sorry carrington for stealing your idea- thought i;d impliment it for you and hopefully in the process get some ideas for me to bake when teri abducts me to live at her house and cook all day...

so for me!

white chocolate millionares shortbread
home made baileys ice cream
cinnamon swirls
crispy nutty seed bites (far less healthy than they look/sound)
a cuppa tea (my bestest pal is from yorkshire and when we lived together as soon as i was not happy happy twas time for tea :))
(bear in mind that i am allergic to normal and dark chocolate so not on my list, i am sad, not abnormal :()

thinks i am thinking of cooking...

millionares shortbread of both kinds
muffins
chocolate christmas log
christmas cakes (pass the brandy...)
cookies (white choc and rasp i think)

Comfort Foods.....oh make me hungry again!  (havent been able to eat much since I had dental surgery, and its been over a week now, I am sick of Jello and puddings!)

Chips and Dip (Lays regular chips, with French Onion Chip Dip)
Pizza (with Dipping Sauce - usually garlic)
RoseBuds (chocolate candies, kinda like hershey kisses)
Ice Cream

Oh, I am still trying to figure out how to cook Black Pudding, any help there Kim????

I thought black pudding was oatmeal and blood. So I would think you just mix it together and heat. :-D

> Oh, I am still trying to figure out how to cook Black Pudding

If its already made ( probably looks like a big sausage ) then just slice and fry :-D

If you're making it from scratch .....then ''gulp'' :-D :-D

My fave comfort foods are.......

chips with cheese
bacon sandwich
mashed potato
Gratin dauphinois
pralines and cream ice cream
chocolate fondant puddings (gordon ramsey's)

I'm sure there are more but those are the ones that spring to mind. Yum. :-)

you fry slices of it :)

tastes goooood....

I used to grill it when I was able to eat it (not since going Wheat and Gluten free :(  tho  I may chance it when I find a few days when it doesn't matter if I have to stay near a loo ;) )

Comfort food in our house

Sausages and mash with veg and onion gravy (GF sausages ;) ) 

Steak and kidney pie/pud      (Haven't had that for years and still miss it.  The first year was the hardest, I actually cried when I smelled them cooking in Greggs bakers! :( :()

Chocolate cake - Home made Gluten Free chocolate cake is yummy

> Sausages and mash with veg and onion gravy

mmmmmmm....

chips with cheese

Mmmmmmmmm!!:-D

And also chocolate ice cream, but has to be a good quality chocolate ice cream!!:-)

I'll of course have all the time in the world to set Kim on the right path and muster the ingredients for her :-D but just so she has time to perfect a few before moving in day, SOME of my fave comfort foods are

roast topside of beef thick sliced onto hot buttered toast
Cabbage tossed in butter, mashed swede with oodles of black pepper and caulieflower au gratin - all on the one plate :-D
profiteroles in warm milk choc sauce
home made custard with Eve's pudding;
brandysnap baskets with candied strawberries and mountains of whipped cream

my list could go on forever - this poor kid is going to need serious aftercare when she leaves my after care  
Shameless :-o

I'm a bit confused by this thread but it's made me very very hungry! I think we're listing fave comfort foods so here goes, it may turn out to be a long list...

1. Bangers & mash with lashings of gravy
2. Home made apple crumble with custard
3. Roast dinner all the trimmings (cooked by somone else!!)
4. Huge bar of galaxy, let each piece melt in my mouth!!
5. Dominos Texas BBQ pizza with their Garlic dipping sauce - I could eat this every night of my life (before I died of a heart attack!!!)

I am so hungry now.....off for my morning bowl of special k!!! :)

comfort food for me is

CRISPS!! READY SALTED OR

BOBBYS CHEESY PUFFS, THEY ARE SO CHEESY AND GREAT TO SUCK ALL THE FLAVOUR OFF THEN MELT IT IN YOUR MOUTH!!

Shortbread i like too and oreos!!MMMmmmm

> Chocolate cake - Home made Gluten Free chocolate cake is yummy

I agree!!! :)

Co-op Fairtrade Belgian Choc cup cakes (these are a new discovery and I highly recommend them - Yummy)
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream pref Bohemian Raspberry or Phish food
Curry (any)
Anything with custard
Nuts
Choc Eclairs
Fish and Chips & mushy peas.

> Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

Oh yes!!! That is a definate !! Cookie dough or chocolate fudge cake is a yes from me!! TASTY!!

Chocolate cake - Home made Gluten Free chocolate cake is yummy

It is definatly better than the GF cakes you buy in the store, but when mom does it, its a bit thick.....more like a loaf, instead of a fluffy cake......... does yours turn out like that?  I am used to betty crocker cakes lol
She adds some "yukky gum" as she calls it (she cant say Xanthium Gum lol - and also the price is yukky!!!  At 16 dollars per 3 cups of it)

> Phish food
>

how on earth did i forget that?!!! Yum yum!

> Oh, I am still trying to figure out how to cook Black Pudding

If its already made ( probably looks like a big sausage ) then just slice and fry

If you're making it from scratch .....then ''gulp''

Ooer - take a large bowl of blood ....................  (CG now goes off looking very green)

CG

LOL

I hope you realise my 'gulp' meant 'crikey, I don't know' and not 'take a long swift swallow' :-D :-D

Now I feel green.....  :(  :-D

I do like peanut butter thickly spread on a nice bit of bread, but that is saved only for the most traumatic of days.

