your signature dishes

[Chairman Meow]

quite right... and it is irish too, as far as i know

Nope. I'm Irish and have never heard of any Irish person eating bubble. Its champ or colcannon. I'd also say that its colcannon in a restaurant and champ at home in my experience.

I'm also curious about the signature dish thingy - how can you have lots of them? And how does it differentiate from a non-signature dish. And what is a farmyard mushroom?

 

[Santino]

I haven't cook signature dishes since they introduced chip and PIN meals.

 

[Detroit City]

I'm also curious about the signature dish thingy - how can you have lots of them? And how does it differentiate from a non-signature dish.

A "signature" dish is one you're good at making....a "non-signature" dish would be one you wouldn't even feed to the dog.

 

[selamlar]

quite right... and it is irish too, as far as i know

Nah, english. Should have mentioned that it is composed of leftovers, really.

 

[rutabowa]

Nope. I'm Irish and have never heard of any Irish person eating bubble. Its champ or colcannon. I'd also say that its colcannon in a restaurant and champ at home in my experience.

Ok fair enough, i wasn't sure about that bit.

 

[tarannau]

I would never grace anything I cooked with a label 'signature dish'.

That's because you're not a ponce I suspect.

Honestly, if one of my friends said that they were going to cook their signature dish of 'gourmet' lasagne (with pork and beef) then I suspect that most of us would fall around in laughter. Height of pretension really.

 

[moomoo]

A "signature" dish is one you're good at making....a "non-signature" dish would be one you wouldn't even feed to the dog.

So all my dinners would be signature dishes then cos I'm good at making them?

I don't get it.

Do you mean 'speciality' Cheesy?

I suppose my special dish is chicken with a boursin sauce if that's relevant to the op but all my dinners are lovely.............

 

[Biddlybee]

Isn't it more a term for something you're well known for? So if you cook lasagne quite a lot, and more often than anything else - people might think it's your signature dish?

 

[Kanda]

Isn't it more a term for something you're well known for? So if you cook lasagne quite a lot, and more often than anything else - people might think it's your signature dish?

I think it is. Doesn't matter really does it? Unless of course people just want to have a pop at Cheesy.

 

[Detroit City]

So all my dinners would be signature dishes then cos I'm good at making them?

basically....yes

 

[Badgers]

Enchiladas

 

[Biddlybee]

I think it is. Doesn't matter really does it? Unless of course people just want to have a pop at Cheesy.

I just get hung up on what words/phrases mean if I'm not clear.

I think my signature dish is 'cake' then

 

[Orang Utan]

I have lots of regulars - they're all from recipe books though - it'll take me a while before I could invent my own dish

 

[Orang Utan]

If pressed, I guess I'd say risotto

 

[Kanda]

I think my signature dish is 'cake' then

Of course it is old cakey bake lady

 

[Maurice Picarda]

A signature dish is the immediately recognisable dish by which an individual chef or restaurant is known. Even if it tastes like shit.

 

[Dillinger4]

If pressed, I guess I'd say risotto

If it means the one I cook most often, I would be the same.

Over the past 2-3 months I have probably made risotto about 3-4 times a week, in some form or another.

I am trying to wean myself off it.

But my 'signature' dish is probably this Basque Hake recipe what I occasionally cook.

nomnomnomnomnom.

 

[moomoo]

Isn't it more a term for something you're well known for? So if you cook lasagne quite a lot, and more often than anything else - people might think it's your signature dish?

Ah. Not Boursin chicken then because I don't cook that a lot.

Errr, I make a decent roast so probably that then.

 

[maximilian ping]

zingy prawn thing

easiest and tastiest dish ever

put rice on (brown is best)

slow fry finely chopped garlic and chilli flakes for 5 mins

then add prawns, juice one lemon, corriander for 2mins

pour over rice

and as Ramsey would say: zingy prawn thing - done

 

[Kanda]

Roast would be mine I reckon.

 

[Dillinger4]

I have cooked a lot of things, but somehow I have never got round to cooking a roast.

I suppose its what happens when you only have to feed yourself! And almost every girlfriend I have ever cooked for has been vegetarian.

 

[Kanda]

I could never date a vegetarian.

 

[Dillinger4]

I am like some kind of fucking vegetarian magnet.

 

[Orang Utan]

I could as long as I didn't move in with her!

 

[tarannau]

Whereas listing over 10 recipes which you occasionally cook isn't likely to denote a signature dish of any kind, unless you happen to be a Michelin starred uber-chef in charge of 6 restaurants.

Besides, signature dishes generally need something unique, a kind of twist to make them unfailingly connected to their chef/restaurant. It's not a case of sticking 'gourmet' in the title of a well known recipe

Think Black cod at Nobu for an example of a real signature dish.

 

[Pieface]

a range of curries that all taste exactly the same no matter what I do to them.

 

[Pieface]

I think we are getting a tad hung up on "signature" here . Cheesy obviously means things you make a lot.

Hello, my name is pieface and I make mediocre curries a lot. And goulash.

 

[Dillinger4]

a range of curries that all taste exactly the same no matter what I do to them.

 

[rutabowa]

i guess my signature dish would be some variation of meat and 2 veg cooked with a wierd cut of meat. like say braised beef brisket, with potatoes and cabbage. but it is always a bit different depending on what is inthe butchers etc, but if i am cooking fro someone it tends to be something like that.

 

[Orang Utan]

Whereas listing over 10 recipes which you occasionally cook isn't likely to denote a signature dish of any kind, unless you happen to be a Michelin starred uber-chef in charge of 6 restaurants.

Besides, signature dishes generally need something unique, a kind of twist to make them unfailingly connected to their chef/restaurant. It's not a case of sticking 'gourmet' in the title of a well known recipe

Think Black cod at Nobu for an example of a real signature dish.

If that's the case, then pork marinaded in campari and served with mint custard