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

[darkmagicwillow]

What do kittens like to eat? No, not mice, though I'm sure MKF loves them. Not that kind of kitten. Your kind of kitten.

Me? I love bread. Everything from American cornbread to French baguettes to Italian ciabatta to Indian poris to Ethiopian injera to the Chinese rice breads that cover their dumplings. The smell of it cooking it wonderful, the taste of it as you eat it is wonderful, what's not to like? Well, okay, the breads in Italy have no preservatives and turn to stone overnight, but that just means you have to buy your bread in the morning.

How about you?

[urnofosiris]

OH this is a nice question to ponder while I go to the supermarket to get me some food. Let me get back to you.

[Dumbsaint]

I gotta go with you on the bread there. In fact, I have half a fresh bagette waiting for me to go along with my lunch today. Yum. But yanno, with my bread I have to have CHEESE.

Today I have slices of mild cheddar. Mmm, mmm. Currently I'm enjoying a bagel and cream cheese.

I'm such a food whore, though. So let me think for a minute about my favorite foods and get listy: chicken lo mein with steamed rice, wonton soup, and paper wrapped chicken; yellow curry with chicken and jasmine rice; spaghetti and meatballs; gyros with fresh pita bread, pilaf, and Greek salad; carne asada fries; Baja style lobster with fresh flour tortillas, rice, chips and salsa and guac, and a raspberry margarita; Thanksgiving dinner (roast turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, candied yams, my mom's dressing, and hot buttered Jer- um, rolls); pretty much anything with potatoes; and BREAKFAST! I'm a sucker for breakfast foods, and have been known to eat breakfast for dinner on occasion. Mmm, mmm.

And Ruth, the whore, has me really wanting to try bangers and mash, too. I saw someone eating it on the Food Network this weekend and got rather drooly. It's safe to say that I'm a meat and potatoes girl. And a meat and rice girl. And now, just after I've finished my breakfast, I'm hungry again. Damn you all.

[samiamiguess]

What a great ponderer, I just love food. (Got some new kitchen knives for Christmas which to most people would be a fabulously boring present but pretty much made my day, that and the pocket stargazer I got. Anyhoo I digress)

For me its mushrooms. Any way I can think of. Although what the fact I love a fungus says about my personality I have no idea.

On a day to day basis though I live off bacon sarnies. mmm.

Sonya

[WebWarlock]

Cajun and Creole food. (yes there is a difference)

Crawdaddies, Etouffe, Jambalya, "sweet tea", cajun fried chicken, blackened catfish, gumbo, red beans and rice, all of it. Plenty of hot sauce and big old glass of ice tea to go with it. And I love to cook it. I can make a mean roux for just about any dish. My wife now calls me "Iron Chef Cajun"!

Of course, right now I am eating beef lo mein.

That is what I miss the most about living in the south. People know how to eat.

I go through phases with food. For a while there it was nothing but Thai. Then before that it was Indian, and then Japanesse.

And the cool thing is I can allways find a lager to go with what ever my food mood is.

Damn. Now I am hungry for catfish.

Warlock

[tommo]

Oooh, Tim. Catfish. Yum. The best blackened catfish I ever had was at a place in Chicago called the Dixie Kitchen. Fabulous cajun food. And that's also where I tried fried green tomatoes for the very first time. And the second, and the third...you get the picture. I was forced into asking for them as well because it was "funny" to hear me say tomato. "Oh she's English! Let's laugh at her accent and strange pronunciation!" Talk about having an "Anya" Day...

I'm a big fan of food. More so since I've had the time to stay home and cook for myself. I also did most of the cooking when I lived with my parents, and my speciality pork chops have become quite famous around...uh...well, my parents' house. Ahem. I cook the pork chops and then cover them with soft goat's cheese, on top of which I place sliced mushrooms. Top all of that with a coating of apple sauce and just pop it back in the oven so that the goat's cheese gets all melty. I swear, it never fails as a seduction meal. Seriously, heh.

Bangers and mash though...ooh Julia. You've given me a hankerin' for sausages now. They just don't make them in the US like they do here. You have to go to speciality shops to get proper "bangers". I had bangers and mash on New Year's Day though, and honestly, it works wonders for a hangover. Nice bit of brown sauce and plenty of butter in the mash and you're pretty much sorted.

I don't have very sophisticated tastes when it comes to food. My personal preference is food that falls into a more everyday, solid kind of camp. I was brought up on good old-fashioned, typically "English" food, and I suppose that kind of habit-forming behaviour is hard to break. Even now, I still have a cooked English breakfast for brunch every Sunday. Without fail. And I've learned to experiment slightly with food; with tastes and combinations and the like. I'm a big fan of salmon, although it has to be cooked just right to let those juices flow properly and keep it moist enough to slide down the back of your...

