I may try sheperd's pie. I've always liked it, and it's a change from meatloaf or burgers.

Prepare it like meatballs, make a little marinara sauce on the side, flatten them into burgers and then BBQ it as you would burgers and melt some mozzarella on them. Pizza Burgers!

Canned?

I was waiting for that one. Right on time DC

Home Made Chicken Parmigiana

You choked the chicken yourself?

Yeah, you gotta pay to have someone else do it

Woogie: "You do flog the dolphin before a big date, don't you?"

Big Date? you mean like December 31st......

No, that's from THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY.

Woogie advising Ted on the benefits of self gratification before a big date.

I know where its from, I was insinuating that dates with "big" numbers in them were the only dates you went on

OOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Now I'm going to get my popcorn and a beer!

Add this to the popcorn and beer:

You guys have never truly eaten until you try eating a human.

Does dessert with the opposite sex count?

As long as you "eat them out"...



(PS. Sorry to others.)

oooohhhhh Capo!

Well, sorry to you as well, then!

No need to apologize to me! I started it! You just went a bit more into detail!

It's the ladies on here that I don't like to disrespect and am afraid of offending. But I've been called old fashioned many times.

Well, I had taken out some meatballs & sausage in sauce I made about a month ago and had that for dinner... its my most familiar comfort food since i've been eating it as far back as I can remember, and for every single sunday since... the old school italians would eat it on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday (if it got that far) then they would make it again on sunday... i tend to make it on a sunday, freeze most of it and a few hours of cooking will last me a month or 2 depending on my appetite and/or how busy I am those weeks... since I am single, it goes further

For those of you who watch FoodTV, Bobby Flay's Throwdown was the meatball throwdown... while there are a million different ways, seems like most agree, parsley, and veal, pork, beef and bread crumbs, fresh or store bought are a must.

As for german food, i've had authentic... my ex-gfriend was born in germany, so i have had the sauerbraten (spelling?) and any real, authentic homemade food is good, but the only way i can draw a parallel is the "white wine with fish, red wine with meat" theory -- its not true, the wine should compliment the food, if you dont like white wine, no matter how expensive or good it is, its never going to compliment the food, so i choose a lighter red. Same thing with food... if you don't like it, no matter how good it is, you don't like it, you may find some dishes better and more tolerable than others, but it will never be something you love like comfort food.

Germans will find german food great comfort food, but italian's won't. So, that being said, who cares to name their "alternate" comfort food? It CANNOT be an ethnic food, so what would it be?

For me, it would be poached eggs on toast... my aunt would make it for me as a child for lunch and slice it up into squares on white toast, definitely not italian but it always takes me back... that, and i guess my mother's meatloaf... (among many) but those would be the non-italian ones... If its fast food, i'd like Roy Rogers again, last one i was in was in NYC years ago, but the problem with fast food is they constantly change ingredients for greater profit and suppliment it by adding more salt, so even that is hard to "re-visit" these days....

Toad in the Hole for dinner tonight!

Is that what you get when you spread frog legs?

Hmmmm.nice

Now you're talking!

I haven't made that in close to ten years. I had a weakness for it with lots of caper sauce made with beef stock and malt vinegar (among other things). Because of the varying palates of some of our friends, we even came up with a vegetarian variation that was actually quite enjoyable.

Often times specific foods conjure up lots of memories...

Dinner late last night was another one of my Asian noodle-house concoctions. I had been to the local Chinese market the other day and got some baby bok choy, rice noodles, bean sprouts, mushrooms and shrimp. Cooked up everything with some broth and spices and called it dinner. Or supper. Or breakfast. Or whatever...

Tonight, who can say? Perhaps I'll get inspiration from some of the (very) many cooking/food/travel shows on PBS or cable - though I think I'll draw the line at stuff like skewered chicken intestines. Leave that to the Zimmerns and Bourdains of the world.

Or, maybe I'll open a can of Spaghetti-O's.

Signor V.

Well, I made sheperd's pie last night. For a first attempt, it was pretty good. I peeled and boiled my potatoes, then mashed them with butter and milk, and put them aside. I sauteed some onion, celery and carrots, then added the ground beef. I cooked it until it was browned, and then added some green beans, beef broth and a little flour to thicken it. I put it all in a pyrex dish, covered it with the mashed potatoes and baked it for about half an hour. The potatoes wouldn't brown, so I had to put it under the broiler for a couple of minutes, and then they crisped up nicely.

JR, the best comfort food for me is macaroni and cheese. It's my favorite. Although I prefer home-made, I even love that gross Kraft stuff in the box. My husband can't tolerate it, so that's a "treat" that the girls and I will indulge in when he's not going to be home for dinner.

I dunno - why don't you ask Miss Piggy?

(Probably still tastes like chicken...)

Signor V.

Sounds interesting, but I've never heard of it. How do you make it?

Went to Ponderosa Steakhouse I hate that place.