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About Simple Comfort Food

Created by: on October 1st, 2006 - Categories: - 34 Comments »

Thank you for visiting my website. Truly, I do appreciate it. My free time and stress reliever is cooking for my family, friends, and everyone in between. The recipes you find on this site are those that I have either created, been part of, or those that I simply enjoy and have made my own in some shape, form, or other.

My focus has always been on comfort food, because at the end of a long work day, you want something comforting. I currently am the father of three children, and married to a wonderful wife of thirteen years. There is nothing fancy with these recipes, just simple, and I will admit, not so simple ingredients, and a simple kitchen corner I can call my own.

I learned early on that cooking and bringing family together was very important. After all, this notion of being together at dinner time was instilled early on by my parents. There are many memories of being in the kitchen with my parents, watching them cook, or preparing meals, or those home cooked smells while waiting for dinner. My parents who worked full-time, always had home cooked meals during the week, with the exception of Friday nights where we would enjoy a Wisconsin fish fry, and often on late afternoons on Sunday, where we would order Ann’s pizza.

I tend to cook by making things up. As a home cook, I think you have to take chances, and add or subtract ingredients that make up a dish, and make them your own. Remember to taste, and taste often. If a dish has potential, try it again, and make it your own.

You should also note that I do not count calories, or break down recipes into grams of anything. To me, that’s a bit boring. My philosophy is that if the food is good, eat it, and eat it in moderation. Life is just too short not to enjoy good food.

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34 Responses to “About Simple Comfort Food”

  1. lo Says:
    June 1st, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Dax -
    Thanks for visiting Burp! and sending me the link to your blog. I’ll be sure to add it to our list of Wisconsin Food blogs.

    Have been looking around your site and am enjoying what I see! Will also add you to the list of blogs I read regularly!

    Thanks again,
    Lo

    Burp! Where Food Happens
    http://foodhappens.blogspot.com

  2. Leslie Says:
    July 17th, 2009 at 8:12 am

    Hey Dax,
    I love your blog. May I link to it? I’m at http://www.driftlessappetite.com/.

  3. Mary Says:
    August 19th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Thanks for the recipes and thanks for sharing it too! :-)

  4. Cindy Says:
    October 17th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    Hi there-

    I am the editor of a popular Mom magazine in the Silicon Valley, CA. I stumbled upon your food blog and I love your recipes and photos and I think our readers will too. I would like to ask your permission to print and publish your recipes and photos in an upcoming issue(s) of our publication. You may look at our current website http://www.everymommagazine.com (we will soon be http://www.MMagazineBayArea.com) to get an idea of what we are. We will credit you and your blog with the recipe and photos. Please let me know if it is okay to print. Thanks!

    Cindy Cruz
    Editor-in-Chief
    M magazine
    for the woman in every mom
    p. 408.834.6454
    f. 408.493.4650
    http://www.everymommagazine.com

  5. Michele @ FoodieView Says:
    November 4th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Hi There!

    We think your photos are absolutely mouthwatering…and we’d love to showcase them on Foodie Views of the Day!!! Foodie Views of the Day is a delicious feature on our website, FoodieView (www.foodieview.com). The idea is to provide fabulous foodies like yourself with an alternative space to share your food photo talents–and to give your readers and our users an opportunity to vote on their favorite pics. You can check it out here: http://www.foodieview.com/views/.

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    Michele

    Michele Robichaux
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  6. joe Says:
    December 24th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    thank you for the simple recpiceto steakhouse potatoe salad. i’ll never buy or pay 4.95 per lb. again joe

  7. ButterYum Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    What a great blog – so glad I stumbled upon it!

    :)
    ButterYum

  8. daxphillips Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    ButterYum – so glad you found it! I hope you enjoy the posts.

  9. Abigail Naumann Says:
    February 8th, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    What a great blog! Love all the recipes! Couldn’t agree more about your philosophy on calories. Is there a way I could possibly contact you about an awesome cause I’m putting together to help get families back to the table? Shoot me an email! Cheers!

  10. scott Says:
    February 25th, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    I always liked you, Dax. Now I like you ten times more after having discovered this fabulous blog! I’m bookmarking the RSS feed.

