Food for Every Occasion.

What is your comfort food? That one dish that when it’s cold outside, you don’t want to go anywhere, you just want to stay inside. For me it has to be a curry. It’s simple to cook, everything goes in one pot, you can put the heat on low and just let it go. This for me is something I want to curl up with a bowl of on the sofa, put on my latest series and zone out to.

There is something nice about this idea, a dish that you know you can get right with little to no effort. The only one to judge it will be you. That to me is the idea of comfort food. And I like me, you live by yourself. You then get to have left overs the next day. A day later the flavour has gotten deeper, changed a little and most times gotten better.

Then at the other end of the spectrum we have special occasion food. For me this is something along the line of a special steak that I’ve been wanting to try. When we celebrate, a birthday, end of a semester etc. that’s when I will have something along those lines.

A standard sirloin steak is good. But a 35 to 40 day dry aged Angus ribeye with lots of marbling. That’s something that needs a special occasion. A treat for a job well done. In that, both foods have their own place, each food is worth the wait, each plate has a different meaning and both of them do the same thing.

Years ago I was at a friend’s wedding, the ginger giant that is Kris Duprey. I was sitting with the lads and their future wives. I’d spoken to the groom and wanted to have a bit of fun with a friend, Seth “The Tank” Mathers. More like a septic tank haha.

Everyone else got served their chicken dinner, my placemat was still empty. Seth started to laugh thinking they forgot me. Then my steak arrived, same as the grooms. Seth’s jaw hit the table and accusations of corruption erupted. Was funny to watch.

The point is, both dishes served their purpose, both have their place but a steak will always be the show stopper.

All food has its time, place and purpose. Just depends on what you need it for. But eating steak at a wedding was great while the boys ate chicken haha