Comfort Food

I have great memories of comfort food from my childhood.  At home my all time favorite comfort food was my mom's spaghetti.  So good!  But at my Aunt Dora's house my all time favorite comfort food was beef and noodles and mashed potatoes.  They say you can't go home again and I know that's true but this evening I experienced the next best thing.  We have an excellent cook at our church.  She cooks for the Day School and also for evening dinners before meetings and other programs.  She's not a gourmet chef but she is an amazing 'down home' cook.  Tonight (oh joy) before our Session meeting, we had beef and noodles and mashed potatoes.  Also corn, a roll and strawberry pound cake but let's stay focused on the important things.  I was first in line for the buffet.  Just a coincidence but I was eager.  The serving pans were lined up beef and noodles first, then the mashed potatoes (they were real by the way, not boxed). I reached for the potatoes first, then topped them with the beef and noodles and heard one of the servers saying to the cook "I told you put the potatoes first." So they switched them and everyone I saw put their beef and noodles on their potatoes.  It was sooo good.  I admit I had seconds.  And yes, I managed to polish off my cake also.  It was an amazing carb fest.  I managed to stay awake for my meeting but I did notice a lot of very relaxed people around the table.