What's the best meal you've ever had?
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Choice of 3:
Steak from a place by Woburn where you choose your hunk of meat and how much you want them to chop off it, then they grill it and serve with jacket potato - there's no menu, looks more like a butchers with all the meat laid out.
Tortellini with bacon cooked for me at Glastonbury
Lunch at Gordon Ramsey's at Claridge's for my daughter's 21st. (£30, each, thoroughly recommended)
Steak from a place by Woburn where you choose your hunk of meat and how much you want them to chop off it, then they grill it and serve with jacket potato - there's no menu, looks more like a butchers with all the meat laid out.
Tortellini with bacon cooked for me at Glastonbury
Lunch at Gordon Ramsey's at Claridge's for my daughter's 21st. (£30, each, thoroughly recommended)
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Ooh, sounds lovely. Recipe?...the flask of tomato and ginger soup we had in the monkey house at Chester Zoo on a very wet day. Food always tastes better outside.
moose
like some cat from Japan
1 lb good, ripe tomatoes
1 piece of peeled of fresh ginger about the size of your thumb (I use a lot more cos I love ginger!)
1 small onion
2 cloves garlic
1 carrot
1 stalk of celery
Pinch of chilli flakes or fresh chilli to give a mild warmth
3/4 litre of water
salt and pepper to taste
Peel the tomatoes by plunging into boiling water for a few seconds and then slip off the skins. Coarsely chop all the ingredients. In a small quantity of olive oil, add the onion, carrot and celery and cook gently until they soften. Add the garlic and chilli, wait a minute, add the ginger. Wait another minute and add the tomatoes, salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer before adding the water. Cook on a gentle heat for 30 - 40 mins. Blend.
1 piece of peeled of fresh ginger about the size of your thumb (I use a lot more cos I love ginger!)
1 small onion
2 cloves garlic
1 carrot
1 stalk of celery
Pinch of chilli flakes or fresh chilli to give a mild warmth
3/4 litre of water
salt and pepper to taste
Peel the tomatoes by plunging into boiling water for a few seconds and then slip off the skins. Coarsely chop all the ingredients. In a small quantity of olive oil, add the onion, carrot and celery and cook gently until they soften. Add the garlic and chilli, wait a minute, add the ginger. Wait another minute and add the tomatoes, salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer before adding the water. Cook on a gentle heat for 30 - 40 mins. Blend.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
It was either the steak at Taxidermia in Barcelona, or a multi-course extravaganza in a council flat in Paris cooked by the brother of a friend of my mum's
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Two - either the massive bbq lobster with big fat chips I had on Lamu in 1989 (which cost all of about two quid 
), or going back further than that, the Capon we had for Xmas dinner in the late 70's/early 80's when we were staying with friends in their very basic 'cottage' in Wales.
The dad, who was a great cook anyway, did it in the bread oven at the side of the huge fire.
It took hours and hours and hours...and eventually I was so exhausted that I retired upstairs to the 'bedroom' (basically the attic, with a floor full of damp mattresses and sleeping bags 
).
It was eventually done some time after 3am, so I was woken up to go and eat it and it was by far the most delicious bit of meat I have ever eaten (and not just because I was starving).....so succulent and so, soooo full of flavour.
I can't remember what we had with it (although whatever it was would have been delicious too, for sure), but I've been lusting after the taste of that particular capon ever since....fucking lovely.
Pete's dead now - but he's certainly left me with probably my greatest food memory.
), or going back further than that, the Capon we had for Xmas dinner in the late 70's/early 80's when we were staying with friends in their very basic 'cottage' in Wales.The dad, who was a great cook anyway, did it in the bread oven at the side of the huge fire.
It took hours and hours and hours...and eventually I was so exhausted that I retired upstairs to the 'bedroom' (basically the attic, with a floor full of damp mattresses and sleeping bags
). It was eventually done some time after 3am, so I was woken up to go and eat it and it was by far the most delicious bit of meat I have ever eaten (and not just because I was starving).....so succulent and so, soooo full of flavour.
I can't remember what we had with it (although whatever it was would have been delicious too, for sure), but I've been lusting after the taste of that particular capon ever since....fucking lovely.
Pete's dead now - but he's certainly left me with probably my greatest food memory.
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Actually - there was one more in Jambiani on Zanzibar......a beautifully fresh coconut crab curry, with a spinach dish and rice, brought to us by lamplight and eaten sitting on the front steps of the place me and my bezzer were staying in on the beach, to a huge full moon rising from the horizon (which freaked me right out, let me tell you! ).
).
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Actually 
I also had a fantastic kebab type thing (nothing like the kebabs we know...but still bits of lamb in a flatbread) in Damascus in 1980. 
I also had a fantastic kebab type thing (nothing like the kebabs we know...but still bits of lamb in a flatbread) in Damascus in 1980.
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
It's funny (or maybe not 
) how so many of our favourite food experiences (with the exception of posh restaurants) are related to holidays.
) how so many of our favourite food experiences (with the exception of posh restaurants) are related to holidays.On a camping trip when I was about 15, we'd spent a week subsisting off whatever we could rustle together on a camp stove, when we hit upon mixing hot tinned pears and rice pudding. I swear we thought we'd found the most sublime food combination in history.
Obviously subsequent attempts to recreate this delicacy at home revealed it actually just tastes like tinned pears and rice pudding.
Obviously subsequent attempts to recreate this delicacy at home revealed it actually just tastes like tinned pears and rice pudding.
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