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This is my list of top 10 ultimate comfort food ever exists in my mama's kitchen... It all comes in random!
I must say that when I was a kid I'm a bad picky eater from veggies to meats I just ignored it, a plain simple rule when I was young. But looking back right now I realize how these foods embrace me while growing up filled with fond memories I always cherish.
Since I love food more than ever!
Most especially if it's a comfort food that really does makes me feel better and gets me going so I decided a trip down memory lane and list whatever I can recall.
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First of all, what is a comfort food?
As defined by Wiki
The term comfort food refers to a style of familiar, simple food or drink that is usually home-cooked, or consumed in informal restaurants. The idea of "comfort food" is popular in western culture and not part of many other societies including East Asia.It is typically inexpensive, uncomplicated, and easy to prepare. Many people turn to comfort food for familiarity, emotional security, or as a special reward. The reasons a dish becomes a comfort food are diverse but often include pleasant associations of childhood. Small children often seem to latch on to a specific food or drink (in a way similar to a security blanket) and will repeatedly request it in high stress situations. Adults eat comfort food for a sense of continuity.
Comfort foods are typically composed largely of simple or complex carbohydrate, such as sugar, rice, refined wheat, and so on.
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Do you have an ultimate comfort food ever? What is it?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, pretty much!
poutine says:
Oh yes, I do! It's homemade macaroni and cheese with
plenty of the gooey stuff. Delicious to the lips and wonderful
for the spirit.
Posted July 04, 2009
zenithacme says:
hi! nice to meet you. your lens is totally different. when i really read through this i found it interesting.
Posted January 03, 2009
Celticozarkian says:
Home made chicken noodle soup on a cold day or when I have a cold. YUM!
Posted December 01, 2008
Nothing much really. I don't know.
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#1 A glass of milk and chocolate cookies
first off the bat!

How can I forget these sweet chocolate cookies and a glass of milk! It comes almost everyday in the morning.
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#2 Arroz Caldo
Filipino Rice Congee
I love arroz caldo!
It won't be so surprising why it's on my list... My taste of food is so eclectic mostly influence by the eastern culture. This recipe is perfect to ease colds due to the cold weather monsoon. I still enjoyed this every now and then.
Chicken Arroz Caldo Recipe
Recipe Courtesy of Open Source Food
You will need:
• 4 chicken thighs (or drumsticks)
• 2 cups of sticky rice (uncooked)
• 1 qt of chicken stock (fat free, sodium free)
• 2 knobs of ginger (peeled, chopped 1/4 inches)
• 4 cloves of garlic (chopped roughly)
• 1 onion or 2 shallots
• green onions
• 2 tablespoons patis (fish sauce)
• salt and pepper
Cooking Instruction:
Get a big pot hot and add some olive oil, and brown the chicken. This means don't move it until it has sufficiently browned on one side. Salt and pepper.
When you flip over the chicken, add the chopped onion or shallots and let it sautee until the other side of the chicken browns.
Add garlic, give a quick toss and add uncooked rice.
Mix around the rice and add the patis (vietnamese fish sauce works well too). Add ginger. Mix around and add chicken stock.
Cover and bring to simmer.
When simmer, bring heat to medium and continue to stir. Making sure rice doesn't stick to the bottom of the pot.
Continue to check the tenderness of the rice (much like risotto). If mixture is getting too thick, loosen with tepid water.
When rice is cooked just right, serve with chicken in a bowl and garnish with green onions and/or deep fried shallots and garlic and a grind of black pepper (white pepper works well too).
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# 3 Pancit
Pancit is similar to stir-fried noodles dish originated from China. It is made up of very thin rice noodles fried with soy sauce and some citrus and possibly with patis and variation of chopped meats and vegetables.
It is said that there are 15 variations of Pancit every region in the Philippines.
Just click here for free pancit recipes:
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#4 What about some Buko Pie?
This is one of many indigenous food in the Philippines which is usually made as a pasalubong or keepsake for a relative or tourist in the country.
Traditionally, a buko pie is a pastry filled with sweetened young coconut. There are also a lot of variations of this pie often they use macapuno, a special type of coconut which is much thicker and sticky.
Click below for free buko pie recipes:
• How to Make Buko Pie
• Buko Pie Special
• Buko Pie a la Marketman - Market Manila
# 5 Eggs over Toast!
Oh, lovely!
One of the easiest breakfast preparation that I know...
This is how you do it, just in case.
All you need:
Buttered toast
Egg whites
Egg yolks
Seasoning (optional)
Let's get it on!
See to it that the buttered toast well warmed. Beat egg whites as you needed until stiff. Place egg yolks on toast slices, then cover the slices with egg whites. Season well.. if you want and let it brown in the oven or microwave.
That's it!
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# 6 This is how you say it... Su-man!

