Food that makes you happy to be alive...
 

I just had to start this because I just ate one of my favorite foods ever for lunch, a cheese steak. I know what you are thinking, no one in Michigan could know how to make a proper cheese steak, it's too far away from Philly.

You'd be wrong though, there are a few places around here that can do it properly, and by properly I mean an unrecognizable wad of steak, onions and cheese crammed into a bun so tightly that the bun has been compressed down to only about three millimeters thick, and then loaded into a paper bag which becomes transparent from grease almost immediately. That small-seeming thing has enough calories to power me for days on end. That's the stuff.

So, what food does this for y'all?

Curry.

Oh God thank you for curry.

Chicken Madras I love you !!

I must marry an indian woman.

I absolutely LOVE home made cheeseburgers with all the fixin's, including sautéed onions!! And chicken fettuccine Alfredo
! But I try not to have more than one or two of either a year. Old age and slow metebolism is a bitch.

Yum. I'm hungry!

with my food budget I can afford a decent porterhouse perhaps once per moon, sometimes I purposefully deprive myself, and then when the temptation is too strong I make it. its like giving the contestants on survivor a steak with no penalties

Meat pies, or tortieres as they call them.

It's always been a Christmas tradition in my family, and my mom makes the best meat pies in the world. It's making me drool just thinking about them right now.

My mom's garlic mashed potatoes. Ohhh yeah. Now that's what I call comfort food. Put that alongside a filet mignon, and you have the best dinner ever. :)

I love cheese cakes! They are wonderful and tastes great!

I feel hungry now :p

I can not pick just one.

A high quality hamburger. Mom's fried chicken and mashed potatos. A holiday turkey. Really good hash browns. Chicken enchiladas with salsa verde. The list is endless.


Oh, olives, just about any kind of olive.

Sesame Chicken. I really love that dish, but I am a huge fan of Chinese food.

I would also have to add Chicken Parmesean. My second favorite.

some tocino, fried rice, and an egg... now that's a drunk asian man's road to sobriety and good sleep.

Lobster
Pizza
Taco's
Shrimp Cocktails
Turkey,dressing
Prime Rib

Beef wellington
sounds snobbish I know, but it is soooooooo good

It has to be my wifes homemade BBQ sauce. No matter what food I put that on, it's like a slice of heaven.

I have to agree that the Porterhouse is the king of steaks, one half a new york, the other half Filet. one porterhouse = complete meal

Big Mac
Quarterpounder w/cheese

Xhot ( not nuclear non breaded) ...Chicken wings with
chunkey Blue cheese and celary sticks:D

They never give me heartburn but the next day.....:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

It hurts sooooo goood

Hooters has the worst wings on the planet but, who goes
for the wings anyway?

:cool:

Bastilla most definitely. The oh so delicious and then they add cinnamon and confectioner's sugar on top. Chicken, sugar, cinnamon. almonds, eggs, and almonds all wrapped in leaves of a philo-like dough.

Pork tenderloin. Marinate it for about 12 hrs in a worcestire or soy or teriyaki sauce, cook for about 45 mins on about 375. Tender, juicy, great as leftovers. Ummmmmmm....

T-bone grilled over charcoal. Medium rare. Baked potato w/sour cream.

and

Chicken flavored Rice-a-roni w/stir-fried pieces of chicken breast, broccoli, water chestnuts, and onion powder.

home-grilled hamburgers soaked in A1 steak sauce. Soaked. With sauteed onions and chunky grated cheddar. Crispy Fries with Heinz-57 make it absolute perfection.

really good crawfish ettoufe

Grilled chicken fettucine alfredo.
Most places around here can't do a decent job at it, unfortunately.


I had some homemade caramel apple ice cream at this ice cream shop while I was out of town over spring break.. Oh. My. God. I was so sad because I couldn't finish the cone, but it was sooo good.

