What restaurant dishes are you missing, and would like to recreate at home?

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Really missing going out to eat. Also trying to save money, so no take aways.

I love cooking, but can't seem to get the authentic flavour of Indian food. What dishes are you craving?

We're pretty lucky and our favourite Indian food is still available. And it's cheap, it's vegetarian gujarati food, but they've been sold out of dosas for most of lockdown.

If I am making curry at home, you can't beat this Rick Stein recipe

I could murder a black bean tofu and white rice from our local Chinese.

This is shameful but I just really fancy a McDonald's. Don't think it can be recreated.

Mucklowe totally agree re black bean tofu, the best ever is from our local restaurant which is not doing takeaway. I will be there like a shot when they reopen.
I also really really really want dhal. I cannot make it at home at all but a big bowl of that would be perfect.

@borntohulu

Korean fried sweet and sour chicken and kimchi pancake 🤤

Wagamama Duck Donburri.

Thai crab fried rice
Nando’s chips
A McDonald’s burger
..and a Starbucks caramel macchiato

A pollo pesto from Pizza express and their chocolate fudge cake!

Good sushi. There's a gorgeous sushi place near where I work and I'm really missing it.

Oooooh great thread!

Pad Thai
Caesar salad
Calamari
Fish and chips
Persian kebabs

I'm drooling now lol

@WhoWhatWheree I’ll let you into a secret...it’s Betty Crocker fudge cake box mix.... shhhhh

Wagamama has been posting videos of its recipes on Instagram. I followed one and it was a pretty good imitation of the real thing. Without the bill, noise of a hundred other people speaking, or anyone to do the washing up...

A really good fresh man bread and tandoori chicken.

And just someone else shopping cooking thinking, clearing up.

I can't cook a decent steak the way I like it, no matter how hard I try.

A really good fresh man bread and tandoori chicken.

That's a great autocorrect

A really good fresh man

I miss sushi.
Tapas but we have started making it at home.
Tonight we’re having garlic bread, chorizo, Padrón peppers, garlic prawns and giant beans. All from Asda apart from the beans which are tinned from Lidl.
For curry I recommend Madhur Jaffrey recipes.
Chinese- duck in a box from supermarkets is as good as that from the takeaway.

Tandoori butter chicken and a peshwari naan.

I could probably recreate at home but can't be arsed. Oh bugger, now I'm going to have to go up to the takeaway after work, aren't I?

We enjoy going to pubs and restaurants and eating really good food.

However once in a while we want what we call ‘fat’ food, usually from Beefeater, so next week we are having breaded mushrooms with garlic mayo, steak, chips and salad, followed by chocolate brownie and ice cream.

Got to add all the items to my weekly delivery slot and my daughters are going to be doing the cooking.

Sushi

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Ramen. Spicy pork ramen, specifically, with that lush broth. Panicking at the thought my usual place will not reopen post-lockdown. I actually had a blowout "last supper" there just in case!

@ohlookthisisjustdaftnow do you mean that you under / over cook it or that it just doesn't taste the same?

We are having our second visit to Mambucca's tonight!!
Last time we had potato skins /prawn cocktail for starters..
Pizza /kievs for main.
Ice cream +fruit for dessert.
Let the dc stay up and had a great night.
Everyone dressed up smartly!!