Waitaminute. Food. We're talking about food here...

Okay. Breathing. Heh. Speaking of which...how much do you love Nigella Lawson? Not only does she make great looking food, but she clearly takes pleasure in the eating of it, too. Oh yeah, and she's a total hottie.

[WiccansIllusion]

Ruth

the Dixie Kitchen is a great resturuant. First time I ever had Binette's there. ( sp? )


as for my favourite foods:

fried green tomato's
french toast
potato's in any shape and form.
Korean, Japanese etc.

And I happen to be a really big fan of taco bell because they cater to vegans.

[Still Waters Run Deep]

Best ever? :
a fresh baguette, new butter, a camembert cheese, granny smiths apples, a good bottle of wine [red or white], a good view on a nice day, and your love sitting with you.

At the moment, in the cold here in Wales.... Lobscouse .... a local delicacy that Ruth will no doubt decry as being too basic, even for her

[Zippy]

Mmmm food, my favourite food would have to be toad in the hole.

My dad makes an excellent toad, well that's about all he can cook but it's very nice. The trick is to use good quality sausages.

Nigella Lawson, is not only a hottie and excellent cook, but also an extremely nice woman. In november I just happened to arrange some work at a store where she was doing a signing of her book & DVD. She spent a good ten minutes going through the cook book marking her favourites for me.

[La]

mmmmmm food.

at the moment, my favorite would be anything spicy. so korean, cajun, indian, thai, pizza with tobasco sauce ...

i also really like cake. big gooey chocolate cake with lots of fudgy frosting. anything chocolate is pretty much good for me. yum yum. in korea i once got some chocolates with korean hot pepper paste in the middle. those were good too. reminded me of the hot chocolate from the movie Chocolat.

i've been to the dixie kitchen, too. i think i had catfish. I like food, but I can't always remember what I had places. My dad will remember what he had and what other people had at restaurants he went to years ago. Like 20 years ago. We went out for my dad's birthday while i was home for christmas and he remembered what he and my brother had had there 13 years ago. I can barely even remember if i've ever been to a particular restaurant before.

[bowieinberlin]

If ever there was a time to flaunt my adoration for boiled peanuts, this thread is it. Boiled peanuts... how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Mmmmmm.

[Garner]

Wow, I saw some weird favorites listed. Now I really mean no offense to Ruth, but I thought the stereotype was that ALL English food was horrible! Isn't that why they went out and conquered places all over the rest of the world?

Me, I love a great sirlion or filet mignon, I am a huge shrimp fan be it fried, scampi, Haverti, chilled or whatnot, I prefer sharp cheddar to mild, but like most cheeses, definitely like Lasagna, am a big hamburger fan (And Moody's in Chicago was pretty darn good!), and have a notorious sweet tooth for lemon merengue pie and cocunut cream pie. I am unfortunately allergic to chocolate, yes you heard that right. I bloat, get nauseus, hives that sort of thing. It happened when I turned 14, before that I loved chocolate of all sorts. And finally I like beer too, which is a food, really! I tend to prefer German and English stuff here, though some Belgian is good. Though in truth I guess I really like ale/lagers to plain beer.

Garner

[AmberEyedDragon]

SUSHI sushi sushi sushi sushi sushi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

did i mention sushi!? I love lots of different foods..but...yeah...SUSHI

~Sara

[WebWarlock]

Ruth and WI,

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!

Now pizza....Oh I love pizza. Deep dish, thin, brick-baked, pan, stuffed. All of it. And I do believe the best pizza on the planet can be found here. Sorry New Yorkers, I love your pizza too but it just doesn't come close to Chicago's.
No offense to the CA kittens, but I was in LA and ordered a "stuffed" pizza and I wanted to ask them "what the fuck is this?", if you can't do it right, don't do it at all.
Apparently there is a place in the Valley called "Chicago Pizza", I guess it is somewhat close. But trust me, in a real Chicago pizzeria you will never be able to get broccoli on your pizza.

Warlock

[Kalita]

Oh, my, what a question...

Too many choices! I like baba ghanouj with bits of warm cut-up pita. I like home-made lasagna, with olives and asiago on the top. I like a fresh donair, with lots of dripping sauce, hot meat slices and lots of veggies. I like a good, garlicky caesar salad with big croutons. I like a fluffy cheesecake with fresh berries and sauce. I like pecan pie, chilled just so, with whipped cream. I like carrot cake with a good zingy cream cheese icing. I like nicely aged gouda or edam on crackers.

I like a lot of stuff. I have no favourite...

