Comfort food - food you DO understand :-)

[Josh Matta]

My favorite comfort food is a bastardize version of poutine we now call "Vermont" poutine

The concept is still fries with cheese and gravy, but we use pulled pork+its gravy and Cabot Alpine cheddar. Greens and colorful veggies? we grow those but they have not place in this concoction.

My second favorite comfort food is any pasta. Homemade mac &cheese is one but I am snob on that one, so many people dont salt the pasta or over cook and its just plain gross then, I also never get the baked it afterwards.......but my favorite pasta is https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cacio-e-pepe

I make that once a month now.

 

[dbostedo]

... my favorite pasta is https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cacio-e-pepe

I've only had it a couple of times... but I've been thinking about trying the Alton Brown recipe after seeing it on his show:

https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/alton-brown/cacio-e-pepe-reloaded-5458695

 

[graham418]

BLT

Nothing like a BLT............unless its a Club Sandwich

 

[graham418]

And there is nothing better than a simple bowl of spaghetti. Not too much sauce. A bit of parm. Maybe throw in some sauteed veggies that are languishing in the fridge.
All I Need.

 

[geepers]

Pretty much ALL of the above. Although a Begg and Acon roll with BBQ sauce is a cracker after an early round of golf or a morning in the bumps. It just has to be made with real bacon and not those thin strips of fat they sell as 'bacon' in Nth America - really, people need to be locked up over that.

On no account should a poutine ever be eaten by anybody anywhere.

 

[Decreed_It]

Costco (Kirkland brand) Meat Lasagna is a fave in our household. Doesn't make it more than a day or two on leftover rotation, and only then if somebody's not at the dinner table the night before for some reason.

 

[Doug Briggs]

...My second favorite comfort food is any pasta. Homemade mac &cheese is one but I am snob on that one, so many people dont salt the pasta or over cook and its just plain gross then, I also never get the baked it afterwards.......but my favorite pasta is https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cacio-e-pepe

I make that once a month now.

I put that one in my recipe book. Yum. Thanks.

 

[Doug Briggs]

Put that on the smoker with some panko breadcrumbs in butter on top for about 45 minutes and you got my attention

Marty got a smoker and I actually know what panko breadcrumbs are so that is a possibility.

What becomes of the outside of the pan when it gets smoked? Should I reserve one specifically for smokin'?

 

[UGASkiDawg]

Marty got a smoker and I actually know what panko breadcrumbs are so that is a possibility.

What becomes of the outside of the pan when it gets smoked? Should I reserve one specifically for smokin'?

I just use the glass casserole dish...it mostly washes off

 

[Scruffy]

I can't come up with just one dish that is my favorite I like em all that's posted above

Tonight, after starving myself for the past few days to prep for a colonoscopy exam, I chose to make French roasted chicken ( it's basically whole small chicken--fryer size, with herbs ( thyme, rosemary) and garlic pushed inside and under the skin, then the chicken is trussed and roasted with onions at a high temp, 425, turned every 20 min. for 60 min. comes out delish and moist), so I guess that's a comfort food for me since that's what I craved after the exam.

 

[Josh Matta]

I've only had it a couple of times... but I've been thinking about trying the Alton Brown recipe after seeing it on his show:

https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/alton-brown/cacio-e-pepe-reloaded-5458695

as long as you follow that or any legit recipe its hard to clump the cheese. I personally dont like the Parmesan and would go with 100 percent Romano I also agree with alton over cooked pasta is awful.....

 

[dbostedo]

On no account should a poutine ever be eaten by anybody anywhere.

Geez... what is wrong with some people? I'd never had poutine before I went to Whistler... I didn't really know what it was and avoided it (I'd heard it described as fries with cottage cheese - which is a terrible, wrong description). Since then I seek it out - I've chosen restaurants on ski trips in New England purely on the basis of whether or not they have poutine.

 

[Doug Briggs]

I just use the glass casserole dish...it mostly washes off

I'll get a glass casserole. The 'mostly' washes off convinced me to dedicate one to the smoker.

 

[VickieH]

If we get a couple of Costco chickens..I could be persuaded to make a pot of Matzo Ball Soup at The Gathering.

I was thinking the whole thread sounded like a good Gathering Potluck.

 

[Doug Briggs]

I was thinking the whole thread sounded like a good Gathering Potluck.

Or a trivia night at Broken Compass after Tuesdays In The Snow feast. They don't serve food so it is a BYOF establishment.

 

[Doug Briggs]

You can't use the acronym for Tuesdays In The Snow?

 

[dbostedo]

^^^^
Ha!! I never knew we had autocorrect on here. T.I.T.S. works, but if you leave out the periods it autocorrects...

 

[Chris Walker]

When I used to travel a lot for business, the only thing I liked about it was sampling regional food specialties. Most of these are readily available everywhere, but somehow seem better when eaten in the regions famous for them. Particularly the first 2. These foods I get:

Texas: Smoked Brisket.

Carolina: Pulled pork.

South: Biscuits and gravy.

Northeast: Chowdah

Southwest: Huevos rancheros

Maryland: Crab cakes

Southern California: Fish tacos

Minnesota: Aebleskiver*

*I guess technically Denmark deserves the credit for this but I've only had it in Minnesota.

 

[geepers]

Geez... what is wrong with some people? I'd never had poutine before I went to Whistler... I didn't really know what it was and avoided it (I'd heard it described as fries with cottage cheese - which is a terrible, wrong description). Since then I seek it out - I've chosen restaurants on ski trips in New England purely on the basis of whether or not they have poutine.

Meanwhile in Australia, far from the snow...


No, me neither!

 

[SKI-3PO]

You can't use the acronym for Tuesdays In The Snow?

^^^^
Ha!! I never knew we had autocorrect on here. T.I.T.S. works, but if you leave out the periods it autocorrects...

https://www.pugski.com/threads/t-i-t-s-tuesdays-in-the-snow.204/page-7#post-13293