Comfort Foods

That was it.

She did not do, I know some people put like egg noodles in their tuna casserole, but my mom did not.

So I, that's what I grew up with.

And that's probably the one of the most powerful comfort foods.

in my repertoire because it just immediately i would never eat tuna casserole in my entire life if it had not been from my mom and i'm sure i don't mind the taste of tuna casserole but i think it's the association with my mom that makes it makes it something when i'm feeling a little off will bring me right back um Another thing my mom made, which some people gag at the thought of are fried chicken livers.

And now I can't remember the last time I fried a chicken liver, but I will eat chicken livers.

And so that's one that I don't necessarily make.

I view chicken livers more as like good fishing bait than food, but I will eat them and enjoy them.

So she would make fried chicken livers and gravy and biscuits and that kind of thing.

Another one that I still make, several times a year that I absolutely love.

And it's what my mom called, my mom and dad were from Kentucky.

So in Kentucky, they call them soup beans.

In North Carolina, they call them pintos because that's what they are.

Same thing.

But my mom would throw pintos in a pot with water and bay leaves and I think probably a ham hock or a big chunk of country ham and simmer those things all day until they were very well done.

And then that would be our meal.

It would be soup beans and cornbread.

And the way that we were taught to eat them, my dad added this variant, which I actually really like, but I can't seem to convince anyone else on earth that it's a good combination.

But he would take a big tablespoon of sweet relish, pickle relish, and put it in the beans, and that's how we ate them.

And that's how I eat them to this day.

So I love me some soup beans.

Or again, if you're from the Carolinas, you probably call them pintos.

But that's definitely a comfort food for me.