My comfort foods are:

- Coca-Cola
- Dark chocolate
- Pasta
- Pizza

I don't think it's more of a female psychological trait over a male trait.  I know many men who will indulge in something when not in the greatest of moods.  I also don't think it's necessarily a human trait, either.  My friend's mom recently lost a dog and her other dog who was close to her [the deceased dog] started to eat a lot more than usual along with just laying around.

Tomato soup,veggie sausages with mashed potatoes and gravy and rice pudding on a cold winter evening

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  I crave for comfort foods in many moods :  when I am depressed , anxious , scared , when I feel like I fall and it is no hope anymore  .  Sometimes I feel like I wish to get depressed only to allow myself to eat those foods , so it is more like ' forbidden food ate while feeling hopeless ' than ' comfort food '  )
  The food I usually eat is :  Nutella cream , Chocolate , too much honey  ,  too much peanuts or peanut butter ,  milk cream  ,  sweetened cereals  ,  bread - although I don't anymore  ,  and many others I forget now .  Yet , I also get comforting by eating any food when I feel hungry  beside being depressed and anxious , instead of common diet hold backs  .  It is sad that after I eat it  I feel guilty and I blame myself so much , I feel that is my fault for not being how i want to be , so the comfort is gone and I am left with many extra pounds  . 

I haev a couple of dishes that are comforting to me for various reasons, primarily they remind me of a time in my life..

Today I'm cooking a navarin of lamb, whish is essentially a simple lamb stew.. It's a dish I learnt to cook in the dark days just prior to coming out but also something that, at the time, lit up my world.

The ultimate comfort (and if I knew what sex felt like, this would be better): chocolate cake (and/or pie, if I can have both I will), ice cream (sometimes I'll mix several flavors if I bought more than one kind), banana, frozen fruit (peaches, pineapples, mangos, strawberries, blueberries, cherries), and anything else I can add to it to expand the flavor (cookies, candy bars, peanuts, whatever I can) above the average desert. I'm feeling comfort right now thinking about it.

Quote from: Megan Joanne on June 01, 2014, 02:22:12 AM
The ultimate comfort (and if I knew what sex felt like, this would be better): chocolate cake (and/or pie, if I can have both I will), ice cream (sometimes I'll mix several flavors if I bought more than one kind), banana, frozen fruit (peaches, pineapples, mangos, strawberries, blueberries, cherries), and anything else I can add to it to expand the flavor (cookies, candy bars, peanuts, whatever I can) above the average desert. I'm feeling comfort right now thinking about it.

More chocolate, less cherries and I agree. The best thing is to throw it all in a blender and then simply call it food, and delicious.

The pizza I make from scratch.
Breakfast burritos.
Margaritas from my own lime trees.
Dark chocolate anything.
Sashimi.
BBQ.
Cheese.
Spaghetti Carbonara.
The burgers I make while camping.
My voodoo chili.
Hot and sour soup and  moo shu pork while sick.

Mac n cheese.
Brunch.

Salted caramel ice cream on two snickerdoodle cookies.

i think sushi and sashimi are the only foods that will actually comfort me. and curry, must not forget curry.
but i eat liquorice, chocolate, pizza, and other fast foods as well, when i don't feel in a mood for cooking and sushi isn't easily available.

haha~ for me lasagna is the opposite of comfort food (bad multiple experiences of food poisoning!)

My comfort food would have to be beef and kimchi stew its warm and filling and makes me think of good memories!

My comfort foods (In no particular order):
Spam Musubi (from when I lived in Hawaii, spam is a staple in my pantry)
Loco Moco (Also from Hawaii)
Spicy gumbo
Cajun style dirty rice
Chicken and dumplings
Perogis
Pot stickers
Pizza (especially pepperoni and olives)
Gyros/Schawarma
Swedish meatballs
Beef stroganoff
Shephard's pie
Beef stew
And nothing beats grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup/chicken and stars when you're sick.

I usually have cravings for many things but that's different... like when I'm feeling alone or depressed I usually just eat ice cream or something sweet, but never chocolate I find it way to rich, or I would make a nice smoothie which fresh fruits.  I'm pretty easy to please xD. 

Homemade spinach and ricotta lasagna.
Homemade cheese sauce. I will just make this sometimes and nothing else.
Chocolate
Quality ice cream
A good made hot chocolate
A slice of my homemade vanilla chocolate chip cheesecake with peppermint mousse topping

Any meal cooked for me that I didn't prepare myself

Quote from: nayuki on August 06, 2014, 08:32:26 PM
I usually have cravings for many things but that's different... like when I'm feeling alone or depressed I usually just eat ice cream or something sweet, but never chocolate I find it way to rich, or I would make a nice smoothie which fresh fruits.  I'm pretty easy to please xD.

So, mostly a sweets kind of person?
I can't do sweets and I hate dessert rounds or challenges on cooking shows because I have sensitive teeth. I can't eat 90% of what's shown on cooking shows or in restaurants. I get a little mad when they do dessert challenges on my cooking shows. Show me the meat challenges! Make them do a vegetarian/vegan dish! Make them cook fish! Oh great, another effing dessert challenge.

Pecans, sunflower seeds, tuna, kimchi, nori snacks and my all time favourite pistachios.

spaghetti

Strangely enough for me I find comfort in yogurt especially strawberry

Hummus with carrot and cucumber slices.

Quote from: StevieAK on August 09, 2014, 10:51:43 AM
Hummus with carrot and cucumber slices.

Mmmm, I haven't had good hummus in what seems like ages. I used to get it all the time when I went to my favorite Greek restaurant before they closed and my friends all raised their eyebrows. Don't knock something till ya try it I always say