[darkmagicwillow]

Ruth, those pork chops sound amazing and I don't even like pork! American sausages are different than English ones, but we make some good ones (not the scary stuff they call sausage on pizza though). With your appreciation of Cajun food, you might like Cantenelli's andoulli sausages. Alas, I can't find them now that I moved, but I did find a grocery that carried English foods, including my favorite: clotted cream. Until I find somebody who can make scones though, I'm eating it on Southern style biscuits.

I haven't been to the Dixie Kitchen, but I have eaten in Chicago. It's a great city for food, especially pizza with that flaky pasty-like crust, lots of cheese, and the tomato sauce on top. It's such an injustice to call just any deep dish pizza Chicago style 'cause it's not. I am glad to be back east where I can get real Chicago-style pizza again.

But I have a new city that dominates my love for pizza: Napoli. It's almost the opposite of Chicago style, so thin and hot that you can't pick it up without losing the cheese. It's the best, simple pizza margherita at La Pizzeria Antica de Michel in Napoli, fresh and perfect in every way.

Europe is a wonderful place for food, if only because you can travel just a little ways and find a whole new cuisine, whereas America is much more homogenized though not completely so. Italian cuisine is still my favorite of all the European ones with perfect pastas and gelato, the ice cream that's better than ice cream, but the French are goddesses of bread. No one can make a baguette right who's not from France.

The Belgians are lords of chocolate though Valhrona is starting to push my opinion back towards France with their distinctive chocolate bars made from the cocoa beans of a single plantation, but the Belgians make better french fries than the French to make up for that. The Germans make my favorite wines, the whites of the Mosel and Rhine valleys, while the Dutch are eclectic collectors of world cuisines so you can find anything in Amsterdam and they offer you a choice of what to put on your fries. The English were smart enough to supplement their own cuisine by importing the best Indian in the world, but they have some gems of their own, mostly simple stuff like Ruth suggests: English breakfasts, and fish&chips being my favorites.

[i:f93cb4bb94]Edited to add:[/i:f93cb4bb94] Kalita, I just saw your post. I'd forgotten why I didn't remember the German foods so well, and now I remember: I discovered dner!

[relativegirl]

What do I like to eat? What do I like to eat? Well, duh.

In terms of food however . . . Tim, I gotta agree on the etouffe. Really good etouffe is simply amazing.

As a California kitten I also, sadly, have to agree with you on the pizza thing. California pizza ranges from adequate to "wtf!!!". When I lived in Chicago I throroughly enjoyed the pizza. It is world class. However, I have to say, that the best pizza I have ever had actually came from Cambridge Mass at a little pizza place on Broadway opposite the Rindge & Latin School (where Matt Damon went). Holy Mother, people actually turned down sex with their beloveds in order to enjoy a slice at that place. They had a white pizza that was, well, religious.

In defense of California, I do have to say that we have some fantastic sushi in this state, or, as I'm rather naive about NoCal, at least we do in Los Angeles. And it doesn't all cost $400 a meal like at the swankiest places. There's something unbelievably sexy about hand feeding really great sushi to your lover and allowing your fingers to linger in her mouth as you place it on her tongue . . . .

Oh! Food! The subject was Food!

I love the cow. I just do. Our bovine friends provide us with milk which produces cheese which I adore. The sharper the better. Give me your sharpest cheddars and sharpest blue cheeses and I am yours. There's an English cheese we used to get here in LA that was a really lovely blue cheese sandwiched in between two layers of extra sharp cheddar. With a nice bottle of full bodied Shiraz or Cabernet . . . wow.

Our bovine friends also provide us with beef. Nothing beats a really nice cut of medium rare beef. We have a ridiculously expensive beef restaurant here in LA that does a lovely cut of beef topped with crab and lobster and drizzled with a world class bernaise sauce that will blow your mind. I didn't even mind when the tab came and dinner for two w/o wine or appetizers or deserts totaled more than $180. It was that good. We still talk about the meal and a far away look comes into our eyes as we drift away on the memories . . . and sigh.

And Chilean sea bass. What a lovely yummy fish. Okay, now I'm hungry dammit. What a wonderful and awful daily topic.

eta: Beer! Patches reminded me about beer! How could I forget? Beer is my aqua vitae. Without beer, what's the point? Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout and Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter (which I think is called "Strong Nourishing Stout" in the UK and/or the Commonwealth). And Chimay. Little Belgian monks make a mean ale.

[Patches]

Oh my yummy goodness! a topic you can really sink your teeth into I love fresh baked bread warm with butter; a hot mug of chocolate on a cold snowy day; an ice cold beer on a hot summers day (beer and chocolate, two essential food groups ; on sad days, a grilled cheese sandwich with a bowl of tomato soup loaded with salty crackers - comfort food, and for those special times - strawberries! Yum.

