The Pleasure of Comfort Food
"Comfort food is about nostalgia. It's familiarity. It isn't complicated and there's no need for perfection. It's about knowing your audience and cooking to their tastes - including your own.
It's the food you go back to after a stressful day when you need a little pick-me-up. It's the meal your friends bring you when you're sick, or that you make to share with someone you love. It's a gesture. An open hand offered in times of pain or sadness or just a bad day at work.
It should be something that brings back memories. Something that makes you smile, whether it be pure joy or bittersweet. We all have those moments where we find a taste or a scent that transports us. Many of us know what it's like to frantically search for an old family recipe, desperate to know how the old folks made a certain such-and-such because you just can't get it right.
That's one of those shared experiences that many of us have. That we can commiserate about, that we can write down and think back on and get emotional as we think about that time that we finally figured it out.
It doesn't need to be your own cooking, either. Maybe it's from a restaurant from your hometown that you rarely ever get to visit. Maybe it's a dish from cultural heritage that you crave when you travel away. Or just something you ate once, and you fell in love."
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β¨Takeaway: It's all about nostalgia and memories with comfort food. It has to do with consolation. There is no requirement for perfection, and it isn't difficult. When you need a little pick-me-up after a trying day, this is the food that you turn to.
β¨Reflection: What is your comfort food?
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@innateJoy9602 - You always make such lovely posts. Thank you. :)
Hmm. I am a southerner, so I love a lot of southern comfort foods. For a while now, I have been addicted to eating homemade soup. The soup that we make is pretty basic, but it's delicious. It has carrots, cabbage, potatoes, and ramen noodles. Today we cooked a turkey to add to it, and it's so good! I also like to add some pickled jalapenos in there for some extra kick.
@L1ly0ftheValley
I also a southerner! :)
Soup is one of my go-to's in my culture we have a sort of meatball soup with tons of veggies!
That soup sounds delicious! Appreciate you Lily πππ«
@innateJoy9602 - I appreciate you too. :)
Also, meatballs in soup I have never tried that, but I should. Thanks for mentioning that.
@L1ly0ftheValley
Sounds amazing
@Talisman88 - Thanks, it's really good soup. :)
@innateJoy9602
My heart most likely is Pizzzaaa-shaped! ππ
How about youuuuu?π
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou - I love cheese pizza. I like it so hot that the cheese just drips off the edges. :P
@L1ly0ftheValley *Sameeeee* π₯°
@Sunisshiningandsoareyou
Pizza is always so nice and easy!!
Mine would be soup! ππ«
Ahhhhaaa comfort food sure is a soul soother. You have described it so perfectly... Filled me with emotions of such an intense kind.
ο»ΏMy comfort food is boiled rice and tomato curry.
My comfort food are sugar donuts. It's really a nostalgic thing. I remember when I was a little kid, donuts were too big and they'd get sugar all over my face. So I remember flattening it between two phone books so I can eat it. Kinda silly but I always think about those simpler times when I see sugar donuts.
@rose987654321
You were basically packing all the sugar together. Love it
@innateJoy9602 Chicken burger maybe. I usually avoid junk foods. But when I am craving for it, chicken burger is usually the first thing that comes to mind.
@DonaldDraper
I love a good chicken burger!
I am jealous that you have that self-control to avoid junk food :P π
@innateJoy9602 a minute on the lips and lifetime on the hips :p
Haha. I agree that junk food temptation is real and it is the most common one too. It does need some practice to be kept at bay. Wishing you the best π§‘
Hmm, well to be honest; some of the comfort foods I think of aren't that healthy like those cheap ramens you can get just about anywhere. I don't eat them that often though.
I don't mind them, but its mainly because they remind me of my mom who passed away some years ago now. She used to eat them a lot and so I feel like I'm connecting with her when I eat one or something like that.
