What's your stress-relieving / trauma-soothing food?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

For some, it's ice cream. For others, it's red meat. For yet others it's pizza.

Mine is sushi. Specifically, going into an all-you-can-eat sushi joint and letting it rip. Hot Philadelphia rolls. Mmmmm. Salmon, cream cheese and chives inside the roll, then you CHICKEN FRY the whole thing. Unholy goodness.

What's yours?

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Creamy Potato(e) Leek Soup with bacon.

On edit, in a pinch you can leave out the cream, potato, and leeks and just have wonderful bacon.

[kayakjohnny]

2. Rice.

Sometimes, just with a little butter and salt. Within the past three years, with olive oil. And with stir fry veggies. Sometimes with chicken. Or with red beans.

And lately, I do the rice, red beans and yellow corn. Looks real nice. I spice the rice dishes with any combo of cayenne, curry, black pepper, garlic, ginger and oregano.

If I'm stir-frying the veggies or chicken, then I always use a good splash of beer in there. It really pulls the whole thing together.

But plenty of times, it's just the rice.

Mahatma Natural Long Grain Brown Rice

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. No matter how many times I've tried, I just can't get into brown rice

I bought white rice today...more for the fact that it's cheap and filling (a 2-lb bag for $1.49 at lucky) than it's a comfort food, and I have a National rice cooker, so it's a quick and easy breakfast / lunch / dinner (sometimes it's all a matter of filling an empty stomach, rather than creating inspiring cuisine). Plus I tend to work while eating / eat while working, so I hit the "start" button, get back to work, dish it up when I hear the beep...

:toast:

[grace0418]

24. Have you tried it for a sustained period of time? We were forced to switch to brown rice

when my husband was diagnosed with diabetes. He's Asian, so rice was a pretty big deal for him. We both felt like you did, like it was going to be something we'd never get on board with eating. Then, after a couple of weeks, it started getting to where we liked it just fine. Now, four years later, I absolutely prefer it. I've tried white rice a couple of times and it doesn't taste good to me anymore. I even make risotto with it. It takes FOREVER but it's so tasty.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. The two things that keep me from doing that...

1). I'm not an expert on brown rice "freshness" but I have read about the bran layer "going bad," and the other day I opened a container that I keep tightly sealed, in the cupboard, away from heat and light, and it just smelled RANCID (and the rice was not that old).

I've also purchased "designer rice"...those $7 plastic cannisters...but the issue there is that these days, I'm not going to spend $7 on ANYTHING that I do not L-O-V-E...and I don;t love brown rice.

2). I know the "chewiness" of the bran layer is a selling point for some, but I hate it. And if I cook the rice to the point where the bran layer is softened past the point of chewiness, it just tastes mushy to me.

There are a lot of other ways in life that I strive to make "healthy choices"...I'm afraid brown rice is never gonna be one of them.

:toast:

[jobycom]

3. Snuffers Cheddar Fries.

But I have to drive three hours to get them, so I stay stressed a lot.

[Glassunion]

4. Vodka. Lots and lots of vodka.

[Moondog]

5. Lobster, or crab, washed down with either

in order of preference, a chilled Piesporter, or iced vodka, or iced Aquavit.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Peanut butter

The old-fashioned kind. Just give me a spoon. Ice cream works, too.

[REP]

7. Coffee and Sherman MCDs

[Curmudgeoness]

8. Chocolate ice cream.

By the gallon.

[david13]

9. Blueberries. Blueberry yogurt. Turkey. Turkey leg. Tea. Salad. With olive oil. dc

[cwydro]

10. Campfire mac and cheese.

Learned how to make it outdoors years ago and still make it now.

Yummy and fattening and very comforting.

[Kali]

15. recipe, please

pasta and/or cheese is damn good comfort food

[cwydro]

18. Well see,..

good old mac and cheese is good enough on its own.

But I used to be what was called an "outdoor adventure leader" at the college I went to and we had some pretty severe winter camping trips.

So one of my fellow "leaders" used to make this campfire mac and cheese. She sauteed onions and garlic and whatever other veggie might be around, but the garlic and onion were the easiest to pack up a mountain on skis, so usually that is all we had. Then we threw the mac and cheese mix in and a bunch of other cheeses (because we were young and burning a lot of calories lol) and mushed that all up together and damn, but it was good.

