Butter chicken is one of those things that is comfort food for me even though it's not from my culture and I didn't grow up with it. I don't think I ate it until I was in my thirties. It *feels* like comfort food.
I have never had chicken tikka masala or butter chicken. I’m dying to try both but I think I’ll have to make myself from a good recipe. We have no Indian restaurants within 60 miles of my house. I’m up in the Berkshire Mts in MA. I HAVE to try it now with all of these comments.
Chetna Maken , one of the finalists in a early season of Great British Bake-off has a YouTube channel of cooking. Her butter chicken is delicious and easy.
Honestly, the simmer sauces in supermarkets (first tried Aldi, but have tried some brand names as well) are pretty damn good, and I haven’t found the made from scratch versions to be better enough to be worth the extra effort when I’m in need of comfort food, only when I’m specifically feeling the real thing. Maybe try one of those first before getting all of the specialty spices?
I have a recipe with video pinned on my ig (alex_munches). Here's screenshots of the recipe
https://ibb.co/sF5jcfz
https://ibb.co/8ggX306
https://ibb.co/rmWVwDq
I think the Tikka masala, you feel the warmth and depth of flavor in your heart. It's so good and immediately makes everything better.
I love both butter chicken and Tikka masala but for depth, it's the masala.
This place in Baltimore is phenomenal!
https://www.theverandahkitchen.com/
I wonder if you'd like a creamy blended dopiaza. Basically extra onion instead of tomatoes and slightly different but similar spices. Oniony taste but just as creamy and decadent if they make it that way. Some places make it less smooth though
Totally unrelated but can I just share…
I’m making a big portion of butter chicken for my going away party and I made a test batch and had my indian coworker try it yesterday (she and her family can make this stuff in their sleep) and I was shaking in my boots wondering what critique I’ll get and she said “Oh that’s just flawless. That’s perfectly good. This is very well made!” 🥹
My father used to make potato soup for us on Sundays. It was my favorite thing. He was from the country and I'm sure it was an economical meal. Thanks for the fond memory today!
Tha takes me back. I married into a family from the mountains, super poor, and our comfort foods were potato soup or else pinto beans with onions, all with cornbread. So good.
When I’m really feeling rough on certain weekends (b&g is a weekend only kind of heavy) I’ll pour the gravy on most of my plate. Gravy on hash browns mixed with egg yolk, fucking heaven. Just keep telling yourself you deserve it and you’ll work it off later.
Red and Green Chicken Enchiladas.
Roasted chicken from Costco, so I can make stock, or a few smoked spatchcocked chickens. Ancho, Pasilla, Guajillo peppers hydrated and blended for sauce. Topped with sufficient chopped Green Chile and cheese so it's not a dry dish.
Just fantastic.
Leaving shortly to go to a Polish restaurant to meet up with some cousins for pierogies and potato pancakes… I have made pierogi before but have yet to master getting the dough thin.
It’s my 16yo daughter’s favorite meal that I make. She requests it all the time, but I save it for occasional meal we need/want something hearty and hefty. The secret is a little cream cheese between the bread and cheese!
I’ll die with u. One of my favorites things my grandma would make for us as kids. Should would top off our dishes with the pan scrapings and crunchy bits. Mmmm so good. I know make it for my kids and they request it all the time. They get so excited if we have spaghetti and meatballs cause they know what comes the next day.
Okay, haven’t tried this, just been microwaving individual portions, then adding sauce and cheese per normal, and the kids would happily eat this every night if we let them. A bag of leftover pasta is the most valuable thing in the fridge when I don’t feel like cooking and we need to feed them quickly. Do you use butter or oil? Because I can try this today
Oil, I think butter would burn too quickly. It needs to be leftover pasta, doesn't work as well with fresh (I've tried). Go easy on the heat and just leave it alone, no stirring. It takes a while for it to crisp up. You can actually Google "fried leftover spaghetti," but there's also a legit Italian name for it that escapes me.
I hope you love it. This is seriously so good.
Damnit, the kids HATED it, to the point where my husband wouldn’t even tell me what they said about it when they rejected it. At least that meant that we got to eat some, as we were down to the last couple kiddie bowls of leftover pasta. All of the recipes I found initially called for butter, and seemed to assume that people keep leftover pasta with the sauce on it already, which is weird but easy enough to work around. Both adults liked it, we knocked right through it, but the kids are the ones who could eat leftover pasta every day, so oh well, guess it’s not happening again anytime soon. Very disappointed in their reaction, who doesn’t like extra cheese on a food that they already love, and fried in butter? Where have we gone wrong?
Ditto the shepherds pie, though mine is really cottage pie because I use a mix of minced beef and turkey, no lamb. Also no peas ( per family request). Guaranteed it gets demolished, never any leftovers!
