What would be your /Dream Meal/ Last Meal on Earth…

[Limprichteabiscuit]

I have just started listening to the ‘Off Menu’ podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster. The slebs being interviewed describe their ideal three course meal with a side dish, still sparkling water and beverage of choice. They give background to why the dishes are their fave / where ate them, and sometimes where they would like to eat it.
There are some hilarious combinations -including from top chefs -think beans and salad cream on toast for a starter and wildfire pizza for main, with a bowl of cornflakes on the side and a Berni Inn knickerbocker glory for pud !!
Some of the meals don’t flow in the way a restaurant menu would making it even more quirky.
It’s great and got me thinking what mine would be, plus when, where and with whom I’d share the meal.

Mine would be :

Starter: Gottta be a 70s prawn cocktail in a glass with vivid pink seafood sauce and iceberg lettuce.

Main: Roast Lamb with mint sauce and redcurrant with creamy potato gratin and buttered carrots and peas and sounded red cabbage - loads lamb gravey

Side - A large four cheese, cauliflower cheese

Pud: Vietnamese Mango and coconut rice pudding - from the Morning Glory restaurant in Hoi Ann- or warm Bakewell tart - from Bakewell - with clotted cream

Water: Sparkling with ice.

Beverage: A good red wine - Primitivo maybe

Location: A Scandinavian log cabin with a snow topped mountain frozen lake backdrop.

Lunch or dinner: Deffo dinner. I will
just have been in the wood fired sauna and a cold plunge int the lake. Now in front of log fire ready to feast.

With whom: DH.

What about you guys??

Gosh yes- that salad in the cheesecake factory
Back in Chicago in September… yum

Lovely x

I have a lot of food allergies, intolerances and ibs and basically eat beige food to I would eat everything I can't rn:
Starter:
Avocado on wholemeal soda bread with fried wild mushrooms
Main:
Thai green curry with lots of ginger, coconut cream and vegetables with sticky jasmine rice
Side:
Beautiful rainbow salad with cashews and almonds
Pudding:
Cinnamon ice-cream with all the fruits ie mango, strawberries, melon, passionfruit.etc

Drink: all the fun fruity cocktails I usually have to pass because they have pineapple or mango

Water: sparkling

Only just discovered Burrata - game changer !!

That’s lovely menu.
what sort of cananpes?

Also ignoring a gluten and dairy intolerance my last meal would be a helping of everything I’ve missed out on over the last few years, that hasn’t been a gluten or dairy alternative

for breakfast I would have a lovely farmhouse loaf. Crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle with 2 slices spread thickly with real butter and strawberry jam and 2 slices with perfectly cooked smoked bacon.

a Big Mac, a mc crispy and a mc chicken sandwich

dinner cheese and onion quiche and spaghetti hoops, chicken super noodles and chicken nuggets and chips with bbq sauce from McDonalds followed by warm Apple pie with vanilla ice cream.

afternoon snack a proper pork pie with loads of jelly inside it and melt in the mouth pastry, scotched egg, cooplands sausage rolls, cheese straws a packet of watsits and cocktail sausages

tea would be battered king prawns with sweet and sour sauce, prawn toast, spring rolls, wonton soup, Chinese chips, crispy duck and pancakes, chicken korma, pilau rice and a garlic and cheese naan.
Ginger and white chocolate cheesecake chocolate gateaux

finally I’m not wasting that lovely farmhouse loaf so I’ll have a lovely prawn cocktail with bread and butter to mop up the sauce.

drinks would be Buck’s Fizz
a cup of tea with chocolate digestives and custard creams, a flat white a McDonalds strawberry milkshake

all eaten in my pjs whilst laid on the sofa watching my fave films and tv programmes. Not sure how long I’d survive eating that amount of food 😂

Thank you! Berni Inn! Lol. I wish I had tried there! Closest thing was Harvester but that's shite. 🫤

I love your lamb. I like slow cooked lamb as well, like kleftiko. Or really nice tender lamb kebabs from the Turkish or Pakistani restaurant.

Seafood, prawns, lobster are so lovely aren't they? I wish I could afford them more often! Xx

That’s salad with the nuts sounds divine.
Had Thai curry at the giggling squid lunch time - was actually very nice. Sticky rice is the best isn’t it.

Prawn cocktail
Lamb, mint sauce, new potatoes, cauliflower cheese, runner beans , Yorkshire, gravy,
Lemon meringue pie or Eton mess

I'd love to try your Cajun seafood boil. I've never had that before but adore lobster and spicy things so right up my street!

