Comfort Foods

I know it’s a bit late at night but I didn’t want to miss another day. So, it’s a t-minus 55 minutes to get this posted. Lol. Anyways this week and really, this time of year is just so jam-packed full of food. Every activity has food, people bring you gifts of food, there are holiday foods. It is literally everywhere right now and I am sure I am not the only one who has partakes in five too many cookies. But I digress.

Today, we started off with one of our sales reps supplying the store with Cracker Barrel breakfast. It was my idea to do breakfast because the last two days lunch was provided by different reps. Pancakes, bacon, hash browns, and their cinnamon roll pie. Everyone was stuffed and had no complaints. I was full right up til I left work to go to plan Christmas breakfast with my boyfriends mom. And that is how we got to comfort food.

I told the boyfriend I would be at his house and I asked him if he wanted dinner. Usually I give choices but this time he had one for me and one I would really like to make. Beef stew. Of course, him being the goof that he is, he sent me a Dungeon & Dragons recipe. Link attached 😉

Now I didn’t follow it exactly since I didn’t have any Dijon or rosemary. I added some Italian seasoning and some basil. I turned my cooker on with the veggies and some beef broth while I browned the meat in the skillet. Combined it all in the cooker and let it cook down for an hour and a half.

While I was waiting for the boyfriend to change and shower from work, I also made up some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Some with walnuts, some without, since not everyone likes or can have them. When he finally came downstairs, I had a hot bowl of stew, some sourdough slices and a fresh baked cookie. Come to find out at dinner, he was having a rough day, and the stew sounded like a good option 🙂

He isn’t one for many words but that bowl was gone and on to another one real quick. He said he was satisfied, and it was awesome. I liked it too. I’m not gonna lie best I’ve had in a while. But I’ll take comfort food for the win! What’s your dish? What sounds good when your day is off this time? Share some recipes 🙂