I'd have to say my grandmothers German Chocolate Cake which she only makes for my birthday or thanksgiving and christmas...with extra coconut filling...yummm!!! This cake does not last a day in the house and everyone fights over who is going to get the last piece. Now i really can't wait for thanksgiving to get here.

I would walk a million miles for Cooke's Onion Rings from Orleans MA!! They are the best things ever invented. Light and crispy, smothered in ketchup or if you're feeling really bad tartar sauce

My mom's biscuits and gravy, pinto beans and cornbread, or anything else she made. But, the strangest thing I would want would be (and only a true southener would appreciate this) boiled peanuts (not the kind in a can.)

Aaah, where do I start...

1) Swedish Applesauce Cake that my Grandma Hanner made for EVERY family member's birthday. We didn't care that it wasn't buttercream like everyone else's family ate. It was layer after layer of light sponge cake, alternating with fresh applesauce and iced with fresh whipped cream. The sucker was around 8" high! (This, from a woman who made reservations for dinner!

2) Swedish Rosettes that my Grandpa Hanner would pick up on his way home from work. Crispy, golden and dusted with sugar. Haven't been able to find them anywhere for years.

3) Sunday breakfast at the above G'parents house when I was a child. Big table of food; scrambled eggs, bacon from the oven, buttered rye toast, sliced watermelon and cantaloupe, rasp. and cheese danish, juice, coffee. I miss that big family gathering and lively conversation too!

2) Chestnut stuffing that my Nanny would make for Thanksgiving. She'd roast and peel the chestnuts and, my gosh, the scent was heavenly! My mom and I have each tried to replicate the recipe after my Nanny passed, as she'd never written it down. It's been close but just not the same.

3) Apple cider donuts from Cold Hollow Cider Mill up on Rt. 100 in VT, just outside of Stowe. Hot, sugary, donut ecstasy!

4) A perfect filet mignon with a bit of bernaise and side of asparagus from Capital Grille in Boston.

5) Believe it or not; tuna noodle casserole, baked in the oven with a melty topping of breadcrumb and chunks of cheddar cheese.

Thanks for starting this thread! I see a lot of comfort food as people's faves...and now I have several that I'll be looking up and trying to make.

Oooooh!!! Onion rings with tartar sauce.. I thought I was the only freak who liked that.. Also.. Ken's extra heavy restaurant mayo on french fries.. I'd buy a gallon jug of it just to have it as you can only get it wholesale.. but then I'd be big as a house with coronary blockages.

Apple Cider Donuts with cinnamon and sugar are a fav of mine too. We get them at Applecrest in Hampton Falls.. sooooo good when they are warm and fresh. I used to live a town over from Stowe, VT.. I wish I had known about Cold Hollow Cider Mill. I was young and wasn't schooled in the ways of the donut.. hehehe.

oooh oooh! a cheeseburger in paradise from margaritaville!

a huge deli pickle

Jeanne, what VT town did you live in? Cold Hollow also makes a TDF pumpkin roll! Ooops, just added another one to my list!

JK, Too funny!!! I don't blame it on the Polish in you, Must be in the Polish blood though.

Skichic68: Those Rosettes are to die for, JK & I have already hit on that one, (I'll have to hunt up that recipe and make some) AND Cold Hollow Cider,...... MMMMMMMMMM!!!! it is only 1/2 hour away from here, might have to make a road trip on Wed. I'll send you a report.

Another one I just thought of, I don't know the name of it, my grandmother calls it "Tomato Casserole" with canned tomatoes, dried up bread, and then bread/cracker crumbs on top baked in the oven till hot and bubbly, and crusty. mmmmmmm!!!

Yeah, JK, Spill. I'll see if I can ship some to ya.

Indy, That chicken one sounds yummy!! I'll have to try it, cold weather is coming, and it sounds like it would fit the bill.

My dad's green chili turkey casserole
Grandma's chicken and dumplings
US Navy stuffing
Grandma's kruggle
5 Guys hamburger

mommi, it really is good ... and comes out kinda like thanksgiving stuffing. A little gooey in the middle and crispy on the top, but that's what makes it good!

As a matter of fact, my husband loves it, but he persists in asking me to make "that chicken goo thing". I give him my famous Bite My A$$ look and tell him that I don't make anything that is described as "Goo" and until he learns to call it by the right name, then he's never getting it again.

there is a little diner near where my daughter lives, call the 'fleetwood diner' in kentwood michigan that makes this awesome stuff called 'hippie hash'... it is homemade fried potatoes, covered with grilled tomatoes, onions, green pepper, brocolli and feta cheese...it's to die for!!

Indy, that is funny. I would refuse to do that too. Isn't that what we try to teach kids these days, "call it what it is or you don't get it".

Okay Chocolate Bunnies, let us know what kruggle is????? sounds interesting.

