Beef stroganoff – a comfort food for me because it was one of my favorite recipes my mom used to make, and actually one of the first things I learned how to cook. And simple because it’s pretty much the epitome of 1950s convenience cooking. IIRC it came from an old Betty Crocker cookbook, although I’m not sure when it was actually published.
1 lb ground beef
Chopped onion
2 tbsp flour
1 clove chopped garlic
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 can mushrooms
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1 cup sour cream
Brown the meat and onions. Drain. Add the flour, garlic, salt, pepper, and mushrooms. Cook for about 5 min, stirring so it doesn’t burn. Add the soup and simmer for about 10 min. Stir in the sour cream cook until just heated through. Server over cooked egg noodles.
Uncle Ben’s “Bistro” 90-second microwavable rice
egg
small tub of Chicken Quinoa soup (from local grocery deli)
ok ok so the soup already has a whole whack of ingredients that I can’t be arsed to list - anyway, you just heat it up and dump an egg into it (for a bit more nummy thickness) and then dump half of it into half a bowl of the rice (Lemon and Cilantro being my favourite variety) (and yeah yeah a whack of ingredients in just the rice, alone, too) and boom - the most slurpable slop, like, EVA.
(also top with freshly ground black pepper)
ok now I’m gonna go eat that.
One night not too long after Rhiannon8404 and I were first married, we were trying to figure out what to eat one night. We had some canned chili, canned corn and macaroni in the cupboard, and Cheddar cheese in the fridge; fifteen minutes later we had a cheesy gooey feel-good meal. A while later we were facing the same decision, and one of us said “why don’t we make that chili, corn, cheese thing?”
Twenty-five years later, it’s still our go-to comfort food dish.