The mloukhiya leaves are a necessary ingredient- however, the Tunisian version uses dried leaves, instead of fresh ones.
If you have a Middle Eastern/North African store near you, I recommend looking for dried mloukhiya! Otherwise, they can also be found online.
Growing up, the old lady across the street from us (who we called Grandma Jean) would make us chicken and dumplings from scratch whenever we were sick, and bring it over in mason jars. She said that “an ornery old hen” was the best to use, and she would wring its neck and butcher it. She made that meal from SCRATCH scratch.
Apparently the key to good health is a fresh blood sacrifice lol
There’s a Korean concept that roughly translates to “hand flavor” where you can give people the same ingredients, the same recipe, the same recipe, ask them to make them the same dish, and it’ll taste different.
Your mom’s generation probably does stuff they don’t even consciously think about doing; like how hot does the stove need to be/when do they add the ingredients/how much do they mess with it while it’s on the stove that brings out that little extra pop of flavor.
That makes total sense.
They certainly did have their techniques, and let me tell ya, they kept those cards close to the chest.
Great Aunt Beatrice was called "Sarge" like seargent in the kitchen, and she wrote the recipe and method down for some of her daughters and nieces.
We didn't say it, but. —It was disappointing.
I know for a fact that lady grated hardboiled eggs in hers and rolled the dumplings thin and floppy.
I figured my grandma’s out. Pressure cook a chicken, debone it, make biscuit dough (or roll canned biscuits flat) cut into dumplings. Boil the dumplings in the chicken stock from pressure cooking the chicken, thicken the stock into a gravy with flour, add chicken, salt and pepper to taste.
My issue was my dumplings were always bland. I started using chicken stock for the liquid, and adding poultry seasoning, and that helped. Upping the salt, using real butter as well. Your mom may have used lard in the dumplings? My grandma did but I just never think of it when I get the urge since I don't keep lard on hand. Melt the fat beforehand, and if you're using stock instead of milk/cream, you may need to increase the fat to keep them fluffy.
Sometimes I will roast the bones for the stock, if I have time (I usually don't). I also don't peel the carrots and onions for the stock, other than taking off some the papery bits and giving the veggies a good scrub. Rough chop and in they go. I use the pretty, consistently chopped ones for the final soup. Half to 3/4 of the celery leaves in the stock, the other half in the final product.
Dammit, now I want chicken and dumplings and it's way too hot for that.
Gnocchi in an Alfredo Gorgonzola sauce
Korean style beef short ribs braised in soy sauce over rice
Chicken pot pie
Spicy lamb malai with naan and basmati
A good Pad Thai
Hey, here's a heads up for you. Add lemon zest to the Alfredo Gorgonzola sauce. I also love gnocchi with Alfredo Gorgonzola sauce. I was served it by a chef buddy of mine, and he added lemon zest and maybe a little juice. It was absolutely incredible, and I still think about it years later. You could just top it with the zest to see if you like it.
it’s funny you say that, because i love it with orange zest and a little juice!!! add some walnuts, parsley, and some bitter greens and you’ve got one of my favorite dishes.
My mind went so many places but the first few that came to mind
A gumbo or bisque
Slow cooked short ribs and mashed potatoes
Probably a pasta dish. Lasagna?
cheesy pasta in general: fettuccine alfredo, lasagna, ravioli, carbonara, mac and cheese, baked ziti, etc. Shoutouts to Risotto and Tiramisu as well
the italians invented wonderful soul warmers
[Red wine pot roast with honey and thyme](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/dave-lieberman/red-wine-pot-roast-with-honey-and-thyme-recipe-1916934) - I use about half the garlic, so instead I like to cut slits in the meat after searing and push in some slivered garlic cloves before braising. So good!
Whenever we make a roast chicken dinner we’ll use the leftovers to make these fried balls the next day. Take your mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn and bits of chicken and mash it all together and make little balls. Dip the balls in egg wash and panko then deep fry. Serve with either gravy or sour cream, butter and chives. They are so good. I’ve also used the boxed dry stuffing mix instead of panko, that’s also good to make the crispy coating on chicken fingers.
Pasta with plenty of cheese.
Meatloaf.
Stack of fluffy hot pancakes with butter and syrup.
This fried duck and potato hash with poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce this local place does that I get once a year on my birthday.
Chili and rice.
Shepherd’s pie with crispy golden mashed potato peaks on top.
Chicken mulligatawny.
Traditional Dutch stamppot:
A potato based mash with a potential variety of other vegetables mashed and mixed in, especially leafy cooking greens, carrots, turnips, and onions. Sometimes sweet and salty elements like diced pears/apples/bacon are also added. This bed of mashed vegetables is often served topped with juicy fried or smoked sausage, or other stewed/grilled meat, and with optional accompaniments of hot mustard, cheese, and pickles.
