Comfort Foods

I ate at one of my favorite Fort Wayne restaurants, El Azteca, this evening, nachos and fideo soup, and when I got home found myself feeling warm and full and thinking that was real comfort food.  Then I started to wonder, when did Mexican food become confort food for me?  When I was a child comfort foods included good German food like mashed potatoes and noodles.  Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.  When I was cooking for my husband and children my spaghetti seemed to be the comfort food of choice, with garlic toast of course.  Now, it seems to me, things like Pad Tai or nachos and burritos have become my comfort foods of choice.  I think, if I'm honest with myself, my basic definition of comfort food these days is anything warm and spicy that I don't have to cook myself. Appropriately today is "Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day" which I seem to be doing by eating in restaurants and not counting calories. Ah well. Oh, did I mention dark chocolate? Obviously the ultimate comfort food.