daily discussion post: comfort food

[dine]

I had a bad couple of weeks lately (things just finally got to me, and I was depressed and out of can) though happily things have brightened for me. when in the doldrums, I found myself frequently fixing things to eat that were "comfort foods" from childhood - hot cocoa, clam chowder, mashed potatoes, toast with lots of butter & marmalade or jam.

what about you? what are the things that a parent or loved relative/neighbor made that was comfort food for you? do you still eat it, and can it taste as good when you prepare it yourself? for example, there's no way I can make gravy half as good as my mom's was - but I still love mashed potatoes with butter & gravy (even if it's inferior to my memories).

Comments

[tielan]

Your mother's ramen sounds like my (Chinese-immigrated-to-Australia) mum's "instant noodles": ramen noodles (she called them 'instant noodles', and I think the name for them over here is "2-minute noodles"), matchsticks of SPAM(tm), and a few lettuce leaves.

[annofowlshire]

My mother moved to Hawaii after my parents split, so that’s when SPAM became more of a staple, at least when I was visiting her. She ran a corner shop in Honolulu for 20-something years and fed the neighbourhood their breakfast with her trays upon trays of SPAM musubi—she’d be sold out by 9AM XD

In the US, we had Top Ramen and another brand name that now escapes me, which is probably why she called it ramen rather than by a Korean equivalent.