Comfort food

If I go to Italy, I might come back and go to a Mexican place because I do like food that is terribly not good for you, terribly unhealthy when I come back after a long road trip or a long trip of any sort.

And so like a bunch of cheese dip and some tacos and a big cold beer might be one of my comfort food moves.

But yeah, double cheeseburger is always

a good go-to.

Because when I get home, I'm mentally tired.

I'm just beat and my body's tired.

And I'm just like, I'm just going to eat some comfort food.

One last

Yes, the food you make when your day was terrible and you just need something warm.

Comfort food.

For me, it's always some kind of soup.

A soup that you let simmer for a long time?

The whole house smells amazing.

And by the time it's ready, I already feel better.

What's your go-to comfort food, everyone listening? Tell us in the comments.

We're always curious.

... is the focus.

Like, every recipe is teaching you a different kind of core culinary techniques, and she does a lot of kind of classic comfort food, which I love to eat, but I frankly, like, don't cook for myself that much at home.

So I think I would-

Yeah

... learn a lot from this book, even though I wouldn't consider myself a beginner cook.

Some of these comfort food recipes that are really speaking to me, this viral mac and cheese recipe that I've seen her make every time it comes across my feed, 'cause it looks so good.

Mm.

Banana bread, oven-cooked barbecue pulled pork with spicy slaw, chicken soup with homemade noodles.

Kind of give us a bird's eye view of what your philosophy is and what people can expect to find on the regular menu.

You know, when we started the Croft, it was comfort food reinvented.

But I think we should have called it the food the hard way because we literally make everything from scratch.

We make our own beef broth to all of our gravies.

We hand-cut all of our meats, whether it's for our French dip or for our chicken nuggets, we hand-cut.

We outsource all of our breads locally.

So, basically, what we do is, whether it's gourmet sandwiches or smash burgers we want to elevate it but also make it a comfort food that someone else remembers whether we inspired uh one of our proteins to be a hawaiian inspired dish which is a loco moco or go back to japanese which is katsu curry or for our smash burger you know i'm a fan of french onion soup so we did a inspired a french onion smash burger that was inspired by a french onion soup or whether you know it's a classic like a like an Italian, like a chicken parm sandwich, you know? So, but then instead of doing a bread, we do panko.

So we kind of do, we kind of do twists on classics, but also elevated in the same

Every person has a story.

At the end of the podcast, and indeed at the end of every interview in this book, you ask guests about their comfort food.

And you make the point that you ask them that rather than the more obvious what their last meal would be.

Why?

And it just makes me think, gosh, the last meal would be I was being electrocuted or, you know, barbarically put to death.

So I just don't know if I'd want to eat or what I care about.

what I was eating, but I do think that comfort food is something that we all need.

And, you know, some people find comfort in food, or they can find comfort in listening to, you know, a Mozart sonata.