What is the most underrated food you can think of? Mine is cold sardines and hot rye toast.
I love sardines on rye toast. Most underrated I think is sundried tomatoes. I find new uses for them all the time.
I like rye bread, but sardines on saltines is the best, IMO. I think sundried tomatoes are too chewy.
Most underrated to me is toasted cheese! Slice of white bread with a slice of Kraft American. Run it under the broiler for a few minutes until it puffs up and gets speckles of brown. Perfect small breakfast with or without a scrambled egg on the side.
Apple slices dipped in melted peanut butter. Super healthy but tastes like dessert.
A plain cheese pizza made with quality ingredients and a killer marinara sauce.
Peanut butter and mayo sandwich.
Plain white rice. Good quality rice cooked well is great.
As a Chinese-American we had rice every single day until I moved out of the house. My father insisted we have rice with everything, even things like spaghetti, it was crazy, but that was just his way. A meal was simply not complete without it for him. Still has rice with every dinner to this day.
I really, really love buttered toast. It’s so simple and perfect.
Tomato sandwich made with a tomato from the garden that’s still warm from the sun.
Sardine sandwiches on honey wheat bread with lots of Miracle Whip. Cold pizza (last night’s hot pizza) is also pretty good.
Liver and lima beans. A favorite since I was a kid.
Brussels sprouts. Harvested in cold weather and not overcooked. Delicious.
Freshly picked shell peas. I used to buy them at the Dane County Farmers Market - 10 pounds at a time, then sit on the porch swing and shell them and eat them.
This here. Even when made with white bread.
Must have real butter, however.
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Salted butter, spread wall to wall. Cut into triangles.
Perfection. With salt, pepper, and Blue Plate mayo.
Potatoes.
Everybody eats lots of potatoes: chips (crisps), fries (chips), etc. But they’re always an accompanying side, a mechanism for delivering another flavor — usually just salt, but also cheese (e.g. scalloped).
But I was reminded a couple days ago that when prepared with time and care, potatoes can legitimately be the delicious star. This was at a hole-in-the-wall family-run joint in Athens, where one of the shareable dishes had potatoes as the centerpiece. They were tender and flavorful and potato-ey. All of us remarked on the revelation.
I’d narrow that to mashed potatoes. Yeah, Yeah, starchy carbs, not good, got it. But something about a nice silky mash with milk and butter works so much better with a meal than rice or pasta.
It adds moisture to a dry dish and soaks up sauce in a wet dish.
A perfectly soft-boiled egg.
(with the aforementioned toast)
Coleslaw sandwich.
The only place I’ve seen them on a menu was in Paris. When I make one here or ask for one at a deli folks look at me like I’m nuts.
What are you doing tonight?
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