Welcome Friday. I am so tired. This has been a long week which included, among other things contract negotiations, strep throat (me - lucky the kids didn't get it!), and E's football awards ceremony (you go gurl).
When I walked in the door tonight I dropped my briefcase and purse by the door and stepped right out of my high heels. All I wanted to do was RELAX so I crafted the ultimate comfort food: Macaroni, hamburger and tomatoes. This has to be the most simple recipe on the planet. All you have to do is read the title and put those three things together (plus lotsa pepper if you're making it LaRee style!). Then even if you are way out East in Maryland and even if mom isn't here to cook it, you still get to feel exactly like you are home. I just curled up on the couch and enjoyed every single spoonful. Life is good.
Mom - you do so many BIG things for all of us it never ceases to amaze me. For each of those things I'm grateful, but I also hope you know down to the bottom of your toes how very much the little things (like passing on Grandma Larsen's comfort foodways, and stocking the freezer with Creamies when we come) you did/do day in and day out mean to me and the others.
Let's hear it for mom :-)
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That is funny ... I had white cheddar macaroni and cheese that mom bought for me ... and I have been super sick all week with a bad cold. My meal doesn't sound as good as Debby's but it was nice to have after an exhausting week.
We haven't had this dish for years. I will have to see if I can talk my kids into trying it again. The sad thing about MCT is that it is only good once. If you put the left overs in the fridge they turn into a blob.
Try making it without the hamburger ... or if you like the hamburger just add it to the portion that you are serving in each dish and keep the extra separated. That way the fat in the hamburger won't blob up the macaroni and tomato in the fridge.
MHT--to my mother it was a fast and easy dish and one where she could stretch the hamburger to feed a lot of hungry mouths. To a lot of her kids, it has become a comfort food--a reminder of her love and how hard she had to work to keep us fed. No fast food for us! Our meals were together--close together, not a lot of room around the table--and simple but seasoned with love and humor. Mother often had us giggling before the prayer and Father would sit patiently and wait until we settled down. I sure was blessed.
I used to be like Dan and not like it warmed up but I find heating it the microwave mast it taste almost as good.
We have that at least twice a month. David loves it with diced tomatoes. Thanks to Matt, it may be made with ground bison.
First, all the thanksgiving photos, then Tuna, now everyone but dad’s comfort food. This blog is making me FAT.
Does anyone know what Dad's comfort food is? I think it's all the leftovers in the frig with a can or two of odd soup thrown in for good measure. :-)
I don't know if dad finds throwing all that stuff together comforting, but he forsure does it. Every single time he cooked for us when we were growing up he made the same dish (yes, throwing three unrelated cans of food together in a pan) UNLESS there were leftovers - he loves to eat leftovers. I could use him right aobut now with all this thanksgiving food hanging on and on and on ...
THM is the best food ever with a little home made bread, and I can eat it for a week afterwards. None of my kids will eat it, so there are always leftovers for me. We use home canned tomatoes, so its that much better. I rinse the noodles for a long time to wash all the starch off, I think that helps to keep the glob away.
I think I can remember dad saying that eating leftovers was like eating for free because we had already paid for the first meal. But maybe that was someone else that said that, someone wise like Mike Brady.
It was your wise Dad. And I agree about the homemade bread--that always went with it in my childhood as well as the home canned tomatoes. I like tomato juice better now--mostly because I haven't canned tomatoes for years.
I find it very disconcerting and a bit disapointing that anyone would question my ability to "whip-up" a quick meal using leftovers and in a pinch, having to add a few cans of non-related foods to stretch the meal out in order to feed all you kids. Come to think about it; no body ate much of my concoctions so "I" had more leftovers to feast on. Yea!
Oh, those were scary concoctions!!! I remember once Dad made macaroni hamburger and tomato with chili sauce ... eek!
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