Comfort Food

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  • just4Brooks
    just4Brooks Member Posts: 980 Member
    #42
    Great Post
    Is this while being on chemo? My wife would make me omelets stuffed with mushrooms, sausage, onions, and etc… and Apple pie!! Now that I’ve been done with chemo I eat everything in sight and I’m ALWAYS hungry!!!

    Ps... I love gizzards!!
  • Nana b
    Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #43
    just4Brooks said:

    Great Post
    Is this while being on chemo? My wife would make me omelets stuffed with mushrooms, sausage, onions, and etc… and Apple pie!! Now that I’ve been done with chemo I eat everything in sight and I’m ALWAYS hungry!!!

    Ps... I love gizzards!!

    Suggestion for another crock pot meal
    take a roast, throw it in the crock pot, add a can or two of cream of mushroom, add garlic salt and pepper. Cover crock pot, on high for about 6hrs, until the meat just falls apart, make some egg noodles like for stroganoff, and add your meat portion on top of the noodles! Its great with corn as a side, or even on mash potatoes. WON a couple first prize cooking contest with this dish.

    Use the left over to make

    burros

    Or cut a bit of the meat, add to a pan, add tomatoes, onion, green or red peppers, until softened, then add a couple eggs, this is Menchaca, toss in a tortilla, YUM! A bit of salsa!
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    #44
    lisa42 said:

    foods
    When I want dinner, I usually find myself craving salmon fixed about anyway or Mexican food. My mouth is really oversensitive now to spicy food, though, so I get only the mildest Mexican foods I can now. We have a good family owned Mexican restaurant near us and we go there about once a week. I love chicken tacos or fish tacos from Rubios or La Salsa- never get tired of those, although I probably only have them once every few weeks or so, but I do find myself craving them sometimes in the middle of the day.
    I could eat pizza from Pizza Hut once a week if I allowed myself to(some weeks I do!)
    I've never been a mashed potatoes and gravy person, but I love red potatoes chopped up cooked with butter, garlic, parmesean cheese, and lots of oregano, salt and pepper.
    Could eat those every day! I also love chicken breast (no skin) cooked about any way (except not fried- never liked the skin or any kind of coating over the meat).

    For dessert... I love ice cream and I love warm peach pie with vanilla ice cream melting on top. Don't have the pie that often, but I do have ice cream several times a week. This is actually something I'm trying to get better about- not having ice cream as often. It's so hard- the hubby and kids freak out if I come home from the grocery store without ice cream. So it's always there tempting me, calling my name... :)

    Dang, I really want peach
    Dang, I really want peach pie and vanilla ice cream at the moment.
  • PGLGreg
    PGLGreg Member Posts: 731
    #45
    Pizza.
    Any "Take & Bake" will do (Safeway "Signature" is better than Costco brand, IMHO).

    Use a pizza stone and pre-heat it in an oven at 500 deg. for about a half-hour.

    Decorate the Take & Bake pizza to taste with extra mozzarella, sliced raw onion, parmigiano reggiano, etc.

    Reduce heat to 400 deg. and bake two or more pieces for 10 minutes or so.

    Enjoy.
  • CherylHutch
    CherylHutch Member Posts: 1,375 Member
    #46
    WOW! Reading these is appetite inducing!!
    Seriously... while reading all of these, they all sound soooo good and not necessarily hard to do!

    And yes, it does beg the question... the difference between comfort foods while on chemo and comfort foods pre-diagnosis! There can be quite a big difference.

    I'm on chemo now (Xeloda) and I don't know if it's the chemo or the pain meds that are affecting my appetite. Now trust me, I can afford to lose a lot of weight before anyone will need to get concerned . But as far as food goes, no I rarely have an appetite or get hungry at all, so if I eat it's just because I remind myself I still have to eat. Mind you, if you are not hungry, it really is hard to think of what to make or where to go if one is going to eat out because the interest is just not there. I find when I do eat, I haven't lost my sense of taste, it's still there and everything tastes just as good... I just have no real desire to eat anything... hence no desire to make anything.

    Mind you, I'm getting ready to go out, but I did actually make two Banana Cheesecakes to take to a BBQ tomorrow afternoon. I don't mind cooking/baking for others, as long as I'm not too tired. After making the cheesecakes, I realized that that really did tire me out... and then I realized that today and tomorrow are my break days from the chemo. It seems I'm more tired when I get two break days than when I'm on the chemo... but when I'm on the chemo, my feet get worse and worse. Catch 22 situation ;)

    Cheryl
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    #47
    abrub said:

    Fresh chopped chicken livers - yum
    Sautee some onions, the livers (must be fresh), chop in a hard-boiled egg; salt and pepper to taste....

    Every Friday night as an appetizer when I was a kid. I'd bring chopped liver sandwiches to school (grossing out the other kids, but I truly loved them!)

    Big YUM!

    Love Kentucky Fried chicken
    Love Kentucky Fried chicken Livers, they have them in Ohio, but they don't have them here in California, which sucks!!! Oh well. But I love liver, cow, moose, etc.
    Whenever my dad and brothers came home with moose I knew it was liver night, and my mouth would water at the thought of that delicious meat my mother would be cooking. (The heart was the next night).
  • Buzzard
    Buzzard Member Posts: 3,043 Member
    #48
    CherylHutch said:

    WOW! Reading these is appetite inducing!!
    Seriously... while reading all of these, they all sound soooo good and not necessarily hard to do!

