What's your absolute favorite meal?

[bluesoul]

Raw organic grass fed sirloin and dry red wine.

you realize that "organic" is a meaningless term. free range grass-fed beef is are more meaningful than "organic"

I don't really care what you just said.

[my my my!]

Green chicken enchiladas with a side of white rice and vegetables.

[duplicatt]

I make a mean chicken casserole.

[RallyCola]

A nice bone-in ribeye from Smith & Wollensky. Baked potato w/sour cream and fresh chopped chives, and a ceasar salad

S&W is ok...on par with other cookie cutter steakhouses like Mortons... but you can have a better steak at Porterhouse, Sparks or Peter Luger's!

[NightmareX0666]

For me it is a treat since I do not make it a whole lot, but have always loved it since my mom made it. Pork chops in mushroom gravy (nothing fancy just cream of mushroom soup), mashed potatoes, and corn. Thinking about it my mom used cream of mushroom soup for other things city chicken and mini hamburger patties. Even the leftovers were great for the next day.Damn I miss that cooking!!!

[RallyCola]

...When I have a friend go to the co-op for me and I want them to pick me up a steak,...

I care about it just enough to ridicule it.

oh...you are one of those people. nevermind. your ridicule is only as ridiculous as buying things from a co-op. once you've eaten steak at the finest steakhouses, it is utterly pointless to make steak at home.

[Ms.Stepford]

But, they won't serve it to me raw in the finest steakhouses!

[RallyCola]

But, they won't serve it to me raw in the finest steakhouses!

that's a whole different thing too. i cringe at that thought too.

my father in law takes raw chop meat and makes a sandwich with it. i nearly threw up when i first saw it. i know some people just want a cow to be wounded and sent by their table and they will finish the job...but i need my proteins cooked. i can't even eat sushi. i know i am missing the flavor of the natural product but i can't do it...its like asking a butch lesbian to suck a dick.

[Stavros]

At the risk of sounding pedantic, the thread asks for a favourite meal, but the posts are only about food: a meal must have food but must surely also involve people and location. A favourite meal is thus an event, of which there have been so many I don't know where to start or end. Sometimes the best meal owes something to time and place -if you have been travelling for a long time and are hungry; or because of the people you are with.

One of the best meals I had was in my twenties and travelling through Italy where in Genoa I ate a simple plate of pasta in a small out of the way place that for some unknown reason tasted as if it had come from heaven. When I was a resident at an institute in a Middle Eastern capital the Palestinian chef used to make sensational dishes of food which were eaten in intelligent company which is something that cannot be bought-even something as simple as Mudardara which I have tried to replicate and just can't get it right. I have had Lechon in Cebu which may the best in the world if not just the Philippines whether or not you are, as I was, with local transexuals who might also be the best in the Philippines if not the world; and in Hong Kong I have had one of the best Indian meals (on Lock Rd in Kowloon), as well as one of the best and most sumptuous of Chinese meals in the company of an old friend I hadn't seen for years which is why it was special. And so on On this basis I am sure other members have some stories to tell!

[NightmareX0666]

that's a whole different thing too. i cringe at that thought too.

my father in law takes raw chop meat and makes a sandwich with it. i nearly threw up when i first saw it. i know some people just want a cow to be wounded and sent by their table and they will finish the job...but i need my proteins cooked. i can't even eat sushi. i know i am missing the flavor of the natural product but i can't do it...its like asking a butch lesbian to suck a dick.

When I worked at Ponderosa 'steakhouse' we had a guy who wanted his chopped steak microwaved for 30 seconds...no more than that. No flipping for another 30 seconds or anything the guy would go to town on it. On the flip side we had people who wanted their steak to be like charcoal...burnt to a crisp.