Comfort Food: Zucchini and Tomato Sauce

This is one of those passed down recipes with no explicit instructions.

One of those things that you've been making so long, you could make it in your sleep.

Comfort food.

Everyone has a comfort food or two, whether it be macaroni and cheese or chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I have...potentially too may comfort foods. Each of them occupy different roles and fulfill different purposes. Different foods to comfort different ailments. Ravioli soothes the savage "missing my family." Potato soup cures illness. Banana pepper and mushroom pizza is good for dealing with rejection letters. But then there's zucchini and tomato sauce - something so utterly simple that only it could be the cure for "I have run out of energy and could sleep solidly for a week."

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has those sorts of days.

Part of the reason it's such a good dish for times like this is it's easy of preparation, limited required commitment, and relative abundance of the necessary ingredients (especially around this time of year).

In order to produce a quality dish of zucchini and tomato sauce, all one must do is slice up a few of the zucchini squash, add it to a pot and douse it with tomato sauce of your choosing. When the zucchini is pretty much cooked down, add some grated Parmesan cheese and stir well.

This was a common side dish growing up in my family, but I'm not ashamed of the number of times it has shown up as a main dish on my own table. Some days, comfort food is exactly what you need.