Phở for breakfast, sure is great!
Phở for lunch, I can’t wait!
If your meal must be a winner,
everyone eat Phở for dinner!
Scumpup - I’m with you. Spaghetti. Spaghetti. Spaghetti. I love it. I lurrrrve it. I eat it when I’m at a restaurant, at friends, or I cook my own. Bolognaise, napolitan, calabrese, arabiata or my own mysterious mix. Bring on the spag!
Clam chowder. This is totally unavailable in the UK
Not the pissy arsed stuff in cans but REAL stuff as served in Rhode Island.
I would quite willingly strangle a kitten for a large bowl avec Clam Cakes
Chicken. Fried chicken, roasted chicken, barbecue chicken, baked chicken, chicken nuggets, chicken soup, chicken pot pie, chicken cordon bleu, chicken tetrazini, chicken salad, chicken fajitas, chicken parmigiana, general tso’s chicken, Colonel Sander’s chicken, chicken in oh so many ways. I could never get tired of chicken.
And Fritos.
Good gawd, but these tantalizing little tubular treats are awesome! I like to eat 'em with a container of sour cream. Positively dreamy…
For me, the only real purpose of any food is as a vehicle to get Thai peanut sauce into my mouth without looking foolish eating it alone.
For those not familiar, (my version) is a heavenly blend of coconut milk, crunchy peanut butter, red curry paste, brown sugar and fish sauce.
yum.
My idiot children eat frozen bean burritos by the truckload but they don’t like Taquitos! I bought two giant boxes of them, just sure they’d eat them up in no time, but nooooo. There they sit, six months later, uneaten, unloved.
Tahssa your post made me laugh–when I got to the part where you throw corn and bleu cheese into your tomato soup!
I thought of another one, for me. PARMESEAN CHEESE. Lord. I used to come home from work, famished, and eat it with a spoon, straight out of the Kraft container. Years later I discovered the real parmesean cheese (who knew? :o ) and honestly, sometimes I think there needs to be a restrained order issued to keep me out of it.
Shrimp. I could eat shrimp every day. [channeling Bubba] Shrimp gumbo, shrimp etoufee, stuffed shrimp, fried shrimp, BBQ’d shrimp, shrimp lo mein, shrimp scampi…[/cb]
Crabmeat. Not those king crab legs - real, honest-to-goodness, lump crabmeat from Blue crabs. Although I’ll eat crab legs sometimes. But crabcakes, mmm… Crabmeat stuffed flounder. OMG!
Potato chips are one of my downfalls. And I’m thoroughly addicted to M&M’s.
Concord Grapes. For some reason, they’re not terribly popular – but they are popular enough that I can buy a couple of containers at the supermarket or roadside stands, but only for a brief and ill-defined window of opportunity.
I grew up with these – my grandmother had an arbor. Later on, so did my father. Both arbors are gone now.
And, because the grapes themselves are so hard to come by, and because making anything is also pretty labor-intensive, and concord grape baking or pastries are even harder to come by. Every year I make my own Grape Pie, which I certainly can’t get enough of.
Anything grilled…
I love my charcoal grill and everything I put on it. Especially grilled aspargus- the best part about that is my SO doesn’t care for vegetables so its ALL MINE :).
I grill lamb, chicken, seafood, steak, shrimp, soon to try clams thanks to my Steve Raichlen book. I wouldn’t survive without my grill.
Clams
Crab
Bacon
Well, I’d ask you to fax those little taquitos to me, but you might be better off just trading in those ingrates you call children. Or send them to Junk Food School…something!
Mashed potatoes. You must heat up the milk and melt the butter prior to mixing. They must be whipped up creamy with no lumps, so light and fluffy they melt on your tongue. Mmmm.
Nachos. [sub]I looove the little nachos, I love them gooooood.[/sub]
Tuna (maguro?) sushi. Given my druthers, I could single-handedly wipe out the world tuna population.
Good cheese spread with Triscuits.
Rare steak.
Lobster bisque.
Malai Kofta.
Palak Paneer.
Shumai.
Mini-Tacos (chips).
Dry roasted Cashews.
Screaming Yellow Zonkers.
I like the frozen *flour *tortilla beef & cheese versions.
I didn’t like those so much at first… but they soon moved into the apartment adjacent to their corn tortilla siblings, in my heart. (and stomach)
LilShieste
Me, too! I could eat pasta every day of my life for the next 60 years and I’d never tire of it. It’s not just a vehicle for sauce, either – the texture of it is very important. I’m currently obsessed with pappardelle, the really fat noodles.
Oooh, and mushrooms. I have this sick love of mushrooms that blinds me to other delicious options. If I had to choose between succulent prime rib without mushrooms and overcooked chicken with mushrooms, I’d go with the chicken.
Pasta with mushrooms? Pasta alla boscaiola? Sheer bliss.
If it doesn’t make my cheeks hot when it hits my tongue, it ain’t sharp enough.
Joe
Lately I’ve been obsessed with Reese’s Puffs. Best. Cereal. EVAR.