What's YOUR Idea of Comfort Food

chocolate, sweets, fritos dipped in cream cheese. Vanilla ice cream swimming in heated chocolate syrup. You know..... healthy things!

I'm glad you live far away. My husband would probably fall in love with you. As it is he is married to me a gringo who happens to make pretty darn good pinto beans and a Shepherd's pie. He's the one who makes the most excellent Spanish Rice. Yum. What a wonderful post. I am drooling.

Collard greens, mashed potatoes, green beans, cornbread, pulled BBQ pork, baked beans, grits,and biscuits..None of which I make myself. I save that for my mom and grandma. Southern Cooking is my idea of comfort food.

Fried chicken, mashed taters, and corn.
Albondigas
Chicken and dumplings

Anything not healthy, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, fried okra, anything that should have a warning label about what it will do to your cholesterol.

Pot roast
My homemade potato soup (kids fav)
Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy
My ex-MIL's Swedish meatballs with gravy
hamburger hotdish (don't know why, but just is)

Chicken Noodle Casserole
Cabbage Stroganoff
Beef Bourguignon
Vegetable Beef Stew
Brunswick Stew
Chili & Cornbread
Chicken & Dumplings
Shepherd's Pie
Homemade Maccaroni & Cheese
Squash Casserole
Green Bean Casserole

I'm wishing it would hurry up and cool off here because I want some comfort food and eating it in 85 degree weather with 90% humidity just doesn't make it taste as good.

*ETA - Forgot to put my one of my favorites on the list - Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread. It's one of my favorite things to make in the fall and something everyone asks me for.

I agree with Nicole P.......thick, hot bowl of soup, full of veggies, red beans, potatoes, lentil, barley....any of that...YUM! Add a slice of Italian bread and I am good to go, especially now that the weather is turning. I'm hispanic too and there are some awesome dishes that just take me back to my childhood. Refried beans being the #1.

i do love creamy food. mashed potatoes with butter, topped with sweet corn and lots of pepper. queso. creamy soups. frosting. ice cream. yogurt. cheesecake. oatmeal. brownies!
:) khairete
S.

my idea of comfort food is all the things my mom used to make frequently when i was little.. my absolute favorites are roast beef&mashed potatoes, chicken parm., ravioli&meatballs, cavatelli&broccoli rabe .. and i cant forget about my dadsbaked crabs with his marinara sauce or garlic&oil

Vegetable, chicken soup - Caldo.. with potatoes, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, onions, garlic and celery

Stew, with lots of potatoes.. Tobasco sauce..

for me my comfort foods are the ones that taste good but with out a lot of effort going into them.

Thick hamburger gravy ( with onions in it) over toast is my favorite!

Yeah, shepard's pie. Tomato soup with grilled cheese and pickles, black eyed peas, rice, mashed potatoes. Bread!! I have this one cold pasta salad recipe, I don't usually like those things, but I looove this one.

It depends on what kind of comfort I need...

Starting to get sick: homemade chicken noodle soup with LOTS of carrots (like 3 times the normal amount) and thick homemade noodles. And a big jug of orange juice on the side.

Worn out from a week of dieting and working: Pizza. Actually, tomato sauce and cheese is good ANYTIME. I crave it constantly and will put it on eggs and veggies at breakfast, on steamed cabbage or zuchinni at lunch/dinner and on pasta when I am feeling "bad" (aka not watching what I eat)

PMS/tired: tirimisu (for that instant caffeine jolt) and/or any other baked goodie

Comfort food for me is stuff that I can eat easily, and tastes good, and is never good for me. :) Creamy soups, mashed potatoes, stuff like that.

Smoked steak, saute`d mushrooms and french fries, or smoked turkey with all the Thanksgiving extras.

Just out of the oven toll house chocolate chip cookies.

Good luck and good eating to you and your family.

Soup. Any hot, thick soup on a cold day is a comfort to me.

I love baked macaroni and cheese made my way from scratch.

Cheesecake and tiramisu are favorite comfort food desserts.

Tamales(beef ONLY no chicken that is an abomination! :P) with carnitas, rice, beans and horchata. Actually now I'm bummed as there is nowhere in my area that I have found that makes great horchata. No, the packaged stuff to me is not comforting. :(

Freshly baked breads

Dressing(aka stuffing)with nuts and cranberries

Chocolate or any chocolate dessert!! Actually dessert isn't worth wasting the calories on if it isn't chocolate.
I love to eat chocolate over any "meal" anytime.

Breads and cheeses! Melted, cold, buttered, smeared, dipped, rolled... Dang! Now I'm hungry!
Sometimes for lunch I'll just put some frozen garlic bread in the oven and dip it ranch.

Mashed potatoes with a lot of butter. Chili. Curry. Stir fry.

Mmmm, tacos, carnitas, caramel ice cream, beans, chorizo, soup with bread.

Popsicles. Slushes.

Mac n cheese and anything chocolate!

Terrible things, like cheeseburgers, and fried things, and of course sweets.

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Or pot roast and mashed potatoes and gravy.

Mmmm....!

Dawn

Kielbasa, fried or baked chicken, BBQ ribs, or meatballs with a side of mashed potatoes, buttered noodles, mac and cheese, or pierogi (I am Polish, can you tell?).

For me, it's meatloaf and baked potatoes. I love that meal! Just had it Sunday!

My mom's meatloaf! Ask anyone in the family and that's what everyone will say! If by chance I can't get any of her meatloaf I guess I would settle for homemade stew and homemade cornbread or biscuits (I would have to be eating it on a cold fall/winter night, in front of a fireplace, in my robe and fluffy socks, with only the crackle of the fire to intrude on my silence)

Dang! Reading all answers made me hungry! Am I only one comforted by asian food? I'm half Korean & the hubby thinks most korean food i eat stinks so i only get it once in awhile but its super comforting to me after a stressful week. Out of respect to his nose i'll eat stuff when he's gone & theres time to air out :)loveme some kimche aka fermented cabbages, hot steamed rice, spam& seaweed. Also loveeeeee ja ja myun a not quite so smelly noodles in brown sauce. I do enjoy grilled cheese & tomato basil soup in winter time too :) and i have a terrible sweet tooth!
Pammy

Tiramisu
Indian food
Grilled cheese & tomato soup
Oreos

Proudpanmomof2, have you tried making horchata? It's actually pretty easy. My daughter made it for her Spanish class at school. :-)

A cup of good tea is my morning 'go to' comfort food. It's a morning ritual that reminds me that all is well and good.

In the afternoon, 'comfort food' might be something like crackers, cheese and anchovy sandwiches. Salty, yummy snack. Seaweed, too. Love the sesame seaweed.

Nighttime, dinnertime comfort foods: veggies left to stew in the slow cooker: sweet potatoes, red peppers, carrots, potato, mandarin oranges and kalamata olives with a little basil and thyme. Heaven!

or a robust red sauce with summer squash, green beans, peppers, flying saucer squash, cooked up spicy with some crusty bread.

Just about any vegetarian or seafood Thai food. mmmm...