The Lemon Fool

What's your favourite food?

Like me, you should be in bed by now, but as you can see. I am looking forward to breakfast. Since this is Trafalgar Night, can I just say that it used to be the habit in Hong Kong to drop off on the way home from a 'heavy night', for a beer and often enough some form of 'English Breakfast'

Dod

AsleepInYorkshire wrote:What's your favourite food?

KFC. The crack cocaine of the world of food.


Edit to add:

Beluga caviar is ok too, I suppose....

Why isn't Sunday roast an option? It's the highlight of the week for me.

You are missing Humble Pie for members of the Conservative party

Apart from that.... halibut with chorizo sausage for me.

--kiloran (about to depart on a 6hr drive back home, which my tired body is not looking forward to)

kiloran wrote:You are missing Humble Pie for members of the Conservative party

naughty!

Apart from that.... halibut with chorizo sausage for me.

Halibut - fine - chorizo sausage for the waste bin

--kiloran (about to depart on a 6hr drive back home, which my tired body is not looking forward to)

We now break the journey to the deep south overnight at Tebay (hotel). My difficulty is choosing anything different from their excellent Lamb.

I could quite happily live on OH's smoked salmon, asparagus tips and lemon risotto. Left to mayself I'd quite happily enjoy a chunk of cheese - like almost all cheeses and an apple - preferably English Russett.

R6

Pork griskins...
Used to be available from any butchers
Then specialty butchers or ordered in
Then only farm shops
Now I can't get them anywhere

elkay

Is this a retro poll looking back to the early part of the late Queen's reign? Where's none of the above?

As for the sweets, I haven't even heard of many of them.

Roast loin of veal with morrels. I cooked it for my (French) family during our visit there last month. Went down a treat with them as well.
Nothing on your list tempts me.
john

Mahi mahi (otherwise known as dorado) pan-fried, served with a "garlicky" fresh tomato sauce over green beans, triple-cooked fries or dauphinoise potatoes and a lemon quarter on the side, accompanied by a glass of chablis. Magic!

If I were about to be hung, what would I want for my last supper... of those on your list, it would be a well executed Full English.

Beyond that, too hard to say, but it would have to include marmalade bread & butter pudding.

V8

Magret de Canard à l'Orange with mashed sweet potato followed by tarte tatin with creme fraiche accompanied by 2016 Volnay.

That would bring the curtain down.

T7

Sunday lunch in a pub on a cold day with a roaring fire near my feet. Start off with hot punch to take the chills away.

Prawn cocktail/Lobster cocktail or a very smooth paté with thin hovis sliced toast. Or Scottish smoked salmon with Dill or all 4!

Huge amounts of tender (knife cuts right though) roast beef!

Lashings of thick gravy with just a hint of wine.

Roast pots cooked in duck fat(can easily consume about 15 of those)

Well presented and not swamping the plate as they tend to do today, Yorkshire Pud! Or two plates.

Cauliflower gratin.

Fresh petit pois. No cabbage, carrots, etc. as need room for…..

Bread and butter pud. Or sticky toffee pud, both covered in the smoothest custard. Baked Alaska if available or Zablioni(never available even at the best places.)

Champers, preferably Veuve C. Or Tattinger.

Coffee with Antique Hein. Brandy.

Seconds. Need 3 hours plus a nice clean toilet.

Sunday Roast and a nice juicy Rib-eye steak run a full fry up close.

terminal7 wrote:Magret de Canard à l'Orange with mashed sweet potato followed by tarte tatin with creme fraiche accompanied by 2016 Volnay.

That would bring the curtain down.

T7

This sounds good. Wine with the duck yes, but the tarte tatin really needs a Calvados to go with.

Mind you, if I was joining 88v8 for a full English prior to being hung, I would probably want Calvados with that as well.

Baked Salmon fillet with lemon butter sauce, garden peas and new potatoes. Accompanied by a chilled glass of good French white wine.

gadjet wrote:Baked Salmon fillet with lemon butter sauce, garden peas and new potatoes. Accompanied by a chilled glass of good French white wine.

Thanks
I wasn't hungry, but now....

Favourite Food: whatever is right for the occasion. Sometimes that might be as humble as bread and cheese.

So yesterday, when I was out for the evening, the ideal food to come back to around midnight was a brew in the slow cooker, greeting me with a delicious smell as I opened the front door. Yesterday's brew was the first Big Hearty Spicy soup of autumn, centered on a butternut squash and lots of spices. Made into a full meal by serving on pasta, and grating cheese over it. Plenty left over for the fridge and freezer, too.

Last week at a superb Italian restaurant, a crowning glory was that they had a special: pasta with porcini in a creamy sauce. Their bruschetta too was, as ever, to die for, but that brings another problem: bruschetta anywhere else is always a disappointment.

At a pub it might be something that complements a good pint of local ale. That's the most likely context for me to eat chips.

Above all, it's hard to rival a really good Indian or Thai meal.