What was the last great meal you had?

[Maharg67]

Please state your last great meal except it can be other than a main course including a fine desert or it can be all three courses and so forth. Fine take aways are welcome. A great bag of potato chips is fine etc.

 

 

I had poached eggs with pink salmon plus tomato, spinnage and other ingredients on special toast with an amazing sauce that enhanced the flavour of all the ingredients and the combination of them. The chef made meal looked good as well as smelling and tasting wonderful.

 

 

[Vindekarr]

Mmmm, nice. Cooking isn't my first choice of hobby, falling behind driving, working on cars, and video games, but it is still up there. I particularly like baking.

 

Last weekend I baked a cake. I took two packets of Chocolate Mud Cake mix, but where the recipe called for margarine and 4 eggs as wet ingredients, I took a few artistic liberties. I took a block of butter and a block of Cadbury milk chocolate, and then melted them together and used that instead of margarine. I also upped the egg count to six. For icing, I decided to make my own from scratch, I used the nicest Philadelphia Cream-Cheese I could get and then melted another block of Milk chocolate down before mixing it through. The result is a thick, viscous icing with a rich, creamy flavor.

 

Tips: doing a cake like this couldn't be simpler. All you're doing is replacing the margarine with a comparable or slightly smaller lump of butter with chocolate mixed through. The one thing I would say, is don't cut corners on the ingredients. I know all too well from my time in the states that there's nothing Americans do worse than make supermarket food. The cream cheese is absolutely vital-it's called that, cream-cheese, and it's a little bit like a cross between Whipped and Sour cream-you mostly use it on cakes or as a dip and it's in the dips/sauce isle. DO NOT be tempted to save money and use spray cheese. I cannot imagine how disgusting spray cheese icing would be.

 

Same goes for chocolate, you're looking for a nice Organic chocolate, the ghastly synthetic stuff the Yanks make doesn't melt properly. Try Toblerone or Nestle if you're looking for a good brand. As for types, as long as it's organic(which is to say, made with coco and other plant/animal based ingredients rather than chemicals) any shade will do. If you're really feeling adventurous, try melting white and milk chocolate together, the result is heaven-when it works, it's somewhere between white and milk in taste(and has the best bits of both flavors), but softer and lighter. Make damn sure you use the same brand though, I tried mixing Nestle milk through Cadbury white once, and the result was like mixing oil and water.

 

Oh, and when you're melting chocolate, fill a saucepan with water, and place a METAL bowl on top with the chocolate in it. Make sure that the water cannot touch the bowl. Then place the whole contraption on a hotplate and boil the water-as the water evaporates, the steam will apply the heat from the boiling water to the underside of the bowl, which then conducts through the steel into the chocolate, providing a nice even heat without the risk of burning. You CAN burn chocolate quite easily, and the result is horrible, it looks, tastes and smells like burned plastic.

Edited July 22, 2013 by Vindekarr

[Maharg67]

Organic peanut butter sandwhich, on multigrain bread, because sometimes the simple things hit the spot, make the moment and are a feast in their own right.

[Maharg67]

Fish and chips with nice, though basic, salad. Enough to satisfy hunger with out over filling and salad for some variation and healthy eating.

[billyro]

For some reason, I usually only notice a meal's taste if it is either exceptionally good or exceptionally bad.

 

My last exceptionally good meal was some coral trout that we cooked up on the same day as we caught it out on the Great Barrier Reef. Seriously, that was probably the best thing I've ever eaten. It was about half a year ago, but I can still remember that dinner.

[Maharg67]

Chef proper made chips being hard, crispy on the outside to seal out grease and nice dry inside. Tasty and even tastier with sour cream and sweet chilli dips.

[raatorotta]

I had great meal with my sister and dad in restaurant with mexican theme. First food was nachos with salsa sauce. Main food i had grilled beef with redwine sauce with roasted sausages. Meal included plain green salad, salad with brown beans and some vegetables and garlic potatoes. I drank water because didn't want wine. We didn't order dessert at all.

[Vindekarr]

Ok, here's a nice simple 5-minute recipe for you to try, you will need: 5 free-range eggs, two slices of bread, a frying pan, butter or margarine.

 

This is essentially a family recipe, the "Bacon Sandwhich MK.II" (does not contain bacon) it's delicious, healthy, and extremely easy to make. It takes between 5-10 minutes, and produces almost no washing up. It's worker's food, and it gives you a lot of energy for a long time without making you fat.

 

Step one: grease your pan with a little bit of oil. Any sort will do, I use vegetable oil. Place the pan on a hot-plate at about three-quaters full power.

 

Step two: While the pan and oil are heating up, crack two to six eggs into a bowl and whisk them until the whites and yolks merge into a signle slimey orange substance.

 

Step Trinary: Add the slimey orange substance to the pan, let it fry until you see it turn a pale yellow. Flip it over with a spatula-don't worry about being graceful, just flop "most of it" over so the other side can cook. You'll know it's done when the whole thing is a single, rubbery chunk. Voila, the egg section is done.

 

Final step: Slice into squares, place onto either a sandvich or waffle. Done.

 

OR NOT.

 

See, this is one of those recipes where you can make the basic piece, but it's virtually flavourless. Here's how you make it nice.

 

The fancy version:

 

Step one: Put a frying oil into a pan, place on hotplate to warm up.

 

Step 2: beat between three and six eggs in a bowl, make sure they're nicely blended. *OPTIONAL* add a little dash of cream at this point, or soy sauce.

 

Step 3: prepare your optional ingredients. Three things go really well with these; onion, bacon, and garlic. I STRONGLY recommend you slice and fry an onion and then set aside the fried slices. You can also add bacon for even more flavour, but make sure you fry it fairly lightly, you'll be cooking it twice afterall, and set it aside as well. Make sure you dice you onions and bacon finely, you want little chunks spread through to add flavour, not huge meaty slabs.

 

Step 4: Add fresh oil to your pan, then pour in the egg mixture. Sprinkle with fried onion slices to give it a flavour, and I also recommend a little tiny bit of garlic and some diced fried bacon.

 

Step 5: Make sure it's cooked all the way through by watching it, it'll need around 8 minutes to fry, and you'll know the bottom is fried when you see large bubbles and the mixture turns a pale yellow. Flip as much of it over as you can, and wait as the other side cooks. It's done when it's a unified rubbery mass. And that's it, you've made a basic onion omelette. When serving it, make sure you add a tiny pinch of salt, and perhaps some BBQ sauce as well.

[Ironman5000]

Just had mama's chilli :D She makes the best chilli ever with lots of fresh chillis, mushrooms, garlic, and other stuff. I have tried chilli from many places and made by myself and noone does it better...or hotter!

[Gamerbird]

My last great meal...hmm Home Made Lasagne! My mom makes the best one (imo) and mmm Lasagne with Garlic Bread and salad, beats it all! No cheese though, eww.