Comfort Food

When you think of a comfort dessert, what comes to mind? For me, it's a lemon meringue pie..

I remember as a kid, mom always making lemon meringue pie for Sunday supper dessert. She would get up before the rest of us Sunday morning, make the pie and then set it on the counter to cool. Throughout the day my brothers and I would sneak into the kitchen and steal the meringue peaks off the pie (but no one would admit to taking the peaks off if mom confronted us :). So, by the time supper rolled around mom had a peakless pie, but no one at the table knew what had happened to them..hmmm.  I always remember the pies having perfect meringue with sky-high peaks...I have still to learn her 'perfect meringue' secret!