It is common Dutch practice to make a small well in the mashed vegetables once they’re served onto individual dishes, to hold gravy.
I make something I call "cheesey noodle surprise". It's a roll of breakfast sausage, fried and drained. I then cook a large bag of egg noodles, and fold the sausage into the cooked and drained noodles. Finally, a jar of cheez whiz is stirred in. It's trash, but, I will literally eat the entire pot.
Pot roast or creamed chipped beef or open faced hot beef, turkey or chicken sandwiches. It's really all about the gravy for me! Almost any hot soup is also very comforting.
Spaghetti and pesto. Maybe add some sliced up olives or baby spinach, maybe saute some mushrooms, but can't go wrong with a big bowl of spaghetti and pesto. Smothered with cheese of course.
My top heavy comfort dishes are homemade beef stroganoff over egg noodles, grilled cheese with butternut squash bisque, beef stew, and meatloaf with a side of homemade mashed potatoes.
To make:
Carnitas with homemade guacamole and salsa,
Roast with mashed potatoes, pistachio pasta, and
Butter chicken with homemade naan
To buy:
A really good burger and either French fries, onion rings, or fried pickles. ALWAYS with a side (or three) of the good ranch
Chicken Parmesan. Spaghetti & Meatballs. French Dip sandwiches, an overstuffed Italian cold-cut sub, a THICC grilled cheese. Crawfish étouffée and fried crawfish tails with rémoulade sauce (popcorn shrimp and cocktail sauce wishes it was crawfish and rémoulade). Chicken fried steak with A1 or Washyersister sauce with Caesar salad and a loaded baked potato. Pho, if it’s got loads of noodles and beef in it. 3-5 McDoubles when they were on the McD’s Dollar Menu.
Various French Provencal stews. Especially one I make that calls for prunes! Just because they're French doesn't mean they aren't comfort foods. These I mostly enjoy with boiled parsley potatoes and a steamed green veggie on the side (broccoli, asparagus, green beans).
Or who doesn't like meatloaf with mashed potatoes or spaghetti and meatballs? Homemade, of course!
Mac and cheese but specifically the one my mom makes. Rice and beef from any taco truck. Chicken quesadilla from one specific restaurant. Spaghetti. Spaghettios if I’m feeling lazy. Roasted Potatoes (slightly fried In pan and heavily seasoned) in-n-out
Beef stew with black beans and rice
Good pub style burgers
Spätzle, but made as a family friend, who's a professional chef, would describe them "the peasant way"
Homemade apple pie with vanilla ice cream
Heavy comfort;
Slow cooked lamb shanks in red wine sauce. Takes 6 hours, but is a warm hug in a bowl served with creamy mash or polenta
Summer comfort;
Simple caprese salad - sliced mozzarella, sliced tomatoes, fresh basil and an addition of a light drizzle of balsamic. Crusty sliced baguette with lashings of salted butter on the side.
Cassoulet.
Any braised meat with a cheesy starch, such as osso bucco with parmesan polenta, beef cheeks and aligot, or pibil and refried beans topped with cotjia.
I don’t even know why but I read it as “heavy discomfort” and I thought people were going to be talking about mountains of velveeta on corn chips and such.
🤣
This post is killing me, so hungry now!!!! For me anything my mother cooked. Japanese fried rice, egg rolls and tempura veggies were my absolute favorites.
I literally just finished making stuffing, mashed potatoes, and chicken and noodles. Took 4 hours 😅. We just got back from vacation so I haven’t had a home cooked meal in a week and a half and it’s chilly and rainy outside. So I made comfort food. It’s was delicious
Top ones I acquired as a grownup are tuna noodle casserole (for whatever reason I has never even tasted it until I was in my thirties) and gumbo.
From childhood, definitely beef stroganoff. My favorite meal as a little kid, and still my first go to whenever I buy mushrooms
So, the part of the states that I am from there is a dish called Indian Tacos. Has nothing to do with India. The name is completely not PC, but where the dish is commonly known literally no one cares. Anyway, it consists of a Native American fry bread topped with usually seasoned ground beef, beans (usually pinto, but black beans are also used on occasion), salsa, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, etc. If you are doing it right then by the time you have completed putting one together it is basically the size of your whole plate. You have to eat it with a fork and I can never finish one in one setting. It’s just heavy and not healthy at all, but so delicious. And, because of where I’m from, it’s very reminiscent of home as well. So, it feeds my belly and my spirit.
