Two of my favorite comfort foods are soups and potato salads. Even though potato salad is more for summer fare, I eat it year round; just like soups seem more for cold weather, I still eat them in hot weather. Actually, pure comfort food has no season. The first item I looked up in the index was potato salad and there was "Emeril's Favorite Potato Salad," with its homemade tangy mayo dressing, small red potatoes, salty bacon, hard-boiled eggs, bold red onion, and crunchy celery. Under soups I find one of my favorites - cheese and beer. Emeril's version has chopped up kielbasa sausage, fresh thyme, and one ingredient I had never thought of using before - cheese popcorn! The popcorn is sprinkled on top of the hot soup along with some fresh chives. I'm doing that. Very soon.
Emeril's other comfort foods in the book include a luscious banana pudding with chocolate sauce; buttermilk biscuits; carrot cake with a pecan-cream cheese icing; New Orleans bread pudding with a whiskey sauce; seafood gumbo; macaroni and cheese with four cheeses, and barbecued pork roast. I didn't see one recipe that I wouldn't want to try. But I think I will start with the potato salad with the homemade mayonnaise, because as Emeril says, "If you never have had homemade mayonnaise, then you ain't really living!"
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