Food for thought

It the interests of killing the boredom with a mouth watering discussion, who likes to eat and if you do what is your preferred dish? I'm looking for something new to do with some of our piscatorial friends, below are some of my recent efforts.

In fact just what is your favourite food? All seafood mine, but what do you lot like?


Steamed Clams with white wine, chilli and garlic


Red Thai Fish Curry

I'm a big fan of Italian food and also Thai cookery.
My all-time favourite from Italy is the famous Florentine steak with a nice Primitivo to wash it down.
http://www.silveroak.com/food/recipes/bistecca-florentine/


I especially like the Spicy salads that the Thais are also fond of. Spicy beef salad is eye wateringly good!

Here's an Australian version. The authentic Thai recipe calls for 26 chillies!

Mmmmmm, nice David. Hard to beat a good steak. I'll stick to the Thai version though. The "Taste" version is a little bit shit.

Agreed. The original I first had at a local eatery near the base of the Golden Temple in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.
I was sat there red faced, drenched in sweat with tears streaming down my face, tucking in with gusto. Sheila said 'if it's too hot stop eating it!'
My reply, 'It is but it's so tasty I have to finish it!' :yesnod:

While I love Asian inspired food, there is a place for a traditional roast as well


Roast pork with extra crispy crackling

Enjoyed these in Cyprus - Garlic Jumbo Prawns. To give an indication of size, that's a full size dinner plate!



Drool! Drool!!

had a nice homemade Pizza yesterday - only some mozzarella di bufala and fresh basil on top.
Very simple but pure indulgence.

There's so much great food all over the world, life's too short to taste everything. With fresh ingredients the most simple dish becomes something great.

I would murder someone for a fresh baked bavarian Leberkäs - no chance to get it here since the last and only german butcher in Eire closed his shop.

I had to look that up mate.

Interesting fact of the day. The traditional Cumberland sausage is said to be a localised version of the German sausage that the many German lead miners, who immigrated here to dig in the Cumbrian mountains, brought with them.

I should really have mentioned it as a favourite dish too. Don't be fooled by commercial 'Cumberland' sausage available in supermarkets. That's usually rubbish.
Proper Cumberland sausage has to be at least 98% meat. The rest being herbs and spices. It should also by rights only be called Cumberland sausage if it is made within this county.

cairnsys wrote: Enjoyed these in Cyprus - Garlic Jumbo Prawns. To give an indication of size, that's a full size dinner plate!

Drool! Drool!!

Those are some pretty impressive prawns, now I'm drooling too. Last night I was craving a steak and added some oysters Kilpatrick and snow peas and a baked potato for good measure.

David Aiketgate wrote: I had to look that up mate.

Mmmmm liver cheese, the name just makes your mouth water doesn't it.....lol

bacchus wrote:

David Aiketgate wrote: I had to look that up mate.

Mmmmm liver cheese, the name just makes your mouth water doesn't it.....lol

and guess what - it contains neither liver nor cheese... :mrgreen: