re: Favorite comfort foods that bring back memories

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Buttered Melba toast, either plain or the garlic kind. Old school seafood/neighborhood restaurants used to plop down an oblong basket of crackers and butter pats on the table as soon as you sat down. Buttered crackers to munch during menu review, and I associate them with the anticipation of good things to follow (like, say, a crabmeat stuffed broiled flounder or righteous stuffed crab).

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Crackers and butter remain among my favorite things. Always the first thing my Mom would give me after a stomach virus, but I also ate them as treats. I almost picked up a box of Old London melba toast over the weekend, but I exercised mild restraint.

My Mom's roast and gravy and fried pork chops, smothered Green Giant white corn and LeSeur petit pois are 2 of my favorite childhood meals and I still eat them. My Dad's fried fish, shrimp and oysters on Friday nights is another.

Fried canned biscuits for breakfast and leftover doughnuts from Sunday for Monday breakfast, split in half, buttered and toasted in the oven served with bacon and warmed maple syrup for dipping the bacon are among my other favorites.