Ooh, a South African dish that is very much like meatloaf.
(Thanks to the Twopsters for finding this.)
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
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sumi - Jun 28, 2007 9:50:14 am PDT #402 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
JZ - Jun 28, 2007 10:05:31 am PDT #403 of 23273
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I think comfort food is fairly regional in America.
Yup, and also what megan said -- raised by one native-born child of immigrants and one third-generation native, our main homemade comfort foods as kids were meat loaf, roast chicken, and all the Italian and Greek comfort foods that had been passed down through the families, very little altered from the moment our olive-skinned ancestors hopped off their boats. I've had tuna casserole maybe three times in my life, always while visiting at the home of a more distinctly WASPy friend whose parents had migrated to CA from somewhere in the middle, and I have no idea what chicken a la king is at all.
sumi - Jun 28, 2007 10:08:36 am PDT #404 of 23273
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I can't remember what Micah had to choose from but Sarah had a number of dishes that she could choose.
Perhaps none of them resembled anything familiar to her.
What is Jamaican comfort food?
Stephanie - Jun 28, 2007 10:13:02 am PDT #405 of 23273
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I think I'm about as WASP-y as you can get, but I don't think I've ever had tuna casserole. And Minnesota is the king-of-casseroles.
sumi - Jun 28, 2007 10:15:39 am PDT #406 of 23273
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So far, chicken ala king seems to be the comfort food people have had the least.
(I was surprised that there were no chicken fingers!)
Was there spaghetti? Or mac-'n'cheese?
Vortex - Jun 28, 2007 10:16:47 am PDT #407 of 23273
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there was mac and cheese with the fried chicken
Denise - Jun 28, 2007 10:18:01 am PDT #408 of 23273
The fried chicken came with mac and cheese, I think. I don't remember there being spaghetti. Just lasagna.
Jesse - Jun 28, 2007 10:25:24 am PDT #409 of 23273
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I'm pretty sure Sara identified the chicken ala king correctly, though -- basically chicken pot pie without the pie. Where she went from there is a mystery, but it's not because she didn't know what she was looking at.
Amy - Jun 28, 2007 10:37:55 am PDT #410 of 23273
Because books.
I'm pretty sure Sara identified the chicken ala king correctly, though -- basically chicken pot pie without the pie.
Sort of. The sauce is creamier, and usually includes sherry. Plus mushrooms and green peppers. It's another way to use leftover chicken, essentially, and it is YUM.
We serve it over English muffins, but you could serve it over rice (I guess) or noodles.
Toddson - Jun 28, 2007 10:39:20 am PDT #411 of 23273
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ooh, AmyLiz's version actually sounds good! most versions of it I'm familiar with are served to large groups and are not good.