    And yes, it does beg the question... the difference between comfort foods while on chemo and comfort foods pre-diagnosis! There can be quite a big difference.

    I'm on chemo now (Xeloda) and I don't know if it's the chemo or the pain meds that are affecting my appetite. Now trust me, I can afford to lose a lot of weight before anyone will need to get concerned . But as far as food goes, no I rarely have an appetite or get hungry at all, so if I eat it's just because I remind myself I still have to eat. Mind you, if you are not hungry, it really is hard to think of what to make or where to go if one is going to eat out because the interest is just not there. I find when I do eat, I haven't lost my sense of taste, it's still there and everything tastes just as good... I just have no real desire to eat anything... hence no desire to make anything.

    Mind you, I'm getting ready to go out, but I did actually make two Banana Cheesecakes to take to a BBQ tomorrow afternoon. I don't mind cooking/baking for others, as long as I'm not too tired. After making the cheesecakes, I realized that that really did tire me out... and then I realized that today and tomorrow are my break days from the chemo. It seems I'm more tired when I get two break days than when I'm on the chemo... but when I'm on the chemo, my feet get worse and worse. Catch 22 situation ;)

    Cheryl

    Love gizzards, and livers, but I've never tried grilled panties
    OOOOO My apologies, it was grilled pannis, sorry never tried that either...But I love all southern foods except for mountain oysters and chicken lips and roasted possum......and sorry no cow tongue either......

    Bon' a petit'
  • just4Brooks
    just4Brooks Member Posts: 980 Member
    #49
    Buzzard said:

    Love gizzards, and livers, but I've never tried grilled panties
    OOOOO My apologies, it was grilled pannis, sorry never tried that either...But I love all southern foods except for mountain oysters and chicken lips and roasted possum......and sorry no cow tongue either......

    Bon' a petit'

    Thanks
    Hey Buzz,

    I laughed so hard. Thank you for being you :o)
  • HollyID
    HollyID Member Posts: 946 Member
    #50
    when I was little,
    my ma used to cook up a batch of REAL mac and cheese. It was the creamiest, cheesiest, most wonderful thing to eat. That stuff they try to pass off in a blue box is GROSS. I need to find a yummy recipe for that. Ma can't remember what she put in it, she never used a recipe in her life. She could throw stuff in a pot and call it dinner and it was always good.
  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    #51
    Buzzard said:

    Love gizzards, and livers, but I've never tried grilled panties
    OOOOO My apologies, it was grilled pannis, sorry never tried that either...But I love all southern foods except for mountain oysters and chicken lips and roasted possum......and sorry no cow tongue either......

    Bon' a petit'

    Ha!
    Ha! Made me laugh. I wonder how many people know what you mean when you reference mountain oysters. *L*

    *hugs*
    Gail
  • herdizziness
    herdizziness Member Posts: 3,624 Member
    #52
    daydreamer110761 said:

    good subject. sort of....
    Glad to see you back around Cheryl! Reading these posts made me hungry!

    Comfort food eh? sounds silly, but one of my favorites is salisbury steak, mashed potatos and corn - one of those nasty, over-salted cheap frozen dinners! I can eat pizza any day, any time, but not from any place! Since I left Philly have only found 2-3 places that makes a good pizza (dominoes and pizza hut are NOT pizza, and they cut round cracker crust style pizza in squares here in MN, yuck). I miss philly cheese steaks and pretzels...

    but wow - haven't heard anyone liking fried bologna in a really long time! and fried spam? YUMMY!

    At McDonalds
    The Ronald McDonalds sells fried spam biscuits, etc., in Hawaii.
  • abrub
    abrub Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #53
    tootsie1 said:

    Ha!
    Ha! Made me laugh. I wonder how many people know what you mean when you reference mountain oysters. *L*

    *hugs*
    Gail

    Loved when the "Mountain Oysters" played music at the camp
    where I was on staff - didn't want to explain THAT to the girls!
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  • Nana b
    Nana b Member Posts: 3,030 Member
    #55
    HollyID said:

    when I was little,
    my ma used to cook up a batch of REAL mac and cheese. It was the creamiest, cheesiest, most wonderful thing to eat. That stuff they try to pass off in a blue box is GROSS. I need to find a yummy recipe for that. Ma can't remember what she put in it, she never used a recipe in her life. She could throw stuff in a pot and call it dinner and it was always good.

    Heard this was good!
    Ingredients

    * 2 tablespoons butter
    * 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
    * 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
    * 2 cups milk
    * 3/4 teaspoon salt
    * 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
    * 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
    * 1 (8 ounce) package elbow macaroni
    * 2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
    * 1 (8 ounce) package processed American cheese, cut into strips

    Directions

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
    2. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Saute onion for 2 minutes. Stir in flour and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in milk, salt, mustard and pepper; cook, stirring frequently, until mixture boils and thickens.
    3. Meanwhile, bring a pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add macaroni and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
    4. To the milk mixture add the Cheddar and American cheeses; stir until cheese melts. Combine macaroni and cheese sauce in a 2 quart baking dish; mix well.
    5. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until hot and bubbly. Let cool 10 minutes before serving.
  • khl8
    khl8 Member Posts: 807
    #56
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