Ultimate food pleasures.

[Enko]

We went out for ds 18th birthday yesterday and for dessert he had vanilla ice cream with hot dark chocolate sauce. As he started eating he proclaimed "there are few food better tasting than really good vanilla icecream" this sparked quite a debate between us with warm toast and butter comming up high. Chicken soup vs tomato soup (2 vegetarians in our household) my personal opinion agreed w ds. Really good vanilla icecream is one of life's pure pieces of heaven.

What do you all think? Utter deliciousness in it's simple form?

Bacon sandwich - crispy streaky unsmoked bacon, thinly cut, crusty white bread, no butter, no sauce but the bread dipped in the bacon pan.

The bacon thin cut that is, bread should be thick.

Currently eating tinned plum tomatoes in white toast. Delicious.

Thick crusty bread with cold butter and salt

Perfect smoked crispy bacon on white bread

Baked Camembert with honey and rosemary

Roast chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy

So many amazing foods out there.

At the moment, ridiculously, it's pearl barley. In risotto and vegetable soup. I love its nuttiness, and find it a satisfying alternative to rice.

Stilton.

I agree about the really good vanilla, and the whole family rarely has any other flavour. Home made vanilla with cream, eggs and vanilla pods can't beaten. I make it with a £20 ice cream maker. Years ago I used a Lidl which sold a German one which had flecks of blitzed vanilla beans in it; that was delicious too.

Oh god, roasted tomatoes on toast!

Good quality vanilla Ice cream was my absolute favourite 😢
I used to make it with double cream and egg yolks years ago

I was just thinking about barley...then I remembered it’s going to have gluten in isn’t it?
Oh well back to the drawing boards.

Homemade, fried chips like both my Grandads would make, they’d be nice and brown and cooked in one of those dodgy stove top chip pans. So good! Sometimes I’ll go to a chippy that does similar and it’s so nostalgic.

Medium cooked steak with Roquefort sauce, triple cooked frites (in beef fat) and a cherry beer. I miss the frituur where we lived in Belgium!

A good croque and an Eggs Benedict. A decent sausage.

Neuhaus chocolates. Rye sourdough with unsalted butter and apricot jam.

Fish and chips with lots of salt and vinegar

Crispy duck
Rare roast beef just out of the oven, with horseradish and salt
Fat prawns or lobster with butter, garlic, chilli and lemon
Warm white bread with thick cold butter and sea salt
Roast chicken skin
Soft boiled egg with white bread toast, thick cold butter and salt

Scallops & chorizo or with black pudding. We went out for a meal earlier this year and both my starter and mains had scallops in.

Roasties.

A scotch egg drizzled with salad cream. Ditto a pork pie.