  11. Bee Nguyen Says:
    March 6th, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    HI Dax,

    We just met at the salon today:)I Like your blog a lot! You got quite a diversity of food recipes here.Thanks for letting me know about your site. i’ll add your site to my favorite list,and maybe i can learn to make” Pho?”(vietnamese noodle) from your instruction someday. Hope to see you,Connor, and jet again for ur next visit at the salon:)
    thanks

  12. Mike Magee Says:
    September 27th, 2010 at 6:58 am

    Dax,
    Feenominal food site! Your recipes are dead on! I am a Chili
    head and cookoff participant. My fav comfort food is Chili, and saw your white chicken chili recipe, but could not find the chili and beans, nor a Texas style chili recipe. Are they too close to the heart to reveal? Or does this again confirm my ADD diagnosis?
    Thanks so much,
    Mike Magee
    Dead Earl’s Killer Chilli

  13. Lubna Quraishi Says:
    October 11th, 2010 at 3:40 pm

    WOW! I just love this website ..so easy to find recipes here…and beautiful pictures.

    Great Job Dax!

    Lubna

  14. saira Says:
    December 9th, 2010 at 1:39 am

    wow,just saw ur blog.its wonderful and i am going to visit again and again and again

  15. Kathy Says:
    January 27th, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    Found your site through a search for homemade enchilada sauce … are you sure you live in the midwest??? I live in California where we have lots of great Mexican food and your recipes sound soooo tasty and authentic. I’ve already saved several other recipes that sound great, and your food philosophy sounds like I wrote it myself. Really glad to have found your treasure trove of recipes and looking forward to trying many!!!

  16. Teri Says:
    April 17th, 2011 at 11:25 am

    Oh My,
    I just came upon your blog from tasty kitchen. I am amazed it’s like the blog I have been looking for forever. I love to cook. I love ethnic food but have never really found recipe’s that meet my standards. I can make anything with a good recipe and I have so much to catch up on with these recipes in your blog. First of all, “Simple Comfort Food” made me hesitant because I thought of good ole down home cookin from Texas. So I thought I was going to be visiting a blog that had all the food I grew up with. You have taken comfort to a whole new level. I am so excited to embark upon a whole new treasury of recipe’s that I know will be worth my while to try. I am a mom of five, I have a full time job, and I am working on my Special Education degree. I am supposed to be writing a paper today and I cant think straight so I thought I would sneak on over to the food blogs and do some searching for recipe’s and I have hit the Jackpot. I feel like I just won the Lottery. Thanks for sharing your love of cooking and giving me a new place to search for Exceptional food.

  17. Lizeth Reister Says:
    June 17th, 2011 at 3:42 am

    Woah! I’m really loving the template/theme of this blog. It’s simple, yet effective. A lot of times it’s very hard to get that “perfect balance” between user friendliness and visual appeal. I must say that you’ve done a fantastic job with this. Also, the blog loads very fast for me on Firefox. Superb Blog!

  18. gina Von Kahle Says:
    June 19th, 2011 at 8:52 am

    wish we could follow your blog posts on FB.

  19. Debi Says:
    September 20th, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Hi just found your website, love it, can’t wait to try some of the recipes. I noticed in your picture a cast iron skillet on your flattop stove, I was told not to use them, do you use them? I miss my iron skillets, but love the glass top stove.

  20. TheSailorWoman Says:
    September 25th, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    I have never posted a comment to a cooking site but I enjoyed looking through your recipe box on the Tasty Kitchen site so much I just had to say thank you! My husband and I run a charter business in the Bahamas on our 78 ft. sailboat. I love to cook and have a 6 burner stove/oven in my galley. One of the ways we like to spoil our guests is with awesome food all week . I will be using several of your recipes on our next charter. http://www.SailingAdventures.org I see that you were born in Indiana. I was raised in a very small town in Ohio. Now I have been living on a sailboat for the past 30 years. Crazy where life takes you. You should go on the cooking show with Gordon Ramsey…I think it is called Master Chef! You would win!! Anyway, just wanted to say thank you again for sharing your cooking talents! All the very best to you and your family.

