Comfort food

Cheese, fruit cake and dark chocolate

Wonderful mashed potatoes with plenty of butter and salt with some grated cheese and a soft boiled egg in the centre.

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In brief:

Jacket potato with a little sea salt and ground black pepper. Knob of butter, grated cheddar cheese, lardons and mushrooms!

For a quicker fix heated tinned rice.

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A nice fresh ? salad. Nah- only joking, beef casserole and dumplings. Interesting that the most calorific foods the most comforting- definite design fault there Mother Nature!

Having sausage and mash tonight. Last night was roast chicken legs with mini roast potatoes carrots and peas. Yum.

Shepherd's pie or stew and dumplings. My mouth is watering at the thought of them.

Lemon Drizzle Cake

We’re having shin of beef in the slow cooker, with carrots, green peppers, onions, garlic, plus Savoy cabbage and mashed potatoes.

Mum's steak and kidney pie mash and Swede sadly not had for a long time?

Steak and kidney pie. Why is it so difficult to get kidney now?Also liver and bacon with brown tomatoey gravy. And mash potato.

Mashed potatoes. With loads butter.
Fried eggs optional.

Food of the gods.
Definitely.

Rice pudding - but not any old rice pudding, and certainly not from a tin. It has to be made to my mother's recipe and made by me (as she is no longer with us).

Hamburger soup (not nearly as gross as it sounds; you brown the mince first and then add it to the soup pot) made using my grandmother's recipe, especially when accompanied by a nice ham sandwich (ham off the bone, not processed ham) with mustard on thick homemade bread made with the bread maker.

This was a standard lunch at my grandparents' place when I was a child. YUM. (Grandma was an outstanding cook. Fortunately we still have many of her recipes.)

Toad in the hole , mash and beans with gravy. Always my choice of meal for my birthday as child (and adult if I was at my mums).
I love a good beef or lamb stew, in the slow cooker. Or a roast , normally pork, with crackling! Yummy. Now I'm very hungry and I'm off to make dinner..... pork chops with mash tatties I think ?

Offal is not very popular with the younger generation according to our butcher. The liver can go in pate but not sure what happens to the unwanted kidneys.

When our children are coming to stay they request their Dad’s liver and bacon but just eat the mashed potatoes, bacon, sausage and onion gravy and we eat the liver!

My Nan used to make mash potato with a soft boiled egg on top for my tea sometimes - I loved it. Also, she used to give me left over Yorkshire pudding with syrup on! I've moved on since then.

I still like leftover mashed potato fried in a little oil with a fried egg on top - easy comfort food.

Oh Callistemon, we had that for tea last night and it was delish! The GC like to make them. Its messy but they eat up every scrap!

‘Food, glorious food ....’ ??

‘Hot sausage and mustard.
While we’re in the mood ... cold jelly and custard’
?

Again, reminds me of that simple but beautiful prayer -

‘Some people have food but no appetite,
Others have appetite but no food.
I have both ... praise the Lord’

(I’m not religious at all but this reminds me to be grateful in life).

Fried egg on toast, and chocolate.

I like egg(s) and chips too but, as I haven't made any proper chips for years, we haven't had that for ages.

Shepherds Pie
Frozen Cod steaks in cheese sauce
Poached egg on toast
Fish finger sarnies. Must be cod and the bread must be white.

No wonder I need to go on a diet.

Carbs in any form, with butter on. And cocoa, with digestive biscuits to dunk.

Funny how mashed potato features so much!

Mine is corned beef mashed potato with a poached egg in the middle.

Had that last night, and it was just perfect.

Corn beef hash with beans on the bottom and grated cheese on the top put in the oven till cheese bubbles and a dollop of brown sauce on it with a hunk of bread Mmmmm