"What's your Favorite Food?" Tuesday, MKF

[tommo]

Autumn, if I knew how to send them; I would. My mum reckons I should just put them in the post and hope for the best. Heh. I mean, they're in a bag, right?

And I should have known; someone who hasn't even been to England commenting on how crap our food is. Hmmm.

[darkmagicwillow]

I just returned from the grocery after reading all your posts. I bought yellow onions (I love onions--is there a dish in the world that doesn't start with sauteeing onions in olive oil?), Portobello mushrooms, tomatoes, lemons, salsa, club soda, and ... cheetos.

Sassette! This is all your fault. I was sticking to my list, and then there was this little voice in my head that kept telling me that I had to have cheetos. Darn their sinister attraction.

[Sassette]

Insidious, aren't they? But oh so yummy *G* Though, I should probably stop living on junk food. Then again, I'm not exactly health conscious - so why start now when I can start some other time?

-Sass

[Dumbsaint]

I have to come out as being adamantly anti-Cheetoh. That particular kind of cheese powder is just... blech. It's ALL about the Doritos, baby. *crinkly bag and munchy noises*

[La]

what about Pringles? Pringles are my all-time favorite chip/crisp-like snacky food. All salty and flavory on one side and not on the other so you can choose which side to put down on your tongue depending how salty of a mood you're in. mmmmmmmm pringles.

[Puff]

I need food. I miss nice and spicey flavour Nik Naks. Maybe tonight I need to go and eat at Baja Fresh, Mexican food is yummy.

[Sassette]

Y'know, it's not so much the >cheese< on the cheetos ... it's the story my best friend's dad tells about when he was a Buddhist Monk in Thailand. He says that when you suck the cheese (yes, yes - make all the dirty jokes you want *G*) off of cheetos puffs, they taste just like the worm/grub things he used to eat there.

-Sass

[unionjill30]

Oh, Puff, Baja Fresh has amazing Mexican food.

However, I'm going to have to say that my favorite food is vegetable lo mein. I'm very picky about it though. I'm generally a snob when it comes to Chinese food. I don't like it when you go to get Chinese and the food weighs heavily on your stomach and fills you up quickly giving you that "fake Chinese full" as I'd like to call it. When I get lo mein I'd like to walk away without feeling sick as if I've eaten a side of beef or something equally icky.

Sarah

[Rosenberg]

Hmmm, "Dixie Kitchen". I am personally a "Papa Duex" fan myself. But I think we have an idea of the next place to have a Chicago Kitten gathering.
Yes, Chicago, home of the blues, deep-dish pizza and we will go to a Cajun place.

Yep, Dixie Kitchen - you cant get much more Chicago than that, eh? Sounds like a fine place for a kitten gathering to me.

Actually, I just got back from a few days in Dixie (Georgia, that is) and I was able to indulge in beignets at the Caf DuMonde, southern fried chicken, cornbread and catfish, although not all at the same time. I really dont like food all that much, but I can usually be tempted by chocolate; fortunately thats one thing Im not allergic to. And I wouldnt turn down a Chicago deep-dish pizza right now.

[WiccansIllusion]

As for a kitten gathering, if folks don't want to go all the way into the city, there is a Dixie Kitchen in Evanston as well.

[cattwoman98111]

now all you kittens are talking my language. FOOD. love it. need it and yes want it.
its sad to say but my x-mas list primarly contained, (gasp) kitchen stuff. i get teased about being a kitchen whore, love anything to do with cooking and or kitchen stores.
favorites include, homemade beer batter chicken, anything thai, ohhh and sushi, great little place over here in Seattle called I Love Sushi. very much good
and beer should have been its own food group. local brews can be very good, Naught Nellie, for example, from the Pike Place Market Brewery. And wines, Merlot by far is my fav.

anyway great topic.
Catt

[darkmagicwillow]

I couldn't pass up a mention of "I love Sushi" in Seattle as, you guessed it, that's where I learned to love sushi. Friends took me there for my first time, so I let them order, not knowing what I'd like. The first thing that came out was the soft-shelled crab. I'd never seen such a thing before so I was looking around for tools to crack the shell with as they politely waited for me as their guest to eat first. There was quite a long awkward silence, me being shy, them being polite, before I finally got them to explain what the thing was and how to eat it (you just eat it, the shell's really soft).

It was delicious, and spider rolls with their creepy little claws and legs of soft-shelled crab sticking out of the rolls remain my favorite type of sushi to this day.

Does anyone else have any embarrassing stories about food mishaps? I do have a friend who mistook wasabi for guacamole on his first trip to a sushi buffet, but that's it for me.

[pagnmickie]

Oh my! Wasabi is HOT!

My fav would have to be pasta! I absolutely LOVE pasta! My favorite is pasta with sundried tomatos, chicken and portebella mushrooms! mmmmm...