Of course, now I am not cross country skiing up a mountain...but I still make it when I need it.

And I am not nearly as skinny as I used to be, because I still love that recipe. I recommend mozzarella, cheddar and any other cheese you want to throw in. Since I am not on a mountain anymore, I sometimes put some parmesan and bread crumb mixture on top and bake the whole mess in the oven and then you have some SERIOUS comfort food.

Yum.

[Kali]

19. ah ok

thought maybe there was some kind of charbroiling going on:rofl:

which in my mind sounded really good if you could somehow keep it all together


mmmmmgrilled mac and cheese:rofl:

[cwydro]

20. Oooh, now that does sound good!

Tomorrow is another day!

[applegrove]

11. Oh those salmon rolls sound really good. My stress food changes but it is always some kind

of fast food. I'm trying to change it to greek salad.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. cream of wheat

[triguy46]

14. Wine. That's a food-ish kinda grapy fruity thing.

[canoeist52]

16. Melt 1 square of Baker's Chocolate in the microwave with 1 tsp butter

stir until blended stir in 1/4 tsp. vanilla and ad 1 cup confectioner's sugar.

This is for when there are no sweet snacks in the house.

[Kali]

17. something cooked by someone else

preferably fatty and salty

[Sisaruus]

21. My mother's macaroni and cheese.

[WCIL]

46. This

the first time I felt like eating after my recent surgery, the only thing that sounded good was my mom's macaroni and cheese. I called her and she was thrilled to make it and bring it right over.

[qb]

22. Vanilla Almond Bark Tofutti!

[HERVEPA]

23. Whole wheat everything bagel with cream cheese

[timtom]

51. What???

No Lox?

[Rosie1223]

25. I can't eat when I'm stressed but

those look delicious!

:hi:

[hobbit709]

27. REAL chocolate, not that Hershey's fake shit.

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. Haggis.

No, not really.

[guitar man]

29. Shrimp

boiled in New Orleans spices or grilled, no fried shrimp please. Just my shrimp and some melted butter with garlic to dip them in :P

[mcollins]

30. Cheeseburgers and a coke. nt

[ceile]

31. chicken fried steak

w/ mashed potatoes and gravy. But I have gone vegetarian, so who knows when I'll eat another....

[XemaSab]

32. Pho

:D

[proteus_lives]

33. Pizza or Indian food.

Depending on the trauma or stress.

[Liberalynn]

34. Don't Laugh

Chicken Pot Pie

[WinkyDink]

35. Chips.

[Ikonoklast]

36. The heart of a vanquished foe, still warm and beating.

I always feel better afterwards.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. You win this thread. -nt

[Lady President]

37. Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup

Yum!

[handmade34]

39. Thai

fresh spring rolls, then, red curry (veggie) spicy

[unpossibles]

53. that sounds delish! nt

[Odin2005]

40. Dairy Queen Blizzard.

[flvegan]

41. With me, it depends on how much time I have.

It only takes me a half hour to throw together overstacked BLTs and some sort of fried tater product. If it's the weekend, it might be pizza (I make my own sauce from scratch) or kickass fajitas. The thing with the fajitas is you choose the spiciness to suit. The colors, the smell, the flavor. And all in all, still pretty damn good for you.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. BLTs?

BLTs?

[flvegan]

49. Fake bacon, of course.

[harmonicon]

42. Jack Daniel's (nt)

[AsahinaKimi]

43. Must admit..

**Note: I can only eat a few spoonfuls of this since I am lactose intolerant, but its better then not having any at all. I love Caramel! I love Ice cream! I just can't eat very much of it.

[mnhtnbb]

45. A Manhattan followed by several glasses of a good zinfandel.

I have to stop drinking. Got to lose weight--about 30 pounds--and all
the sugar in that alcohol is one of the reasons.

[rurallib]

47. hot and spicy chili

[Z_I_Peevey]

48. Clam chowder n/t

[timtom]

50. Lipton instant Hearty Chicken Noodle Soup

mixed together with Lipton instant Cream of Chicken Soup.

In fact, I'm having some right now.

Yeah, yeah. I know all about the sodium content...

[unpossibles]

52. usually Thai noodles

and maybe Thai coffee on the side. Sushi is a close second, and a good Indian buffet can help too!

[name not needed]

54. Jameson