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??

Mine also very much dictated by things I can’t have and miss very much:

Starter: Seafood, and lots of it. King prawns, scallops, lobster, calamari - with tonnes of salty garlic butter poured over, lemon on the side and a big wedge of crusty white bread.

Main: the exact same fillet steak I had in a tiny restaurant in Bruges years ago, with bernaise sauce, thick cut chips and a green salad.

Dessert: the freshly fried jam doughnuts I used to be able to buy at break time at my high school in Cambridge back in the late 80s/early 90s. Nothing has ever come close.

Also a cheeseboard with all the cheeses I can’t have such as Gorgonzola, Dolcelatte, Brie de meaux, Camembert, snowdonia cheddar - all at room temperature - with mini fig and sultana toasts and grapes.

Very cold sparkling water, English sparkling rose from the vineyard down the road with the starter, a pinot noir with main and some tawny port with the cheese board.

bloody hell, I’m salivating!

Thank you!
There's one place near me that does a seafood boil but I've heard it's not so good. I think I need one run by actual Americans!
Your chowder sounds gorgeous too x

I'd be happy with pizza, but if I was pushing the boat out some giant prawns, sitting at a table and chairs on a sandy beach. When I turned 30 I went to India and had such a meal on a beach in Palolem, the sand under my bare feet was heaven.

Water: still with ice and lime
Poppadoms or bread: poppadoms
Starter: A platter of beige- incl potato skins with cheese and bacon, duck pancakes, mozzarella sticks etc
Main: DH's lasagne (it includes 3 different types of cheese)
Side: Garlic bread (absolutely sodden in garlic butter)
Pudding: scones with cream and jam
Drink: Sauvignon blanc

No mucking about there
delicious !

Oh yes Rhubard Crumble - a thing of beauty…

Ugh can’t decide between four meals! All cooked by my mother which will then require a miracle as she passed away ten years ago.
meal one:
Chicken curry - my dad was born and raised in India (he was white British) and no idea where she got the recipe but it was green, had bone in chicken, currants etc. She served it with raw red onions, banana, shredded coconut (my job), popadums (also my job to cook). It was amazing.
Second: her Christmas dinner. It was her stuffing (two types cooked in either end of the turkey) that made it so good. Her Christmas cake for dessert.
Third: her lamb roast with homemade mint sauce.
Finally: Coronation chicken with cold rice and pea salad. I think it’s a Constance Spry recipe. So good.
For dessert it has to be Minitry’s Miracle. A sort of trifle/tiramisu/pavlova - more texture than tiramisu but similar ingredients.

Me too ! And I had a huge lunch
A cheeseboard I think
for supper ( not sure why im
Saying supper lol - I mean late tea ! )
Would you go bread or crackers ? And are you a philistine like me who as well as cheese and fruit and chutney - honks the butter on too?

Yes I wish they were more affordable too !

Not breaking the rules at all there as can have soft or alcoholic beverages for sure!

Wiltshire Butter with salt crystals - I could eat half a block with a cheese scone !

Ha , well
i can ask the fantasy restaurant and see what they say??!

Nans lentil bacon soup with the bread and then the roast for me !!

And pud?

Before mj; starter and main, seafood platter via the white horse brancaster staithe. Fresh bread , sparkling white wine, sparkling water ice and lime.
Pudding, Panna cotta, fresh raspberry coulis.
On mj, just the water😞

Such a big part of it isn’t it xx

Where did you go to school ? I was at secondary in the late 80s/90s too!

I wonder if aforesaid doughnut place is still
going??

What a memory!! X

@Limprichteabiscuit I never had room for pud, maybe some mint Viennetta

Maybe sample plates of the lot !
Pud sounds intriguing??

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: rocket salad with goats cheese and pomegranate and crostini
Main: roast with lamb and pork covered in chunky apple sauce, roast carrots and parsnips, blue cheese sauce over mash
Side: roasties covered in mint sauce, yorkies swimming in gravy, green beans
Pud: choc hazelnut tiramisu and choc banoffee pie
Water: cucumber and mint over ice
Beverage: cappuccino
Location: home or maybe a castle!
Lunch or dinner: late lunch
With whom: my family

A beige carby picky plate with the little various sauces plate makes me feel
happy to alive.

I think lasagne made by a loved one is coming up a lot. Xx

In the fantasy restaurant there is always room.
you don’t get full
it’s the rules … x

To begin: Half a dozen oysters with mignonette
Main Course: Steak from my butcher with Béarnaise sauce, baguette and rocket salad.
Then: Cheese, crackers and chutney (sorry not sorry to James Acaster, but it's the 💣)

We need to become fisherwomen. Lol 🎣🐟 x

Blue cheese sauce over mash is genius.
We have that sauce on pork fillet and fried pots on side.
Next time will do with mash on side and sauce for both.

Genius.

Mumsnet fish wives lol!

Omg this is my fave topic I drive the kids bonkers with it regularly - what’s yer death row meal?

starters for me will always be a lobster. I don’t care if that doesn’t count as a starter. I’m on death row.

main is rib eye steak, creamed spinach, mash, gravy, garlic mushrooms and grilled tomatoes

pudding is a whole cheese board followed by sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream

if we’re doing booze then a bottle of white, a bottle of red and a bottle of brandy 😆😆