what makes your favourite meal your favourite? for me it's:
- taste
- gluttony
- convenience
- quick to prepare
- badness
Location - anything off the main menu in the Frecciarossa (Italian High Speed Train) restaurant car. Foods not great, prices are alright, but being served a decent meal at a table with wine by a waiter whilst travelling at 180+mph through the Tuscan countryside is pretty cool and makes for a memorable meal.
Scallops - flash fried, skoosh of lime juice, garnished with finely chopped chilli and coriander
Prawns in the Applecross Inn
Smokies fresh out the smoking barrel and still warm
Damn you Rusty Spanner. I was going to grab a butty but ended up with Rice 'n' Three.
A nice rib-eye steak (medium/rare), jacket spud and a good coleslaw. Simply but delicious.
Must go back to the Hawksmoor this year and get a Porterhouse for the wife and me to devour. Stilton Hollandaise sauce too just for added liquid cholesterol.
I think one of the best meals I ever had was in a random French restaurant in Chatel. Had no idea what I was ordering (rather complicated French language menu, natch) which turned out to be a massive fillet steak cooked to perfection with a creamy mushroom sauce. My word it was good.
Hmmm... If we're doing the best meal we've ever had as opposed to the dish...
We were on a climbing trip, staying in a (well known tourist) town in spain we were looking for a place to eat (of which there were dozens of varying s****iness) when were walked past a house with a little menu outside which was basically a list of fishes with [i]reserva de mercado[/i] in the price column. We knocked on the door and a little hatch opened a crack with an eye pressed against it.
After being appraised for a few seconds and asked some cursory questions we were ushered into a room with four tables and asked what we would like to eat and asked what she had available - she reeled off a massive list of ingredients so we just asked her to cook what she fancied. For the next couple of hours she just bought out dish after dish of bits and pieces - utterly simple but completely delicious food - whilst regaling us with stories and plying us with drinks. Over the course of the evening various people knocked at the door, two other groups were ushered in but the vast majority were turned away by whatever criteria it was that we'd been found acceptable.
At the end of the meal she came over and sat with us drinking digestifs and laughing and telling us that she knew that we looked like "good eaters" and knocked a chunk off the bill (which was very reasonable to start with).
It was ace.
If I had to choose a last meal, steak egg and chips, apple pie and custard.
Bacon, Sausage, egg, beans, tomato (tinned), mushroom, black pudding, some kind of potato but not chips, fried bread and probably some toast!!
Curry or a good steak and chips comes a close second though.
The French certainly have a way with simple dishes. Like stopping off at a bar in the middle of nowhere for lunching and getting a perfect omelette and green salad. Or the quick bite before getting on the ski bus home - a perfect rissole with chips and a pepper sauce in a copper pan plonked down on the table.
I also loved a hotel in Vicosoprano (OK not in France) where I ate and drank frequently during a 3 week climbing trip. Superb peasant type stuff - lamb steaks with rosemary, pomme dauph, that sort of thing.
Always like to think that I've not had my favourite meal yet, keeps me enthusiastic about trying new and different stuff.
But generally the one I look forward to most is whatever Mrs nobeer rattles up on a Tuesday, after I've commuted then did a monster spin class. Devour doesn't do it justice.
Profiteroles for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
End of thread.
Ham Egg and Chips.
It can't be beat.
Crumble for pudding.
With custard.
^^^ Ham, Egg and Chips as well.
& Chocolate Bread & Butter Pud.
Full roast with all the trimmings with apple crumble for afters.
It's between:
- salami & chilli fresh pizza done in a wood-burning stone oven
- half portion of lamb madras mixed with half portion of lamb phaal + pea pilau + garlic naan
plus red wine and pale ale.
My tastebuds are going mental now 😛
Not convinced that's a real pie to be honest, might be another one of those gastro-pub pretend things.
It's definitely a gastro pub but unusually it succeeds at both.
Fish n chips by the sea
Pudding, chips, peas and gravy from the chippy with half a loaf of HEAVILY buttered Warburtons toasty bread.
It's what I live off when I visit Manchester.
Blue fillet steak (practically still mooing, sorry cows)
Some kind of fried potatoes (chips or sautéed)
Green fine beans with some sea salt
Probably... Or maybe a nice curry or the Volcano burger at the Rockstone in Southampton, or some tasty mussels (cream and pernod), or sushi or pie, yes pie could win if it wasn't mrs g-d's roast dinners but then again I do like chilli or fish and chips or even a posh salad...
Just realised why I may be a bit heavier than some
I think a proper Sunday roast with all the trimmings takes some beating. Lamb, beef, chicken, pork. In that order of preference. Apple or rhubarb crumble and custard for pud.
Cottage pie and green beans. Faggots, chips, mushy peas and gravy. As said above, fish and chips by the sea somehow tastes so much better.
Tuna steak marinaded in lime juice for 20mins then seared. Served with baby news with butter. And a salad.
Dried meat....but only if it costs 8 quid for 100g!!!
Chilli con carne or rice & peas with haddock.
I asked this of one of our offshore (Indian) colleagues today, randomly. It threw up some Indian favourites which I'd never turn down. PROPER chicken tandoori, palaak gosht, and they're the top two. favourite meal is too subjective - they're on my desert island list.
Dependswho is cooking it and what is she wearing ? also how hungry am i ? I once cooked a curry for 3 hours and then had the best sex of my life ? i cooked it but she did the rest ? would it be that ? or a $500 meal from the worlds best 50 ?
For 8 years i ate in 2 of the worlds best 50 restaurants a year and loved the diversity and craft but sometimes sausage sandwich at the right time hit it ??
Dingabell wins the internet, why would anyone want anything but Profiteroles
About 15 years ago, my mum accidentally made the most amazing spicy chicken casserole... She's spent the last 15 years trying to recreate it, it'll never happen I think, most of the attempts have been pretty damn good to be honest but they're not The One. MMMMMM forgotten casserole
Exactly.
Little fluffy balls of creamy, chocolate goodness.
And you can eat about a hundred without getting full up.
A really high quality fry up wins for me, especially when I'm proper hungry. Big mug of tea too.
I did google to look for a really good looking one but struggled. So many people make bad fried eggs and bad bacon. Or slop watery beans and skinned tomatoes onto the plate. Simple mistakes that are so easy to fix.
Beans on toast
Favourite meal (like film, album, etc.) is one of those 'don't make me name just one' questions. Right now I'd be happy with one from...
Hard-fried chicken wings with garlic, chilli, olive oil and sherry vinegar. Served with a big hunk of warm bread.
Mussels (no cream), skinny fries and bread.
Goulash.
Poached, pressed and roasted belly pork, rumbledethumps, gravy.
The Boston Beaked Beans with chorizo, cornbread and poached eggs I had at Merienda in Keswick a couple of weeks ago.