  21. Jenny Says:
    November 13th, 2011 at 8:10 am

    I just found your blog through food gawker. I am lately fascinated by all things Korean – mainly due to Kimchi Chronicles the show and cookbook. Then I started clicking on recipes – I just printed at least ten! I subscribed and look forward to other posts. http://madrantingsofamiddleclassmom.blogspot.com PS – My best friend lives in Neenah Wisconsin!

  22. Katie @ saltpig canteen Says:
    December 15th, 2011 at 6:45 am

    Hi Dax, I totally agree with you, if you’re going to eat something, do it properly – don’t have margarine when you can have butter, fat coke not diet coke. Life is too short to be calorie counting. Love your blog and will be returning, if you want check out our favourite comfort foods on http://www.saltpigcanteen.com

  23. Sharryn Says:
    January 12th, 2012 at 9:33 pm

    I LOVE your blog, but wish you had a print function! Read my husband the roasted pepper recipe tonight, and he is going shopping for the peppers tomorrow!

  24. Lee Wright Says:
    April 2nd, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    Had no idea, Dax, your culinary skills were what they are until I saw some of your Facebook posts. Seeing your site today takes this to a whole new level.

    Bravo! Great job.

    My only regret is that we didn’t get a chance to see–and taste–this side of you when you were in Dallas.

  25. deborah Says:
    July 8th, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    IF you eat food, put this dish in your mouth ASAP!! Made this tonight and it was a huge hit, and we’ve made a LOT of carnitas. A couple of notes: no one else mentioned this, but this dish is spicy (to me). I even cut the cayenne and only added one pepper. BUT after tasting it I added more milk at the end (probably about a cup or so-and reduced it down as mentioned in the original recipe. I made 3.5 Lbs. of meet in a cast iron skillet)- this cut the heat a bit and actually gave the dish a bit of a carmelized flavor. Very delicious – a definite winner.

  26. Brian Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 9:58 am

    Dax:

    When growing up, did you live on Malfalfa Road? Just curious. Let me explain…

    I grew up just outside of Kokomo. I have long since moved away. Every now and again, I get a hankering’ for food from back home. Naturally, I was looking for a ham salad recipe. A Google search landed me on your page about fried bologna sandwiches because you mentioned ham salad there. I see that you, too, are from Kokomo. I happened to live right around the corner from a person named Dax. I don’t remember Dax’s last name. We rode the same school bus. Could that be you?

    Brian Smith

  27. dancing kitchen Says:
    August 25th, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    Cool site. Love love love that we have similar tastes for flavor. I was raised in IN, adopted by a middle eastern family now live in San Diego…have a Samoan boyfriend and work with Filipino’s. My palate is convoluted to put it lightly and to find someone who is as diverse as you rocks.

  28. Darcy Says:
    September 24th, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    Fantastic website!

  29. Dax Phillips Says:
    September 24th, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    Thanks Darcy!

  30. Lisa Says:
    September 27th, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    I just came across your blog, and I am SO excited to make your recipes! I saw you have a salsa de chile de arbol recipe, and I was wondering if you have ever experimented with a creamy chile de arbol sauce. I love Mi Cocina in Brookfield and New Berlin, and I have never been able to find a recipe that comes close….

    Thanks for all of your posts!

  31. Cecelia Says:
    October 17th, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Umm… who are you, where have you been all my life, and thank you for being here. ;) Truly though. You have a great site, wonderful recipes, and fantastic photos that almost let you taste the dish! Much appreciated.

  32. Dax Phillips Says:
    October 17th, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Thanks Cecelia. I’m glad you enjoy the photos and recipes.

  33. Bob Says:
    November 9th, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    Great Blog! I found your blog by way of Tasty Kitchen. While going thru some of your great recipes, I found the one on Carne Adovada, nice job! I am from New Mexico and it is nice to see someone that appreciates some of the truly great food that we have here. I need to start a blog so that I can share some of my recipes with everyone. My problem is that I don’t measure anything and I don’t write down my recipes. Thanks again!

  34. Dax Phillips Says:
    November 9th, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    Thanks Bob, glad you enjoy the site. Keep on cooking!

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