Clams for me are always so tiny, I've tried them a few times but feels like you get no food, lol. Maybe you can get bigger more meaty ones in other countries? X

I wouldn’t have a starter, I’d rather leave room for pudding.
I’d have roast lamb with all the trimmings (esp crunchy roasties and cauli cheese) - there’s no emotional reasoning attached to this, it’s just my favourite and I actually had a fine specimen of it yesterday at a country pub.
I’d find it hard to choose a pudding as I love them so I’d go for one of those mini pudding platters - rhubarb crumble and custard, sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream and a piece of carrot cake 😁

Still or sparkling water- Still but has to be ice cold please. I also want to break the rules and have an ice cold Pepsi Max with it.

Popadoms or bread- warm bread (Black olive bread and a cheese scone, both with proper butter with salt crystals)

Starter- charcuterie board- proscuttio, sun-dried tomatoes, black olives, a selection of cheeses, lots of fancy salami.

Main - Chicken and bacon Caesar salad (but can the chicken be a big portion of chicken breast buttermilk tenders on the side instead please!) and crispy Smokey bacon. Extra dressing on the side please

Sides- Chunky chips (proper fried ones!) and oven roasted Parmesan broccoli.

Desert- Raspberry and Passionfruit Pavlova

Drink- Another Pepsi max (ice cold) and a McDonald’s banana milkshake 😂

Mine changes all the time😅.

Buffalo chicken wings, with celery sticks and blue cheese dip
Ribeye steak, crispy shoestring fries, tenderstem broccoli roasted with lemon, creamy garlic mushroom sauce.
Vanilla cheesecake.

OR

Loaded nachos with extra, extra guacamole and jalapenos
Birria tacos with consommé
Key lime pie

OR

My grannies lentil and bacon broth with buttered tiger bread
A huge roast chicken dinner, with stuffing, cabbage, cauliflower cheese, mangetout, crispy roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings.

I also have an Indian option 😅. Do you reckon they'd give me them all for breakfast/lunch/dinner?

Im not sure either - but what a way to go!

(Adding pork- pie to the farm shop sausages, for sausage and mash run this week..)

Can I cheat a bit and say Turkish meze, with a very cold glass of champagne. A beautiful expensive plate of chocolates. Sat in the evening sun in Italy overlooking the sea.

I love baby squid/calamari tentacles! They're the best bit! I swear lots of places just serve these rubbery tubes and it gives it a bad name.
In Spain I think I had the best ones. So simply lightly battered and so crispy and tender. Yum! X

Its great isn't it!! I am always so disappointed with salads in England. Today I went out for lunch and had a chicken / bacon / avocado salad but all the salad veg was in different sizes so it was hard to eat, with big leaves flopping about everywhere and bloody sliced green pepper in it!? And barely any dressing. Tasteless and uninspiring. I love American salads.

This has made my day - talking about food with equally passionate eaters!!!

Dropping DGC’s home - will catch up
on the thread when back!!!

Pizza Express used to do a pizza with anchovies and capers but no cheese, I loved it.
Tried to recreate it but never could.
When I think of all the amazing meals I have had they were mostly amazing because of where I had them/the company rather than just the food

I haven't managed to make one myself but I would like to try but if you are ever in a big city like Manchester, Birmingham or London there are quite a few restaurants that do them now. The ones with red skinned new potatoes, corn on the cob and a lot of seafood are just divine.

I made a clam chowder from scratch once after eating them in Boston, it was pretty labour intensive but for me probably one of my greatest culinary achievements 😀

Smoked salmon with rye bread, Creme fraiche, caper and lemon sauce with a little pickled cucumber.

Modules frites.

Flambéd bananas with rum.

Served with a chilled languedoc dry rose.

Starter - a platter of my favourite starters 😂 a baked Camembert with sticks of garlic baguette, duck pancakes and salt and pepper crispy chilli squid
main - ribeye steak with a peppercorn sauce, onion rings and very skinny crispy fries.
side - aubergine parmigiana
pudding - tiramisu
drink - a bottle of valpolicella and a bottle of still water

Yes you can and can I come please lol

Forgot about aubergine parmigiana…

I think im changing mine and putting my cauliflower cheese side dish on my main course as a small portion and having the AP as my side too actually.
good call !!

Cheese, all of the types of cheese, particularly the stinky ones 😋