What would you eat if you could choose from all the food in the world ?

[vic]

I could not help noticing, that the most active topic is what would you NOT eat... Kind of amusing considering that we have a great opportunity to talk about what we like to eat http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif
So, my question, if you for maybe just one day could choose from all the food you like, what would you then eat during a day ?

I would start the day with warm toasted bread, with butter melting into it and emmenthaler like cheese on top, another piece of bread with strawberry marmelade (lots of whole berries), a boiled egg with soft center(not liquid) and finally a piece of melon - I would drink a glass of milk with lots of fat in, a glass of apple juice, and a strong coffee with cream and 3 pieces of sugar.
Later in the morning, i would eat a fresh baked spandauer(still warm), and drink a cup of black coffee.

At lunch i would have dark bread, 1 with smoked eel and scrambled egg, 1 with thick slices of salami, hardboiled egg, tomato, cucumber and mayonaise, and a piece of white bread with shrimps, tomato, mayonaise and a slice of lemon. I would have a dark beer and a schnaps to go with it.

In the afternoon, i would only have a cup of hot chocolate with whiped cream and a little of my mothers special applecake with whipped cream.

Dinner would be, green pea soup with champagne in it and a glass of champagne with it, the back of a lamb with white potatoes and brown sauce with a salad of rucola, raw brocoli, walnut, raisins and orange dices, italian bread on the side and a glass of red whine from Rioja. For desert i would have a doublebaked double chokolate cake with vanilla ice and peppermint cream and a cup of espresso and a cognac.

Before bed, i would have some more of my mothers special applecake and an irish coffee to sleep on. I would probably also need a strong person to carry me to the bed :-)

I do not eat that much during a day, but IF it would be a day to remember http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[duramater]

SWISS CHOCOLATE http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[marco25]

Vic, love your question ... and your response! Yum! Well, except for the eel ...

My kids and I love spaghetti. We make it at home and order it at restaurants. Everyone seems to make it a little differently. And throw in the Cajun influence, and it really gets exciting.

I suppose I'd love to fly to southern Italy and find one of those off-the-beaten-path family-owned authentic Italian restaurants and pig out on spaghetti, fresh bread and a scrumptous bottle of wine or two, romantic candlelight ...

(Sigh) And it would be nice to have a scrumptuous man who's madly in love with me to enjoy it with ... ooops! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/redface.gif http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[betheny]

Sausage, eggs, grilled tomatoes and mushrooms, with strong hot tea-bed and breakfast in Ireland.

More strong tea-England.

Lunch, vegetable crepes from a street vendor, Paris.

Snack-gelato, Florence Italy.

Dinner-risotto verde w/ white wine, Rome.

Bedtime snack-Bailey's and coffee.

Shoot, the day is done, but I'm not!

C5/6 incomplete, injured Aug. 2000

[P38Lightning]

Hmmm...I'd start the day here in LA...and get Breakfast at Panne Fresco...

Eggs scrambled, some of their great bread, a little pancetta then I'd head to LAX and hop a charter to NYC...lots of Veuve Cliqout on the flight, oh, and some caviar with blini and creme fraiche, and other little nummies.

When I got to NYC, I'd pick my sister up in a town car and we'd be off to Luna for an early supper...they have a great Prix Fixe for the appetizer either melone e prosciutto, or my favorite, caprese.

They also bring a small salad, no dressing, you just dress it with olive oil and balsamic and course salt and pepper at the table.

For the second course, I like their ravioli, or their chicken parm. mmmm. A side of angel hair with their pomodoro as well.

All of this is washed down with the house white, it's cheap and tasty, and there is some freaky guy there who plays the guitar and butchers old cheesy classic Italian songs.

THEN on to Soho for a latte and some SINFUL dessert at I THINK Common Grounds...dunno, I just know they have BEER and divine coffee and French Pastry like you wouldn't believe. Creme Brulee that is to die for, and a triple chocolate mousse using white, milk and dark chocolate. I'll have them both.

