Whathello

Saw a thread about where to spend 10 days for best food.

So my question would be threefold :

1. Your best dish that YOU make yourself.
2. Best dish that your wife /husband/mother dies or did.
3. Best dish you have at a restaurant (the one you order the most).

Whathello

A tout seigneur tout honneur I'll answer my own question.

1. Magret de canard aux pommes flambe au calvados (or cognac)
With a gratin dauphinois.

2. My wife makes the best Ossobucco in town - better than my mother's (sorry Mum - your Waterzooi is still the greatest).

3. À côte de bœuf is probably the one I order the most ( in Europe)
Bleu (rare) of course.

Your turn ?

cafegoddess

1. Steak, braised veal cheek in port wine reduction and omelets
2. My mom's stuffed milkfish
3. Seafood pasta or some kid of fish dish
Mashed potatoes

Whathello

Stuffed milkfish looks great. Never came across it or not even heard about it til today.
On my to eat list.

peter242403

1. Four Cheese Pasta
2. My mom's cheese cakes
3. Pad Thai from spice (http://www.spicethainyc.com/#!menu)

bilboburgler

Chilli con carne with garlic bread (with or without beef/vegetarian sub)


Steak and Kidney suet pudding (really)


Mussels and Chips with a light pale beer, but I have to admit the beef/horse fat of Belgium puts me off a bit but I can force it down, I prefer the mussels of Barfleur and St Vaast.

Sassafrass

Curried Tilapia with panko breading, quiche

Chicken and dumplings, cornbread stuffing, southern style biscuits

Creme brûlée, calamari, anything spicy and stew-like (tajines, jambalaya, etc), crab cakes.

fourfortravel

1. Chicken Piccata, Pierogi
2. Pierogi (Mother); Rotisserie Chicken on the grill (DH)
3. Carpaccio di Polpo, Steak Tartare

Traviata

1. Anything pasta

2. Anything pasta

3. Anything pasta

StCirq

1.Funny you should mention it. Waterzooi is one of my favorite things to make. That and a seafood bourride that has 100 ingredients and takes 3 days to make.

2. My mother was a horrible cook. My husband makes an exceptional tomkatsu.

3. Confit de canard with pommes de terre sarladaises. Or cassoulet.

tuscanlifeedit

1. Pie is probably my very best dish. Pumpkin and/or pecan.

2. My mother, in her day, could make anything and make it fabulous.

3. tom kha gai; if it's on a menu, I order it.

nini

1. Chicken Kiev

2. Seafood Gumbo

3. Langoustine Ravioli

IMDonehere

1. Either a noodle or potato pudding (they are called kugel)

2. Nothing. I used to tease my mother that I looked forward to airline flight for good food. My maternal grandmother made sensational latkes. (fried potato pancakes.)

3. I love tapas and dim sum, a little of everything.

Gwendolynn

1 and 2.... husband and I used to make wonderful Indian food from Madhur Jaffrey's
(sp?) cookbook.

Some of my best meals have been at Corte Sconta in Venice (fish.) Also, loved frito misto almost anywhere in Italy.. Right now in NYC am into Vietnamese. But I'd share duck and cassoulet with St. Cirq any day!

massimop

1. i live in a village and don't know what I can cook until I go to the store or market & see what's available. Then I cook what's available the way it needs to be cooked to be its best.

2. N/A

3. I only eat in restaurants when I travel, and then I eat local cuisine. I ask the staff wherever I am eating what's the best dish they are serving that day & then I eat that.

sundriedtopepo

1. I like to cook therefore try to make everything my best. It's my gift to my family and now my husband and our visitors. Not Michelin star though

2. My mom was also a great cook but was famous for pies, any kind you could imagine. And classic turkey dinner.

3. Neapolitan pizza for a quick meal out, but once a year our fave restaurant does a truffle tasting menu dinner with paired wine. Heaven!!

Pepper_von_snoot

1. Lean Cuisine. 6 minutes in Microwave.

2. Meatball Stew. Like beef stew but with meatballs. It was really tasty. My mother made a horrid jambalaya, which made all of her children cry at the dinner table.

3. Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and horseradish@ the Connaught Hotel in London.

Thin

sugarmaple

1. Pies, blueberry, peach, sour cherry, rhubarb strawberry. And a meringue, whipped cream and Skor torte that's sinful.

2. DH makes the worlds best burgers, all beef or beef/pork combo, and he does a wonderful steamed lobster that I can't get enough of.

3. Pasta or salmon.

NewbE

Thin (and no wonder you are), your list made my day.

1. Crabcakes

2. My grandmother's pelmeni

3. Fish and chips

Scootoir

1. Simple but beautifully roasted chicken. DH loves it.

2. Mom's Lasagna

3. Salmon