Name a food and tell us your connection to it, why you love

ardaniels0417

Cheese, Italian, love it. Makes me feel like a kid, my kids now love it as much as I do! Havent met a cheese yet I dont love...:flowerforyou:

swtally80

I conquered cheese! woot! I work at Albertsons and the chocolate chip cookies we give the kids are to die for but at 130 calories a cookie and I could eat like 4 a day it kills me!!!

swtally80

I conquered cheese! woot! I work at Albertsons and the chocolate chip cookies we give the kids are to die for but at 130 calories a cookie and I could eat like 4 a day it kills me!!!

sandara

Pizza! It's the perfect food. Where else can you get all 4 food groups in one dish? :laugh:

selbyhutch

Baked Mac & Cheese... homemade w/ at least 6 different cheeses. It's creamy, warm. yummy & just reminds me of my childhood.

SassyMissDasha

Potatoes! I grew up in Russia ..and my grandma used to make pirogies with meat or cream cheese or potatoes. Also pelmenies, they are like ravioli, with either meat or cheese. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!!

Scncartist

Pizza! It's the perfect food. Where else can you get all 4 food groups in one dish? :laugh:

Thats FUNNY! If my fiance were reading this he'd agree...he would eat pizza morning/noon/night every day of the year if he could! :-)

BeautifulScarsWECHANGED

Homemade macaroni and cheese, cassarole style. I make it about once a year, and it's AWESOME. I'm connected to it because that's the first meal my step-dad showed me how to make. Everytime he made it, we'd make it together. Our relationship has changed a lot since then....so it's a good memory to hold on to. I know it's dangerous food, that's why it's only once a year. :bigsmile:

ardaniels0417

You reminded me of another fav. My grandmother use to make the most delicious italian donuts called pizza frit. I can remember standing on her red step stool beside her helping her kneed the dough. After we fried them we covered them with cinnamon sugar. I know fried and sugar in one treat. But it makes me just feel like Im 5 again... and that is good.

selbyhutch

You reminded me of another fav. My grandmother use to make the most delicious italian donuts called pizza frit. I can remember standing on her red step stool beside her helping her kneed the dough. After we fried them we covered them with cinnamon sugar. I know fried and sugar in one treat. But it makes me just feel like Im 5 again... and that is good.

Zeppoli? My ex-husband was Italian & they always made this... it could be plain... cin & sugar... or stuffed.

BarbieCat1

Funny... I make a wicked mac and cheese too... my kids, now grown, love it and when visiting, want it over anything else. I've changed a couple things in the recipe over the past few years, but nothing can replace the sharp aged cheddar. Low fat cheese doesn't work right.

I used to put ham chunks in mine, but now use low fat smoked turkey sausage chunks and it still tastes good. I also use low fat milk in the cheese sauce base, and instead of 3 tbsp of butter, use 1 Tbsp. butter, 2 Tbsp olive oil to make the roux... again, this reduces sat. fat a bit without sacrificing taste. I have also experimented with whole wheat pasta, which isn't bad at all, but it doesn't look quite right, and appearance counts when you're making a favorite family meal. The other substitutions work OK... the dish still tastes rich and cheesy.

No question... it's my family's favorite comfort food. It has to have a lot of that excellent cheddar in it... so even with my concessions of a few healthier substitutes, it's still a sledgehammer of dairy fat. But you know... some things need to be what they are and if this means I don't make it often and must eat less, so be it.

absie107

Gefilte fish. That stuff... is so delicious. Passover or not, I LOVE that stuff. A lot of other Jewish people think it's gross... but I dig it. My aunt always has the little bite-sized ones at Passover and sometimes other holidays... I could eat a whole jar :-P