On the way back to my sister's place in Astoria, we'll stop for a margarita and some chips and salsa at this one place she really likes. Mmmm...oh, and Tommy's Pizza in da Bronx to warm up for breakfast the next day.

[marmalady]

Josie, just curious - why is telling us the names of all the wonderful places you've eaten so important? I for one am much more interested in the food than the status of the restaurant.

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Tough times don't last - tough people do.

[ohiochica]

ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[P38Lightning]

Marmalady...

Actually, those are not too expensive restaurants that have fabulous food in the city. My sister was a "po" college student. We're talking without boundaries here though...as I took a charter jet, and a town car since we'd be imbibing.(I don't even have Jet Blue money right now!) Though the subway works just as well, and is actually more fun blitzed. I guess for reference to anyone travelling in the city. Luna is a great place to go if you're travelling on a budget and would like to get authentic Little Italy Italian for under 30 bucks a head including wine.

Common Grounds, or whatever it is called, is also well worth it, as it is a decent price for SoHo without sacrificing ambiance or menu.

As for Tommy's Pizza...nothing fancy, just you haven't eaten Pizza until you've had Tommy's. It tasted great before going out in the rain to some dive bar in Throgsneck, and having some of New York's Bravest(mmm...firemen) give us lights and sirens, and it tasted great after we walked back home soaked to the skin and more than a little tipsy.

I'm a foodie, but I'm just as happy having something cooked at home as from Chinois.

[marmalady]

Perhaps we should start a topic entitled 'Restaurant Reviews'; actually might not be a bad idea - reviews re food AND accessibility.

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Tough times don't last - tough people do.

[marmalady]

From all the food in the world, I'd choose Japanese for it's utter elegance and simplicity.

Then I'd choose Latino - mostly Mexican - for the awesome chiles.

Then there would be Italian - and then Greek - and then------------------Oh, gosh, why don't I just eat my way around the globe?!

PS - Vic - May I ask where you're from? Just curiousity!

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Tough times don't last - tough people do.

[teena]

Pizza, Pasta, and Pumpkin Pie!

And squash and hashbrowns and chocolate and cake and ice cream, and shrimp fried rice with snow peas...

Was I supposed to eat one day or one week? LOL

Teena

[antiquity]

Vicky is Norwegian... I think, well I know she's northern European. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[vic]

Originally posted by seneca:

Vicky is Norwegian... I think, well I know she's northern European. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

Sen, i really do like Norway, but i do not live there. By the way, if you ever come to Norway, you must try to order a saussage in a bread, with shrimpsalad on top of it :-)

Later note: I forgot, they do not eat the saussage in a bread but wrapped in a lompe, which is a sort of potatopancake that tastes like potatopeel - still remember the shrimpsalad.

[This message was edited by vic on 01-26-04 at 05:05 PM.]

[Steven Edwards]

I know where Vicky is! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif Can I tell?

-Steven

[KLD]

I would love to eat good quality caviar by the spoonful, but unfortunately I am now allergic to it! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/frown.gif

I would have to include the following:

Breakfast
Pecan waffles with real maple syrup
2 fried eggs, basted
Very crisp shredded hash browns
Very crisp bacon
Fresh sour dough bread toast
Homemade raspberry preserves
Darjeling tea
Fresh squeezed OJ
Champagne

Lunch
Fresh, peel-your-own shrimp
Open faced grilled cheese on sour dough bread
Caesar salad
Iced tea (unsweetened)
Ben & Jerry's Uncooked Brownie Dough ice cream

Dinner
Abalone steak, breaded and deep fat fried
Black-eyed peas with bacon
Baked potato with butter and sour cream
Caesar salad
A good bottle of Merlot
Lemon chiffon pie (my great-grandmother's recipe)
Krumkaker and Fattigmann (Norwegian cookies)

(KLD)

[woman from Europe]

Saussage in a bread, with shrimpsalad is not nice.

A nice Norwegian meal is salmon with boiled potatoes and sour cream.

And krumkaker and fattigmann are only for Christmas http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Steven Edwards]

Much as I hate to admit it, I must be a country boy because my ideal meal plan is pretty simple and would go something like this:

Breakfast
Plain waffles [or good pancakes] with syrup, couple spicy sausage patties

Lunch
Slice of NY style meat lovers pizza

Dinner
Baked chicken, rice and gravy
-or-
Steak [prefer Filets; pink, gotta be bloody http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif] and home sliced thin fries
-or-
Japanese habachi style food... steak or chicken, shrimp, fried rice

-Steven

[olossgirl]

a POUTINE ... a gyros ... ketchup chips ... mapospread on fresh baguette ... and cretons on fresh baguette > I miss Quebec !

[KLD]

Vic, since I just ate my last from my Christmas stock of fattigman and krukager, and this message says ANYTHING I WANT, I included this.

When my grandparents hosted the Norwegian foreign minister in exile in their home in Wyoming during WWII, they made fattigman for him (even though it was summer) and he cried and cried!

And Vic, I see you did not list lefse and lutefisk either! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif

I left strawberries off my list...and fresh raspberries too. Would add these as in between meal snacks!

[joyt]

shrimp
tater tots <blush> (i love 'em)

joy
"Now the only healthy way to live, as I see it, is to learn to like all the little every day things."
~ Gus McCrae

[vic]

Hi KLD,

I never mentioned Krumkaker or Fattigman bakels, "Woman from europe did" she is the norwegian person. But i must admit, that our own version of fattigman bakels (pronounced, i think, a little like this - futtimon buckels - in norwegian (remember the singing norwegian accente http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif )) a cookie we call klejner is also a specific christmas thing.

Lutefisk, is a so special norwegian tradition, that no other people on the world should ever talk about it, some traditions are better left forgotten, and in my humble oppinion this is one. In general lutefisk is dried cod that have been soaked in lye and boiled in water, I would at any time rather eat the dried cod as is, with butter on, as it actually tastes wonderfuls despite the very bad odour. Again I believe lutefisk is a special christmas food, and i trust that most people thank their gods that they do not need to eat that on evryday basis.
I would though eat something similar to krumkaker at any time, preferably filled with whiped cream mixed with fresh berries, or atleast with marmelade on top http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

Originally posted by KLD:

Vic, since I just ate my last from my Christmas stock of fattigman and krukager, and this message says ANYTHING I WANT, I included this.

When my grandparents hosted the Norwegian foreign minister in exile in their home in Wyoming during WWII, they made fattigman for him (even though it was summer) and he cried and cried!

And Vic, I see you did not list lefse and lutefisk either! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif

I left strawberries off my list...and fresh raspberries too. Would add these as in between meal snacks!

[betheny]

I would think I had been a very bad girl if they made me eat dried fish soaked in lye for Christmas...I had a Swedish sister-in-law, she was such a good cook, but ate some stuff I didn't like. Something called salt licorice, which was black licorice dipped in ammonia salts? ick. I did like the aquavit tho. And it was handy, if you had pickled herring and wasa crackers, she always had something to eat.

C5/6 incomplete, injured Aug. 2000

[woman from Europe]

I have never tasted lutefisk. It looks aweful and even smells worse but the aquavit with the Cristmas food is really nice.

Anyway, I think I prefer an Italian pizza or a Greek souvlaki

[vic]

Beth, there are 2 sort of "salt licorice", there is the general salt lakrids, that just contains salt, and then there is salmiak lakrids, with ammonium chloride, salt and sugar. The last one is really great, but i think the general salt lakrids, is the most common. Some people even dissolve them in vodka, and drink it.
As in Sweden, we, the other neighbours besides the Norwegians, love pickled heering, in all kinds of variations. Especially in spicy sauces. But wasa krackers(Knäcke Bröd) are not to eat with that, I must have dark bread prefferably with lots of whole grain in or the taste is simply nor right http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif
Originally posted by Betheny:

I would think I had been a very bad girl if they made me eat dried fish soaked in lye for Christmas...I had a Swedish sister-in-law, she was such a good cook, but ate some stuff I didn't like. Something called salt licorice, which was black licorice dipped in ammonia salts? ick. I did like the aquavit tho. And it was handy, if you had pickled herring and wasa crackers, she always had something to eat.

