Anyone who knows me well know that I have a strong emotional connection to a very weird comfort food. Not just weird, but by most people’s standards, disgusting. Most of my friends have never even dared to try it, but one friend gagged when she did! And the thing is, I get it. For most...
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My mom made me and my brother Grilled Cheese and Peanut Butter sandwiches when we were kids, and it's still one of my most favorite meals! You just put PB on one of the pieces of bread (inside) as you make the sandwich like a regular grilled cheese. I also dip mine in applesauce as I eat it, which definitely ups the "weird" factor to most people who watch me eat it, but it combats the sticky-ness of the PB!
OK, this sounds totally weird to me! I love it!
Also a depression era food, and one that I was raised on and love, is broken up bread, a drizzle of honey, and cold milk. Even better is what we call "hot milk toast"– toast, broken up into pieces, a spoonful of butter, and hot milk poured all over. Yum to me, but so gross to my husband! My girls like it, because I've raised them on it. And I'll have to pass on your dare–I'm certain I couldn't swallow it. Some things are just need acquiring…like my soggy bread.
I love this! My grandpa used to talk about some nights only have milk and bread for dinner. And he used to spread gravy on bread and eat it–which I totally did as a kid too!
You can buy oysters in a can? Get outta town. You Americans are so cute 🙂
Ha! We are ADORABLE. 🙂
I didn't know you could buy them in a can. I always get them at the deli at thanksgiving. They sure are expensive. I love stew, dressing and fried oysters. Yum yum. I bet if more people tried them they would like them. Raw oysters, no way. I used to like Bologna and grape jelly sandwiches when I was young.
Pancakes and cream gravy. Husband, kids and grandkids won't touch it. It is the best ever
Oyster Stew is a Christmas Eve tradition in my family! Most of us find it vile, so we also make potato soup. 😉 My grandma loved it, my dad loves it, and my fiancée loves it. No one else eats the stuff.
Yes! We have oyster stew every Christmas Eve. We also make a batch of clam chowder for the oyster-averse. I love it, but my grandma makes it with half and half (because holidays). It has a really yummy, briney quality.
This is my husband's favorite and his "signature dish" ha! The rest of us in the family are lactose intolerant. While we like it, it can be rough unless we load up on lactaid pills or use lactose free milk.
My mom used to make that for my dad. A couple of my siblings like it too. Not me, I always thought it was gross. Comfort food for me is a bowl of home bottled peaches or raspberries and toast with peanut butter. We ate that for dessert a lot as kids. I still have it for supper on Sunday nights quite often.
I love oyster stew my Mom and I used to have it every Christmas Eve before we went to church!!! marsha@tubbslanefarm.com
My grandmother grew up in an orphanage in central IL, and thus had some interesting comfort food meals she passed on to all of us. However, Im the only one to continue to love and cherish this one: saltine crackers, a hunk of Braunschweiger (liverwurst) and a slather of mayo. I had it just this weekend! All while my family and friends dry heaved in the corners of the room. 😉
This isn't weird to me at all! My brother continues our fam tradition, making my grandma's oyster dressing on T-giving. I LOVE bivalves (lol) & anchovies. We grew up on Breakstones (the sour cream brand) clam dip with Mikesell's Groovy potato chips which they stopped making the dip, so I came up with my own recipe combining ones I found on the internet! Canned clams are always in my cupboard for dip, or my other fav: pasta with white clam sauce. Then canned anchovies for aglio olio, & I always order them on the side with pizza! Oysters weren't my first love, but like you I've made myself love them. Mmmmmm!
Oyster Stew, pretty much as you've described it – except we make it with evaporated milk and don't use the oyster juice in the can and there's about half a stick of butter in it – is one of my favorite things.