# Comfort Food Party - What Would You Bring? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766 "2019-06-19T19:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/41 "2019-06-20T11:57:22Z")
How am I the first person, 41 posts in, to suggest mac ‘n’ cheese? WTH? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/42 "2019-06-20T12:15:49Z")
Sliced kielbasa simmered all day in a crockpot with equal amounts of tomato juice and cranberry sauce, served over mashed potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/43 "2019-06-20T12:22:17Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > …mac 'n cheese. > … > [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > …macaroni and cheese… > [@Scribble](#): > > …mac ‘n’ cheese? … Mmmmm. Mac and cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/44 "2019-06-20T12:52:58Z")
For the person who doesn’t cook and still wants to bring something, how about Hostess / Entenmann’s / Tasky Kake products? With a tub of Cool Whip, of course. Root beer floats Caramel corn Clam chowder, new England style Homemade cream of anything soup. Homemade cream of asparagus is so much better than canned. Sourdough bread Cheesy garlic bread Taco dip with tortilla chips (one possible [recipe](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/14651/taco-bake-i/?internalSource=recipe%20hub&referringContentType=Search&clickId=cardslot%2033)) ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/45 "2019-06-20T13:45:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Use ricotta if you prefer, but don’t knock the cottage cheese in it until you’ve tried it. It works. > > I mean it’s lasagna made in a freaking crockpot. We’re not talking high-end authentic Italian cuisine here. Just delicious comfort food Regardless if it’s cooked in a crock pot or in a pan in the oven, cottage cheese is the way to go. My Italian grandma always used cottage cheese and so do I. Ricotta cheese is too dry. Cottage cheese is…cheese. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/46 "2019-06-20T13:51:16Z")
When I think “comfort food” I think hot, one pot, high calorie meals like cheesy casseroles, thick soups and stews, chili, baked creamy pastas, shepherd’s pie, and things of that nature. Not just any old high calorie food. But this thread seems to be about more than that. Maybe my comfort food meter needs calibrated. For whatever reason, this thread reminds me of a potato salad my friend’s mom used to make (presumably she still does, but I’ve only had it once or twice, over a decade ago) that doesn’t use mayonnaise or vinegar but instead has sour cream, cheddar cheese, bacon bits and chives, so it’s like a baked potato salad. It’s really good, probably easy to make, and I can’t believe I haven’t tried making it myself. I’m sure I’ll remedy that soon. Sounds like it would fit right into this potluck the OP is planning. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/47 "2019-06-20T13:55:18Z")
My choices for comfort foods would be: Fried chicken Mashed potatoes topped with butter, salt and corn Pepperoni pizza Brownies with boiled fudge frosting Homemade, warm from the oven white bread with gobs of butter Plain tortilla chips and chili cheese dip Potato chips Hot fudge banana or hot fudge raspberry sundae Dunkin’ eggs (eggs over easy), white toast (homemade bread or English muffin bread) for dunking and really crisp bacon Bisquick pancakes with butter and maple (real or fake) syrup and bacon or sausage that has some syrup on it ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/48 "2019-06-20T14:38:30Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Bisquick sausage balls are salty, cheesy, sausage-y morsels of heaven - and only three ingredients. Many recipes available online, [but here’s the tried and true, super-easy classic.](https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/sausage-balls) Assign it to someone who doesn’t have the time or ability to cook; it’s hard to go wrong with these. Uhm…wow. I need to find an event for these!! 😃 > [@](#): > > The problem I see that you are going to have to watch out for is that “comfort food” tends to occupy a very narrow range of flavors, textures, and colors. Most of the foods are salty and greasy. Quite a few are cheesy, and many are soft. Be sure you go for as much variety as possible - the eggs are good because they offer a little contrast. Likewise, go for a few sweet things and if there are dishes with mandarin oranges or other colorful comfort foods, include them. That’s a very good point! This Easter (when I made the Funeral Potatoes) my mom and I had made a bunch of comfort food things and it was all very heavy and gross. But she also made a green Jello mold, the kind with a layer of Jello-and-cream, with diced pears in it too. You may laugh at the idea of such an old-school dessert (or maybe it was considered “salad” at one time?) but it really, really was a nice palate cleanser to eat with our heavy heavy meal. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/49 "2019-06-20T16:12:25Z")
