The Chew: Comfort Foods For All the Years of Your Healthy Life
It’s common for people to favor their childhood dishes that Mom made for comfort into their adulthood. All of the dishes can be healthy through the years of your Life.
The Chew panel discussed the love we share for ice cream, mac and cheese, and foods that speak to us from our earliest and best memories.
The Chew and Comfort Food Recipes
For the pasta dish, Michael Symon whipped up Beef Rigatoni and gave it a finish with some olive oil, a slab of butter, parsley, and some parmesan.
Carla prepared fried chicken and waffles with a delightful herb honey with lemon zest that made her shake, rattle, and roll with quivering memories.
Daphne prepared a Sweet Dreams smoothie with milk, banana, cinnamon, and honey to help her drift off to sleep with thoughts of the foods she grew up with on her mind.
Clinton made an ice cream pie with chocolate chip mint ice cream drizzled with a creme de menthe chocolate syrup.
It’s always possible to make any dish healthy. We can take old faves and exchange the old ingredients for organic fresh ingredients. It maintains our sense of our personal identity and preferences. It keeps what we cherish in the forefront of our minds.
We had a caretaker that made us the best grasshopper pies. My mom made spaghetti and meatballs that still takes me back to our first kitchen when I close my eyes. I make a chicken stir-fry with peppers and onions that carried us through so many satisfied sighs and yums over the years. Between mashed potatoes and tofu cheesecake, we find comfort in old recipes that get new twists and turns as the years progress.
