Our Next Challenge - comfort food

[kmw]

At the moment we are a sick house hold so comfort food today was soup - Quirky Jo's Chicken & Brown Rice

Rice pudding looks great the only time I've made it do rice needed to be cooked more.

[cookie1]

Our cake/biscuit barrel was empty so I asked DH what comfort food he would like to put in it. His reply was, "the little cakes your Mum used to make, without all the icing and stuff". So here they are. I used this recipe from the forum http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4486.0 and then simply added in a handful of sultanas, mixed   for about 10-15 seconds. The recipe Mum used was similar to this.

[astarra]

Comfort food to me is a nice casserole or stew filled with lots of chunky pieces of meat and veg.   
We are having one tonight but it is all slowcooker so not much good for this challenge.

[Katiej]

Tonight we had INAID's creamy garlic prawn penne, made by DH.
Creamy pasta is great comfort food.  http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=14141.0

Delicious! He added baby spinach to the Thermoserver, like I did last time. Oh and chilli of course!

[Nikkit]

Oh I can add to this - tomorrow - when I have more time to write the recipe.

I'll be back 

[Kimmyh]

Lol Nikkit. Waiting in anticipation.

[EmeraldSue]

I'm the same as Astarra. Tonight we had beef and barley soup that I'd cooked in my pressure cooker which is comfort food, but doesn't fit this challenge, although I did chop the veggies in thermie. I served it with Irish brown breadhttp://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=15509.15#top which was still warm from the oven.
Dessert was weetbix slice with peppermint icing.http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=2061.0

[Kimmyh]

Wow ES. Love the look of the slice.

[droverjess]

My comfort food would be things like:

Savoury
Shepherds pie, stew and mashed potato, both with veg, good soup and fresh bread, roast chicken with all the trimmings especially bread sauce. If in a hurry or on a budget, then beans on buttered toast, baked potato with butter and fillings.

Sweet
Hot puddings such as - Rice pudding, sponge and custard, crumble and custard, Trudy's peaches and custard dessert. Chookies lemon Belgium teacake.

Fresh made cakes and scones for tea time..

Lots of calories equal comfort food, 

[achookwoman]

Although I am happy with my recipe for Naan,  there is a different one in the Melbourne Age.  I will try it for this Challenge as this with a nice curry will be comfort food on this cold Winter day.
Report later

[Nikkit]

I'm back...

Slow roast pork, roasted veges and gravy. I did this the other day and attempted the "slow roast" bit, but I was outside, the power went out and 2 hours later when I realised, the slow roast had to be sped up a bit to get roasted!   

Anyway I am going to have another go at this.

1 piece of meat of choice to be roasted. (I like pork)
2 cans coke
a couple of chillis or to taste
2 teaspoons liquid smoke

Put meat in roasting dish with a lid, pour in coke, liquid smoke and chillis and slow roast on 150 for at least 6 hours. Turn meat over every hour or so. It should end up all browned and falling off the bone. Thicken the juices left in the bottom of the pan for gravy (sweet and spicy and smokey).

You can "pull" it apart with fork and put it in wraps/tortillas with sour cream, salsa, guacamole etc or seve with roasted veges and gravy.
 
Aaaannnnd I just realised this is not a thermy recipe...make the gravy in the thermy! 

[judydawn]

That sounds very interesting Nikkit, it really was going to be a very slow cook roast with no power there for a while    Did the gravy taste anything like coke?

DJ - everything listed in your type of comfort food is right up my alley.

[cookie1]

DJ you are right. High calories=comfort food.
Nikkit that sounds so easy. I will attempt to leave out the power outage. 

[ElleG]

I agree comfort foods tend to be high calorie. Made creamed rice from the recipe forum which was rather nice. Have bookmarked INAID's creamy garlic prawns for the weekend. DH can't eat prawns, but I have some nice salmon to use instead. I think the addition of cream seems to help make foods into comfort foods for us.

[Cornish Cream]

Autumn Traybake.I think it needs a little more work  But will post it if anyone is interested.