The season suddenly changed to dark gloomy and cloudy fall from a sunny and warm summer and I promptly caught a cold. As I recover from my sniffles, cough and sneezes I am craving for warm steamy foods. I don't want spicy stuff as I don't want the burning feeling in my mouth, but I do want some warm, buttery food... so here's my list of comfort foods from all over the world.
1. Pish-pash - This is probably an Anglo-Indian food, the recipe if which I got from an old Bengali writer. It is basically chicken and rice all cooked together. You can make it spicy, but I didn't. I just boiled them together with onions and potatoes and added a bay leaf for flavor. I love boiled chicken, so this dish, though bland is my idea of a very good comfort food.
2. Jacket potato - Enid Blyton introduced me to "potatoes baked in their jackets" but I didn't have the right idea. On our London tour this summer I found out for myself why the kids in Magic Faraway Tree craved this food. All you need is a big potato and add any kind of stuffing to it. My favorite is the chicken stuffing one which I had for lunch sitting opposite to Sherlock Holmes' house on Baker Street. I had ones with watercress, prawns and cheese too and I read online you can also have a chicken and bacon stuffing. I am thinking of making this for dinner tonight. Boiled chicken and bacon together! That too on a warm steamy buttery baked potato! Can anything get better than this?
3. Seafood chowder (with bacon) and toasted garlic bread - That kind of garlic bread that has butter dripping from it almost. As I said earlier, everything tastes better with bacon, so does seafood chowder. A cup of it does good to a tired and cold soul, a bowl of it, if you are that hungry... a true favorite of the Pacific North West and Arnab's most favorite soup of all time.
4. Tom-yum-gung - This one is a spicy and sour soup. The best one I had was a home made one by my
friend from Thailand. I never tasted any better at restaurants. The one with chicken (tom-yum-gai) is good, but the shrimp one is just heavenly! Lemon grass is added along with red chili paste I guess with blends to give this unique flavor. A great experience I'd say...
5. Last but not the least "sedhho bhaat" - This is the comfort food close to home! Boiled egg, potato and a bunch of other vegetables like cauliflower, pumpkin, okra, whatever you want to put in there, maybe some boiled lentils too, all mixed with steaming rice with a dollop of butter, or better yet ghee. Just the aroma will make you feel happy even before you eat the first mouthful. For people who would want it to be a little more spicy can have a few green chilies with it, or a spoonful of pickle. That is plain delicious...yum yum yum!
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| Home-made jacket potato |
2. Jacket potato - Enid Blyton introduced me to "potatoes baked in their jackets" but I didn't have the right idea. On our London tour this summer I found out for myself why the kids in Magic Faraway Tree craved this food. All you need is a big potato and add any kind of stuffing to it. My favorite is the chicken stuffing one which I had for lunch sitting opposite to Sherlock Holmes' house on Baker Street. I had ones with watercress, prawns and cheese too and I read online you can also have a chicken and bacon stuffing. I am thinking of making this for dinner tonight. Boiled chicken and bacon together! That too on a warm steamy buttery baked potato! Can anything get better than this?
4. Tom-yum-gung - This one is a spicy and sour soup. The best one I had was a home made one by my
friend from Thailand. I never tasted any better at restaurants. The one with chicken (tom-yum-gai) is good, but the shrimp one is just heavenly! Lemon grass is added along with red chili paste I guess with blends to give this unique flavor. A great experience I'd say...
5. Last but not the least "sedhho bhaat" - This is the comfort food close to home! Boiled egg, potato and a bunch of other vegetables like cauliflower, pumpkin, okra, whatever you want to put in there, maybe some boiled lentils too, all mixed with steaming rice with a dollop of butter, or better yet ghee. Just the aroma will make you feel happy even before you eat the first mouthful. For people who would want it to be a little more spicy can have a few green chilies with it, or a spoonful of pickle. That is plain delicious...yum yum yum!
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| The red one is tom yum |
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