If someone offered to cook you anything you wanted for dinner, what would you ask them to cook, what would you want for dessert and drinks, who's cooking, and what would be the location for the dinner?
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March 12th, 2016
Anybody you know either personally is going to cook you dinner. Anything you want for dinner, anything for dessert and any drinks you want. Drinks and dessert are not necessarily going to be homemade (for example, wine, soda, ice cream, etc.).
Who’s doing the cooking, what are you requesting, and what would be the location for the dinner (i.e. their house, indoors, outdoors, beach, park picnic, whatever).
I ask because my mom is having people over this weekend and asked me what I would like to eat. My request was “roast beef, lamb or stew.” I am having dinner with my family and I am very grateful we are all together, all alive and can spend the day together. My mom and my sister are cooking, and they’re excellent cooks.
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It depends who is cooking (since you mention your mom) because my MIL makes different dishes than my mom, and different from my husband, or even a chef.
If I could, I’d like for my ex to cook for me some of his mom’s food. He knows how to make it all, he used to cook a lot. I haven’t had it in such a long time, and most dishes I cannot make the same. One of my favorites was a meat roast with rice. I also loved how she made chicken with a red sauce, I make it too. I’d just drink water with it.
From my mom probably her lasagna. Or, just simple meat sauce over pasta with melted mozzerrella (my favorite comfort food). I’d treat myself to a Coke with it.
My grandma, her pot roast. (I make it also). With water to drink.
My MIL ropa vieja (a shredded beef dish). With rice, and a side of salad dressed with lemon and oil. She also makes delicious potatoes au gratin. I’d drink water.
Pie in the sky chef cooked dish I can’t pick one. Even with that I have special dishes at various restaurants. Dover sole is always a special treat and hard to find.
Dessert, as I have said before, my favorite is the Mounds cake from TooJays deli in Florida.
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@JLeslie
What TooJays location? Southgate Mall, Sarasota?
Any TooJays. Although, some locations don’t always have that cake on hand. They run out I think. You can call ahead and order it if you want a whole cake. Or, call ahead and just see if they have it available that day. Best cake ever.
I’m partial to picnics in beautiful spots. My choice would be crusty french bread with hard salami, an assortment of fruits and cheeses and an assortment of olives. Amazing home made cole slaw, spinach dip, champagne and lemon cheesecake. Preferably by water, a lake or river on a perfect day with temps. hovering around 80 degrees. :-)
@ragingloli well at least you didn’t say roast goose so I don’t have to come over there and give you a whoopin’. lol
If Gregory is cooking, chicken fried steak. He makes the best country gravy on the planet. That could only be followed by Jell-o.
If Robert is cooking, meatloaf, and dutch apple pie ala butter pecan mode.
If my grandmother were still around, I would leave the menu up to her, because my gawd that woman could cook!
My beverage would be Hawaiian Punch in any case.
If my local restaurant chef were cooking, then duck a l’orange, steamed broccoli – carrots, baked potato, chocolate cake coated thickly with caramel icing, and iced tea.
My impulse is to ask the chef to to choose something at which he or she feels they excel. The same holds for the dessert course, if home made. If not, I volunteer to bring the dessert as well as the wines.
A friend of mine owns an upscale restaurant in Belgium. He would cook for me and I would be happy to be surprised. He knows to always include tabouleh and green beans with whatever else he decides. I love those two dishes the way he prepares them. I also make him cook the meat. He serves a lot of it uncooked in his restaurant.
End piece of Prime rib roast and egg nog. New York cheese cake for snack.
Oh, boy. This is a real treat. I haven’t had a 24 oz. Nebraska porterhouse steak since about October, 2012. I haven’t really had a decent steak since then. Can’t get them here for under a hundred dollars.
I dream about this porterhouse. It’s even got a name, Great-with-Sangiovese. On one side of the bone is the tenderest, thickest, most succulent hunk of filet this side of heaven and on the other is an equally thick and succulent, flavorful entrecôte big enough to feed a family of four back in 1890. Done in an iron frying pan, black and blue, charred and dripping with blood. I won’t insult the cow by adding anything else but a little salt and coarse black pepper. Then smothered in slices of huge portobellos sauteed in red wine and a hint of garlic.
Next to it on a large, oval serving platter is an enormous Idaho baked potato exploding with salted butter, scallions, sour cream (not creme fraiche!), and small pieces of freshly fried bacon. No cheese, please. That’s a bit too much. Steamed broccoli al dente with Hollandaise. A hearty Sangiovese. Iced lemon water on the side. Just that one course. I’m a trencherman and a peasant. I require nothing fancy, but a lot of nothing fancy.
It might take over two hours to eat this meal, but I can do it. I want to do it. I long to do it.
Who would cook it for me? Mmmmm. I know precisely who that would be, but that’s my secret. All in all, it isn’t a very challenging dish for a cook… and she’ll be well paid.
It would without question be anything Geoffrey Zakarian would want to cook for my wife and I up at our lake house and served out on the upper deck. I would not be upset if he made his shrimp-fra-diavolo
I would ask for a sushi dinner. Each person would have 4 rolls with very few repeats so we all could sample and share. Also everyone wo wanted could be involved in the preparation. There is something a touch erotic about spreading out the warm rice on the sheet of nori, placing the filling, and rolling it all up with just the right squeeze.
Naturally the drinks would be green tea and warm saki. Shouchikubai is really sweet but still packs a punch.
Dessert would be something involving melted chocolate.
Warning….After a meal like that a bedroom visit would not be far behind. THAT would be the real dessert.
@LuckyGuy Just can’t get enough of spreading out that warm rice ey? lol
I wear rubber gloves lubricated with a thin coating of Japanese mayo when I do it.
I love the texture and feel of that warm rice. It has so much potential.
@jca LOL I want a massage with rubber gloves and a thin coating of Japanese mayo.
Sushi massage covered in warm rice. haha
@jca It is! I’d better buy another box of gloves!
I had corned beef dinner last night and sliced the beef – wearing a pair of rubber gloves. Sure, my nephew and brother in law made fun but screw them. I like the food and my hands to stay clean. .
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