Comfort Food

We love food...and comfort food best of all (who doesn't??). So this might be a long list:

Elle:

Lobster with cheese, cream, onion and mushroom (it's a bastardised Thermidor but oh my god Good)

Cheese (Melted on bread, with crackers and fruit or on its own - yes, I like eating cheese for breakfast)

Homemade Mac and Cheese (noticing a theme?)

Creamy Mash with lots of butter (self-explanatory, really)

Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup - if I'm feeling rundown and on the verge of illness I eat this - miracle cure!

Thick rice porridge with pickled lettuce and ba hu (pork floss) - I eat this when I'm sick and particularly as my first solid food post-food poisoning. I'll often have it when I'm missing home.

Watercress and pork meatball soup (yummy, healthy and nourishing)

Really, when it comes to comfort food, for me it has to be either rich and unhealthy or light, brothy and nutritious.

Andrea

I have to admit that when I'm stressed or sick, I often stop eating altogether instead of eating comfort food. Yes, I am an anorexic stresser. During exams periods, if I eat something I feel like I could throw it all out again (I know, TMI). But sometimes, the Boyfriend some people force me to eat, and then I get picky. So, here are my comfort foods (after reading Elle's I know this is a shame, but it's all about being honest) :

Kinder Delice (two layers of soft dark chocolate cake with a creamy kinder milk layer between, covered in chocolate).

Apple or Apple/Pear compote. In very large quantities. The Boyfriend buys me about 3kg during test weeks.

Chicken soup straight from the Tetrapack. Okay, I do put it in the microwave for 5 minutes so it's boiling hot.

Carbonara pasta. The greasiness of the cream+lards+gruyère is just magnificent when sick.

Sour candy.

And let's not forget... PASSION FRUIT SORBET STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CONTAINER.

So, that means that my anorexic stress is easily compensated by eating a combination of the most fattening things ever.