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tiamatladytoast acquired. I DID have cinnamon sugar, and it was yummy. I'd even consider more toast but I'm going to have soup later so I'll save bread for that. The tea is ok, teh Unit doesn't buy Tetley, and I don't have any, which I need to correct. So I've settle for Salada, although any black tea would have done (Salada is an orange pekoe if memory serves. but it's been ages, so *shrugs*) I can taste a difference but hey, it's mental. I also have myself a big glass of pink grapefruit juice.
So that all said, talk to me about comfort foods. Here, I'll start:
- tea, weak made with milk and sugar, to the color of iced coffee, with cream.
- white toast, soaked with butter, and cinnamon and sugar ("back in the day" you didn't buy it in the store, your grandmother would "make it" in one of her collection of shakers, pouring some secret ratio that always worked out just right.)
- Cream of Chicken soup over rice (I believe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zelda_eckleberg called this "Welfare food." *grins* You make the soup with less water so it's thinker like a gravy. Honestly, Cream of Chicken was a staple, it went with rice, it went as a sauce, used to cook chicken breasts in one of those electric pans. You know, it's a wonder I eat ANYTHING with spice!)
- eggs as dinner (sometimes we had breakfast for dinner. Actually, egg and bacon sandwiches on Wonder white at any time that WASN'T breakfast.)
Ok, try not to gag, remember, I lived with Old People, these were my great grandparents, and they remembered being "poor" and having nothing. I think this is where my hoarding habits come in - she was always looking for other uses for things, so as not to waste it.
- Spam. Not with Vikings. Either fried, or cubed and fried, with eggs. Again, as dinner. Somewhere around my early teens, she got the hang on scrambled eggs with cubed Spam and cheese. It's why egg scrambles at say IHOP doesn't work so well for me - it's actual HAM in there *grins* The one thing is that _I_ cannot handle Spam. The jelly GROSSES ME OUT! *gags*
- Also anything boiled, and/or mashed. Apparently our family is freaky since we mashed carrots. And no, not with nutmeg or nuts or stuff. Mashed, maybe with some butter. My aunt once told me, disgustedly, "Your uncle will NOT EAT whole cooked carrots. I've NEVER mashed carrots and I had to have your grandmother teach me. Now I have to make whole carrots AND mashed carrots, for your uncle." I nearly PEED myself laughing. I never thought anything of it, and love carrots so I eat them in any form. But walking into someone else's house at the holidays is really creepy for me. "Why are there lumps in your cranberry sauce? What do you MEAN there are cranberries in it?" and "Where are the mashed carrots?" *grins* And goddess help me if there's no chocolate cream pie. And not a COOKED one either, skin = nasty! *grins again*
OK, so tell me what are YOUR comfort foods? What do you want when you're sick, and where did the habit come from?
So that all said, talk to me about comfort foods. Here, I'll start:
- tea, weak made with milk and sugar, to the color of iced coffee, with cream.
- white toast, soaked with butter, and cinnamon and sugar ("back in the day" you didn't buy it in the store, your grandmother would "make it" in one of her collection of shakers, pouring some secret ratio that always worked out just right.)
- Cream of Chicken soup over rice (I believe
zelda_eckleberg called this "Welfare food." *grins* You make the soup with less water so it's thinker like a gravy. Honestly, Cream of Chicken was a staple, it went with rice, it went as a sauce, used to cook chicken breasts in one of those electric pans. You know, it's a wonder I eat ANYTHING with spice!)- eggs as dinner (sometimes we had breakfast for dinner. Actually, egg and bacon sandwiches on Wonder white at any time that WASN'T breakfast.)
Ok, try not to gag, remember, I lived with Old People, these were my great grandparents, and they remembered being "poor" and having nothing. I think this is where my hoarding habits come in - she was always looking for other uses for things, so as not to waste it.
- Spam. Not with Vikings. Either fried, or cubed and fried, with eggs. Again, as dinner. Somewhere around my early teens, she got the hang on scrambled eggs with cubed Spam and cheese. It's why egg scrambles at say IHOP doesn't work so well for me - it's actual HAM in there *grins* The one thing is that _I_ cannot handle Spam. The jelly GROSSES ME OUT! *gags*
- Also anything boiled, and/or mashed. Apparently our family is freaky since we mashed carrots. And no, not with nutmeg or nuts or stuff. Mashed, maybe with some butter. My aunt once told me, disgustedly, "Your uncle will NOT EAT whole cooked carrots. I've NEVER mashed carrots and I had to have your grandmother teach me. Now I have to make whole carrots AND mashed carrots, for your uncle." I nearly PEED myself laughing. I never thought anything of it, and love carrots so I eat them in any form. But walking into someone else's house at the holidays is really creepy for me. "Why are there lumps in your cranberry sauce? What do you MEAN there are cranberries in it?" and "Where are the mashed carrots?" *grins* And goddess help me if there's no chocolate cream pie. And not a COOKED one either, skin = nasty! *grins again*
OK, so tell me what are YOUR comfort foods? What do you want when you're sick, and where did the habit come from?
