Best meal ever

[ODShowtime]

Please tell me you're not wasting valuable time and stomach space on rice and potatoes with all that meat available.
Mushrooms....I'll allow it.

They are really good mushrooms.

 

[Nitwit]

Please tell me you're not wasting valuable time and stomach space on rice and potatoes with all that meat available.
Mushrooms....I'll allow it.

It’s not about volume, it’s about taste and flavor. There’s a restaurant in Marigot St Martin on the French side (of course) which features fois gras flamed in apple brandy. It’s very rich, you don’t want a large portion. But it’s to die for, almost literally. Also in Grand Case in St Martin there’s a place that does frogs legs in a creole cream sauce. It’s not a dish you see every day, but, but it’s excellent, and also very rich tasting. It’s like a cross between crab and chicken wings.

 

[PSU87]

It’s not about volume, it’s about taste. There’s a restaurant in Marigot St Martin on the French side (of course) which features fois gras flamed in apple brandy. It’s rich, you don’t want a large portion. But it’s to die for, almost literally. Also in Grand Case in St Martin there’s a place that does frogs legs in a creole cream sauce. It’s not a dish you see every day, but, but it’s excellent, and also very rich tasting. It’s like a cross between crab and chicken wings.

No. It is about volume. You're example isn't apples to apples. If you paid for the fois Gras, frog legs, and rice, and you knew you couldn't finish it all (and couldn't take it home)...Would you touch the rice?
I sure wouldn't....I'd be polishing off the frog legs

 

[PrtLng Lion]

Please tell me you're not wasting valuable time and stomach space on rice and potatoes with all that meat available.
Mushrooms....I'll allow it.

I'm a non-discriminatory glutton when I go there. (as long as the food is hot). But the guys who bring out the meat on skewers definitely get tired of stopping at my table.

 

[MrTailgate]

I just wish I didn't know. Like I don't know what meth is like and I want to keep it that way. I was afraid of trying Ben and Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream because I knew I'd be hooked and I was. I do very much know what a top crab cake tastes like due my aunt in OC MD.

Thank you for sharing your expert advice, I will heed it when I can.

In other thread news, I did the bad thing and ordered Texas De Brazil over Door Dash again last night. Petit Filet, Lamb Sirloin, Potatoes Au Gratin and some of those cheese biscuits. It's crazy how not totally expensive that meal is.

Off topic, Dead and Company. Thumbs up or thumbs down? Picked up presale Wolfpack tickets in Philly which is an hour drive. I’d much prefer Phil and Friends, but Reading is three hour drive or so.

 

[Nitwit]

No. It is about volume. You're example isn't apples to apples. If you paid for the fois Gras, frog legs, and rice, and you knew you couldn't finish it all (and couldn't take it home)...Would you touch the rice?
I sure wouldn't....I'd be polishing off the frog legs

Gourmet food isn’t served in large portions. It doesn’t need to.

 

[ODShowtime]

Off topic, Dead and Company. Thumbs up or thumbs down? Picked up presale Wolfpack tickets in Philly which is an hour drive. I’d much prefer Phil and Friends, but Reading is three hour drive or so.

I dig it all when you're on the scene. It's never going to be 1972 again so I say see who you can when you can. I've only seen "The Dead" once in 2003 with Warren Haynes in the Jerry seat; it was awesome. Had tickets to Tampa a year or two ago but it was cancelled at the last minute.

It's still odd to see Bobby as the grizzled old man but you take what you can get. Just make sure to avoid the parking lot bean burritos!

 

[PSU87]

Gourmet food isn’t served in large portions. It doesn’t need to.

Not talking about gourmet food. Not talking about portion sizes. Other than that you're spot on.

 

[ApexLion]

The Diner thread has gotten me on a food kick.

I was up until 1:30 texting with my daughter about our favorite foods. She will be visiting us for a few days beginning tomorrow and we are already planning the meals we will be having-

Chicken Pot Pie with cabbage slaw

BBQ chicken on the grill with baked potatoes and grilled romaine salad

Pho at our favorite Vietnamese place

Ethiopian at a place down in Lancaster

Chuck roast and vegetables in a mushroom/onion soup broth baked in an oven bag.

Then our conversation turned to favorite meals ever. Mine has and always will be the one I had on August 9, 1974. Nixon resigned that day. That evening my aunt and uncle took me and and my widowed mother out for dinner. My Moms sister and my cousin joined us.

We went to the now long gone Lombardo’s Restaurant a few blocks from the Capitol. I had Veal Scallopini, baked stuffed potato and a marvelous green salad with blue cheese dressing. The flavors were amazing. The peppers, tomato, thin delicate veal and wine sauce were divine.

The adults each had two or three manhattans (it was another time) and I got to eat the soaked cherries. My love of that magic elixir of Canadian whiskey, sweet vermouth and cocktail bitters was ignited that evening.

Life, lived well, is good.

P.S. On a serious note, my wife and I were near forty when we started having kids. Thank God we did. I come close to crying each time I see my lovely 23 year old daughter. She is a blessing. My son? He is the best person I know. How is it possible to love someone so much?

Have Lombardo’s in common with you and I’m an older dad as well.

my favorite? Chicago steakhouse (Lawry’s, now closed) - the serving staff and the enormous chef wore medals and greeted us at the door.

 

[ApexLion]

First date dinner with my (now) fiance. We shared some small plates and a great bottle of wine. Everything was perfect. She and I have had some wonderful meals together, including many that she prepared, but for several reasons that first one will he hard to beat.

You will always remember your first…meal.

 

[Midnighter]

Another was the schnitzel and bratkartoffel at Schnitzelbank in Heidelberg Germany. They’re like Picasso with cast iron skillets…

 

[Nitwit]

Not talking about gourmet food. Not talking about portion sizes. Other than that you're spot on.

Gourmet vs gourmand. One eats well, the other just over eats.