-Mickie

[AmberEyedDragon]

theres always one story my father loves to tell me about my godfather. My godfather used to always want to impress my dad (he still does). One day they went out for sushi...and my dad asked my godfather if he had ever had wasabi. My godfather, trying to be all cool, said of course. He then proceeded to pick up the entire chunk of wasbai and eat it in one bite. w00! they still laugh about it. I of course follow in my fathers footsteps and do it to my innocent friends all the time ^_^

~Sara

[La]

it's funny that one of the things that really surprised my host family and friends in Korea was that I would eat sushi without any qualms. raw foods taste awesome. there's just a wonderful texture to raw tuna or other raw fishes that's just not available in any other foods.

damn, now i'm craving sushi. couldn't we have been talking about a food that's not quite so expensive?

[VampNo12]

Ah food, what a lovely subject, and just reading all the replies is making me quite hungry.

Love all types of bread, but my all time favorite is sour dough bread. I only wish I could find a bakery/store that tastes like the sour dough one finds in San Francisco. Sigh, I just loved being able to go to Fisherman's Wharf to indulge in this carving, especially New England clam chowder inside the bread, yummy.

Also enjoy a nice rib-eye steak topped with a drop of garlic butter, smothered with fried onions, and a side of snow crab legs. Not exactly the greatest health-wise, (ie the cholesterol), but sometimes I can't resist the temptation.

[Bookcat]

Pretzels. Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Frozen Yogurt. Peanut butter sandwitches. Corned beef. Potatoe latkes. Steak and rice. Pizza. Pasta.

And that's about it.

[mscheckmate]

I love food. My best friend is fond of saying, "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."

Not. I'd rather eat what I want and carry ten extra pounds, than deprive myself into a size four. So. Not. Worth. It.

My favorites: Greek salads, Caesar salads, pasta, bread, extra sharp cheddar cheese, barbecue, Korean junk food, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, and Persian cuisines, ice cream, Polish sandwiches from that scary American fast-food chain, Der Wienerschnitzel, submarine sandwiches piled high with Italian meats and dripping with sauce, pizza (real and California), tamales, movie theater popcorn slathered in what passes for butter, chips and salsa, Cuban Media Noche sandwiches, cheesecake, Mexican hot chocolate, chocolate shakes from In 'N Out Burger.......

Gotta go. Hungry now.

[NoveltyAct]

Ah, I can just slip in on this daily thread...skimming through has made me so hungry...

mscheckmate, i'm with you there. my idea of success in life is a full table at dinner each night, both literally and figuratively: to always have enough to eat and enjoy, and enough family and friends around the table to share with.

as for my favorite foods? gumbo. gumbo, gumbo, gumbo. i could eat it all day. and nothing cures a hangover quite as well as a bowl of seafood gumbo with a scoop of white rice in the middle, and fresh, crusty french bread on the side.

also a fan of: good english pub food--any kind of meat or cottage pie, lamb stew, chips with gravy and mushypeas, cake or cobbler with custard for dessert; the previously mentioned full english breakfast; vegetable samosas; and olive or tomato ciabatta bread.

asian noodles in soup of every sort--japanese udon, chinese tanmein, vietnamese pho; soul food--fried chicken, ribs, collard greens, hush puppies; linguine in clam sauce; handmade tamales; prime rib with lots of horseradish, and any kind of pie. piepiepie!

huh. i think i just like...food. i've a pretty adventurous appetite, actually, and will try anything once before deciding to ban it off my plate forever.

y'all can read that any way you want to.

~petra

[mollyig]

Well, since I was told that coffee is not a food group and that Hennessy Cognac doesn't fall into the category of food either, I'll have to go with potatoes - and not just because I'm Irish. [img:079397ec81]http://homepage.eircom.net/~mollyig/stretch.gif[/img:079397ec81]

[Twisted Minstrel]

Right...fantastic topic, about time. I grew up in a family of amateur chefs (one professional), loonies all, and some of my happiest memories were spent in the kitchen. I swear, if I had room for my piano and my computer in my kitchen, I would never leave that divine, well-equipped space.

But what do I love, specifically? Seafood. I love to make crab cakes, smoked salmon, sauteed prawns (olive oil and garlic); I love clams and oysters on the half shell with a bottle of Corona. I'm not an Emril fan; I don't 'fork' my lemons - I take them firmly between my hands and knead them, slowly, rolling them, squeezing them until all the juices drip from my hands and I lick my fingers clean. I love to sautee vegetables, a bit of olive oil, chopped basil, cilantro, Kosher salt, cracked pepper, bell peppers, chopped onion, garlic, mushrooms, fresh green beans or asparagus, then pour the whole thing over pasta.

I love curries as well, and I make a scrummy rice-prawn curry with cinammon and coconut milk that's just outrageous. Not much of a meat eater, but occasionally roast chicken and baby red garlic potatoes is awfully nice.

Did I forget cheese? Omelette du fromage, tres bien, merci beaucoup, mon cheri.

Desserts? Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey. No question.