Great topic Dark MagicWillow.

[Sassette]

Cheetoh's. Lots of Cheetoh's.

-Sass

[feena191]

I love bangers'n'mash too, but it needs thick onion gravy......mmmmmm

I love roquefort, sea bass, treacle pudding (made with golden syrup) & hot custard, & pork scratchings with a pint of bitter.

Feena
-x-

[LadyCallie]

Well since Ive yet to convince my girlfriend that I can live off of her alone

East of Chicagos BBQ Hawaiian pizza (which I will forever call BBQ Chicken). [img:bfc40ae70d]http://smilies.crowd9.com/contrib/ed/4.gif[/img:bfc40ae70d]

CHINESE!!! I love chinese but General Tsos Chicken Oh yumand I adore egg rolls, but Im picky about them because Im veggie.

Smoothies and Slushies. Last year I had at least one a day.

Chik Patties and Perogiesveggie at its best.

[pacou]

Hehe lol I love pasta and chinese food And Im crazy about tomatoes In all varieties

Yummy....just got in the mood for some tomatoes now...

-Viv-

[Ms Limon]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm food.

Italian vs Chinese for me am undecided.

Although you can't beat potatoes! Don't worry I'm Irish (kinda)

[tommo]

Yeah Tim; go to the Dixie on 53rd and you can take my ex girlfriend with you. Ahem.

And uh, thanks Garner. English food, contrary to popular belief, is very tasty. And that typically English dish; curry, is the best of all.

[tiger17]

Let me see, my favorite food....I would have to go with chicken stir fry. I swear I could live off stir fry if I had to The other food I really enjoy is pizza, and my cousins fried bread it's awesome.

[AutumnT]

A few have mentioned but it should be repeated. Cheese.

I actually have this fantasy (no not that kind sheesh) about opening a place called Autumn's Casa de Queso because then I would serve all the best cheese dishes. Great Tex-Mex because well duh that is the food of the gods, Italian foods with cheese, wonderful Greek yummy cheesiness, French onion soup, macaroni and cheese, crab cheese wontons. Um, you get the picture. And little Hearts exploding next to all of them in the menu.

Just think of the dessert tray. Cheesecake, Hot apple pie with a slice of sharp, cannolli, again you get the picture.

And Ruth you make the best English breakfast. I lurve them there oat cake things.

[feena191]

oatcakes! with cheese & brown sauce, or cheese, bacon & tomato, & they have to be Staffordshire ones!!!

Feena
-x-

[oneyedchicklet]

Food!!! Um good topic. For snack or junk food, I'm very addicted to Hostess Chocolate Twinkies. I can't seem to get enough of them. It was Entemanns Chocolate Popettes until I couldn't find them anymore. I am convinced there is a chocolate Poppette conspiracy. Candy, I'd have to vote for Peanut Butter Cups. Even though right around the corner is a Godiva Chocolate Factory/Outlet Store.
As for an entree, I'm for Snow Crab Legs with baked potato (just butter) and some fresh green beans, garlic dinner rolls and a salad with lots of croutons and french dressing on the side.
Ok, now I'm hungry and I'm kind of having a craving now. Have a good day/evening everyone. Now I'm going to!!!

Love to All,
Barb

[Garner]

My God how could I have forgotten Chicago style deep dish pizza!? Good grief I have been away too long! Nothing like it anywhere else. We even have someone from Chicago out here who has a pizza place but it's just not quite the same as the real stuff back there. Good reminder Tim.

OK, I still stand dubious on the English food but I suppose one shouldn't believe everything they hear! Someday when I visit England I may have to try to local food. But no kidney pie or blood pudding for me, no way man, that sounds nasty. (apologies to Jonny Bravo!)

Garner

PS Oh, and cheesecake, with raspberries, cherries or strawberries! Woo Hoo!

[dulcinea]

okay, I can't believe how hungry I am now.

turkish food - I love turkish food. kebab, meze, baklava.

and Ice Cream. Now I don't particularly like Ice Cream. But nobody makes nicer ice cream than Rush Monroes, in Hastings, NZ. It's a little "boutique" ice cream place. It's hard to describe how good this stuff is. the chocolate ice cream is to die for, the boysenberry is and I once travelled 4 hours to Hastings because I had to have a scoop of their "malted milk" flavour. Oh, and the "lemon and gin" flavour...yum!

and my mum's Raspberry Vaccherine - a chewy, hazelnut pavlova/meringue thing, with whipped cream and raspberries.......