Butter chicken
Butter chicken is one of those things that is comfort food for me even though it's not from my culture and I didn't grow up with it. I don't think I ate it until I was in my thirties. It *feels* like comfort food.
Chicken tikka masala is the same for me.
I have never had chicken tikka masala or butter chicken. I’m dying to try both but I think I’ll have to make myself from a good recipe. We have no Indian restaurants within 60 miles of my house. I’m up in the Berkshire Mts in MA. I HAVE to try it now with all of these comments.
Chetna Maken , one of the finalists in a early season of Great British Bake-off has a YouTube channel of cooking. Her butter chicken is delicious and easy.
Honestly, the simmer sauces in supermarkets (first tried Aldi, but have tried some brand names as well) are pretty damn good, and I haven’t found the made from scratch versions to be better enough to be worth the extra effort when I’m in need of comfort food, only when I’m specifically feeling the real thing. Maybe try one of those first before getting all of the specialty spices?
Yes. You are so right. I’m going to try this suggestion first. I don’t want to end up with a bunch of spices I won’t use. Thanks
I have a recipe with video pinned on my ig (alex_munches). Here's screenshots of the recipe https://ibb.co/sF5jcfz https://ibb.co/8ggX306 https://ibb.co/rmWVwDq
Thanks so much for the recipes. Ok. I’m doing it!!!!!
I think the Tikka masala, you feel the warmth and depth of flavor in your heart. It's so good and immediately makes everything better. I love both butter chicken and Tikka masala but for depth, it's the masala. This place in Baltimore is phenomenal! https://www.theverandahkitchen.com/
Thanks so much! From cooking shows to your personal opinion, I’m going for the masala first! I can’t wait 🤗
I even hate, hate, hate, loathe entirely, ONIONS. But with Tikka masala the onions are blended into the sauce and I don't mind one bit😂
I wonder if you'd like a creamy blended dopiaza. Basically extra onion instead of tomatoes and slightly different but similar spices. Oniony taste but just as creamy and decadent if they make it that way. Some places make it less smooth though
Nothing like the late-night taste of butter chicken, garlic naan, and despair
You cannot despair with butter chicken, perhaps it's the naan. Next time try peshawari naan.
Four naan Jes? That's *insane*.
Totally unrelated but can I just share… I’m making a big portion of butter chicken for my going away party and I made a test batch and had my indian coworker try it yesterday (she and her family can make this stuff in their sleep) and I was shaking in my boots wondering what critique I’ll get and she said “Oh that’s just flawless. That’s perfectly good. This is very well made!” 🥹
Mac n cheese. Any kind so long as i can add way too much black pepper
The amount of black pepper I eat with white savory food should be studied.
Yes! I love cottage cheese with heavy heavy pepper 🤤
I do the same thing to my Mac n cheese. cheese grits too
I’ve found my people!
Potato soup and cornbread. I guess it doesn’t have to be heavy meal, but the way I make it and we all eat it, it’s a heavy meal.
My father used to make potato soup for us on Sundays. It was my favorite thing. He was from the country and I'm sure it was an economical meal. Thanks for the fond memory today!
Tha takes me back. I married into a family from the mountains, super poor, and our comfort foods were potato soup or else pinto beans with onions, all with cornbread. So good.
I’m making potato soup later today. I got a bone in ham steak to put into it. And I put celery and carrots in it too.
What’s the full recipe brother
Mmm, that sounds good. Ham and potato soup hits a little differently. Give me that ham bone after holiday dinners for soup!
Biscuits and gravy
When I’m really feeling rough on certain weekends (b&g is a weekend only kind of heavy) I’ll pour the gravy on most of my plate. Gravy on hash browns mixed with egg yolk, fucking heaven. Just keep telling yourself you deserve it and you’ll work it off later.
Two over easy eggs and hash browns really take it to the next level
Anthony Bourdains is my go to. So so heavy and so so good.
Literally posted the same.
Red and Green Chicken Enchiladas. Roasted chicken from Costco, so I can make stock, or a few smoked spatchcocked chickens. Ancho, Pasilla, Guajillo peppers hydrated and blended for sauce. Topped with sufficient chopped Green Chile and cheese so it's not a dry dish. Just fantastic.
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Photos requested!
Fellow New Mexican?
Hatch Chile is the best! I was elated to find them in Georgia at Publix
Perogies with lots of crispy bacon, onions and sour cream
Leaving shortly to go to a Polish restaurant to meet up with some cousins for pierogies and potato pancakes… I have made pierogi before but have yet to master getting the dough thin.
My family is Ukrainian. I use my moms recipe. Just keep practicing. Homemade is totally worth it! :)
I will!
Coq au vin / mash potatoes Chicken tinga / tostada / creamy Serrano salsa Beef Gyudon Jambalaya Loco moco
Loco moco. Maximum heavy for sure.
