... I've decided second best thing to do is reread Heartburn!
Bacon sarnie was excellent as was lemon cake. Nora's obviously not Kosher, but I don't know if she eats pork. A perfect bacon sarnie is pretty good quick comfort food....

Nora Ephron Quotes:

Nothing like mashed potatoes
when you're feeling blue.

Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl
of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with
butter, and methodically adding a thin
cold slice of butter to every forkful.

Insane people are always sure that they
are fine. It is only the sane people who
are willing to admit that they are crazy.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love,
and regretted most of them, but
never the potatoes that went with them.

You enter into a certain amount of madness
when you marry a person with pets.

What I love about cooking is that after
a hard day, there is something comforting
about the fact that if you melt butter and
add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick!
It's a sure thing. It's a sure thing
in a world where nothing is sure!

Most of us live our lives devoid
of cinematic moments

If pregnancy were a book they would
cut out the last two chapters.

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. Heartburn is sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect souffle.

"I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them."
Nora Ephron, Heartburn

I thought I'd blogged about misery mash, but can't find it. so apologies for repetition if there is some.

Nora Ephron wrote a wonderfully funny and sad book called 'Heartburn' (As well as 'When Harry met Sally' etc)about a couple splitting up and based on her rather public split with her ex-husband Carl Bernstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Ephron

The novel is very quirky and contains recipes including one for mashed potato. I realise most of us with any cooking ability can cook mashed potato, but this is a very creamy, butter-laden version for when you are in need of comfort food - the savoury version of a litre of indulgent ice-cream. What I remember is that you mash it with lots of butter, then just loll around eating it and keep adding more butter. I've never just eaten mash on its own but appreciate idea and understand the mood.

My friend N like me is a bit of a peasant and we love basic foods, so the idea of 'misery mash' as symbolic comfort food and being miserable was born. Today is a misery mash day but I probably won't get round to making it, beause it's too much effort! I shall however have a bacon sandwich and probably have a takeaway this evening.