[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...

[Elaine Koogler]

kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:

>Fried Cream of Wheat Triangles, I loved them!
>I love the Arby's triangles, too - fried extra crispy - which is just about
>done in my opinion.
>Mashed potatoes are my number one comfort food.  I've been eating a lot of
>Jamaican food recently and I've been introduced to boiled, mashed green
>bananas.  These are regular bananas, not plantains, that are very green.
>Cut out of the peels, chunked, boiled in salted water, mashed and served as
>a starch.  Once they start going yellow (like, the day after you bring them
>home green), they have a sweet taste to them that just makes it taste like
>slightly sweet mashed potatoes, which is not what you want.  (When this
>happened to me, I added curry powder which made it work just fine.)  All in
>all though, they are very good with butter and salt, just like spuds.
>So, we'll just say my favorite comfort food is smashed, buttered
>carbohydrates.
>Christianna
>  
>
One of my favorite comfort foods is grits, served with really sharp 
cheddar cheese, butter, salt and pepper.  Others would have to include 
my version of macaroni and cheese (no cheese sauce, more like a 
casserole), Phillip's "SOS"...his mother got the recipe from a Marine 
mess sergeant..., Brunswick stew (from Colonial Williamsburg, Chownings 
Tavern...got the recipe!), and darned near anything made of dark chocolate!

Kiri