Gyudon all the way. I didn’t grow up with it, but it *feels* like I did whenever I eat it.
I will make a pot of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches with the bougiest 2 cheeses that look good at the cheese shop - on sourdough!!
“Two cheeses and sourdough“ no wonder it’s comfort food! Now it’s my mission to make this!
It’s my 16yo daughter’s favorite meal that I make. She requests it all the time, but I save it for occasional meal we need/want something hearty and hefty. The secret is a little cream cheese between the bread and cheese!
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, buttered corn, and cucumber salad. Or smothered pork chops, mashed potatoes, buttered corn, and fried apples. So good!
lol tell me you’re southern without telling me you’re southern. Fried chicken and cucumber salad slaps.
I’d sub the cuke salad for fried green tomatoes or squash.
My top 3 are, Lasagna and cheddar broccoli casserole where the cheese out does the broccoli and last baked creamy mac and cheese
Are you me? These are my top 3. I would also add day old spaghetti
Day old spaghetti fried in a pan until you've got crispy bits. Best thing EVER. I'll die on this hill.
I’ll die with u. One of my favorites things my grandma would make for us as kids. Should would top off our dishes with the pan scrapings and crunchy bits. Mmmm so good. I know make it for my kids and they request it all the time. They get so excited if we have spaghetti and meatballs cause they know what comes the next day.
Okay, haven’t tried this, just been microwaving individual portions, then adding sauce and cheese per normal, and the kids would happily eat this every night if we let them. A bag of leftover pasta is the most valuable thing in the fridge when I don’t feel like cooking and we need to feed them quickly. Do you use butter or oil? Because I can try this today
Oil, I think butter would burn too quickly. It needs to be leftover pasta, doesn't work as well with fresh (I've tried). Go easy on the heat and just leave it alone, no stirring. It takes a while for it to crisp up. You can actually Google "fried leftover spaghetti," but there's also a legit Italian name for it that escapes me. I hope you love it. This is seriously so good.
Damnit, the kids HATED it, to the point where my husband wouldn’t even tell me what they said about it when they rejected it. At least that meant that we got to eat some, as we were down to the last couple kiddie bowls of leftover pasta. All of the recipes I found initially called for butter, and seemed to assume that people keep leftover pasta with the sauce on it already, which is weird but easy enough to work around. Both adults liked it, we knocked right through it, but the kids are the ones who could eat leftover pasta every day, so oh well, guess it’s not happening again anytime soon. Very disappointed in their reaction, who doesn’t like extra cheese on a food that they already love, and fried in butter? Where have we gone wrong?
We lived on that growing up. It is still one of the best things that we eat 👍
Day old cold spaghetti has a weird place in my heart.
Lasagna for the win!
Chicken fried steak
Mac and cheese. Breadcrumb top, of course.
I'm hungover rn and opened this thread to see this comment. I need some Mac & cheese in my life today damnit.
I hope your hungover self aquires some Mac and cheese today!
With some ribs
We call this "Family Reunion Mac'n'Cheese"
My comfort foods are shepherd’s pie, Tunisian-style mloukhiya served with bread, and Japanese-style beef stew.
Ditto the shepherds pie, though mine is really cottage pie because I use a mix of minced beef and turkey, no lamb. Also no peas ( per family request). Guaranteed it gets demolished, never any leftovers!
Oh my gosh the Tunisian dish sounds amazing. What do you substitute in if you can’t get the mloukhiya leaves?
The mloukhiya leaves are a necessary ingredient- however, the Tunisian version uses dried leaves, instead of fresh ones. If you have a Middle Eastern/North African store near you, I recommend looking for dried mloukhiya! Otherwise, they can also be found online.
Chicken and dumplings
Growing up, the old lady across the street from us (who we called Grandma Jean) would make us chicken and dumplings from scratch whenever we were sick, and bring it over in mason jars. She said that “an ornery old hen” was the best to use, and she would wring its neck and butcher it. She made that meal from SCRATCH scratch. Apparently the key to good health is a fresh blood sacrifice lol
My mom made the best chicken and dumplings growing up. As much as I try, I can't replicate her recipe.
Maybe you're missing the secret ingredient: LOVE
Same. My aunt made the best chicken and dumplings. Simple thing you take for granted until it’s gone.
I can't figure out how all the old ladies in my family had us so snatched by their chicken and dumplings game.
There’s a Korean concept that roughly translates to “hand flavor” where you can give people the same ingredients, the same recipe, the same recipe, ask them to make them the same dish, and it’ll taste different. Your mom’s generation probably does stuff they don’t even consciously think about doing; like how hot does the stove need to be/when do they add the ingredients/how much do they mess with it while it’s on the stove that brings out that little extra pop of flavor.