REAL Italian spaghetti with real grated parmesean and mozzarella cheese. When I went to Italy in 10th grade, that was the first thing I ate there. I was in heaven.

Easy to make and tastes so good!!

I think it's time to leave Titled Cooking im getting too hungry hehe

Well because it's fresh on my mind, <b>lamb</b>. I was at a bar last night with two friends, and the waitress, for some strange reason, had a big pile of meat in the beer fridge (packaged and still good, of course). I left spending $5 for $20 worth of lamb chops. Though I spent a mint on drinks. *A real meat market, that bar, har har*
Oh, and roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and gravy is good too.
And fish & chips w/ mushy peas, done proper.
Now you got me all drooling and stuff.

There's alot of food I like, especially asian food (frankly with a few exceptions food doesn't get decent until you hit the middle east, and it gets better as you go east), but one of my favorites lately has been Katsudon, an absolutely amazing japanese pork dish. I posted the recipe a couple of days ago if anyone is interested.

A dripping, greasy, truck stop cheeseburger!!!

Cheese blintzes, oh god, cheese blintzes with fresh strawberries and blueberries. It's like sex on a plate.

Queso Fundido. It's one of those foods that'll double your chances of having a heart attack, but it's damned good. :D

Jambalaya
Salsa & Chips
Ronzas (a local favorite)
Filet Mignon
Avocado
Margaritas (not food, but they make me happy to be alive)

A ribeye grilled over hickory wood and a Roso baked potato. I don't know if anyone else has ever heard of these but there is a resturaunt just down the road from me that serves them. They are a potato wrapped in brown paper and dropped in a pot of resin. The boiling resin bakes the potato and it produces the fluffiest, flakeyist baked potato ever.

I'm a pizza fanatic.

The best I have ever had is a place called Leo's Pizza in
Jacksonville, Illinois. If you're ever that way, you have to try the Sicilian Stuffed pie. Simply amazing.

while the bufflao wings are good with bleu cheese dressing, the one true thing that i have never come close to topping is this shrimp appetizer that i only get at this restaurant in newark, NJ, called "spanish sangria" on the corner of magazine & rome streets. not only do they have AMAZING sangria, but their appetizer "Shrimp au Garlic" is friggin out of this world, and then some... if you are a garlic and a shrimp lover, i HIGHLY recommend getting this. and if you smear it on top of a buttered portuguese roll, it's even more sinfull. WOW.

ok, i'm like drooling all over the place now... i'll have to go there this weekend or something...

Anything my mom makes; she's an <i>awesome</i> cook.

CUSTARD!!!
custard tarts, custard, well, everything.

hm... possibly a luscious succulent sweet mango.

or the grilled fish & chips with thier chicken salt at the fish and chips shop near work... either one is fantastic =)

my mothers perogies...oh and sushi...

Home Made Bacon Cheese burger <and when i mean home made i mean everything from manoyise to bun to garden grown lettuce> THAT is the best that just makes everything all right

O and dont forget the fries hahahaha

My step-mother makes a cheesecake that I'd be willing to hurt fur-bearing woodland creatures to get to.

It is a traditional syle plain cheesecake with a grahmcracker crust but it is made on a sheet pan and is cut into 1.5" squares

Key Lime Pie
Stroganoff
Chicken Katsu
Teri beef sandwiches
Pork Cordon Bleu
Pommes Frites
Sticky Rice
Sweet tamales
Miso Soup

and finally, this. It's a philipino dish but I can't remember the name for it.

Banana Wrapper - steamed mochi rice w/ sugar, coconut milk, then stuffed w/ banana and a few black beans, wrapped in a banana leaf and steamed.

My Mum's Boston Cream Pie....mmmmmmmm
Anything tex-mex style.....my chicken fajitas rule :D
My buddy Dave's killer chili - guaranteed to melt almost anything
Homemade French Onion Soup

Hey...now I'm hungry! And, once I think about it....almost anything goes well with a nice glass of wine!

