Red potatoes, chunked and boiled, add cream cheese, salt, butter, stir so they sort of mash a little but stay really chunky, top with shredded cheese and microwave until the cheese is gooey. Stuff into craw.
Crepes. One scoop of flour, an egg, milk until thin, glug of vegetable oil. With butter and maple syrup on top, rolled up.
I haven’t made it in a while, but I make a ramen stew with drained ramen, tuna, cheese, peanut butter, and crushed saltines. I fricking love it, but the idea makes people want to vomit.
Joe
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That’s disgusting. 
Two over easy, bacon and two slices of raisin toast, buttered (yes, I know it’s the same Goly Oly) with mixed fruit jelly. 
Rick Sebek has a new show about breakfast joints. It’s worth seeing because no meal is better than breakfast: http://video.pbs.org/video/1543948477/
Then there is rice porridge.
I’m certainly a New York Jew, and my mother occasionally gave this to me for lunch when I was a kid. I’m part of a Facebook group in which members (all kosher-keeping New York residents, although many grew up elsewhere) post what they’ve made for dinner recently, and someone else in the group posted this within the last few days, so I know I’m not alone. When I was pregnant, this was one of the few foods I could consistently look at.
FWIW, I don’t come from a culture in which people eat much in the way of canned soups, so I find everybody’s abiding love of tomato soup from a can to be kinda strange.
It is a comfort food from nursery school for a lot of us … I did nursery school near the base in Wiesbaden …
Same in the UK. Canned tomato soup with cheese on toast was a ‘go to’ when you were sick.
Every chapter is a treat to read! Like the time they were in the hotel and ordered Milk Toast from room service. Or the church-lady recipes like the multicolored jello salad that, when served, “resembles a helping of stained-glass window.”
The chapter on 50’s patio food is hilarious! I thought I would die laughing when I got to “Flaming Cabbage Head Weenies with Pu-Pu Sauce,” where you stick a can of sterno into the hollowed-out top of a cabbage, then impale Vienna weenies on toothpicks (for dipping) all over the cabbage. The sterno is just for show. 'Posed to replicate authentic Hawaiian-fire-rituals in your own back yard.
Okay. I looked at the picture, and I still don’t know what I was looking at. Is this some kind of smoked fish? If so, please tell me more, as I’m inexplicably fascinated by smoked canned fish.
I still make this. Total yum. Especially if the noodles are still a bit warm.
Western NY Jew checking in.
My childhood favorite is spaghetti carbonara. Egg and bacon as the sauce for the spaghetti. My dad used to make this. Its delicious but extremely unhealthy. My wife finds the idea of it way too rich to eat.
When I was a kid, I used to love Campbell’s chicken noodle soup and Campbell’s Cream of Chicken soup. I’ve eaten it as an adult but it tastes bland to me now.
Mac n’ cheese – homemade preferred, but the stuff in a box will do in a pinch.
Halushki – fried cabbage and onions with potato dumpling noodles
Pagach – bread dough stuffed with mashed potatoes and cheese (and sometimes fried cabbage) rolled thin, baked and slathered in browned butter.
No wonder I can’t lose weight.
Baked cookies. Especially any that are chocolate related, be it with chocolate chips in it or chocolate itself. I remember trekking across the campus in the freezing snow late at night up to the snack hut where they sold freshly baked cookies the size of small plates. To get another one of those warm, sweet cookies to soothe my stress and fill my tummy…Oh, goodness…fans self
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At the risk of sounding precious, my mother’s mashed potatoes. I can make them myself, but it’s never the same.
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Cinnamon toast
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Biscuits & sausage gravy
And now that I think about, my new one (meaning, one acquired in adulthood) is perogies. They can be homemade or frozen, but they must have the bacon, onions and sour cream.
Mine are largely non-western. Interesting.
A Cuban sandwich and some flan will certainly ease my mind. Ditto lamb shish kebabs. If it’s cold outside, nothing will fill the void quite like rogan josh or lamb korma.
And if I’m mad (more likely to happen than being sad/depressed) a definite source of comfort is shrimp cocktail with a kick in the cocktail sauce. That calmed me right the hell down as a kid.
Can I come over for dinner at your place? I love all of those things. Oh man, I don’t think I’ve had brown sugar toast in 15 years. I think I need to go shopping for some white bread tomorrow.
I’ve set a place for you and yours at our table. Come on over!
Fried potato slices. Used to be fried in bacon drippings, until I became a vegetarian. Mmm.
Pancakes made from Bisquick, esp. if hubby makes them and adds a dash or two of vanilla extract. Top with powdered sugar—ommmm.
Curry udon, char kway teoh, Taiwanese spicy beef noodle soup, pasta carbonara… any flavorful noodle dish, really