Its been fun reading all these great memories and the food to. Mine has to be my Aunt's Black Raspberry pie. Oh my gosh, we all would get our peice and hide it because if you waited there was none left. Also, my mom's fried potatoes, I cannot fry them the way she did, and my husband often tells me that my mom's were better. Mom just doesn't cook like she used to and I really miss it. Oh I can't forget my Grandma's Chocolate pie. Gosh this really does make ya hungry.
Jeanne

LOL.. I lived in Waterbury.. right near the Ben & Jerry's factory.. (and the state assylum *whoot*). I had my first restaurant job there.. at some soup and samitch place.. I wish I could remember the name of it. I looked it up and I think it's The Park Row.. but I am not sure.. this was about 12 years ago now. I also worked in Fayston at Jay's Restaurant.. I'd love to go and see if they are both still there. The owner of Jay's is the one who really sparked my confidence in the kitchen.. I owe him a lot.

ndydebi, you are so right. Thats what she used, she would have 3 skillets going at the same time, sometimes.
Jeanne

Ok, I can't resist joining in, it is after 7 in the morning and I am salivating at the thought of Michael Buble, Southern Cooking and Polish food!
Ok, Michael is from my city.....great guy, have his disc in my car for long drives, along with satelite radio - Martha & Cosmo channels!
My husband has taken me to New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Charleston, Savanahh, and Hilton Head....I love CRAB CAKES!!! I think I have eaten my way through America eating crab cakes....Actually I also love southern cooking, we ate at Cracker Barrell in Nashville across from Oprayland mall, I think I ate all 5 plates they served me !!! Every meal came with grits, pancakes etc....
OK, although I wasn't born in Poland, I love the food, my mom and I went to see our relatives in 2001, and also ate our way through Poland, our relatives houses....we were supposed to stay a few days here and there and breakfast ran into lunch and then dinner...We also went to a small "hole in the wall" type restaurant in Krakow, for perogies, I swear they were amazing....in fact, my cousins often remark that the flour must be different to produce such a different, delicious tasting perogy!!
In fact my mom's maiden is Perog!! must be destiny!!
We also just ate our way through New York! We stayed near Time Square and ate Italian every night!!!!!

Alright JK, I'll look when I hit the road over in Waterbury on Wed, and let you know if The Park Row is there or not.

hmmm...my grandmas fried chicken...cornbread stuffing and of course apple butter!! Yummy!

my childhood best friends moms delicious flour tortillas

and right now..Custards Last Stand pumpkin concrete

Okay...I thought of some more comfort food so I had to come back to the thread!!!

We went to the Gwinnett County Fair every year when I was little and I LOVE the polish dogs with peppers, onion, and mustard. And an ear of roasted corn. Now we make sure to make it every year, so that we can have that again and oh yeah, to take my kids to the fair!

My grandma is German so she made the best potato cakes in the world....sure do miss her and her potato cakes, wish I had gotten the recipe!

My great grandma is still alive (at 99) and has always made me a jar of pickeled peaches every year. I grew up on them! All it is is peeled peaches, water, lots of salt, and hot peppers. It sounds disgusting, but it's sooooo good!!!

What a great thread !
I miss my grammas choc chip cookies warm out of the oven, and her homemade rolls on the Holidays!
She always cooked the Thanksiving Turkey, It was beautiful !and so delicious !
I miss my dads bread dressing and his prune stuffing. And his SOS ( yep shit on a shingle ) also known as creamed hamburger! LOL!
He always cooked everthing in a cast-iron skillet,anad sweet tea my mom made the best ever.
and my aunts cherry cheesecake at Christmas, and my dad would always stop after work and pick up chili cheese dogs from a little hole in the wall called Hot Dog Johns. They were fantastic!
And mom and dad would always make us hot choc on cold winter nights and they would leave choc lumps in it! It was the best! And the chicken and home made noodles they would roll out on a big wood noodle board ( I still have ). Those were the days !!

Now that I'm totally hungry, I'll share too:

My Grandma's meringue cookies, pineapple upside-down cake, and leche flan. I can make them all, but it's not the same.

Also, her Lumpia Shanghai (Filipino spring rolls) with pork, shrimp, and water chestnuts, wrapped thin, fried all crunchy... mmmmm.... I sure do hope my Dad can convince her to come visit for Thanksgiving!

I'd walk about a billion miles for a Chantico from Starbucks. I was so mad when they stopped selling those.

Carnation Hot Chocolate, whatever the formula was in the early 80's. I remember drinking it when I was little, and it just doesn't taste the same as today.

The smothered (in green chile & cheese) hashbrowns, fresh tortillas, and sweet rolls from Frontier in Albuquerque. I do so love when I go home for visits!

In high school we used to go to this hole-in-the-wall, total dive called Ernie's for breakfast. For 99 cents you could get the breakfast special: one egg any way you like it, hash browns, green chile & a tortilla, and you could double it or triple it if you wanted. I don't know what was different about their green chile sauce, but man was it good! I was sad when it switched owners and everything changed.

mmmmmmmm....

Cool Donna.. I think it was a different owner when I was there and a different name.. but looking at the pictures of the inside it's very familliar. They made awesome sandwiches and soups (and breakfast too) all homemade from scratch. Sounds like they use the same recipes still. It was down a little side street off of Maint Street near the train station.

cheesecake (any flavor) from Junior's restaurant in Brooklyn ,NY!

One of the very few things I miss about living there from 9 years ago.

. . . hey, how about some of you "overseas folks" . . . I would love to hear what some of your "comfort foods" are . . .

I look forward to my best friend's apple turnovers every fall!! Fresh picked apples right from the tree!! Oh my mouth is watering now.... I haven't had one yet!!

oh and I would walk across town for my mom's cornbread stuffing that she only makes during the holidays!!! I can't wait!! YIPPEEEEE!!!!

Kim

I have so many!:
My mom's: chicken & dumplins, sweet tea, fried green tomatoes, blackberry cobbler, pecan pie
My sister's: bigger than your fist cat heads (biscuits) & gravy
My great aunt's: chocolate pie
My great grandmother's:fresh fried corn, apple butter

Many have tried to replicate these recipes & all have failed (including me). I'm afraid that good home cooking is becoming a lost art

My dads corn fritters ! And his chicken vesuveo( sp ) my grammas sliced peaches and fresh whipped cream !
My uncles homemade ice cream/ floats .