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Beer is food, alright, and good beer makes me suspend my general disdain for the human race at large (by taste, not by drunkenness. Drink too much and that disdain returns redoubled.)

mmmm...cold smoked salmon on a fresh garlic bread, with a glass of good chilled white wine....mmm :p

a nice steak and some sushi would be nice

cold twinkies and crunchy sesame chicken, raspberries by the bushel!

Okay, keeping in mind I'm a glutton:
Jack In the Box Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger with extra extra mayo
Pastas (alfredo, spaghetti, etc.) & Dairy Products (especially milk)
Gyoza, Edamame, & Miso soup
Kitsune Udon
Shepherd's Pie
Beef Chow Fun (withOUT fluff products like bean sprouts)

without a doubt.. ICE CREAM...

rice.
cheese.
bread.
crab.
lasagna/ravioli.

32oz bottle of bud and some $0.99 cheese popcorn.

My moms beef curry, my chipotle/mango bbqed chicken wings, strawberry hagendas, ribeye steaks, mac n cheese, asparagus, raw tuna(maguro), oranges, and whatever ends up in front of me after a night of drinking with the boys... if these foods were to vanish off the face of the earth tomorrow, i would want to vanish too.

Mashed potatoes, made with butter, not margerine or any gosh darned spread of sorts, with west indian hot pepper sauce mixed into it.

with homemade, herby meatballs in gravy.

Glory be.

Either that, or any variety of Jalfreizi.

cherry pie.

oh. my. god.

Food that makes me happy to be alive? Well thats all food really but my absolute favorites are:

Steamed Blue crabs...... god I could die a happy happy woman as long as I was eating these
Cheesecake..... the absolute best stuff on the planet!
Chips and Salsa.... got me through college and will be with me for life

mmmm...food. I heart food. :love:

Where do I even start.....
Chocolate Covered Stawberries
Rice Krispie Treats
Cheesecake
My husband's signature steak
or his Chicken Alfredo, or Enchialdas, or anything else that he makes. -Thank god that he can cook, 'cause I can't :)

gnocchi. makes me feel all funny and warm.
second to that... breaded chicken breast

I love a huge slab of steak with potatos and a nice sized salad with a chilled beer. nothin beats it.

Gino's East Stuffed Spinach pizza
Buttertarts
Jamocha Almond Fudge Ice Cream
Pierogies
Dumplings

Sweet & Starchy--that does it for me!

Gnocchis sound simple and delicious. I'll have to try some, thanks!

Pats cheesesteak *with*

After a Flyers game

Gotta get it at its birthplace

Its not just the food, its the experience

Pizza
Cheesecake
Cheeseburgers

:D

Pizza, pasta (almost any kind), or chicken caesar salad.

I must learn how to make that salad!

PASTA, pizza, cookies, cheese cake, FRIED CHICKEN, mmmm all so yummy and yummy yummy

bannana pudding
 

i just had some homemade banna pudding and all i have to say is that it has to be one of the best deserts to eat..

I have to say, BBQ ribs or Yorkshire pudding...mmmm

theres a place here in phoenix called native new yorker. they have award winning chicken wings that i absolutely live for. during the summer i went there with my buddy 4 times a week for those damn things. its a fun environment too, and im happy to be alive when im there eating chicken wings with my friends. one of the best feelings ever.

After a month in Italy, I can say that any food given to me in Italy is enough to put a dopey lookin grin on my face. Only thing on this side of the water I've found to compare is a place called Angel Sweet, a gelato store that actually does a pretty good job of recreating the italian dessert.

Let's go for a whole (thai) meal.

Start with Tom Kha Gai, a delicious coconut milk-based soup with chicken and mushrooms and flavored with lemongrass and dried hot peppers.

Follow that up with some Masaman Curry, coconut milk, masaman curry, chicken, potatoes, onions and peanuts. DE-LICIOUS!

For desert, some sticky rice and thai custard. Perfect!