What's Your Comfort Food?

I know that everyone has their own comfort foods, things from our childhood that bring back fond memories of home. I consider myself a pretty good cook, not as good as my mom or my sister, Ellen, but I can hold my own. My family doesn't complain. OK, that's so not true. I have kids, 7 of them, which means there are about 4 meals that I make that everyone likes. Most nights I hear something like:

-"Mo-om, you know I don't like tacos, can I have some cereal?"

-"Lasagna? I hate lasagna!" me-"I thought you liked it." "No, I like spagetti, not lasagna." Hmm, I was pretty sure they were made from the same ingredients.

One thing I've never made, that is one of my favorite comfort foods, is fried chicken. This is big favorite of my siblings. If my mom asks what we want for a birthday dinner, you can almost guarentee that the request will be for fried chicken, potatoes and gravy. For me, it isn't so much the chicken, as it is the gravy. Milk gravy made from fried chicken drippings? Oh, I could drink it! So, I decided to try it on Sunday. I have to say, it came out pretty good. (Normally, my husband would've thought it weird that I took pictures of food I was cooking, but since this blog, he didn't even raise an eyebrow.)

This was very popular with the whole family, (Hunter felt the same as I do about the gravy), but it's pretty labor-intensive and I can't even begin to calculate the fat grams, so I don't think I'll make it often. It did make me think about the foods that I remember fondly. Isn't it funny how different families are? One of my husband's favorite meals as a kid was rice and raisins. I'd never even heard of that! Here are some of mine,

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*Mush (oatmeal) with toast. You have to eat the oatmeal on the toast. (So proud that my kids do that.)

*Grits- my dad, brothers and sons eat them with over-easy, gross, soft yolk eggs. I just add butter.
*El Pato- a recipe my mom got from my aunt. It's spicy and delicious.

*Roast and potatoes and gravy- I got served this only once on my mission and I was in heaven!

*Pasty- another recipe from Aunt Daphne. It's hamburger, potatoes and onions baked in a pie crust, smothered in ketchup.

*Tacos in a flour tortilla with ketchup, there was no salsa when I was growing up.

*Turkey noodle soup, made from the Thanksgiving turkey and homemade noodles, yum.

*Last, but definitely not least, my mom's homemade bread. There is nothing that smells better than walking into her house and smelling fresh bread from the oven. (Sadly, I've never made it.)

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Ok, so now, if you leave me a comment, tell me one (or more) of your comfort foods. (Maybe I'll start a recipe blog so we can share! )