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I just had some homemade meatloaf with mushroom gravy.

Mmm.

I think you need to wash it down with a pint of ice cream.

Just one pint?

just one.

Assuming this isn't an innuendo/flirt thread, I like to bake my meatloaf with a tomato glaze. Yummy!

And, as for ice-cream, Bryer's real vanilla or black cherry are my faves!

Mashed potatoes.

In recent months, stores here in Southern California -- land of $4-per-gallon milk -- have been selling Banquet Swedish Meatballs dinners (9 ounces) for $1 each. A comfort to stomach and wallet, I'd say.

Especially hand-mashed, with butter and roasted garlic folded right in.

Mashed, with butter and English mustard is the bee's knee's

a good piece of monkey...I mean soy-monkey.

I'm having a nice grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup. I can't have one without the other.

Pecan pie. With a dollop of whipped cream. Heaven.

The only thing in the pecan pie category that I like more than pecan pie is maple syrup pie, which I had in Canada. Kinda like pecan pie without the pecans, and sweeter. Mmm.

Chicken McNuggets - I think they remind me of my childhood.

Clearly great minds think alike since I was going to say mashed potato as well (and even the fabulous Nigella Lawson has a recipy for it in one of her books in the chapter about comfort food). I personally like it with lots of butter and loads of pepper. In fact when I was at school still one of the best dinners you could get was from the Art Centre next door and was simply cheese and potato pie (as in mashed potato with loads of cheese on top bunged under the grill till it was brown) with so much pepper in it that it didn't taste of much else. Yummy.

And obviously ice-cream. However because of Nigella I've now started making my own ice-cream. It means you can choose your own flavour (I made apple ice-cream at the weekend and it's gorgeous. Sharp and sour but creamy and yummy at the same time) and you also have the satisfction of having made it yourself. It's not difficult, just takes a little time if you don't have an ice-cream maker.

Oh, and in a very bog standard way, apples. Just a good, crisp, sour/sweet apple beats almost everything else in my book.

Meatloaf with gravy is my favorite comfort food. And I love mashed potatos more than life itself.

Same here. One of the few meals that I could make myself at college and totally enjoy. The perfect combo, especially on a late autumn/winter night.

All I could make in college was Ramen noodles.
Grilled cheese took me four attempts to make, and I havn't risked it since.

Comfort food would be fresh baked bread. I can eat half a loaf right after it comes out of the machine.

My bread machine is one of my favorite birthday presents ever!

What I also love about it is how cusinomically incorrect it is in these carb-phobic times.

Plus, the smell fights through even the most clogged nasal passages...

Pizza. Best food ever.

The intersection of the pizza parlor and the bakery -- homemade buttered garlic bread.

Bread right out of the machine, slathered with copious amounts of butter and freshly roasted garlic. Can't be beat, unless you're a vampire!