What Meal Reminds You of Home?

[AutumnMist]

Mine is grilled london broil with my moms famous potatoes and a salad with homemade ranch dressing. To this day when I go home and visit my mother makes it for me. :) I am kind of homesick today so I thought I would post this thread. What is your comfort food from childhood/home?

[Broken_Hero]

1. sweat and sour

beef, with pineapple, and white rice...also, peanut butter/chocolate fudge...:) Oh, and BBQ Snacks...:P

on edit:sweet and sour beef, not sweet and sour beer...:P

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Shepard's Pie

My mom makes the best home made mashed potatoes in the world and she uses them in this dish. Every time I go down to visit her, it's one of the first things she will make for me...good times!

I've made it a few times myself and while it is good, nothing beats mom's home cooking where the secret ingredient is love :P

[Fox Mulder]

3. My mom's stuffing.

:9

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Wow, so many

Tuna Casserole
Chicken and Dumplings
Spaghetti

[Phentex]

5. Pasta prepared in many ways

Italians....

[evlbstrd]

6. Roast turkey

stuffed with a dish towel. Yup, Mom actually did that.

[Broken_Hero]

9. with a dish towel

on purpose?? :)

[evlbstrd]

11. To be fair, not on purpose.

She did wonder what happened to it, until we carved the bird. She was on pain medications and wine.

[Broken_Hero]

13. Well...:)

Kitchen misshaps happen...here is one I will share with you...:)

My wifes friend Katrina is cooking pizza and she puts the pizza in the oven, and her dryer goes off, so she goes to go take clothes out of the dryer(leaving oven door open). Meanwhile her cat crawled into the oven and was eating the toppings off the pizza....

A couple minutes later, Katrina goes back into the kitchen, and shuts the oven door, and turns the heat on(she didnt' preheat)...about two minutes later...

"ADF(*EFWUE(WFDSIKJFSDIFJDSIFJSDIKJFDSIKJFSDOFK" Cat screeming its ass off....Katrina opens the oven door, and whammo...Slippers(name of cat) shoots out of the oven like a cruise missle, and runs in circles, her fur was singed badly...

Long, story short...cat is fine, hates Katrina...:)

[evlbstrd]

14. That's hysterical!

Thank god it wasn't a microwave pizza.

[KamaAina]

25. Yum! Sounds almost as good as Mom's Ajax Chili (TM)!

Chili is cooking in pot on stove. Pan is soaking on stove, full of Ajax water. Mom picks up Ajax pan, promptly sloshes contents into chili. Chlorine joins coriander, cumin, etc. among flavorings. :puke:

We tried really, really hard to salvage that. An entire package of ground beef (this was the late '70s or maybe '80, when it was nerarly a luxury, especially for single Mom) went down the chute.

[erinlough]

7. Stuffed peppers in tomato gravy over potatoes and

corn on the cob, slathered in butter. All the produce from our garden goes into that and it is the best.

[mad-mommy]

29. that would be one of my fav's from home too

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Gruel and bitter tea.

I grew up in an orphanage. :(

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. Turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce,

and pumpkin pie. :9

[Rowdyboy]

31. Only thing I'd change is to replace the pumpkin pie with pecan.....

But then my mom made a KILLER pecan pie, along with most everything else.

Still, her cornbread dressing was flawless. I'm SOOO glad my baby brother can replicate it.

[NewWaveChick1981]

36. Sounds like my mom!

She doesn't make many pecan pies these days, but she's made some great ones in the past. :) In fact, she made those with pecans from my grandmother's farm, and they were the best... :9

[xmas74]

12. Cheesy meatloaf,

pasties.

[huskerlaw]

15. Grilled Nebraska steak

sliced potatoes on the grill, fresh-from-the-garden green beans.

Omg, now I'm hungry.

[pscot]

16. Spam

But I'd rather not talk about it.