Regarding alcohol - Molly! Molly! Who told you it wasn't considered food? It can help sustain the body, and if it provides sustenance, who are we to knock it? I love White Russians, meself and, in the summer, a sweet Kissable is always in order. Yum!

[BoredNow99]

*raises hand with brandy-is-not-a-foodgroup-lecture guilt*

In my defence, my point was that woman cannot survive on brandy alone, and must supplement her diet with actual food

I'm arriving late to this and a lot of my favourite things have already been mentioned. Cheese. Bread. Beer. English breakfasts. Pie and chips. Bangers and mash. Pringles. Nice and Spicy Nik Naks.

As well as my ever-present need for chocolate, toast and crisps (preferably Walkers), I'm addicted to jacket potatoes.

There's a spud stall in our town that is fantastic. The woman who owns it has become a friend to us hungry reporters and always puts twice as much filling in our potatoes.

So it's become a bit of a lunchtime ritual in our office. We try and wait as long as possible before sending someone off to get the spuds, but inevitably it will get to 11.30am and someone will say "Potato lady?" and we will all roar approval.

Then when it arrives and you lift up the lid, there's the task of quickly catching the fillings that are trying to jump ship over the sides with your fork. Much fun

Oh and Christmas has reignited my love of Turkish Delight. I'm told it's not common in America, which is a crying shame, if you ask me.

[Mrs Vertigo]

Chocolate. Just... chocolate. And maybe mango too.

[Nix42]

Marmite ... on anything

[xita]

Mangos, hm, avocados, yum! I like pastas, italian, asian, whatever. Anything with pasta in it. NOodles ROCK!

And I had quite a day, my xp installation was over an ME old one, and I think it was causing problems. I didn't have my dvd or cdr drives working, I couldn't defrag my hard drive, huge problems. I decided to be brave, reformat and reinstall XP clean and it's beautiful things work so well I could

[The Inward Sea]

I'm on the cheese team

Any CHEESE. I could live on it. With just made crusty bread and a thick red wine, perfect. But just cheese will be OK. On pizza is a religious experience.

Followed by SEAFOOD, any kind.

But I must tell that I'm also nuts for Argentine meat. Barbecues are a top thing. Veal chops are miraculous. The *empanadas* -slightly stinging- are directly from Heaven. And the Pizzeria Burgio can challenge for the World's Best Margherita & Faina anyone!

Love the topic, DMW.

Sea

Edited because I must fulfill a promise

[darkmagicwillow]

Interesting, I didn't know the U.S. had competition on the barbecue front. And I've never had empanadas. I know they're a sort of meat pie, but I'm sure that's an inadequate description. Thanks for your teasing hints on Argentine cuisine.

I love seafood too, and not just raw as sushi. Squid is my favorite: squid steaks, Italian squid with tomato sauce and cheese, lightly breaded Chinese squid at dim sum, any type of squid as long as it's cooked just right and not rubbery.

[The Inward Sea]

Oh, squid talking, dear friend! I can go through endless recipes here, but my favourite will be squids sauted with onions. There's a family recipe of squids with a ham/bread/squid/etc. filling that can make you go nuts! Perhaps I can trade you that recipe for some spoilers on The Dark Rose...

Barbecue here is different from the US one. Firstly, it isn't *barbecue* but *asado* and, in second place, it involves embers and not actual fire. Its an art in itself -and one I'm very good at - and, of course, the big difference is the meat

About the empanadas, they are a sort of meat pie, but you don't know what is magic realism until you eat one of them. Heaven's stuff, I tell you!

Sea (on diet)

[SJ]

Love it or hate it,it's gotta be marmite especially on toast

[Triscuit7]

Wow - all these yummy foods.

I love to cook, but I'm severely lacking in the time to do so. Two things that I love to fix: pot roast with onions, potatoes & carrots and dutch oven chicken with onions, potatoes & carrots - both cooked until the meat is falling to bits. Oh, and I love to make bread -wonderful stuff, homemade bread, that you can hit with your fist....

Other yummy treats that I try to eat whenever possible:

Thai - masaman curry and tom kha (soup) both with chicken

Indian - chicken tikka and dal

Ethiopian - OMG, it's wonderful! There's a place in W Phila on Baltimore Ave called Dahlak and they have the most amazing food. Dahlak Tibbs (meat cooked in butter, garlic, tomatoes and peppers) with injera (flat spongy pancake bread) is the most wonderful food on earth.

Egyptian/MidEast - hummus and babaghanoush with pita and the Omm Ali for dessert (what is it about warm, mushy bread-like puddings?)

British - Fish & Chips, real ones with vinegar, Cornish pasties, scones with strawberry jam, real Breakfast with sausages and tomatoes and beans.

Things I get when I go home to WV: parsnips with butter, hot dogs with spicy WV chili, snickerdoodle cookies, buckwheat cakes with maple syrup and hot sausage, and rhubarb (stewed or in cake, but cobbler with curdled milk and sugar is the best).

Ciao, Melissa