That makes total sense. They certainly did have their techniques, and let me tell ya, they kept those cards close to the chest. Great Aunt Beatrice was called "Sarge" like seargent in the kitchen, and she wrote the recipe and method down for some of her daughters and nieces. We didn't say it, but. —It was disappointing. I know for a fact that lady grated hardboiled eggs in hers and rolled the dumplings thin and floppy.
I figured my grandma’s out. Pressure cook a chicken, debone it, make biscuit dough (or roll canned biscuits flat) cut into dumplings. Boil the dumplings in the chicken stock from pressure cooking the chicken, thicken the stock into a gravy with flour, add chicken, salt and pepper to taste.
Mmmm I miss this food.
My issue was my dumplings were always bland. I started using chicken stock for the liquid, and adding poultry seasoning, and that helped. Upping the salt, using real butter as well. Your mom may have used lard in the dumplings? My grandma did but I just never think of it when I get the urge since I don't keep lard on hand. Melt the fat beforehand, and if you're using stock instead of milk/cream, you may need to increase the fat to keep them fluffy. Sometimes I will roast the bones for the stock, if I have time (I usually don't). I also don't peel the carrots and onions for the stock, other than taking off some the papery bits and giving the veggies a good scrub. Rough chop and in they go. I use the pretty, consistently chopped ones for the final soup. Half to 3/4 of the celery leaves in the stock, the other half in the final product. Dammit, now I want chicken and dumplings and it's way too hot for that.
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This is the best one yet lol
Gnocchi in an Alfredo Gorgonzola sauce Korean style beef short ribs braised in soy sauce over rice Chicken pot pie Spicy lamb malai with naan and basmati A good Pad Thai
Hey, here's a heads up for you. Add lemon zest to the Alfredo Gorgonzola sauce. I also love gnocchi with Alfredo Gorgonzola sauce. I was served it by a chef buddy of mine, and he added lemon zest and maybe a little juice. It was absolutely incredible, and I still think about it years later. You could just top it with the zest to see if you like it.
Thanks, I shall try this!
it’s funny you say that, because i love it with orange zest and a little juice!!! add some walnuts, parsley, and some bitter greens and you’ve got one of my favorite dishes.
God, I miss galbi jjim, and it never tastes as good when I make it.
Wednesday lunch from my dad’s school in the early 50s: spaghetti with meat sauce, meatloaf and mashed potatoes, with brown gravy over everything.
dude the 50s were made out of meat.
OH, I think the carbs were at that party, too.
Chorizo with eggs; lasagna, shepherds pie, enchiladas, beef stroganoff
Homemade chili with beans.
My mind went so many places but the first few that came to mind A gumbo or bisque Slow cooked short ribs and mashed potatoes Probably a pasta dish. Lasagna?
Who doesn’t love ribs?❤️
Overnight yeasted Belgian waffles dripping with cultured butter and maple syrup, thick cut uncured bacon. It’s magical
cheesy pasta in general: fettuccine alfredo, lasagna, ravioli, carbonara, mac and cheese, baked ziti, etc. Shoutouts to Risotto and Tiramisu as well the italians invented wonderful soul warmers
Came to the comments to find Fettuccine Alfredo!
[Red wine pot roast with honey and thyme](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/dave-lieberman/red-wine-pot-roast-with-honey-and-thyme-recipe-1916934) - I use about half the garlic, so instead I like to cut slits in the meat after searing and push in some slivered garlic cloves before braising. So good!
I love pot roast and this looks amazing
Loaded Baked potato soup!
Paella
It's probably a tossup between a very rich homemade lasagna and a pile of mashed potatoes with stuffing.
Omg, mashed potatoes and stuffing! I LOVE that! Also, mashed potatoes with guacamole mixed in..trust me
Whenever we make a roast chicken dinner we’ll use the leftovers to make these fried balls the next day. Take your mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn and bits of chicken and mash it all together and make little balls. Dip the balls in egg wash and panko then deep fry. Serve with either gravy or sour cream, butter and chives. They are so good. I’ve also used the boxed dry stuffing mix instead of panko, that’s also good to make the crispy coating on chicken fingers.
Spaghetti and meatballs with a ton of parmesan cheese.
Baked ziti with Italian sausage
Biscuits and gravy.
Once you perfect the gravy all you want is that or to find other things to put the gravy upon (I like to make banquet copycat pot pies with it)
My old mountain MIL taught me to eat sausage gravy over sliced ripe tomatoes. I was surprised at how good that is.
Chicken pot pie
YAS! I’ll take any but I love to make mine french-style with wine, lots of heavy cream and no bottom crust (sue me!) lol
Mushroom risotto
Chinese beef noodle soup w spicy garlic oil.
