Your favourite foods / foods you cannot live without

I don't like ice cream.  It's cold and it hurts my teeth.

Sunflower seeds and Mac apples - those are my indispensable foods.

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Pistachios of course are the tastiest food ever

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Pistachio ice cream is my favourite flavour by a country mile. My partner accuses me of liking "old man flavours" when it comes to ice cream, among other things. Nothing but vanilla, choclate and pistachio for me, thanks.

Also: pistachios are a guanteed mood lifter at a bar. It's its own activity: peel, shell, eat, repeat. Gets theblood flowing. Having a drink with a friend? Conversation dragging? Order a bowl of pistachios and watch the magic happen.

I have granola and fresh yogurt every day for breakfast (cf. old man above) with fresh berries whenever I am able.

I have to echo Boom Boom with BLTs for lunch. Yum.

Others? Salmon, asparagus, potatoes, corn on the cob, peaches, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries (etc.), olives, pickles, and cheese. I could go on.

Add coffee. And, er...beer, wine, whisky and gin. And tonic.

ETA: Oh no! The dreaded quote function bug has caught up with me too! Where did my quote box go?

Aha. In every comment preceding, you can see the ole nuts 'n' berries tendency peeping through -- millennia of burnt-flesh brainwashing have not been able to erase prelapsarian memories of gamboling happily through the bushes, gathering nuts in May and berries in August, and ... well, enough of that stuff. Still, this is obviously a group still in touch with their prehistoric selves, eh?

Like Boom Boom, me mum swore by peanut butter on toast for breakfast and she lived to 91, so I'm with me mum and Boom Boom. (In a pinch, peanut butter has other practical uses.) Even tastier than peanut butter although much messier because it drips a lot is tahini, a basic ingredient in hummus but lovely on its own, if, as I say, drippy.

This is a hard qweschun for me though because I just love food so much, like almost all food, omnivorously -- you name it, I can't live without it. What Ben Franklin said of beer, I would say of fish: Fish is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Bread: don't get me started. What an invention.

I have my burnt-flesh addictions too, but I could live on Middle Eastern vegetarian dishes indefinitely. We are blessed by mustard and cumin and coriander and turmeric and cinnamon and cloves, etc, truly blessed. I think that food matters as much to our noses as to our mouths and tummies, at least the sense of goodness does, and the cultures that learned how to use the herbs and spices teach us new lessons about the most basic stuffs we have, like meat or beans or grains.

98, Al Q!  Wow!

I make sweet and sour ribs with garlic, ginger and soy that make you want to melt in your chair.  My favourite!  Good quality beef, grilled medium rare.  Scallops and mussels.  Ratatouille.  Roast chicken with gravy and mashed potatoes.  Roast beef and yorkshire pudding - and more gravy!  Spinach salad with grated egg on top.  Carrots fresh out of the dirt.

Can't live without coffee, dark chocolate, a wide variety of spices, rye bread, butter, cream, bacon, tomatoes, cherries, raspberries.  There are too many more to list.  But it's not so much about the specific things as the quality of them.  Good chocolate is a world away from bad chocolate, same goes for coffee and bread.  And especially meat.

Timebandit wrote:

98, Al Q!  Wow!

Pfft.  Her old man, my Grandpa, was born on July 3, 1905, and ate whatever Granny fed him.  He's eating institutional oldfolkshome food now, though.

d'uh. Barley in a liquid form, obviously.

I loved stew all through infancy and still do today. Irish stew!  I tried Gnocchi a number of years ago, and I think it's wonderful. With a meatball or maybe two and homemade tomato sauce simmered for an hour or two, a few olives on the side, and it's heaven on a plate. Italianized stew with potatoes, tomato sauce, garlic, hot sausage, carrots and peas is really good, too. Drool-drool. I'd walk a mile for it.

Boom Boom wrote:

Something I used to love but can't get anywhere so I make my own: chipped beef on toast.

ETA: I often have gravy on toast with green peas on the side.

My blessed nanny (Brit grandmother) used to make me creamed peas on toast for lunch. It's comfort food to me now.

Cadbury's Dairy Milk (the UK version). Tastes like heaven.

al-Qa'bong wrote:

I don't like ice cream.  It's cold and it hurts my teeth.

 

Sunflower seeds and Mac apples - those are my indispensable foods.

I haven't had sunflower seeds since last June (I'm trying to watch my girlish figure) so I guess seeds aren't as indispensible as I had thought.

I'm eating a lot of rhubarb and green onions these days.  Those, plus wormwood, tarragon, chives, mint and marjoram, are about the only things growing in the garden right now.

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well, it's hard to find good brontesaurus steaks these days-and harder still to buy a grill big enough to cook 'em.

Now and then...a good veggie tamale(or even a cheese one).  Get it steamed just right...sauced properly...Utopia.

Homemade stir-fry a couple of times a week.

Pistachios(and, for the record, the word "pistachio" itself).  Hummus with home-made pita(never the store-bought shit).

and Ruffles potato chips now and again.

Since moving out of TO I miss some of my favourites. Japanese dumplings from fiesta farms. Fresh banana bread from there to.

In life, love chocolate, strawberries (and chocolate with strawberries!). Chocolate banana too. Raspberries, blueberries. Peanut butter and banana sandwich.

Yum.

Summer food:

BBQ chicken with sides of spinach salad and four bean salad. And a fresh bun if I'll allow for more carbs.

I love ice cream but it don't love me anymore

I can't let a jar of peanut butter just sit there. So I don't buy it. Shame, really...

One thing I am doing is giving up all processed meats. I didn't realize until recently how bad that stuff is for cancer.

Nuts.  I'll nibble at candy, I'll nibble at chocolate, but with most nuts I have no control.  Metro used to sell a 1kg package of mixed nuts around holiday time, and I can eat one in a weekend.  Fortunately, nuts are low in calories and fat.  :0

That spread of real barbecue looks pretty handsome though, I must say.  Look at the smoke ring on that brisket.

Uncle John wrote:

I can't let a jar of peanut butter just sit there. So I don't buy it. Shame, really...

At least they haven't CAUGHT you shoplifting yet.

...OH, did you mean something ELSE?

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Boom Boom wrote
 
"Something I used to love but can't get anywhere so I make my own: chipped beef on toast."
Were you in the army?
My dad brought a taste for that and Kemchee back from Korea. At least he didn't like powered scrambled eggs!
He preferred them raw, punched out the ends and sucked the guts out.
My favorite food is enchiladas, piles of them with bean, onion, sweet peppers, jalapenos and cheese piled on top.
On the last trip to Vancouver I also brought back some pickeled catus, very good addition to the pile.
Favorite comfort food, poo. Refried beans, onions, cheese and jalapenos.
With a couple of beers, it cures constipation too!
No, I don't suffer from gas like many people. A fact my co-workers realy appreciate.