#365DaysOfWriting – Day Fifty-One
Comfort food. Glorious comfort food.
2 min readJun 28, 2016
51 days into my writing project and I’ve realised that I haven’t written at all about something that’s close to my heart (literally and figuratively) – FOOD!
If you’re looking for a long post, almost in the style of MasterChef, look away. This is just a starter – a little ‘entrée’ if you will, about my favourite comfort foods.
- Butter Chicken and Butter Naan – Works best during winters. Nice, long, soft naans with butter and a sweet buttery chicken. You don’t even need dessert afterwards.
- Plain rice, dal with desi ghee-fried onion tadka and a piece of fish fry – The one that’s best made at home, on a lazy Sunday, by your grandmother. Oh boy, mine knows cooking, and HOW. If she wasn’t so old, she’d be participating in MasterChef.
- Chicken Hakka Noodles with tomato ketchup on the side – My Chinese staple. Ask any of my friends and they’ll tell you, at a Chinese restaurant/buffet I always go for the noodles first. Then comes the hard part of explaining why I like tomato ketchup as an accompaniment…
- Cheesecake and mascarpone cream from Pizza Express – Notice how I’m so specific with this one? That’s because I’m not even a cheesecake fan! But Pizza Express has made me a believer. I still can’t eat cheesecake from anywhere else.
- Creamy mashed potatoes/thick cut French fries – As Sanika Tillway would tell you, no food list of mine is complete without the mention of potato (no wonder I’m shaped like one myself). I don’t like the assembly line French fries from McD for instance, but give me a fat, thick cut piece of fried potato goodness (you can get it at Doolally) and I’m set. Mashed potatoes too, mmmm – but it depends on the consistency of the mash. I hate finding potato lumps in them…