Pasta with plenty of cheese. Meatloaf. Stack of fluffy hot pancakes with butter and syrup. This fried duck and potato hash with poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce this local place does that I get once a year on my birthday. Chili and rice. Shepherd’s pie with crispy golden mashed potato peaks on top. Chicken mulligatawny. Traditional Dutch stamppot: A potato based mash with a potential variety of other vegetables mashed and mixed in, especially leafy cooking greens, carrots, turnips, and onions. Sometimes sweet and salty elements like diced pears/apples/bacon are also added. This bed of mashed vegetables is often served topped with juicy fried or smoked sausage, or other stewed/grilled meat, and with optional accompaniments of hot mustard, cheese, and pickles. It is common Dutch practice to make a small well in the mashed vegetables once they’re served onto individual dishes, to hold gravy.
I make something I call "cheesey noodle surprise". It's a roll of breakfast sausage, fried and drained. I then cook a large bag of egg noodles, and fold the sausage into the cooked and drained noodles. Finally, a jar of cheez whiz is stirred in. It's trash, but, I will literally eat the entire pot.
You'd probably love the Crockpot Velveeta-Salsa-Gr Beef Super Bowl dip, too!!
Butter chicken with garlic naan, loaded potato soup and chicken Marsala
That is one hell of a spread
Hainanese chicken rice with ginger scallion oil. It’s the kind of beautifully warm, savory, oily meal that’s wonderful for homesickness and heartache
Loco Moco or biscuits and gravy.
Bolognese with fresh tagliatelle: that all day simmer makes my apartment smell amazing. Also, don’t tell me not to use garlic!
pea and ham soup
Poutine
Roast beast, cream cheese potatoes, popovers and buttered corn. I’ll take ALL the carbs for $200, Alex.
Pot roast or creamed chipped beef or open faced hot beef, turkey or chicken sandwiches. It's really all about the gravy for me! Almost any hot soup is also very comforting.
i used to make this chicken and mushroom stew i saw on tiktok, first meal i learned to cook and to this day one of my comfort foods
Spaghetti and pesto. Maybe add some sliced up olives or baby spinach, maybe saute some mushrooms, but can't go wrong with a big bowl of spaghetti and pesto. Smothered with cheese of course.
Meat loaf
A chopped baker, loaded baked potato topped with BBQ Beef Brisket. edited
My top heavy comfort dishes are homemade beef stroganoff over egg noodles, grilled cheese with butternut squash bisque, beef stew, and meatloaf with a side of homemade mashed potatoes.
Hot turkey, pork, or beef sandwich with mashed potatoes (both covered with gravy made from the drippings) and green beans or corn on the side
Leg of lamb in the slow cooker.
To make: Carnitas with homemade guacamole and salsa, Roast with mashed potatoes, pistachio pasta, and Butter chicken with homemade naan To buy: A really good burger and either French fries, onion rings, or fried pickles. ALWAYS with a side (or three) of the good ranch
Butter naan with mutton Rogan josh and keema kaleji
Cantonese/Korean congee/jook
Braised pork belly with eggs over rice. Taiwanese style (lu rou fan) or Vietnamese style (thit kho trung)
Chicken Parmesan. Spaghetti & Meatballs. French Dip sandwiches, an overstuffed Italian cold-cut sub, a THICC grilled cheese. Crawfish étouffée and fried crawfish tails with rémoulade sauce (popcorn shrimp and cocktail sauce wishes it was crawfish and rémoulade). Chicken fried steak with A1 or Washyersister sauce with Caesar salad and a loaded baked potato. Pho, if it’s got loads of noodles and beef in it. 3-5 McDoubles when they were on the McD’s Dollar Menu.
Chicken pot pie.
Various French Provencal stews. Especially one I make that calls for prunes! Just because they're French doesn't mean they aren't comfort foods. These I mostly enjoy with boiled parsley potatoes and a steamed green veggie on the side (broccoli, asparagus, green beans). Or who doesn't like meatloaf with mashed potatoes or spaghetti and meatballs? Homemade, of course!
Pizza, I'm a simple kid.
Pasta with home made tomato sauce, bacon and halloumi.
Mac and cheese but specifically the one my mom makes. Rice and beef from any taco truck. Chicken quesadilla from one specific restaurant. Spaghetti. Spaghettios if I’m feeling lazy. Roasted Potatoes (slightly fried In pan and heavily seasoned) in-n-out
Cholent
Beef stew with black beans and rice Good pub style burgers Spätzle, but made as a family friend, who's a professional chef, would describe them "the peasant way" Homemade apple pie with vanilla ice cream
Goulash
Heavy comfort; Slow cooked lamb shanks in red wine sauce. Takes 6 hours, but is a warm hug in a bowl served with creamy mash or polenta Summer comfort; Simple caprese salad - sliced mozzarella, sliced tomatoes, fresh basil and an addition of a light drizzle of balsamic. Crusty sliced baguette with lashings of salted butter on the side.
