[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...

[Jim Davis]

I'm afraid my cold weather comfort food seems awfully plebian in this  
company.

Good old Campbell's Tomato Soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.  Best  
on a night of thunderstorms and blowing winds.

(Yes, I really am from the South).  Of course, then there's fried egg  
samwiches (has to be pronounced that way, per my father), sometimes  
with fried bologna (not in my house) or ham stuck in the middle.

Cornbread (with a -little- sugar) -- lots of butter.  Or, start  
several loaves of homemade "Jared" bread (my own cobbled-together  
recipe) and leave them on the stove to rise, then the baking smell  
FILLS the house.

Chicken and dumplings!  Yum! -- that's probably my closest to the  
"throw it in the pot to simmer" favorite, although Selene made some  
amazing Refrigerator or "Mustgo" soups over the years.

(Why in heaven's name do I find myself thinking of Nannie's black- 
eyes peas and hamhocks?  Probably because she always served fresh  
cornbread with it.)

Fresh, homemade chocolate chip cookies.

Jared
Getting hungry now, darn it.


On Dec 2, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Okay, so with the newest batch of snow moving in this morning, it's  
> pretty
> unlikely that I'll be getting out of town this weekend to an event  
> I was
> hoping to attend.  So I've been thinking....hmmm...great weekend to  
> stay
> home and sew (I desperately need garb), but I'd *love* to put a pot  
> of "x"
> on the stove to simmer, or in the oven to roast, or whatever.
> What are everyone's favorite dishes for this sort of weather? I  
> don't mean
> the fancy holiday treats, or the quick-nuke in the micro sweet  
> potatoes, but
> the slow-cooked, hearty stuff? I'm casting about for ideas.....
> --Maire, definitely in the mood for comfort food.....
>
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