Dishes to try before you die; name your favorite food

[excalipoor]

I'm sure this has been done before, but I don't care. What's your favorite food? What is so delicious that everybody should try it at least once before they die?

Me, I love Italian food, and I love experimenting. I whip up new kinds of sauces and casseroles on a weekly basis, some of them pure magic, some of them borderline inedible, but I also have one staple I don't think I'll ever get tired of: LASAGNE.

Tomatoes, garlic, nutmeg, and a whole lotta cheese. These are the things that make life worth living. A perfect béchamel is a true work of art, and the finished product is a treat to all senses (protip: get a see-through baking dish for maximum satisfaction). There's nothing quite like sweating and bleeding for hours on end, and then finally being able to dig in. It's a beautiful thing.

Captcha: mushy peas

 

[madwarper]

A good Philly cheesesteak, with fried onions and sauce. Whole cherry peppers on the side in between mouthfuls of meaty goodness and a cherry coke to wash it down.

Disclaimer; I'm from Roxborough. So, none of that South Philly cheeze whiz shit. Provolone all the way.

 

[Deadlywere]

Cow heart of course. I mean just look at that

Spoiler

How could you not want to eat that?

 

[Queen Michael]

Bacon. I honestly can't find anything I love more.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

I'm sure this has been done before, but I don't care. What's your favorite food? What is so delicious that everybody should try it at least once before they die?

Me, I love Italian food, and I love experimenting. I whip up new kinds of sauces and casseroles on a weekly basis, some of them pure magic, some of them borderline inedible, but I also have one staple I don't think I'll ever get tired of: LASAGNE.

Tomatoes, garlic, nutmeg, and a whole lotta cheese. These are the things that make life worth living. A perfect béchamel is a true work of art, and the finished product is a treat to all senses (protip: get a see-through baking dish for maximum satisfaction). There's nothing quite like sweating and bleeding for hours on end, and then finally being able to dig in. It's a beautiful thing.

Captcha: mushy peas

Bleeding?
Good lord man, how exactly do you prepare your lasagna?
I mean, I like to think that I make a mean lasagna, but yours apparently truly is a MEAN lasagna...

On topic:
Mousse au Chocolat anyone?
Or my infamous brownies?
Dunno really, there is just too much great food out there.
My take on it: TRY ALL THE FOOD.

 

[excalipoor]

There's nothing quite like sweating and bleeding for hours on end, and then finally being able to dig in. It's a beautiful thing.

Bleeding?
Good lord man, how exactly do you prepare your lasagna?
I mean, I like to think that I make a mean lasagna, but yours apparently truly is a MEAN lasagna...

Well, there's a lot of chopping and dicing involved, and I'm not quite as good with a knife as I'd like to be...

 

[HoneyVision]

Being from the Mediterranean region I care very little about other cuisines because the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern one is so freaking delicious. And it helps that my father is a better cook than most mothers. I especially like hummus and cheeses. But I also love everything from kebabs to felafels to pastas to flavoured rice to dolmas to pizza to olives to dates to baklava to etc etc. But I think sushi is a MUST. So many options and very healthy.

 

[The Funslinger]

Cow heart of course. I mean just look at that

Spoiler

How could you not want to eat that?

On a tangentially related note, the horse heart Daenarys eats in HBO's Game of Thrones was made from red gummy bears.

OT: Good, fresh haddock with handcut chips. I just... there's nothing that even comes close to how delicious well prepared British food is.

 

[Zhukov]

There's a bakery near where I live that sell these things called 'Heart Attack Pies'. It's a meat pie with a layer of mashed potato on top, with cheese and bits of bacon mixed into the potato. It's kind of glorious.

Also, gnocchi with gorgonzola sauce, parmesan, parsley and a generous sprinkling of pepper.

 

[NathLines]

There's this spaghetti bolognese they serve/served in my primary school. That is my absolute favorite food. Nothing else can come even close to it. I haven't had it for at least 6 years now. I'm afraid that I'm never going to have it ever again. Oh, how I weep. Some day, I'm just going to fill my entire refrigerator with minced meat and ingredients and just spend a week trying to figure out how to make it on my own.

 

[Krantos]

Chicken Carbonara. So fattening, but I promise you won't care when eating it.

Btw, it's bacon, chicken cooked in bacon drippings, and then a sauce made from those same drippings served over pasta (add mini bella mushrooms to complete the hat-trick).

Heavenly every time I make it.