I am really in to making soup from squashes, onion, herbs from the garden. Nice and thick, yum! Making some tonight and I think I'll do an apple crumble too.

> yum! Making some tonight and I think I'll do an apple crumble too.

Cam I come for tea please?!!!

>Chocolate cake - Home made Gluten Free chocolate cake is yummy

>It is definatly better than the GF cakes you buy in the store, but when mom does it, its a bit thick.....more like a loaf, instead of a fluffy >cake......... does yours turn out like that?  I am used to betty crocker cakes lol
>She adds some "yukky gum" as she calls it (she cant say Xanthium Gum lol - and also the price is yukky!!!  At 16 dollars per 3 cups of it)

Mine turn out really light and fluffy - just like the 'normal' ones you can buy in the shops :-D

I use a half and half mixture of GF BREAD flour and RICE flour ;)  and forget the Xanthan Gum.   To a 4 egg cake I would add 2 oz of Cocoa INSTEAD of 2oz of flour - this stops it getting really heavy! So 4 eggs, 8oz of flour and cocoa and 8 oz of sugar (vanilla sugar is lovely!) and butter (or marge) add 1 teaspoon of GF raising flour too

It may  be that she is adding too much Xanthan gum - to 8oz of flour I would only add about 1/2 a teaspoon - but I hate the stuff, it gives us all terrible wind !

Another thing about gluten free cake mix, is that  you usually need to add some milk/soya milk/rice milk to loosen it until it will drop off a spoon, then leave it to thicken in the tins for about 15-20 mins.

You really must line the tins with greaseproof paper as this will help the cakes out of the tins when cooked, remove the paper while the cake is still hot ;)

Hope this helps

PS if you try it let me know how you get on :-D

any progress on the pudding crespin? have to move you on to haggis soon... then deep fried mars bars lol

oh! and Irn Bru...

forget the black pudding !!!! yuk !!!
peanut butter and marmite on toast '''''heaven'''''
love it or hate it :-)
Donna

I have so many "comfort foods"
Chinese (on those days you cant be bothered to cook)
Homemade lasagne
Duck
Roasted Veg
Homemade veggie soup
Oreos / Cookies / Boubon biscuits dunked in a steaming hot cup of builders tea
Chocolate croissants
Millionaires shortbread
Choc cake
Choc spread on toast
Runny boiled eggs with buttery soldiers
A good ol' fry up
Syrup pudding and Ambrosia custard - especially nice on those cold winters nights

Mmm mmm mmm, now im feeling hungry

How 'bout Nutella, straight from the jar with a spoon, yum :)

lunamoona:that sounds like my idea of bliss....i once bought body paint for a bit of fun. Well, lets just say it didnt have the desired effect when my chap came home from work to find me sat in front the tele eating it from a spoon :-)  I only wanted to sample a bit to see what it was like and it was so delish i ended up finishing it..on my own :-) lol

Cheese on toast....just the best :)

comfort foods you say..... :)

White Chocolate and strawberry muffins...
Trifle
Cheesecake
Pizza from dominoes ;)
McDonalds is another guilty pleasure :)
Crisps, usually kettle chips if im needing something extra special..
Chinese
Kebab but only ever chicken ;)
Lasagne with garlic bread
and I love my slow cooker casseroles on cold winter nights :) :)

and anything else I can see which is tasty lol

>Can I come for tea please?!!!

Of course you can! Plenty to go round

my fav one when I don't want to gorge but still want a choc fix is to have a mug of hot chocolate and a packet of minstrels and a spoon.  If you put a minstrel on the spoon and dip it into the hot chocolate the shell doesn't melt but the chocolate inside does.  It is such an amazing tasted, I'm drooling....

> 'bout Nutella, straight from the jar with a spoon

An ice cold spoon left it in the fridge for a while then eat the nutella, it does something special,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

> If you put a minstrel on the spoon and dip it into the hot chocolate the shell doesn't melt but the chocolate inside does

My daughter does that usually while watching Hang - Over TV....

Has reminded me - and I bet no-one else does this - cup a soup in a mug (minestrone or tomato + veg with croutons) cut up cheese and fill mug, then boiling water over top and stir - melted cheese and cup a soup meaten out of mug with spoon....

> cup a soup in a mug

I'm thinking yuk, yuk, yuk and so many more yuks

> cut up cheese and fill mug

I'm thinking, hmm, interesting - especially as there was mention of croutons ;)

> melted cheese and cup a soup meaten out of mug with spoon....

And now I'm hungry and I don't have cup-a-soup aaaaaarrrrggggh :(   :-D

Guess what I am eating now.... :-D

Havent done the pudding yet, have been on Vacation for the past week, so havent got a chance to make it up. 

But I have already had hagis, cook it all the time!!!!!  YUMMMMMMMM

yucky! that sounds aweful lol!

but you go girl, different is good :)

well if you can eat haggis and enjoy black pud will be easy in comparison. blood and oats is far less scary than whats in a haggis...

i've got another one- reeses pieces and reeses white choc cups, i love em i love em i love em. but you can't get them in the shops here, only chocolate cups and nutrageous bars which i cannot eat :(

whenever i've a friend going to america i beg them to bring them back :)

i like to nibble the shell off the outside and then let the peanut butter melt....mmmm....