Let's talk about Comfort Foods! I've had a pretty rough past 2 weeks, so I'm sitting here watching a Lifetime movie and writing while eating a bar of Lindt milk chocolate, thinking about comfort foods and What on Earth Do I Make for Dinner! The chocolate is steadily dwindling...
So what are your favorite comfort foods? Please post as comments, I'd love to hear!
Mine are Boston Baked Brown Bread in a Can (what can I say? I'm from Massachusetts!), pumpkin pie (again a New England thing) and Shipwrecked.
Ever heard of Shipwrecked? If the answer is no, you are missing out on a fantastic comfort food! And it's healthy, depending on how you make it :) It's one of those 1970s recipes; my Mom used to make it for dinner sometimes when I was growing up (along with those Impossible Pies, remember those???). Here is the recipe, it's absolutely perfect for a cold later-winter evening, and the leftovers are even better than the first-servings!
Mom's recipe (no idea where this is from originally) - note, she used meat but I'm a vegetarian so I use Ground Meatless (or as my husband calls it, Feat (for fake meat)!
1 onion
several potatoes (3-4 depending on your casserole dish!)
1-2 cans of drained kidney beans
1 can tomato soup (or 2, depending again on your dish), don't add the water
1/2 lb to 1 lb of Ground Meatless (for the vegetarian version; otherwise use ground beef or turkey)
Use one of those Le Crueset baking dishes or any casserole dish you might have and spray with a little pam, wipe with olive oil, whatever, to grease it a bit.
Preheat oven to 350deg F.
Slice the onion and place it in the bottom of the baking dish. For true Shipwrecked style the onion should be in half-moon type slices, not diced!
Slice the potatoes and put them on top of the onion, then place the kidney beans on top of the potatoes. Throw the Ground Meatless on top of that, then pour a can (or two depending on size of dish) of tomato soup on top of that, sort of haphadardly.
Bake for 1-2 hrs, covered, at 350deg.F! Fun, 1970s style layered dish! Yum!!
5 comments:
Sounds good, might have to try that! One of my favorite comfort dinners is meatloaf, pinto beans, mac & chz and boiled cabbage, my granny used to fix me that....
Oh jeez..I'd forgotten how good that was. I don't think I've had that since my Mom cooked it for us..many moons ago.
Sweet site you have here..your images are beautiful ♥
butterflychic, that sounds yummy - I love boiled cabbage :) We used to have it for St. Patrick's Day in "New England Boiled Dinner'!
sweetwater, thanks so much! :)
Every single month during *that time* I make a HUGE batch (enough to last me the entire 5 days) of Chicken and Dumplings! It takes forever because I hand roll out my own dumplings, but its soooooo worth it!
Oh and I dont share one single bite, its ALL MINE!
lol that sounds awesome - i don't eat meat but my hubby would loooooove that!!!
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