Do you ever reminisce over one particular meal or food you had?!

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7...maybe 8 years ago, I went to a friends house for dinner and she made the most incredible pasta dish. I mean it was out of this world...she moved to New Zealand shortly after and we lost touch but I think of this pasta at least once a month!

Most recent one is I was in Copenhagen a few weeks ago and had cardamom buns from a particular bakery (Juno’s if anyone’s going!) and I've thought about them every single day since. I could actually cry at the thought of how epic they were!

historysock I loved these too! If memory serves me right my school in 80's Edinburgh called them "lamb choppies" They were delicious but probably full of shite!

Other memorable meals include the most amazing tuna salad aboard a boat trip in Majorca in the 90's. I have never been able to replicate the correct ratios of oil/vinegar/seasoning to tuna, onion, olives and tomato.

More recently I had the most divine steak with chimmichurri rub in a tiny steakhouse in Madrid (Muuu!)

When I was a student living in London, my friend and I used to get chips, cheese and curry sauce from the chip shop on Tottenham court road. They had to close down when the new crossrail begun to be build and we went in to mourning. We still text about those chips every month or so and this was 8 years ago. The shop was called Dionysus...anyone remember it?!

Tasting menu at a restaurant called Aria in Sydney overlooking the opera house.
The pork belly was out of this world. Favourite meal ever.

Cheesecake from Roxy's on Times Square in NYC - kept going back for that one on the way back to the hotel.

Dutch apple cake in Amsterdam - the weed probably helped with that one.

When I was going for a dress fitting for a wedding we (the entire bridal party!) stopped for lunch. The fitting was in a really rough and run down part of town so we weren’t expecting much - a cheap cafe. We ended up in a tiny home-run pizzaria (run by a gorgeous Italian Family!) which made the most gorgeous homemade pizzas, where you could watch them being cooked in front of you and toppings etcetera were fresh. It was, hands down, the most gorgeous pizza I’ve ever tasted. At the next fitting we all made a plan to re-visit and then when we did it was closed. . I have dreams about that pizza on a daily basis but live too far away from it now to justify it.

Burgers from school dinners - they were always soft/juicy and never fatty. I think they were turkey rather than beef - I loved them as a fussy child who hated the texture of meat!

School dinner (can you tell there’s a theme? My school dinners weren’t that bad actually!) cookies. Massively out of shape cookies the size of a child’s face. Warm, served on Fridays fresh from the oven, and would usually lose it’s shape and fall apart. You would bite into it and get a pool of gorgeously warm melted chocolate. By the time I left primary they’d changed the recipe and they were rubbish!

Also cornflake cakes - not cornflake tart! Think flapjack, but made out of cornflakes and held together by some sort of sticky syrup - really dense and rich and wouldn’t lose its shape. I made them with my granny from a recipe in my little kid cookbook years ago too. They had them at secondary too but since leaving I’ve never found a recipe for them. I would love one again!

Ham from school dinners, I mourn it all the time. I swear I’ve made a thread about it on MN years back! It was thick ham - thick, round and so pink it looked processed, with darker red spots and some lumps of jelly in it. Yes I am aware it sounds vile, to be fair it was probably filled with the less appealing parts of the animal! I had it at a friend’s house when I moved to secondary and begged their parents to tell me where they’d found it and they never knew! Nothing in the supermarket matches up.

My mother's curried sausage casserole with raisons and pineapple.

Smoked oyster volauvents

Had some amazing food in South Africa. I remember waiting ages for one meal but it was so worth it - beautifully cooked fresh fish with whole fruit on top like apricots & grapes. Sounds weird but was absolutely delicious!
The barbecued steak made by OH the other week was perfection.
My Mum’s seafood lasagne is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten
Loaded fries at a local pub - pulled pork, red onion, tzatziki & cheese. Just sooooo good!

We had great school dinners at my primary school. I still dream of the fudge tart with chocolate sprinkles which we used to call “ tealeaves & dripping”!

An amazing restaurant in Malta called Duo... Their whole menu is mouth watering good but their starter of grilled game on polenta, with this amazing Plum type sauce. Pre-dinorattle days when we did go to Malta, I'd dream about it in the run up to the holiday.

A year ago, DH and I had a wonderful tasting menu in Amsterdam. I think of it quite often and as it was a year ago, the pictures have turned up on Facebook today for me to salivate over

Soft shelled crab in Singapore. I was there for a really sad reason but this food memory takes the sting off the rest of the visit's memories.

My dad used to make a French onion soup, with real ham stock and massive croutons made with chunks of French bread. I still think about it now.
Also a really excellent chocolate torte made by an old neighbour. I’m quite a good baker, but this was next level.

Yes, I went away to Spain and had the most incredible garlicky langoustine that had been cooked on a bbq at a beach restaurant. Feet in the sand, ice cold beer, view of the sea. Incredible.

Just remembered the swordfish at a restaurant right on the edge of the sea in Menorca. Fell apart & melted in my mouth. Oh & discovering how French people eat, having several small courses, and tasting the best fried potatoes of my life at my Mum’s friend’s house.

A steak I had when I was on a royal Caribbean cruise. It was the best thing I've ever eaten. I dream about it often

I remember having some kind of scampi dish with a Southern Comfort creamy sauce thing over it in Hamburg and it blowing me away. I’d give anything to have that again.

Also: one of those pølse that you get sold like hotdogs in Denmark. I was drunk in Copenhagen and wobbling back home via the Vesterbrøgade and snapped one up - just magical. I think about it a lot more than I do exes or family :-)

The very fresh large hand dived scallops which we bought from the fisheries in the Outer Hebrides and cooked in ourselves with chilli and ginger. They were divine.

Pasteis de nata from Belem in Lisbon.

My DP went to Italy in 2015. On the last night, in Pisa, we found a little restaurant down a quiet side street. I had the most amazing pasta dish. Nothing fancy (we had some really fancy meals in Florence) a large glass of cold white wine and quiet. It was bliss. That moment was everything I thought Italy would be. It was our last, proper holiday before I fell pregnant.

After I had left home and got my own place I'd sometimes go to my mums for tea. She made me a M&S steak slice, chips and ratatouille. It was my absolute favourite.

Oh and a stop over in Bangkok, we bought some nibbles made from egg whites - bloody delicious.

Ooh, love this thread! So many for me: my gran’s mutton stew - she could take the cheapest cuts of meat and construct something heavenly; let me tell you that stew made everything better. Then there’s the ‘red dragon pie served by a veggie cafe that’s now sadly long gone; I’ve tried to recreate it but never quite tastes the same. Curries in Leeds from cafes with formica-topped tables, everything eerily cheap and tasty. A moist, cinnamon-infused apple cake sampled at a bring and buy many years ago. Onions baked and stuffed with gooey cream cheese in an Italian restaurant in Chester. And oysters in Brittany.

I’ve eaten lots of lovely things but one of my fondest food memories is the chicken mayo baguette from a little cafe near my grandparents house in Bathgate. The mayo was beautifully creamy. I remember the owner had said it was Irish but I’ve never been able to find it.

Homepride cheese and ham potato bake. Haven't been able to buy it for a few years now. Absolutely loved it!

Also there was a cheesy pasta ready meal my mum used to buy us as a treat now and again, the pasta was shaped as tennis rackets and there were little pieces of ham that were meant to be balls.

@Springfern I remember Dionysus in TCR, never went in tho'!