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just because I'm bored, and I see we have a negative version it's only right we have a positive one...

So what are your favourite foods...

For me the absolute top has to be real quality smoked salmon, most of the super market stuff is well farmed and crap....there's nothing quite like quality line caught wild smoked salmon, preferably with some nice brown bread and butter and a little salad....

Sadly cannot have the brown bread except for real rare treat days, and cannot normally afford the best smoked salmon :sulk:

The diet I'm on also prevents pretty much all my other favourites such as a quality pizza or simple fish and chips :lol:
 
Too many to list, or even think of.

MWHCVT said:
just because I'm bored, and I see we have a negative version it's only right we have a positive one...

So what are your favourite foods...

For me the absolute top has to be real quality smoked salmon, most of the super market stuff is well farmed and crap....there's nothing quite like quality line caught wild smoked salmon, preferably with some nice brown bread and butter and a little salad....

Sadly cannot have the brown bread except for real rare treat days, and cannot normally afford the best smoked salmon :sulk:

The diet I'm on also prevents pretty much all my other favourites such as a quality pizza or simple fish and chips :LOL:
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I see you like fishing though. Have you ever caught a salmon and smoked it yourself? My boss does it as a hobby whenever we go out fishing (trout, salmon and pike mainly) and oh my...is mouthgasm a word? Sensory overload would be better lol.

He doesn't have any special equipment apart from a homemade smoke house, which is basically a bodged wooden box with holes in which cost £20 at the local DIY store lol. We just make a fire in a pit, dig a tunnel from the fire to the wooden box and then cover the fire up. Pretty redneck way but it sure works. We mainly use wooden left over barrels from the local distillery just a few miles down the road.
 
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Can't pick any one dish over the others on the list but I'll name a few that I try very hard not to miss out on if I'm in the area where they're available...

Cuttlefish, fennel and olive stew.
Kounelli stifado (rabbit stew with baby onions)
Babis burger (sadly no longer available since Babis is now employed elsewhere so doesn't have full control of his menu. :()
Courgette and tomato spaghetti sauce made with home grown courgettes and tomatoes.
Charcoal grilled Tsipoura (Gilt head sea bream)
Charcoal grilled octopus.
And another one no longer available in my favourite location to eat it, a simple pork souvlaki on Stavros beach from Katrina's Kantina caravan.

All on Crete for some reason - not too long until we're back there...
 
CaveDweller said:
Too many to list, or even think of.



I see you like fishing though. Have you ever caught a salmon and smoked it yourself? My boss does it as a hobby whenever we go out fishing (trout, salmon and pike mainly) and oh my...is mouthgasm a word? Sensory overload would be better lol.

He doesn't have any special equipment apart from a homemade smoke house, which is basically a bodged wooden box with holes in which cost £20 at the local DIY store lol. We just make a fire in a pit, dig a tunnel from the fire to the wooden box and then cover the fire up. Pretty redneck way but it sure works. We mainly use wooden left over barrels from the local distillery just a few miles down the road.
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I've caught my own salmon but always had experienced smokers do the smoking for me, I have hot smoked a few of my own trout in the past a lot of fun and very tasty
 
32 day old dry cured streak fillet with hand cut chips, mushroom,onion and homemade pepper sauce
 
My ghast is flabbered, no one has yet mentioned bacon!! :jawdrop:


I don't really have a favourite, mainly due to a low boredom threshold, so something I really enjoy I get bored of if eaten too often and drops down the list for weeks/months at a time. If I had to try and pin it down, it would really simple stuff like potatoes boiled with rosemary and a load of butter added, or cheese on toast, that kind of thing. Smoked salmon yes, but again, get easily bored of it, although I do like a good helping of hot smoked salmon.
 
Yv said:
My ghast is flabbered, no one has yet mentioned bacon!! :jawdrop:


I don't really have a favourite, mainly due to a low boredom threshold, so something I really enjoy I get bored of if eaten too often and drops down the list for weeks/months at a time. If I had to try and pin it down, it would really simple stuff like potatoes boiled with rosemary and a load of butter added, or cheese on toast, that kind of thing. Smoked salmon yes, but again, get easily bored of it, although I do like a good helping of hot smoked salmon.
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I get the low boredom thing, my mum was terrible for that if either my dad or myself would say we really liked something, she would cook it at least once a week, to the point that we would quickly become borded of it :(

Oh yes Bacon, but it has to be the best bacon I can get, got some different bacons coming later in the week :thumbs:
 
Good quality steak, curry, Chinese, pizza, bacon, a nice roast, to name a few.

oh yea, honey roasted KP nuts. Ate far too many over xmas.
 
bacon has to be top of the list as my fave food, feta cheese probably comes in as my fave non meat item.

meals wise

mixed grill
lamb tagine

anything I make with my fresh pasta (lasgne, tortelli, tagliatelli)

homemade pizza on the charcol Weber with pizza stone, one of my fave things and pretty much the only way I will eat pizza.

when I used to go and pick the pigs up from the abbatoir I used to get some fillets which I use to love, also when prepping the pigs for the oven we would never use the belly so I would cut them off and use them for tea, I used to love pork belly.
 
Another to add to my list - the good old full fried breakfast (with extra bacon instead of the eggs!!!)

And another - Sunday roast, in order of preference, lamb, beef, pork.
 
i love cold toast with welsh salted butter.or toast and sardines.:)
 
Home made Gnocchi is my favourite Italian meal.

A full English breakfast is my favourite English meal, simples.
 
bledyn125 said:
i love cold toast with welsh salted butter.or toast and sardines.:)
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2 slices with 4 or 6 slices of smoked bacon between them.......and some brown sauce, but not too much....
 
Too many to choose from really.

Proteins : I love duck, swordfish, scallops and prawns . . . that's not to say that I don't like chicken, pork or beef though.
It's that boredom thing I think - we don't eat duck, swordfish etc quite as often so they're a bit more of a special treat.

Veg : I like most things except aubergine and courgette but my favourite dish has to be cauliflower cheese, closely followed by something with bean sprouts and/or water chestnuts. Also a big fan of red onions, mushrooms and peppers.

Sweet : Dark bitter chocolate, anything lemony or citrusy, raspberries, meringue . . .

Dairy : White Stilton and good full-fat salted butter.
 
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Lobster, crab, parsnips, steak - fillet, ribeye or rump, liver, kidneys, a full English.
 
Had another overlooked favourite today - good old haddock and chips. Don't have it often since it's not really a healthy option but enjoy it whenever I do.
 
tomatoes

i don't know what i'd do without them, not on their own but in sauces. Curries, chilli, pizza's, pasta dishes, salads, soup, burgers and ketchup/relish all rely on tomatoes and make up the majority of my weekly scoff.
 
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In no particular order -

Mussels, scallops, salmon,
sirloin steak from a butcher's I know in NW Scotland,
just about all vegetables, especially sprouts, first early new potatoes,
just about all fruit, especially raspberries and gooseberries.

Dave
 
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