To ask for foods which are genuinely delicious?

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I’ve just tried blue cheese and honey on toast and it’s so delicious it’s genuinely taken me aback. I had the same the first time I ever tried guacamole.

What foods have done the same for you. Not things that are tasty and you enjoy, but that you’ve tried for the first time and genuinely got a shock at how delicious they are?

@Jayinthetub and @odddogout have recently started the Zoe programme and have managed to kick a really serious crisp habit. These, however remain my once a month treat, Sublime. The King slash Queen of Crisps!

Ooh yes, poached for me though!

@Freeamigos well done on starting ZOE and kicking the crisp habit. However, really pleased you're able to make a once a month exception for the crispy Kentish marvels!

I agree with guacamole. Also baba ganoosh. Homegrown cucumbers from the greenhouse nearly made me cry with happiness

Oysters - freshly shucked

Toast with butter, salt& nutritional yeast (got this years ago from a mumsnetter& it's my preferred toast now)

Epoisse cheese. Absolutely stinks to high heaven, keep in in the fridge in a sealed bag inside a sealed tupperware box. It tastes nothing like it smells, very creamy and delicious on crusty french bread.

Greek yoghurt in Greece with local honey. Haven’t been able to recreate it here.
Medjool Dates stuffed with blue cheese.
Turkish grilled onion with sumac and pomegranate molasses.
Miso tahini dressing which makes all these veg taste like the food of the gods
https://www.gousto.co.uk/menu?recipeDetailId=2360&uuid=259c193b-cfa4-4904-81b3-fe655a3fde9f
French fish soup ‘avec sa rouille’ - amazing

Granny Smith slices with crunchy peanut butter

I don't remember the baked potato but I do recall the cafe at the back. It had a very crock potty vibe in the 70s/80s that was quite out of tune with Canterbury then. Soup in bowls with lids and wholemeal bread - ahead of time in those days.

So many good ideas noted for future use! Particularly the cheese/sweet things combinations.

And mine:
Fresh mango at exactly the right stage of ripeness, neither fibrous nor slimy.
Fresh crusty bread spread with cream cheese and lemon curd.
Milk chocolate with grains of salt in it.
Caramelised onions.

Enjoying this thread. And your username!! Whispering hith

Peanut butter, bananas and honey.

I'm very weird about textures of food and I hate things like porridge, mash, custard, wet stuff with lumpy potential basically, so I never tried risotto.

Then a couple of years ago, I had a bash at making my own and OMG, it was bloody amazing!

I'd say we have it about once a month now and I love the whole cooking process and make my own stock for it, save it for a day when I have loads of time to put music on, pour a glass of wine and get cracking.

Brie cheese and horseradish sauce, it really works.

Some of the simplest:

Crustless fingers of smoked salmon sandwiches with lemon and their sparring partner, the cucumber crustless finger.

Feta, mint, lemon, diced cucumber, stirred with a little olive oil into cous cous with half a top of Marigold added.

Smoked mackerel and horseradish

Salt beef sandwiches on rye with Mustard and green pickled cucumber (nothing like pastrami and rye in the shops nowadays).

Roast chicken with a parsley, mint and chive lemon and butter sauce with crisp green salad and Jersey Royals.

Dark chocolate pastry crust with a sharp lemon cream filling.

The first time I had really good snails in France was a revelation. Garlicky, buttery, parsley, chewy, savoury goodness. Amazing.

Steak tartare with the egg yolk and all the bits and bobs. Honestly wonderful.

More prosaically, peanut butter and marmite on toast is a wonderful thing. It's a bit like peanut butter and jam except the peanut butter is the sweet thing. Well worth a try for marmite lovers.

I meant to add: spinach, poached eggs, topped with good cheddar and quickly blasted under a hot grill.

I really like an egg mayo sandwich with a bit of dijon mustard spread on the buttered bread before the egg mayo is added. And finely chopped celery instead of lettuce. Plenty of salt and white NOT black pepper.

Also a massive oyster fan and happy to see people loving them here!

The first time I tried fresh, shell on king prawns, in the late 80s. I was obsessed! And so surprised, as I expected them to taste like prawn cocktail crisps!
Also first time I tried sushi when I was 18. I was speechless with joy!

Feta cheese!!!! For some reason I'd convinced myself I didn't like it without really trying it when I was younger, and then I accidentally ate some one day (whilst taste testing my husband's food) and I couldn't believe how good it was......I was actually quite sad that I'd missed out on it for so many years 🤦🏼‍♀️

Mandarin ice cream. I had one once at a cheese festival in Italy and it was sublime.

My local Turkish shop sells big bags of cheese flavoured toasted corn nuts. They are delicious - crunchy, smokey, umani goodness.

The cucumbers 🙌🏼 my friend brought me a couple last year that she'd grown, I couldn't believe the difference!

For lunch today I had a steak burger in a brioche bun with blue cheese and fig relish. It was unbelievably delicious.

I'm not usually a lover of burgers.

Chorizo cubes fried so that it's caramelised. So, so tasty.

Strawberries and balsamic vinegar.