 

[Tiamattt]

Chicken Carbonara. So fattening, but I promise you won't care when eating it.

Btw, it's bacon, chicken cooked in bacon drippings, and then a sauce made from those same drippings served over pasta (add mini bella mushrooms to complete the hat-trick).

Heavenly every time I make it.

*Did a google image search* That looks DELICIOUS!! If I ever see that on a menu I'm so ordering it.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Steak and Lobster. Steak is rare-medium rare depending on what I feel like having. I don't use the butter dip for lobster. I love its flavour as is.

 

[Karma168]

Haggis, the real Scottish version anyway (the US has weird laws about it so you don't get the real deal). Tastes amazing with anything; stuffed in a chicken breast, on a bacon roll, with a steak and whiskey sauce, haggis lasagne.. I could go on. It's an awesome dish and everyone should try it rather than turn their noses up at what it's made from.

 

[Orange12345]

Well if we are going by nationality I have to go with Poutine it's the ultimate comfort food

NOTE you have to have CHEESE CURDS for it to be poutine you can't just use any old cheese

 

[Rasor]

I've been wanting to make a dish for the longest while.
Bust open a whole bunch of eggs.
Mix the suckers with curry.
Cook up some rice.
Combine the curried egg with the rice.
Turn into curried-egg-rice-loaf
Bake it.

I just really think that it'd go so well, all of my favourite foods (I really like eggs, curries and rice okay?). Also, I've never heard of it done before, so I'm a touch worried there might be a reason for that and the meal will go to shit.

And a think I think everyone needs to try:
Currying meals.
I do it to almost anything I can't help but to add vindaloo paste to most things I eat. Omlette-aloo is amazing. Pasta bake-aloo is just fantastic. Cheese toasties, steaks, casseroles. I've recently been adding it to my tomato sauce so I can have it on hotdogs, hamburgers.. anything BBQ'd. I made a nice butter chicken the other night, I added extra vindaloo to that too.

I think it's becoming an issue...

Edit: typoes, it's 5 am here, typoes are to be expected.

 

[Psykoma]

On a tangentially related note, the horse heart Daenarys eats in HBO's Game of Thrones was made from red gummy bears.

Continuing the aside, there was an interview with the actress who played dany about that

What about the scene where you're eating the horse?s heart? What was that actually made out of?

That was one of those amazing scenes that you get as an actor that there?s just no acting required ? at all. It was disgusting! They promised me that it would taste similar to a gummy bear and it definitely didn?t. It was kind of like ? the best way to describe it is sort of a congealed jam kind of thing. On the outtakes, there will be me heaving into a bucket. It?s such a reflex, when you taste something that?s just so revolting, you kind of instantly just want to get rid of it. It?s safe to say that I didn?t eat lunch that day.

Doesn't sound too fun

OP: one of my favorite childhood (And adulthood) dishes is a meatball one.
The sauce is equal parts chili sauce and a jam (Our family's favorite was blackcurrent jam, though others like grape the most, you'd just have to experiement until you find your favorite), and then cook meatballs in it. So much better if you have some great homemade meatballs.
We usually just served it on a bed of rice, though sometimes people have them by themselves.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Lately it's just pasta... I can't get enough. I wonder if I've got some vitamin deficiencies...

But, yeah. Lately I make a "sauce" where I throw in oil, garlic, onions, zucchini and tomatoes, and this clubhouse style roasted garlic and red peppers mix into a pan, fry it all up, and then dump in some pasta and let it turn into a ile of nummy starchy goodness. I might put some meat (chicken or steak - tenderloin only, I get a whole tenderloin for about $40 on sale at a butcher's here) in too, if I've got it. Nummy. Grown up version of my favorite.

Also, tv commercials have introduced me to putting mayo on chicken breasts and baking it. Wash and pat dry the breast, or leg, or whatever part you're using, spoon some mayo ontop and spread it over the top evenly, add a spice of your choice (again, for me it's that roasted garlic and red pepper stuff) and top with a parmesan cheese, then bake it in the oven until the top is a warm brown crust with gooey num inside. I usually side it with basmati rice and some sort of veggie.

Also.. whever we're out for dinner, I pretty much always order a burger. I don't know why, but almost every time I have a burger.

Now I'm hungry. Lunch today was leftover wilted ceaser salad and chicken. Was good last night, but my sister forgot to leave some lettuce aside for my lunch. I cook the chicken in a Thai-style sweet and spicy sauce and put it on the salad. Very good.