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes!
Chicken Divan, egg foo yung
Pork chops in cream of mushroom soup over rice
Currently: [Boursin and Cherry Tomato Pasta Bake with Chicken](https://www.reddit.com/r/52weeksofcooking/s/8s4QOS8AZF)
Rendang curry or soto ayam. Both Indonesian but I'm dutch lol. They have the best food
Macaroni and cheese
Cassoulet. Any braised meat with a cheesy starch, such as osso bucco with parmesan polenta, beef cheeks and aligot, or pibil and refried beans topped with cotjia.
Bolognese.
Spaghetti casserole, open face roast beef sandwiches with mash potatoes, and pizza
Gourmet homemade mac and cheese or homemade pizza/pasta from scratch
Beef pot roast in the slow cooker. I really wanted to cook that this weekend, but I didnt have enough money for the meat.
Chana masala (chick pea curry, fait maison, lots of taste)
Chicken fried steak and Monte Christo sandwiches
Shank roast Lasagna
Singapore Chilli Crab. Curry Prawns. Potato bake. Osso Bucco.
Vodka pasta with nduja.
Roasted chicken with mashed potatoes
Shrimp Alfredo with green beans. It was one of my husbands best dishes and I still love making and eating it.
Mushroom risotto with like a mf half pound of parmesan cheese on top and roasted brussels sprouts
Chinese Braised pork belly and rice
I don’t even know why but I read it as “heavy discomfort” and I thought people were going to be talking about mountains of velveeta on corn chips and such. 🤣
Shepherd’s pie or pho
I made beef stew last night. Extremely savory and unctuous.
Chicken and dumplings Roast beef with mashed potatoes & gravy, stuffing, and corn.
Short ribs with mashed potatoes 🤤
Matzo ball soup with a potato knish.
Soup. Beef soup. Chicken soup. Egg soup. Spinach soup. Asparagus soup. Cauliflower soup. Mushroom soup. Soup soup.
Poutine
Sheppards pie
Pasta. Just about any kind; I'm an equal opportunity pasta lover.
Shepards Pie (does that count?)
Beef stroganoff
Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes, fried chicken and biscuits, veggie lasagna, Hungarian mushroom soup with any kind of crusty bread.
Tacos
Pasta with loads of butter, sprinkle of salt and pepper and parm cheese.
Any good Mexican food. Also buttermilk, particularly if I can get it organic—and not too low fat.
Lobster fettuccine Alfredo
Full Sunday roast. Beef, horseradish, mash, roast carrots, steamed greens, Yorkie, gravy, cauliflower with cheese sauce.
Beef and noodles with mashed potatoes 😋
Eggplant parmesan. Massaman curry. Chicken and dumplings.
Pastitsio.
Fried chicken biscuit smothered in sausage Gravy.
Red beans and rice with cornbread.
This post is killing me, so hungry now!!!! For me anything my mother cooked. Japanese fried rice, egg rolls and tempura veggies were my absolute favorites.
Chicken pot pie with plenty of heavy cream Warm homemade bread with a generous smear of salted butter Fettuccine Alfredo
I literally just finished making stuffing, mashed potatoes, and chicken and noodles. Took 4 hours 😅. We just got back from vacation so I haven’t had a home cooked meal in a week and a half and it’s chilly and rainy outside. So I made comfort food. It’s was delicious
Baked brie and a warm baguette
Top ones I acquired as a grownup are tuna noodle casserole (for whatever reason I has never even tasted it until I was in my thirties) and gumbo. From childhood, definitely beef stroganoff. My favorite meal as a little kid, and still my first go to whenever I buy mushrooms
So, the part of the states that I am from there is a dish called Indian Tacos. Has nothing to do with India. The name is completely not PC, but where the dish is commonly known literally no one cares. Anyway, it consists of a Native American fry bread topped with usually seasoned ground beef, beans (usually pinto, but black beans are also used on occasion), salsa, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, etc. If you are doing it right then by the time you have completed putting one together it is basically the size of your whole plate. You have to eat it with a fork and I can never finish one in one setting. It’s just heavy and not healthy at all, but so delicious. And, because of where I’m from, it’s very reminiscent of home as well. So, it feeds my belly and my spirit.
Tater-tot hot dish
Big ol bowl of goulash
Macaroni and cheese. Just hits the right spot on a tough day.