Comfort Foods
I'm halfway through my dinner (I'll need to eat something else after, but it started out as dinner) and I realized that it's one of my comfort foods but I never knew it before. So I started thinking about what foods are "comfort foods" to me and why:
Cold applesauce with cinnamon sugar on top (because it's the first food I can remember eating. Some of the other things I remember eating in Germany I may have actually eaten before the memory I have of the applesauce, but this sticks out in my mind as something I ate and felt comforted by and it's had the longest run as a comfort food for me.)
Baked beans and buttered toast (I think I ate this when I was sick/feeling poorly living in Georgia. Possibly I was just sad and it was storming and dark out. For that matter, my memory of the applesauce happened at night, too.)
Cream of tomato soup (note this is not to mean condensed tomato soup made with milk rather than water. I'd stopped being over-fond of tomato soup until I discovered Knorr powdered soup packets and realized that I just wanted a thicker soup. I remember making this in the evenings in Virginia (mostly when it was just me at home) and with sandwiches for lunch on the weekend.)
Tea with honey, pretty much any kind (I got started on drinking it in high school because of Mutti having a kettle and a nice collection of tea, lived on it in college, and got Mom back into drinking it when I went to stay with her for a (much longer than anticipated) while and now it's a way to calm myself and remember those other times.)
Hmm. It would seem most of my comfort foods happen to be things I remember eating at night (in addition to being things I ate in a secure, comfortable environment, but I suppose that part is what makes any food a "comfort food.")
So, what are y'all's comfort foods? Any interesting stories to go with them?
Cold applesauce with cinnamon sugar on top (because it's the first food I can remember eating. Some of the other things I remember eating in Germany I may have actually eaten before the memory I have of the applesauce, but this sticks out in my mind as something I ate and felt comforted by and it's had the longest run as a comfort food for me.)
Baked beans and buttered toast (I think I ate this when I was sick/feeling poorly living in Georgia. Possibly I was just sad and it was storming and dark out. For that matter, my memory of the applesauce happened at night, too.)
Cream of tomato soup (note this is not to mean condensed tomato soup made with milk rather than water. I'd stopped being over-fond of tomato soup until I discovered Knorr powdered soup packets and realized that I just wanted a thicker soup. I remember making this in the evenings in Virginia (mostly when it was just me at home) and with sandwiches for lunch on the weekend.)
Tea with honey, pretty much any kind (I got started on drinking it in high school because of Mutti having a kettle and a nice collection of tea, lived on it in college, and got Mom back into drinking it when I went to stay with her for a (much longer than anticipated) while and now it's a way to calm myself and remember those other times.)
Hmm. It would seem most of my comfort foods happen to be things I remember eating at night (in addition to being things I ate in a secure, comfortable environment, but I suppose that part is what makes any food a "comfort food.")
So, what are y'all's comfort foods? Any interesting stories to go with them?