ADV Banned Camp

You sure do find a lot of purty food.

Not really comfort food but it was comforting to eat!

For NZ$99.00 a seafood platter for two enjoyed by Mr and MrsKiwi while in Autitaki (Cook Islands) earlier this week. There is more food on this platter than it looks, it defeated us, as we could not eat it all

But what we did eat was ultra yummy...

Looks awesome !

Not so fancy... and not so healthy... but yum

Take one bread roll, blue french cheese, and put it under the grill

p.s. don't tell your doctor, especially if he's looking at your cholesterol levels

mmmmmmm

You guys have to actually try it.

Until you do, you won't believe how good it is.

I still remember that night in the restaurant many years ago, running the dishwasher, when the chef made these and gave me one...

Anything with Blue cheese is awesome in my book....

Mate can't stand it ..
So I don't get Blue chesse as much I would like..

Nope. Wrong attitude.

You get all of the blue cheese, when you buy it

Yeah I know .. But I would eat it ALL in one sitting

Me too

Delicate Snowflake wrote: running the dishwasher

How many of us have been a dishwasher? It is the worst job in the kitchen and the most important.

If you doubt that: What happens when the dishwasher doesn't show up for work? Somebody is going to be doing that job. Even if that somebody is the chef or the general manager. If the cook doesn't show you may have to close. But if you are open... Then the dishwasher is really the most important cat in the kitchen.

And the dishwasher is the lowest ranked and paid cat, too. If you think about how things actually work, you soon realize that much of what people "know" is just social fiction.

And, yes, I am a real blast at parties.

All true.

It's even worse when you do it for free.

At a later job (driving the truck for a catering firm) the trouble was I had the endless hours of the kitchen prep, and the event, to just sit around and do nothing (so I could then re-load and drive all the stuff back to the warehouse, once the event was over).

So I had either of two things to keep me busy in the kitchen for those hours. Run the dishwasher. Or occasionally I was asked to refill the Bollinger bottles with cheap bubbly for the waiters.

LOL...

I did meet and date a few nice waitresses at that job though. And all the lifting/carrying kept me fit and trim!

Delicate Snowflake wrote:I did meet and date a few nice waitresses at that job though. And all the lifting/carrying kept me fit and trim!

To be young again...

Mac and cheese is the ultimate comfort food. While hanging at the "peace rally" in Cedar Vale Ks a week ago, had an irresistible urge for some mac and cheese. Just happened to have a box of Kraft in a cupboard in the RV. Noticed the date code was 2017, but I figured what could go wrong. Boiled water, added the mac noodles, and when done , strained the noodles. Then cut open the cheese pouch and poured it over the noodles.
Holy crap. It was dark brown. Not the succulent yellow cheese goodness, but dark brown crud. Apparently spending a year (or two) in a cupboard in an RV that experienced over 100F, and well below freezing, repeatedly, is not a good thing.
Totally disgusting. Apparently the date code on a product is meaningful.

Kraft was passable when I was a kid, but I just can't now. I'm not sure what about me changed, but no.

Homemade, or even institutional (think 5 lb can), mac and cheese is out of this world.

As to storing anything you think you might want to eat in a camper... If the rodents or the bugs don't get it, the heat certainly will. Carry in, carry out is not just for hiking in the woods.

Chicken and Dumplings (drop dumplings)

Homemade Minestrone Soup

Hommade Chicken Noodle Soup

Kale...(not really) Fucking goats won't eat that shit

If it is a "thing" it isn't comfort food. The marketing wanks pushing the "new" veg of the moment aren't comforting anyone. (It is weird how these things suddenly appear everywhere being pushed with massive campaigns.)

Now, if you use kale in a recipe from a culture that has been using kale for centuries... There may well be a comfort food there.

My idea of comfort food, and probably my favorite food period.
Good fresh from the gulf coast, fried crab claws.