Comfort food

[yoanbob]

get him into risk, he'll love it.

[NOG]

Can he play it by himself?

We are thinking of going on holiday to Malawi next year to get him a brother.

[Alison]

Hasn't Madonna already adopted him?

[bootie]

Babys head followed by train crash.

For any one without a forces background Induvidual Steak and kndney pie, mash followed by by Jam sponge and custard.

Good evening Nog
Did you ever have S*** on a raft? A breakfast goodie

[NOG]

I much prefered the more musical Egg Banjo

[rustylady]

Favourite comfort food - depends on how much comforting you need.

If short of time, egg and chips.

Bit more time, sausage and mash with onion gravy.

Bit of forethought, beef stew with dumplings

Don't do sweet stuff much these days, on my own, watching the waistline (expand) and short of time as working full time, but all-time favourite pud is steamed sponge pudding with syrup poured over and custard.

[valmarg]

Comfort Fod

Anything with suet pastry, steak and kidney pudding, stew with dumplings, and the following is the ultimate in fast slow food:

TREACLE PUDDING

3 tablespoons golden syrup
4oz self raising flour
2oz shredded suet
2oz caster sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons water
4 tablespoons milk
2 drops vanilla essence

1.Place the golden syrup in the bottom of a lightly greased 1 1/2 pint basin.

2. Mix the flour, suet and sugar together. Beat in the egg, water, milk and vanilla essence. Spoon the mixture on to the syrup in the basin.

3. Cover the basin with cling film and cook for two minutes on maximum. Remove the cling film and cook for a further two minutes.

4. Leave the pudding to stand for two minutes before turning out and serving.

The 'maximum' for this recipe is 700 watts. As modern microwaves have a higher 'maximum' than 700 watts, you may need to do a little maths to get it right. Maths was not my best subject at school, and I simply cannot do it for you.

BUT, with lashings of custard or whipped cream, you have got in minutes, what used to take hours of steaming.

You can also vary it by adding sultanas to the flour, etc mixture to make a variation on a theme of spotted dick, substituting some of the flour with cocoa and putting melted chocolate in the basin.

The waistline's thickening at the very thought!!

valmarg

[rustylady]

Oh Valmarg, that treacle pudding sounds absolutely fantastic

That's the one thing microwaves are really useful for, is cutting down on the time we used to spend steaming things.

Also really good for pre-cooking jacket potatoes. Not all of us have an Aga which is on all the time.

[Mrs Dobby]

Treacle pud and syrup cake are great in the microwave, but do be careful to let them cool a bit before eating, the syrup or treacle gets really hot and takes a good while to cool down, and as its sticky it will burn your lips if you arent careful! I know, I speak from experience! Ouch!

[Alison]

Find my microwave very good for defrosting things - not actually using it as a microwave, just as a place to safely put food without risk of the sneaky cats investigating it! Actually as I haven't used it now for about 6 months should probably think about turning it off and just admiting that it's a cupboard!

[bootie]

I much prefered the more musical Egg Banjo

I'II eat to that

[Waffler]

Find my microwave very good for defrosting things - not actually using it as a microwave, just as a place to safely put food without risk of the sneaky cats investigating it! Actually as I haven't used it now for about 6 months should probably think about turning it off and just admiting that it's a cupboard!

LOL
Ours is a cupboard too! think I mentioned elsewhere that we use it as a bread bin. Personally I don't even like using it for defrosting things, so it tends to get used occasionally for reheating the odd cup of coffee or meal when the phone's gone at dinner time! Don't think I'd replace it if it died.

[Earthbabe]

Same here Waffler. I could use the space for other things like prepping food, a jelly stand, empty space. The list is not quite endless. I'd probably miss the timer but I'm sure one of those wind up jobs would be better, at least I'd here it go off when the time was up.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Valmarg - the treacle pud sounds lovely - I'm not a pudding person, but fancy giving that a go! DDL

[JennieAtkinson]

Comfort food for me is fish pie - white fish in a parsley sauce and mashed potatoes, all nicely laid out in a dish which is then put into the oven and baked so the top goes all crusty. If I really need a hug then it gets some prawns in it as well!

Sad to say I'm more of a comfort drink person really - really chilled glass of chardonnay (relaxing even as i type!)