C5/6 incomplete, injured Aug. 2000

[Damage]

Seing as now I now live on another continent from where I grew up all I want is food from home that you can't get here...

Breakfast would be karjalen piirakat, a rye pastry with rice inside and strong coffee (not the weak junk you get here in North America)

Lunch would be simple, ruisleipa with herring and salami (it's dense rye bread)

Dinner would be toss up between my grandmother's reindeer stew or lihapulla (meatballs with mashed potatoes, sort of)

Desert would be marjakiisseli (lingonberry thing, kind of soupy but very sweet).

Now I want to go back http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/frown.gif Seem to be lots of Scandanavians loving their cuisine (and the French think we can't cook!)

[Shaun]

Soilant Green.. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif

''In a world called catastrope my native tongue is blasphomy''

[marmalady]

I had no clue we had so many Scandinavians on board! Who knew?!!

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Tough times don't last - tough people do.

[Steven Edwards]

Gotta make an addition... Kenny Rogers' Roasters. Some chicken, corn and a corn-muffin and I'm doing great. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

-Steven

[antiquity]

Originally posted by Shaun:

Soilant Green.. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif

''In a world called catastrope my native tongue is blasphomy''

But Shaun, that's peeoople!http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/redface.gif

[marco25]

This morning it would be some fresh hot Krispy Kreme donuts from the shop in Mount Pleasant, SC, and my (late) grandparents would be allowing me to eat one in the back seat of their car on the way back to their house.

http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/frown.gif http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[marmalady]

Ooooooh Martha, what have you done? http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/eek.gif And I'm trying to be so good! Anyone who can resist the smell of warm, fresh, Krispy Kreme donuts is insane!!!!!!!

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Tough times don't last - tough people do.

[beelady]

A honey bran muffin from "Mimis" in California for breakfast, and my aunts sauerkraut and dumplings for supper.

[Shaun]

Originally posted by seneca:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shaun:
Soilant Green.. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif



But Shaun,that's peeoople!http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/redface.gif

Seneca,what are trying to say http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

''In a world called catastrope my native tongue is blasphomy''

[Kaprikorn1]

Originally posted by Shaun:

Originally posted by seneca:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shaun:
Soilant Green.. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif



But Shaun,that's peeoople!http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/redface.gif

Seneca,what are trying to say http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

''In a world called catastrope my native tongue is blasphomy''

"Soylent Green is PEEEEOPLE??!!

Kap

"It's not easy being green"

[Shaun]

But i'll use mustard http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

''In a world called catastrope my native tongue is blasphomy''

[antiquity]

Ewww Shaun, and if the scoops get you next?!?!?

[This message was edited by seneca on 01-29-04 at 04:12 AM.]

[Theophania]

Breakfast: Eggs benedict
Lunch: Grilled cheese
Dinner: Lobster tail and asparagus with bernaise sauce.
Dessert: Chocolate roll or a freshly made cream puff.
Nighttime snack: Hot, freshly baked bread.

[Kaprikorn1]

Originally posted by Theophania:

Breakfast: Eggs benedict
Lunch: Grilled cheese
Dinner: Lobster tail and asparagus with bernaise sauce.
Dessert: Chocolate roll or a freshly made cream puff.
Nighttime snack: Hot, freshly baked bread.

Ah Theo...I can see ya likes your creamy things...Hollandaise, Bernaise, Creme Anglaise.
I likes 'em too.

Kap

"It's not easy being green"

[Lindox]

Seafood and champagne.

<"();::::::::::;~

[Theophania]

Originally posted by Kaprikorn1:

[QUOTE]Ah Theo...I can see ya likes your creamy things...Hollandaise, Bernaise, Creme Anglaise.
I likes 'em too.

yup...i'm afraid i'll die an early death due to all that heart clogging yumminess too http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[duramater]

swiss chocolate fondue