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Super simple/basic comfort foods

168 replies

ferretface · 02/02/2023 17:07

Share with me your favourite basic comfort foods for no reason other than I just ate some crackers with butter and was struck by how delicious it was. I'm thinking say 3-4 ingredients max.

I'll start with:

White toast, salted butter
In similar vein, Jacobs cracker with salted butter
Jacket potato, salted butter
Crumpet, nutella
Toast, butter, baked beans

OP posts:
Harebrain · 02/02/2023 19:33

Vanilla ice cream with a raspberry yoghurt poured over. The yoghurt freezes in a sweet layer where it touches the ice cream. Delicious!

mrsfeatherbottom · 02/02/2023 19:35

Rich tea sandwiched with butter and jam

Findyourneutralspace · 02/02/2023 19:37

Sausage mash and beans. Frozen mash is a game changer. 5 mins in the microwave and ping! It’s as good as home made…

Oysterbabe · 02/02/2023 19:39

Cream of tomato soup with loads of bread is my number 1 comfort food.

Maverickess · 02/02/2023 19:39

ferretface · 02/02/2023 17:29

Pasta mixed with tuna mayonnaise

This is what I came to say! Also smoked bacon lardons or chicken pieces and mayo mixed with pasta, and aromat seasoning grated cheese on top 👌

Dyslexicwonder · 02/02/2023 19:45

Fresh baguette, cream cheese marmite - heaven.
An apple and a lump of Cheddar
Stilton on an oat cake with a pear
Good panettone with an espresso coffee

Cookerhood · 02/02/2023 19:51

I recently put my poached egg on a (buttered, of course) crumpet as we had no bread. Game changer.

SocksAndTheCity · 02/02/2023 19:52

Crumpets with peanut butter and banana
Apple slices with biscoff paste
Pasta with tinned tuna and melted cheese

LaviniasBigBloomers · 02/02/2023 19:54

A proper crispy topped Scottish morning roll with butter and crisps. Or chips.

Pasta, butter with a couple of anchovies melted into it, chilli flakes, salt,

CrazyHedgehogLover · 02/02/2023 20:08

Hot cross buns & Welsh cakes with butter on👌

Sleepless1096 · 02/02/2023 20:10

Pasta, butter and salt.

gingertigercat · 02/02/2023 20:10

I have found my people! This thread is so deliciously full of beige.

I can echo :
Crumpets and stilton (obviously a bit of butter on the crumpet for good measure)
Rice, cheese and cracked black pepper
And pasta, garlic, butter and cheese

Cheese should all be finely grated and served generously.

Heaven.

MockneyReject · 02/02/2023 20:10

Souper-mash.
As in, a pile of mashed potato, with soup poured over it.

mrsbrownhat · 02/02/2023 20:11

Pasta. Campbell condensed chicken soup.

Maverickess · 02/02/2023 20:12

Cup of Yorkshire Tea and a box of few Ferrero Rochers.

LindorDoubleChoc · 02/02/2023 20:14

Mashed potato, maybe with sausages and beans alongside.

Spaghetti with butter, black pepper and a mountain of parmesan.

A crumpet with butter and marmite.

When the bread is really fresh, a peanut butter sandwich.

Egg fried rice with spring onion and loads of Kikkoman soy sauce.

mrsbrownhat · 02/02/2023 20:15

MockneyReject · 02/02/2023 20:10

Souper-mash.
As in, a pile of mashed potato, with soup poured over it.

LOVE this!

Also mashed potato on toast.

LindorDoubleChoc · 02/02/2023 20:15

Barbecued sardines.

Barbecued prawns with garlic butter.

Oysterbabe · 02/02/2023 20:17

Spaghetti hoops on toast

Potato waffle sandwich.

Don't judge me.

MeinKraft · 02/02/2023 20:18

A nice slice of fruit cake
Tinned pears with ice cream
A tomato sandwich on buttered white bread
Ditto corned beef sandwich and a cup of tea
Chips, eggs and butchers sausages

Basically I have the palate of my grandmother who was born in the 1920s Grin

MissyB1 · 02/02/2023 20:19

Porridge!! Can’t believe no one else has mentioned it! Hot creamy porridge oats, a hug in a bowl.

BarrelOfOtters · 02/02/2023 20:20

LindorDoubleChoc · 02/02/2023 20:15

Barbecued sardines.

Barbecued prawns with garlic butter.

@LindorDoubleChoc on toast with butter? Or pasta….basically where’s the carb?

baguette with Brie and coleslaw. Crunch, comforting fat and tang.

a proper bacon crusty roll.

soft white bap, toast upper side under grill, put cheese in, grill then eat.

MeinKraft · 02/02/2023 20:21

Oh, a packet of cheap noodles (Koka are best) with a spoonful of chilli purée or lazy chilli chucked in.

MeinKraft · 02/02/2023 20:21

Boiled egg mashed in a cup with butter and salt

PlumbleCrumble · 02/02/2023 20:22

Cheest chips