I have not had a peanut butter sandwich with honey forever. Guess I know what I am having for lunch today.

Great list of comfort ...

The SAVORY rice pudding like my great grandmother used to make every sunday (according to my mother). Although mine doesn't taste the same, of course, I make it quite often.

I love that bibingka was included on this list! My grandmother's version is definitely a comfort to me, with its coconut and brown sugar goodness.

Being Filipino and Mexican, a lot of dishes with the same name, but varying ingredients are what I considered homestyle comfort food. For example, rice dishes, like arroz caldo, or bean dishes, like mungo beans or refried pinto beans. I also love casserole dishes, like enchiladas and baked pasta dishes.

Savory: a simple risotto or polenta says Home. Always good. Simple cookies like chocolate chip or peanut butter are the sweet comfort. If it takes too much effort to make, it ain't comfort food. The recipes I can make without a thought and eat without a hitch are what I want.

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OH BLESS YOU. this post was just what I needed today! :)

I just posted about my ultimate comfort food today-- Egg and Cheese sandwiches!
http://bakeeatrepeat.blogspot.com/2012/07/classic-scrambled-egg-sandwich.html

Homemade chocolate chip cookies are my sweet comfort food. I could eat them after every meal.

A simple risotto like this squash blossom risotto that I made last week or a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. Also, the recipe I've been making longer than anything else, this red wine spaghetti is always a quick and comforting favorite. And of course, there's tuna noodle casserole...It obviously has to be pasta for my favorite comfort food...so many pastas, so little time...

Nutella and Peanut butter sandwich!!

As well, tuna casserole. Ohh tuna and cheesiness!!

Cornmeal mush with chopped onion, chopped green pepper if available, savory herbs, and cubes of melty cheese stirred in just before serving.

Spaghetti carbonara--with an American twist: fry up a few strips of bacon to crisp, and crumble. Add the crumble--and the bacon fat--to some cooked spaghetti, stir in an egg, and sprinkle with Reggiano and lots of black pepper.

Also love Campbell's tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches!

Made-from-scratch macaroni and cheese!

Cabbage rolls, with poppy seed egg noodles, sauced with tomato sauce mixed with sour cream. A fried egg on toasted rye (with thin sliced onions and ketchup) sandwich. My mom's recipe for macaroni salad. Meatloaf.

What a great column.

My comfort food is a big bowl of cheesy mashed potatoes. (Sometimes the cheese is parmesan; sometimes it's cheddar; sometimes it's a mixture of both, depending on what's in the refrigerator.)

Mashed potatoes. I love mashed potatoes... especially with tomato sauce. (The Australian tomato sauce, not the American - like ketchup, but not as sweet.)

Probably toast and ginger beer, if I'm really sick. Or mashed potatoes.

I just wrote an essay on comfort, memory, food and music. I don't suppose anyone's interested, but here's a link, anyway! (there's also a recipe there for ginger beer-battered zucchini and artichoke fritters. Decidedly NOT a comfort food!)

My sister and I agree that any combination of potatoes, cheese, and/or bread is comfort food for us. Mashed potatoes, latkes, mac and cheese, grilled cheese, etc.

Maybe I skew a bit older than your average reader, because when I was a kid, pasta was called either "spaghetti" or "noodles," and about the only go-to recipes in the American kitchen repertoire that I remember were spaghetti with meat sauce or mac 'n cheese with elbow macaroni (and usually, I hate to confess, made from a boxed kit -- my mom was from the generation that wholly embraced "better living through chemistry;" i.e., "modern" convenience foods spewed out by corporations designed to make it easy to put a meal on the table.)

So, while I love pasta in pretty much any form now, that is not what calls to me when thinking of comfort food that also conjures up memories from childhood.

What I would add to the list is the classic dinner of roasted beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, and in our house anyway, green peas (frozen, not fresh or canned!). I'm not talking about pot roast or prime rib roast, even though both of those are certainly delicious in their own right.

I have found it hard to replicate today what I remember my mom cooking up because whatever cut of beef I have tried, usually from the round, it has ended up looking beautiful but has been tough instead of tender.

I did read a recipe recently that suggested a different preparation method, though, so might try again soon.