The best comfort food
OK, I lied when I said my favorite comfort food was bread. That was before it got really cold. My favorite comfort food is fat. So here's a bonus Top Ten for you: My top ten most delicious -- and worst for you -- fatty foods.
Top these: ...
*Butter (unsalted and regular)
*The crisp-edged fat on a rib eye steak
*The crisp skin combined with the fat on a slice of duck
*Whipping cream
*A nice fatty sparerib
*Creme fraiche
*Devonshire cream
*Brie and Camembert
*Bacon and things cooked in bacon fat
*Little sizzling sausage links
(Pile o' bacon courtesy of MentalFloss.com)
Comments
How about Utz's chips, the good ones fried in lard. The chips at Pazo are pretty good too. Then there's St. Andre, Explorateur, any thing made with a Paula Deen recipe---one stick of butter.....y'all!
Posted by: Dave | December 7, 2007 12:25 PM
This one's easy - McDonald's breakfast
Posted by: Bob | December 7, 2007 12:35 PM
Bacon makes everything better.
If they could find a way to wrap the world in bacon, peace would finally prevail.
Posted by: Sam Sessa | December 7, 2007 1:12 PM
The skin on hot fried chicken.
Posted by: Regina | December 7, 2007 1:20 PM
A New York style Chicago deep dish crab cake pizza with extra cheese and chocolate shavings on top :)
Posted by: Greg S | December 7, 2007 1:28 PM
The crispy skin on a piece of juicy fried chicken, preferrebly from either Popeyes, Bojangles, or the chicken stands in either the Fells Point Market or Lexington Market. Mmm, mmm, mmmm !!!
Posted by: Tom | December 7, 2007 1:53 PM
You missed the #1 all together. An Attman's kosher hot dog wrapped in fried bologna, topped with mustard, onions and sauerkraut! Second to none, nothing gets any better.....excpet for maybe their delicious hot corned beef !
Posted by: Mort | December 7, 2007 1:59 PM
Dang, this list would make a trucker blush
Posted by: nestee | December 7, 2007 2:00 PM
A big steaming mug of cocoa made with some of that whipping cream you mentioned.
Posted by: Janet | December 7, 2007 2:07 PM
AJ's Tator Tots @ Regi's in Federal Hill...They take classic and simple tator tots and smoother them with melted brie cheese, heavy cream, and applewood bacon. There must be butter in them, too!
Posted by: Saulo | December 7, 2007 2:40 PM
How about home-made, oven-baked macaroni and cheese made with a good sharp cheddar? It contains both cheese and butter, which are two of my favorite things. I have on occasion made mac and cheeese with ground hot (spicy) sausage layered in it for a fatty trifecta of butter, cheese and pork. :-)
Posted by: Marion | December 7, 2007 5:39 PM
Question for Greg S: Great choice, but who has the best?
(Oh, and is it dark, semi-sweet or milk chocolate; American or European?)
Posted by: Robert | December 7, 2007 5:52 PM
In honor of Hanukah,thin, crispy potato latkes that have been fried up in schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) - that my friends is finger licking, lip smacking good.
And no one wrote about ice cream.
Posted by: Dining Dish | December 7, 2007 10:54 PM
Janet - add some Bailey's Irish Cream to that and you're set.
Posted by: JLA | December 8, 2007 4:00 PM
I haven't been there in about 18 months, but I loved the tasty fries at SALT that I believe were cooked in duck fat.
Posted by: ColumbiaBill | December 8, 2007 5:07 PM
(1) Fresh-out-of-the-oven roasted chicken or turkey skin.
(2) The skin of Park's Fried Chicken in Lexington Market (yeah, the meat's good, but oh! that skin!)
(3) Loaded French fries or potato skins with cheddar, bacon and sour cream.
(4) A slab of Red Velvet cake from Berger's Bakery.
Sorry, gotta stop...I'm about to drown in saliva....
Posted by: Dottie | December 10, 2007 3:05 PM
You either move toward something you love or away from something you fear. The first expands. The second constricts. -Tom Crum
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