Comfort cooking

Minestrone soup, fried fish, sourdough bread and chocolate pudding. All made by me in recent days. I am no budding Masterchef contestant, which liberates me to make whatever the hell food combination I like, and these foods are filed in my mental database under Comfort Food. Do you eat when you are depressed? I cook when I am down. Of course, I cook when I am up as well. Or any other direction. But my food matches my feelings, and when I am particularly sick of dragging my left leg around in a huge surgical boot, it's food that smells rich and warm - tomatoey, oily, chocolatey, and doughy - that meets the mood. And since there is none left of any of it, I conclude that it meets the moods of my family and various visitors too...