What’s Your Happy Food?

Published on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, by Sarah Perry / Edit Post

What food makes you happy? It's not necessarily the food that tastes best, or the most intricate recipe. For inaplasticcup, it's "really perfect specimens of fruit at the peak of ripeness and eaten at room temp, my favorites being strawberries, mangoes, tomatoes, Tuscan melons, and peaches. Super fresh raw things from the sea also please me to no end: uni, oysters, prawns, scallops, geoduck, belly cuts of various fish." For lynnlato, it's bacon, foie gras, fresh eggs, and good cheese—"and if someone could make a Portuguese pastel de nata magically appear before me I would be the happiest lady!" she says.

mariacarmen says, "a BLT with the perfect tomato, a barbecue potato chip, a spoonful of liverwurst, a ripe peach, a bite of foie gras, ankimo, a sliver of truffle, yellowtail sashimi, a raw oyster—these things all actually fill me with euphoria through each bite. Most food makes me feel happy, content and nurtured, but certain things send me to another world."

shecrab's nutritional sunshine includes "home-grown tomato sandwich on squishy white store bread slathered with Hellman's, Maldon, and freshly cracked pepper eaten over the kitchen sink. Zowie! A beautiful crispy edged fried egg with home fries and thick cut bacon shatteringly crisp. Warm from the sun berries in a bowl with fresh cream. Sweet simplicity."

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  • Chicken pot pie makes me happy, especially if someone ELSE makes it for me (which may happen once a century)!

  • A really fresh walnut...A handful actually!

  • Ruffles and Bacon Horseradish dip. Just addictive and so bad for me. My husband's homemade tomato soup. Aloo Gobi - I could eat it forever.

  • I have lots of happy foods...my grandma's sugar cookies, banana smashed up on toast, My mom and I's special "BLT's" (which are made with peanut butter, lettuce and cinnamon sugar all put on toast, also baked beans on white bread. These are all childhood favorites and are things that I rarely eat now that I've gotten older and times have changed.

  • Petit-suisse, a tiny little pot of sweet fromage frais, drizzled with thyme honey. Oh boy! They come in six-packs of little containers, made out of wood if you're lucky, otherwise plastic. My husband remembers these as practically baby food growing up in Switzerland. I got hooked on them living in Paris. Now if only I could find them in Pittsburgh!

  • My favorite happy food is a thick slab of bread covered with cheese, melted in the oven. Simple and delicious.