Suman is a rice cake originating from the Philippines. It is made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, and often steamed in banana leaves. It is served wrapped in buli or buri palm (Corypha) leaves and usually eaten sprinkled with sugar.
Su-man Recipe Links
- Suman - Recipes Wiki
- Ibos (Visayan) or suman (Tagalog) is basically malagkit (sticky rice) wrapped in either banana leaves or coconut leaves.
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# 7 Let's refresh with Halo-halo!
... from the word itself "mix-mix"

...so what's halo-halo?
For sure a lot of balikbayan's really missed this one!
Halo-halo is a traditional Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans and fruits, and served cold in a tall glass or bowl.
There is no specific recipe for this dessert, and a wide variety of ingredients are used. The order in which the ingredients are added varies widely. Primary ingredients generally include boiled red mung beans, kidney beans, garbanzos, sugar palm fruit (kaong), coconut sport (macapuno), and plantains caramelized in sugar. Other components may include jackfruit (langka), star apple, tapioca or sago, nata de coco, purple yam (ube) or sweet potato (kamote), sweetened corn kernels or pounded crushed young rice (pinipig), leche flan or custard, ice cream and gelatin. Other fruits, such as papayas, avocados, kiwifruit, bananas or cherries, may also be added. Some preparations also include ice cream on top of the halo-halo.
Click below for more free halo-halo recipe links:
• Halo-Halo
• Halo Halo Recipe a Filipino Dessert by PinoyRecipe.Net
• HALO-HALO - Recipe Archives
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Here are some dish suggestions should anyone would like to sample Filipino cooking (whether from recipe or restaurant) - these dishes are fairly traditional and whoever cooks them couldn't go wrong. As one author has put it, exploration of Filipino dishes will not be an arduous trek, because Filipino cooking is easy.
...excerpt from Introduction to Filipino Cuisine

# 8 Chocolatey Champorado
...choooccccoooollllaaattteeey!
:For the Mexican drink, see Champurrado
Champorado () is a sweet chocolate rice porridge in Filipino cuisine. It is traditionally made by boiling sticky rice with cocoa powder, giving it a distinctly brown color and usually with milk and of course sugar to make it taste sweeter. However, dry champorado mixes, which may be found in some Asian food stores, are prepared by just adding boiling water. It can be served hot or cold and with milk and sugar to taste. It is served usually at breakfast and sometimes together with salty dried fish locally known as tuyo.
The pudding becomes very thick and the lighter milk helps to "loosen" it. It's almost like eating "chocolate oatmeal". It can be eaten as a snack or dessert as well. Sweet rice can be found in most aisles of an Asian grocery store.
Its history can be traced back from Mexico. During the so called "Barter Trade" between Mexico and Spanish Philippines, there were Mexican traders, slaves etc. who stayed in the Philippines and with them the knowledge of making Champurrado (this is the same reason why there is Tuba in Mexico). But through the years, the recipe changed; Filipinos eventually found ways to make the Mexican Champpurado a Filipino Champorado by adding rice.
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#9 Fish Sauce/ Bagoong

Fish sauce is a condiment that is derived from fish that have been allowed to ferment. It is an essential ingredient in many curries and sauces. Fish sauce is a staple ingredient in Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, and Cambodian cuisine and is used in other Southeast Asian countries. In addition to being added to dishes during the cooking process, fish sauce can also be used in mixed form as a dipping condiment, and it is done in many different ways by each country mentioned for fish, shrimp, pork, and chicken.
In parts of southern China, it is used as an ingredient for soups and casseroles.
Fish sauce, and its derivatives, impart an umami flavor to food due to their glutamate content.From Poot-Poot to Fish Sauce to Umami to MSG Seashore Foraging & Fishing Study. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
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Last but not the least! #10 Hot Chocolate!
This is all for now.
Hot Chocolate (also known as hot cocoa, drinking chocolate, or just cocoa) is a heated beverage that typically consists of shaved chocolate or cocoa powder, heated milk or water, and sugar. While hot chocolate is generally thought of as a drink consumed for pleasure, recent studies have suggested that hot chocolate possesses health benefits due to antioxidants that can be found in cocoa. Until the 19th century, hot chocolate was even used medicinally to treat ailments such as stomach diseases.
The first chocolate beverage is believed to have been created by the Mayan peoples around 2000 years ago, and a cocoa beverage was an essential part of Aztec culture by 1400 A.D. The beverage became popular in Europe after being introduced from Mexico in the New World, and has undergone multiple changes since then. Today, hot chocolate is consumed throughout the world and comes in multiple variations including the very thick cioccolata densa served in Italy, and the thinner hot cocoa that is typically consumed in the United States.
Chocolate Recipe Links
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- HOTCHOCOLATE
- Featuring a wide range of desserts, as well as lunch and brunch. Menu, hours of operation, and contact information.
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- Hot Chocolate Recipes
- Coffee and hot chocolate go so splendidly well together, that I have included a collection of cocoa and hot chocolate recipes too.
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- Tyrowen Tyrowen Aug 16, 2009 @ 12:02 am
- Hey nice lens, keep it up!
Nice recipes you have here!
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- TeaLady TeaLady Aug 3, 2009 @ 4:03 am
- I'll have to try some of these...esp the coco rice!! mmmmmmm
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- Tipi Tipi Jun 5, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
- This is a beautiful lens and the way that you have dressed it up makes it very yummy!
Susie
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- MessiahMews MessiahMews Jun 5, 2009 @ 1:21 am
- I want to buy the Braun MX2050 PowerMax 525-Watt 58-Ounce Jug Blender, but it says the item is currently unavailable.
Do you know where else I can buy it?
Great lens, btw. Love the different formatting. Very refreshing.
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- spirituality spirituality Jun 2, 2009 @ 5:20 am
- Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
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