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Hi there and thanks for the follow request, @tinken! Unfortunately there's not enough vibe on your profile to check, so...

What's your favorite comfort food (or foods), and why?

I have two: chicken teriyaki and those frozen chicken pot pies. The both stem from my childhood. I grew up poor—not like "on the street" poor, but "we bought some nice shampoo once, and now we refill the bottle with bulk stuff, so it looks like we can afford nice shampoo" poor.

Anyway, I would get sick and stay home from school, but when I could keep food down again, my mom would spring for $7 chicken teriyaki from this little hole in the wall shop near where we lived, and I still associate it with feeling better.

The 99¢ pot pies were another kind of treat. Since I was a latchkey kid, I made food for myself (whatever was available in the cupboards or freezer). I ate a lot of toaster waffles and skimpy wonderbread sandwiches. But sometimes we'd get those pot pies when they were on sale, and I was (reluctantly) allowed to eat two at a time! So I associate them with being stuffed with a hot meal while I watched cartoons by myself.

Well fuck, this is the first #CAPTCHAlice that made me cry while answering my own question.

Mar 3 at 9:51pmWeb
Show threadSherri W (SyntaxSeed)Mar 3

@alice @tinken I *still* love those pot pies. 😁

I have a crock-pot chicken & dumplings recipe that has the same warm savoury chicken flavour profile that's also a fav comfort food.

Show threadLisa5d ago
@syntaxseed @alice @tinken I would love that recipe if you have it handy. 😋
Show threadSherri W (SyntaxSeed)5d ago

@SaucySwampHag @alice @tinken It's always been a wing-it kind of recipe. But basically:

- Skinless/boneless chicken breasts
- Baby carrots
- Quartered potatoes
- Chicken broth
- garlic, onion powder, basil, poultry seasoning
- 1 can cream o chicken soup

Add all to crockpot. Cook on low 8 hours.

1 hour before serving, remove & shred chicken & add it back in.

1-2 cans Pilsbury country biscuits dough: separate & cut in quarters, add to crockpot sink under liquid. Cook 1 more hour.

Show threadSherri W (SyntaxSeed)5d ago

@SaucySwampHag The biscuit dough puffs up into dumplings while cooking in the hot chicken broth (defrost the tube if frozen).

😁

Show threadLisa5d ago
@syntaxseed thanks! looks yummy and easy peasy! @alice @tinken
Show threadSherri W (SyntaxSeed)5d ago
@SaucySwampHag You're very welcome!
Show threadJoykillMar 3

@alice
Potato kugel with sourcream and crispy lardons.

I don't have any fond childhood memories of this particular dish, nor does it look particularly appetizing, but if done right, I think it's one of the top ways one can have a potato. It's hot, savory, fills you right up and despite that there's never enough. I think that's pretty much the definition of what a comfort food is.

@tinken

Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyMar 4
@joykill @alice @tinken Bake a potato, slice it in half, slather it with chili, topped with cheese and sour cream. The options we get with a singular potato.
Show threadFlipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈Mar 3

@alice @tinken my grandmother was a hoarder. So when we used to go to her house after school (before we were allowed to take the bus on our own) we used to raid her cupboard for these nasty, probably expired, dried "curries" (speech marks added to avoid offending actual curry). Just add water.

They don't make them anymore (it's likely that they hadn't been made for several years before we ate them) and I'm sure that they weren't good for us, but I miss them every day.

Show thread🏴🏳‍⚧🏴‍☠Mar 4

@alice @tinken

mine was 4 wonder bread slices of cinnamon sugar toast

Show threadtinkenMar 4
@alice 1. a bowl of cereal. 2. the bowl of cereal i make with the milk from the first. it makes me happy
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyMar 4
@alice @tinken You just described thousands of childhoods livelihoods. Myself included.
Show threadNateMar 4

@alice

Awww. I too, have a fondness for chicken pot pies!
Partially for the same reason, and also because they were 1 of the first foods I could eat again after my stomach stopped trying to kill me. (TY Dr Heap)

KFC CHICKEN POT PIE. (Homer noises)

@tinken

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