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

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 21/08/2019 08:54

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!

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LadyOfTheFlowers · 21/08/2019 21:22

Vesta Chicken Supreme

SpamChaudFroid · 21/08/2019 21:45

The Kinder Bueno waffle (with m&ms inside the actual waffle!) from Kaspas 2 nights ago I tried to order one tonight, but they're not taking orders Sad

White fish in some type of light creme fraiche sauce in a shabby restaurant with formica tables in Brittany about 30 years ago.

Duck with chocolate sauce - tried and failed many times to recreate.

TheSpottedZebra · 21/08/2019 21:57

Springfern YES to Dionysus! So, so good. And open all the time too - for after class, or walking home from nights out. Shame it's gone -hope they made a killing wih the payoff.

School dinners were crap, but they had the best biscuits -cornflake square like pp mentioned,also the best flapjacks and big round biscuit.

And my other food memory is of a... bread roll. A really good one, nr a waterfalls in what was Yugoslavia. Sold by an old woman straight out of central casting from a big basket by the side of the road. I've thought about that soft, sweet bread roll for decades.

Hadenoughofitall441 · 21/08/2019 22:41

around 17/18 years ago M&S used to do this frozen pasta meal, it had like broccoli and sweet corn etc, we always added spam to, it was amazing flavour and they just stopped doing it ☹️ I used to love entermans choc fudge cake too now they only have it in America 😩

Gingerkittykat · 21/08/2019 23:55

A French meal in a restaurant in Edinburgh. The main was Toulouse sausage with mash and veggies. The mash was absolutely to die for, I've never tasted anything like it. The veggies were also amazing with things like teeny tiny boiled turnip included.

It wasn't even an expensive restaurant, it was around £12 for 2 courses at lunchtime during the festival.

I googled the recipe for French mash and it contains disgusting quantities of butter and cream.

Benefitofthedoubt · 22/08/2019 00:04

Chicken casserole in restaurant in Edinburgh, cobbled street, maybe near a bridge???

It was amazing.

We have a chef in the family and I asked him a few years later what it would have been as I’d been unsuccessful in copying the recipe, and he said probably a stock that had been kept for a few days and added to but it was now thought of as bad practice because of the risk of food poisoning.

Benefitofthedoubt · 22/08/2019 00:05

Gingerkittykat I think my restaurant wasFrench. Was it on a cobbled street?

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 22/08/2019 09:45

@springfern I used to go to Dionysus whenever I was pissed as a student. I was always horribly ill afterwards but never, ever learned my lesson!

Nowadays, I pine for the Saint Honore cakes from the now-defunct (at least in London) Patisserie des Reves, which had branches in Marylebone and South Ken.

Amazonita · 22/08/2019 10:24

A feta cheese based dip with hot flat breads to dip into it, and vegetable risotto with butternut squash, aubergine, courgettes and orange/lemon in a small isolated hillside restaurant in Northern Kosovo in 2007. Never forgotten especially as a vegetarian who had found little apart from margherita pizza to eat during most of the trip. Went back a few years later but the chef had moved on and the food had changedSad.

My stepfather used to make a kind of potato stew with green peppers in a clear sauce as a side dish when I was a teen. It was an Asian recipe. No idea what it was called and could never find it as a recipe as an adult but it was amazing.

iklboo · 22/08/2019 10:34

The meal we had on a cruise from chefs trained by Atul Kochhar (and his menu). Hands down the best Indian meal we've ever had.

Rarfy · 22/08/2019 10:37

Ooh yes. Pink blamange with cornflakes like you got from school.

They also did this gorgeous cake with a chocolate cornflake base and frothy meringue top with tiny lemon chunks in. Gorgeous.

TravellingSpoon · 22/08/2019 10:41

Back before I became vegan we went to the Isle of Mull and had the most amazing Gnocci at a restaurant in Tobermory. I still think about it now.

And the Goulash I had in Prague!

LuItaliana · 22/08/2019 11:04

I remember when I was a kid M&S did a pecan pie that was more like warm croissant dough with pecans and amazing icing, my nan always bought it for special occasions & I think about it all the time even now 20 years later!

CoolcoolcoolcoolcoolNoDoubt · 22/08/2019 11:39

Four cheese pizza in Herculaneum
Cannelloni in Sorrento
Anything I ate in Bologna
Lasagne in Rome
...
are you sensing a theme? Haha.

I have too many to list, this is one of mine and my partner's favourite conversations to have about holidays over the years.

Rarfy · 22/08/2019 14:28

Ooh one more me and my siblings have probably reminisced about for 25 years. McDonald's tropical milkshake.

Greensleeves · 22/08/2019 14:32

Sunpat used to do a cheese spread, in the same shape jar as their peanut butter. It was orange and tasted like heaven.

AnathemaPulsifer · 22/08/2019 15:13

Gypsy stew in Bulgaria - contained rabbit and deer and all sorts. Wasn’t even my dinner but my boyfriend at the time let me steal a few bites. We ordered the most similar sounding thing on the menus everywhere we went after that but couldn’t replicate.

Flaked almond meringue in Barcelona. When I went back I went searching for them to no avail.

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 23/08/2019 08:44

So glad it’s not me who does this!

I’ve hunted down a bakery that does cardamom buns in London...I’m very concerned they won’t be as good!

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originalpigeon · 23/08/2019 08:47

Medium rare fillet steak from a restaurant in Wales, I think it's called Junction 18 but it could be a different number!

HotChocolateLover · 23/08/2019 11:49

There’s a farm shop near Alton towers and I had a sausage roll and an eclair type thing with fresh strawberries. DH had a porkpie and bread and butter pudding. Sooo gorgeous!

Boots20 · 23/08/2019 12:01

Chocolate bars from my childhood called a 'secret' bar omg miss them:-(

SpaceCadet4000 · 23/08/2019 12:02

When I was about 13 we had the most amazing seafood platter at a restaurant in the Channel Islands.

DH and I reminisce about Sainsbury's microwave curries now that we live in the US. You can't get anything similar here!

Summerlovin24 · 27/08/2019 01:04

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I had the best fish pie ever in Tobermory. So fresh followed by the biggest slab of chocolate fudge cake u have ever seen

BeanBag7 · 27/08/2019 16:22

Baileys Souffle I had on a cruise ship. We booked a cruise again a few years later but they didnt have it on the menu this time Sad

Minted lamb grill steaks that they used to do at our butchers when I as a kid. I've bought similar ones from supermarkets but they just aren't the same.

Hazelnut gelato from a place in Rome.

BeanBag7 · 27/08/2019 16:30

Oh and slow roasted pork cheeks at a tapas restaurant in my home town.

And finally mini chocolate donuts yhey sold at my secondary school. We would rush out of lessons to be first in the queue as they would sell out so quickly. Then when I was halfway through secondary bloody Jamie Oliver ruined everything and you chouldnt have chocolate donuts and a chicken burger for your break time snack any more 🙄