If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life...

[CuntyMcBollocks]

What would it be? Mine would be a Sunday roast with all the trimmings

Roast lamb leg with rosemary and mint, mash and roasties (done in goose fat), Yorkshire puds, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, carrots, sugarsnap peas, minty gravy and red currant sauce.

@jennyb122

carbonara. without mushrooms.

a recipe for you all
100g of spaghetti (or less if you're not a pig like me )
about a 1/4 of a tub of cream cheese
a teaspoon of lazy garlic
a chicken oxo
80ml pasta water
2 rashers of bacon
an egg yolk

fry the bacon while your pasta is cooking, then just toss everything in with the bacon and stir for about 30 secs until everything is mixed and warm.

Carbonara does not ever have mushrooms or stock cubes

It's simply pasta, pancetta, olive oil/butter, egg, pasta water and Parmesan/pecorino.

And lashings of freshly ground black pepper imho to serve...

@40somethingJBJ

Roast lamb leg with rosemary and mint, mash and roasties (done in goose fat), Yorkshire puds, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, carrots, sugarsnap peas, minty gravy and red currant sauce.

Lamb isn't my first choice but I agree wholeheartedly with your treatment!

Minted gravy etc ...yum

@DeRigueurMortis what? i remember crying because there were mushrooms in my carbonara at a restaurant, when i was about 8! and my mother having to make my plate first, to add in the mushrooms to the rest afterwards for her and my father! yours sounds much posher than mine, mine is a.. how do you call it? a reallycantbebotheredbutimfuckingstarving dinner! i must have eaten it at least 4 times this week!

[quote jennyb122]@DeRigueurMortis what? i remember crying because there were mushrooms in my carbonara at a restaurant, when i was about 8! and my mother having to make my plate first, to add in the mushrooms to the rest afterwards for her and my father! yours sounds much posher than mine, mine is a.. how do you call it? a reallycantbebotheredbutimfuckingstarving dinner! i must have eaten it at least 4 times this week! [/quote]

Carbonara is easy....and no it does not have bloody mushrooms!!!

How to make:

• buy decent pasta (De Cecco is good) and cook to instructions - minus one minute

In parallel...

• olive oil and butter in a wide deep pan

• cook pancetta until crispy

• grate Parmesan/pecorino (lots)

• break eggs and separate the yolks

Pasta is done (minus one minute):

• drain but reserve a cup of cooking water

• toss the pasta in the pan with the pancetta/oil/butter

• add the cheese and stir, then add cooking water until it forms its own thin sauce.

• take off the heat and stir in the egg yolks that will thicken the sauce.

• serve immediately with lashings of freshly ground black pepper

@DeRigueurMortis i might have to try this, tomorrow, you know.. for science...

A different tortellini and sauce each meal but happy for just that

Coulibiac. I’ve never had it. Should have it once before I die surely!

Or else, a proper kaiseki dinner. Keep it going for hours. I’m in no rush to die.

[quote jennyb122]@DeRigueurMortis i might have to try this, tomorrow, you know.. for science... [/quote]

Or for enjoyment 😀

Forget to say to dilute the egg yolk in a bit (just a bit) of pasta cooking water before stirring in as it makes it easier to incorporate.

Yep agreed, roast dinner with all trimmings. Would have to be lamb with mint sauce, Yorkshire pud, crispy as fuck roast potatoes and of course cauliflower cheese.

All other trimmings after that (roast parsnips, swede, sweet corn, broccoli) are a bonus... all swimming in gravy!

Beef steak with mint sauce (I know!!) and horseradish sauce and lots of gravy. With roast potatoes, cooked tomato, salad, broccoli, peas, roast carrots and parsnips.

Drooling!!

My second choice would be a really spicy Thai curry.

Yes Sunday Roast as well!

For me, cheese on toast, I can eat it on consecutive days and still thoroughly enjoy it.
In terms of a full meal, it would then be a Sunday roast with beef as the meat. My preference is for roast potatoes cooked in beef dripping, thick gravy and quite doughy Yorkshire puddings

Username says it all, really. Marmite on toast - totally love it and have it for breakfast every single day.

Cottage pie, garden peas, loads of gravy

Beans on toast. Simple but magnificent.

Well, a meal consists of three courses (at least). Hence:

• oxtail soup
• lasagne (with salad and chips)
• vanilla ice cream

Peppered steak
Hasselback potatoes

The seafood soup from L’ami Jean
Steak tacos

Pizza

A Christmas dinner, or just a Sunday roast with pigs in blankets, there must be sprouts, Yorkshire puddings and lashings of gravy .. hungry now

Spicy noodles

Am tossing up between lamb roast dinner or fresh from the sea seafood platter (not frozen, for the variety)

But then there is lasagne...

A ribeye steak cooked medium well-ish on the bbq so the fat gets all browned and delicious. Served with a bucket of home made Bearnaise sauce.

@jennyb122

carbonara. without mushrooms.

a recipe for you all
100g of spaghetti (or less if you're not a pig like me )
about a 1/4 of a tub of cream cheese
a teaspoon of lazy garlic
a chicken oxo
80ml pasta water
2 rashers of bacon
an egg yolk

fry the bacon while your pasta is cooking, then just toss everything in with the bacon and stir for about 30 secs until everything is mixed and warm.

Where do you live?

I'd have chicken dhansak with mushroom rice, tarkadhal and naan bread
Mwah