaroni and cheese, freshly picked cooked green beans, corn, peas, mashed potatoes, rice, freshly caught smallmouth bass fried in a cornmeal breading, sweet Lipton iced tea brewed in the sunlight in a glass jar, and fried apple pies for dessert. Of course, all this wouldn't be served at once, these are just some typical Southern comfort foods.

 

[rushchairman]

Libby's Lunch for Texas Weiners with dad.

 

[Alacrity59]

You have to love these places. They should have a sign . . . "doing it right for over 76 years". Sadly for me my father passed away a few years back. Today was his birthday he would have been 93. He liked the small local joints . . . and admittedly some were pretty horrendous but most were good solid spots. Treasure and make more of those memories. My 2 cents at this minute.

 

[the beav]

Fried egg and chips was my meal of choice. Brother would ask for steak, but fried eggs always did it for me.
Mince n tatties - ground beef in a thin gravy with diced carrots, onions and a large mound of mashed potatoes. My father made the best, I've never come close.
Chip butty - white bread, salted butter, good old animal-fat-fried chips, not these thin, young whippersnappers you see these days.

You might like this website and book--good writing on Eggs, Bacon, Chips, and Beans (EBCB):

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/2005/01/bar_remo_prince.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Egg-Bacon-Chips-Beans-Great/dp/0007213786

 

[the beav]

Cornbread, macaroni and cheese, freshly picked cooked green beans, corn, peas, mashed potatoes, rice, freshly caught smallmouth bass fried in a cornmeal breading, sweet Lipton iced tea brewed in the sunlight in a glass jar, and fried apple pies for dessert. Of course, all this wouldn't be served at once, these are just some typical Southern comfort foods.

The way you wrote that reminded me of Grandpa Jones on Hee Haw:

 

[rushchairman]

You have to love these places. They should have a sign . . . "doing it right for over 76 years". Sadly for me my father passed away a few years back. Today was his birthday he would have been 93. He liked the small local joints . . . and admittedly some were pretty horrendous but most were good solid spots. Treasure and make more of those memories. My 2 cents at this minute.

too true! the most comfortable company makes for the best comfort food happy belated birthday to your dad.

 

[Phog Allen]

Tony, that picture looks like my childhood dinner table! Along with many of the other suggestions in the thread I have to add bread and butter pudding. What a way to finish a meal.

Cheers, Todd

 

[p.m.a.]

Steak-Um, Kraft American Cheese and fried egg on toasted Wonder Bread - I felt like quite the master chef when I would cook this up in the kitchen after school as I would add a dash of garlic salt to the Steak-um

Mom's french toast on Wonder Bread
peanut butter on toasted Wonder Bread
grilled Kraft American Cheese on Wonder Bread
fried Oscar Mayer bologna (or baloney if you will) on, you guessed it, Wonder Bread
just plain Wonder Bread - I loved to pull off the crust and wad the remaining bread into a dense ball and just gnaw on it. Anyone remember when Wonder Bread came with various trading cards and stickers and such?

 

[Mick]

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

I still make these today.

Hard to beat for something quick and tasty

 

[Shave_Rat]

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

I still make these today.

Hard to beat for something quick and tasty

I like these on toasted bread, personally. Just something awesome added when the PB gets warm and extra melty and such.

 

[Haggises]

Tony, that picture looks like my childhood dinner table! Along with many of the other suggestions in the thread I have to add bread and butter pudding. What a way to finish a meal.

Cheers, Todd

Oh lord, I haven't had a decent authentic bread and butter pudding in decades....... When right it's even better than the finest chocolate mousse.
I'm sitting here, trying to start a lower calorie regime and now all I can think about is bread and butter #$%$# pudding!
Thanks Todd!

 

[Haggises]

You might like this website and book--good writing on Eggs, Bacon, Chips, and Beans (EBCB):

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/2005/01/bar_remo_prince.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Egg-Bacon-Chips-Beans-Great/dp/0007213786

I'll need to look out for that.
The picture reminded me of the breakfast I had at Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow last year.
Beans, eggs, fried slice of haggis, bacon, sausages and a tottie scone. Decent chips would have been the icing on the cake, though not de reguer for breakfast perhaps...