For me, one of them is probably Swedish meatballs. Not too wet, meatballs not too big (small enough to eat in one bite), proper egg noodles. Nice and simple one-dish meal.
Brined Thanksgiving-style turkey (soaked as long as possible) is another. stuffing and green bean casserole. That’s more of a once in a while meal for obvious reasons though.
I love most burgers too, at home or at a restaurant. Big thick burgers with a lot of good stuff in there. I’ll eat McDonald’s burgers sometimes, they’re okay, but I’m talking about REAL BURGERS here!
I miss proper poutine. When I lived in Canada for a short while, New York Fries was my absolute favorite place to go. I’d make special trips to the mall in Ottawa specifically to get a good dish of poutine.
There’s probably better version of the dish, but when I saw a place selling fries with gravy and cheese, there was no way I couldn’t fall in love with it. Cheese curds are hard to get here, even in Portland (with the Tillamook cheese factory just a couple hours away) that sort of thing was only sold in artisanal type grocery stores.
Normally we just use mozzarella and a little cheddar when we make it at home, It’s still really good but not the same as squeaky cheese.