**CairoCarol** and **ZipperJJ** , I hear ya on the heaviness of the menu. I’ve been thinking about that, too. Personally, I will find it a comfort to have something less weighty in the mix when everything is so weighty! Fresh vegetables and at least one green salad will grace the offerings. I have this visual in my head that all the attendees will take about 1 tablespoon full of each dish and we’ll reenact **CairoCarol** ’s dessert party. :o Oh, well. I think if I make careful assignments, it won’t be _too_ bad. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/50 "2019-06-20T16:14:37Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Mmmmm. Mac and cheese. with some spicy sausage mixed in. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/51 "2019-06-20T16:18:35Z")
(Veggie) chili in a bread bowl. (Veggie) Sammich O’Death: Toasted, buttered salt bagel with (veggie) bacon. If using real bacon, skip the butter and use the bagel insides to soak up the bacon grease. Then hit Mickey D’s for apple pies and caramel sundaes. Or make a real [Chocolate Lasagna](https://foodbabbles.com/pasta-with-poet-in-the-pantry/) with noodles, ricotta cheese and chocolate. NOT with Oreo cookies. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/52 "2019-06-20T16:28:26Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Bisquick pancakes with butter and maple (real or fake) syrup and bacon or sausage that has some syrup on it Please! I’ll go along with you on the cottage cheese issue, but fake maple syrup?!? :eek: Maybe spending time in Vermont and Canada has spoiled me, but I can’t abide the stuff. Yeccch! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/53 "2019-06-21T13:57:37Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Please! I’ll go along with you on the cottage cheese issue, but fake maple syrup?!? :eek: > > Maybe spending time in Vermont and Canada has spoiled me, but I can’t abide the stuff. Yeccch! ☹ I think I’ve only had the real stuff once in my life! So Aunt Jemimah or Log Cabin is fine with me. My dad liked to put dark Karo syrup on his pancakes! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/54 "2019-06-22T01:03:50Z")
An omelette filled with crisp bacon shreds. On a heavily buttered Kaiser roll. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/55 "2019-06-22T05:32:42Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > For comfort and naughty pleasure I would say Chili Cheese Dogs, Biscuits and Sausage Gravy, or Chicken and Noodles… especially if you serve them like some people in Indiana do it… served over mashed potatoes. one of the few things I miss about Indiana is that dish … If you want all kinds of ideas just go to the “taste of home” website … of course, if you want ideas of 50s food just go to [www.midcenturymenu.com](http://www.midcenturymenu.com) just avoid clicking on “the worst” link…its good for laughs tho ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/56 "2019-06-22T17:45:05Z")
A coconut cream pie, made with real coconut milk and real whipped cream. Runner up: banana cream pie. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/57 "2019-06-22T19:05:11Z")
Roast chicken Pb&j on whole wheat Grilled cheese with tomato slices Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. Made with real butter, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/58 "2019-06-22T19:40:15Z")
Great suggestions all. Unfortunately, a lot of them aren’t terribly portable, so won’t really work for a potluck. Great ideas for future comfort meals, though! But there are plenty of great portable ideas here. Thanks to everyone, and particular thanks to **Die Capacitrix** for mentioning items that will accommodate the non-chefs. A few of those will attend, and they will be grateful for the suggestions I can now provide. 🙂 Those sausage balls are going into my regular potluck rotation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/59 "2019-06-22T19:44:52Z")
Has chili been mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766/60 "2019-06-22T19:53:32Z")
I believe it has. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comfort-food-party-what-would-you-bring/835766.md?page=4)