[Zomby Woof]

17. Chicken and Dumplings!

:9

[u4ic]

18. My mother made

the best gravy. Roast beef, chicken, turkey...I miss her gravy most of all.

Overcooked veggies make me think of her, too. :rofl:

Holubchi and pierohi (that's cabbage rolls and pierogies to the uninitiated). :-)

[Ariana Celeste]

19. Gramma's potato salad and Mama's potato soup.

I :heart: potatoes.

[alittlelark]

20. Green Chili Stew.

[Karenca]

21. kosher baloney sandwich with mustard on

round packaged white bread, no crust----cut into four pieces.

wise potato chips

sour pickle

chocolate milk made with nestle's quik



yuck

:puke:

[yellowdogintexas]

22. a big Southern Vegetable Dinner from summer garden produce

corn on cob
fresh real tomatoes
cucumbers marinated in vinegar
green beans slow cooked
yellow crookneck squash
my mom's most excellent cornbread
maybe a macaroni and cheese, maybe not
gallons of sweet iced tea
and a bodacious pie of some kind..if it was high summer most likely a peach cobbler.


when I lived in Massachusetts, this was the meal I craved most.

Second would be a big mess of turnip greens w/cornbread

OR a big plate of Great Northern Beans cooked with ham or bacon, cornbread, sweet tea, and some of my grandmother's hot green tomato relish...

[martymar64]

23. Biscuits with Bacon Gravy

Mmmmm!!!!!

[Floogeldy]

24. As far as I know, the meal to which you refer . . .

. . . has never been available outside of my mother's home:

Meatloaf sandwich.

:-(

[LadyoftheRabbits]

26. I'd have to say

Any holiday dinner with my mother's (rather) famous braided chala bread.

[njdemocrat106]

27. Turkey with all the trimmin's

The smell of the house on Thanksgiving has to be one of my favorite smells, too.

[reyd reid reed]

28. Garbage Can Special

Which was what my mother called Shepherd's Pie.

And what I call it. I like to make it when the kids have friends over:
"Would you like to stay for dinner?"

"Yeah. That'd be good. What're we having."

"Garbage Can Special."

Two beats of silence and then.

"I forgot. My mom said I have to clean my room/wash the windows/do my homework/pick up the dog poop in the back yard."

"Oh, well maybe some other time."

"Yeah. Ummmmm...sure."

:rofl:

[Nicole]

30. Chicken and dumplings

with blackberry cobbler & vanilla ice cream for dessert.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. Cheezit Casserole

My cousin made it once for Thanksgiving. Got the recipe off the box. It was the fucking grossest thing ever. Now, she just makes a nacho platter. Her layered dip is awesome, so we can forgive her for the cheezit casserole.

[China_cat]

33. Vegetable soup and crusty bread.

I've got a pot on right now.

[1gobluedem]

34. Spaghetti

My mother makes her own sauce and let it simmer for about 10 hours. She'd start it after went went to bed and we'd wake up the next morning to that rich aroma and be excited because we knew we were going to have spaghetti that night!

One of my favorite memories.

[crim son]

35. Roast lamb with vinegar/mint sauce,

buttery mashed potatoes and peas. I can't roast meat, maybe because I refuse to spend the money required to buy a good cut. Mom, I wish you lived next door! Okay, not really

[MissMillie]

37. Homemade soup - usually chicken or turkey

My folks would make the soup and then lay out the table w/ all the fixings to make your own sandwich.

Not fancy by any means, but my folks were particularly good w/ soup.

[querelle]

38. Reservations

My mom was not the most gifted cook.

Q

[cobalt1999]

39. Yes! Someone else suffered growing up!

What reminds me of home cooking? Overcooked and dried up steak, chicken, turkey. Vegetables that came from a can and boiled forever. Any meal that makes me want to go out on the dock and feed the fish with it, reminds me of my childhood.

I couldn't wait to get my drivers license and a job so I could get my own food.