Comfort Food in Denver (2013, home, live)

[denverian]

Moderator Note: Since we don't have a thread on this topic, I thought I'd copy a few recent posts and start a new thread. Have at it folks!

Originally Posted by SkyDog77

No offense, but have you ever left the suburbs? Lack of feel exists in the burbs, but hardly in town. Strip malls? Not so much in the city.

Comfort food: Steuben's
Sushi: so many options it's hard to list them. Sushi Den is nationally acclaimed.

I still don't understand "comfort food". Why would food comfort you? Pot roast and fried chicken?? I would think that type of food would kill you lol!

[SkyDog77]

Originally Posted by denverian

I still don't understand "comfort food". Why would food comfort you? Pot roast and fried chicken?? I would think that type of food would kill you lol!

Not my idea of eating either, but he asked. I rarely eat meat and won't touch anything fried anymore. People call me strange.

He should also check out Tom's Home Cookin.

http://blogs.westword.com/cafesociet...tos.php?page=2

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by denverian

I still don't understand "comfort food". Why would food comfort you? Pot roast and fried chicken?? I would think that type of food would kill you lol!

"Comfort food" to me is Village Inn.
Lots of those around.

[Mike from back east]

As with any discussion, it helps to start with a definition. So if one wants to check that, here's the Wiki on Comfort Food, and there's a lot listed, not sure I agree with it all.

When I think of comfort food, I think meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Or pot roast.

Ted's Montana Grill has both bison meatloaf and bison pot roast, and it hits the spot for my wife's tastes.

Wiki says burgers are comfort food, though I'm not sure I'd agree. And Wild Alaska Salmon as Comfort Food?

Anyway, what is YOUR version of Comfort Food and WHERE do you go to get it.

[davebarnes]

1. "Goulash" - recipe from my wife's mother
2. Green Chile - sometimes Colorado and sometimes New Mexico (never the same)
3. Lasagna - I am not allowed to make as it is "owned by my wife"

Does Rotel + Velveeta count?

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

.... Does Rotel + Velveeta count?

Probably as much as cream cheese and Major Grey's Chutney as a dip with crackers.....

[TigerLily24]

Comfort food for me is breakfast stuff - bacon, pancakes, french toast, eggs... hence my affection for Village Inn.

Also, Doug's Day Diner. Great English muffins.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Mike from back east

As with any discussion, it helps to start with a definition. So if one wants to check that, here's the Wiki on Comfort Food, and there's a lot listed, not sure I agree with it all.

When I think of comfort food, I think meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Or pot roast.

Ted's Montana Grill has both bison meatloaf and bison pot roast, and it hits the spot for my wife's tastes.

Wiki says burgers are comfort food, though I'm not sure I'd agree. And Wild Alaska Salmon as Comfort Food?

Anyway, what is YOUR version of Comfort Food and WHERE do you go to get it.

OK, I get it now! People using food like I use alcohol (I kid, I'm not an alcoholic!)

[livecontent]

If it brings back a memory of time past, a person long forgot or long remembered, a pleasurable event or times of our youth or brings us back to our ethnic identity or even gives hope returning to a time that we perceive as better--then it is a comfort food.

If is a food that we desire that satisfy more our appetite, so fulfilling our taste expectations and we continually crave that food when we are happy or stressed--then it is comfort food.

Comfort food will be different for each and everyone. Our own comfort food can change over our lifetime as we have meet more events and people that are associated with the food we eat. We also will experience a different food that was unknown to us and we identify it as a new comfort food; that new food experience may supplant another comfort food of our past.

Yet, some people in these days of group thinking and a commonality of though, brought out partially by the media, come to believe that a food must be a comfort food because it is expressed as being by the masses. These people, who lack the individual identify of self, will take on that comfort food to satisfy their obsessive need to be part of the perceived larger group desires.

In the opposite sense, a food can be an "uncomfort" food if in consuming it brings back memories that we choose to forget or it is part of social statement of expected behavior. Again there is those who are so susceptible to group thinking will then detest that food because they want to be part of group thought.

So, now that you have listen to my didactic dialogue, I should at least say what is one of my comfort food. My comfort food is a food of my family, my mother, of a time long past. It is a simple minestrone soup, finished with olive oil and grated Pecorino Romano cheese. As I eat it, I season it more with my salty tears of remembrance.

Livecontent

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by livecontent

...My comfort food is a food of my family, my mother, of a time long past. It is a simple minestrone soup, finished with olive oil and grated Pecorino Romano cheese. As I eat it, I season it more with my salty tears of remembrance. Livecontent

BTDT. Memories of Mom's mac and cheese, crabcakes, lemon meringue pie, yellow cake with chocolate ganache icing (leftover icing made into a plate of fudge), and watching her make chicken and dumplings....all these things made from scratch, often using her ancient Mixmaster....60+ years ago.

TGI Friday's used to have a nice mac n cheese but they discontinued it. Shame, it had a nice zing to it.