PrintQuestion of the Day: What are your favorite "simple" foods?
Yesterday, in 90 degree heat and 100% humidity, I was dumbfounded by a mouthful of chilled strawberry jello with drained canned fruit cocktail in it. I could have eaten a pound of the stuff.
One of my favorite simple foods is a properly slow-roasted pig. Just reach in under a skin flap, grab a handful and pop it into the mouth.
What's yours?
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42 Comments:
mashed potatoes. but that also falls into my favorite comfort foods category.
french tart at 9:04AM on 06/19/07
One of the simple foods I love is cottage cheese with sea salt and a generous amount of freshly ground tellicherry pepper.
Colorado Jim at 9:41AM on 06/19/07
Peanut butter! When I open a new jar I absolutely HAVE to eat a spoonful of it. I can resist it at other times but when you unseal it for the first time ahhh perfection! Then its a fluff-n-nutter sandwich. Sometimes with bananna or Peanut butter, honey and banana. How about Peanut butter and Nuttella ..oh so many ways to eat Peanut butter!!! And always with an ice cold glass of milk!!
Sindy at 9:45AM on 06/19/07
• al dente pasta (preferably spaghetti), french butter, double concentrate of tomato, grated grana cheese.
seyo at 10:13AM on 06/19/07
Strawberries and cream - pick 'em, wash 'em, ladle some cream over 'em ...
rbryants at 10:16AM on 06/19/07
Fried eggs. So simple. So divine.
sawyerriley at 10:36AM on 06/19/07
Most of my fav foods are the simple ones.
I agree on jello, I can't stop eating them until they're finished.
Cornflakes + milk + bananas + cinammon
banana + peanut butter
Apple + salad greens + oil+vinegar + lots of freshly ground blackpepper
dulce de leche. period.
Smoked salmon on toast + creme fraiche + black pepper
Oh and to be the first to say, grilled cheese sandwich
winny at 10:39AM on 06/19/07
I like a pasta dish similar to seyo's. Mine is spaghetti with butter, grated cheese, and a generous dose of black pepper. Comforting.
Library Lady at 11:45AM on 06/19/07
A real nice bread with some butter.
Vitello Tonnato at 11:46AM on 06/19/07
raw, unroasted almonds and good raisins.
altosaxchica at 12:10PM on 06/19/07
avocado, just split and sprinkled with salt and pepper (and lime if i have it) and eaten right out of the skin. or a perfect summer tomato sprinkled with salt and pepper - add a piece of buffalo mozzarella and i'm totally blissed out.
i think i could eat those two things constantly for the rest of my life.
mayam at 12:28PM on 06/19/07
Fruit. Freshly baked bread. French-press coffee. A slice of aged cheese. Vegetables straight from the garden. A handful of almonds, cashews, or pistachios.
And late in the summer, a homegrown tomato, sliced and sprinkled with a bit of olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Quality food needs very little human intervention.
logographic at 12:55PM on 06/19/07
Grilled cheese sandwich--sharp cheddar with fresh ground black pepper on whole grain. A tomato right off the vine. Just picked corn on the cob. Roast chicken. Stilton. Roquefort. A nice ripe mango.
ride&cook at 1:44PM on 06/19/07
bread and butter, bread and olive oil, bread and cheese, cheese (hehe)
pasta with plain marinara/grated cheese, mashed potatoes, garden peas, bacon, olives, roasted chicken, macaroni and cheese (the real deal)
JerzeeTomato at 1:47PM on 06/19/07
Pastina with salt, pepper, butter and parmesan.
K at 1:50PM on 06/19/07
A nice, crisp granny smith apple.
Ash at 1:53PM on 06/19/07
An omelet made with fresh eggs, mild cheese & fresh picked chives
mepolo at 2:08PM on 06/19/07
liverwurst on rye, eggs and bacon or oven bbqued shrimp with toasted garlic french bread.
olddad at 2:09PM on 06/19/07
A tomato squishy, availabe in August and September only: A dead-ripe sliced tomato, 2 slices Wonderbread or similar, Hellman's mayo, Maldon sea salt, Tellicherry pepper. Put'em all together in the usual way, then press down firmly with hand. SQUISH!
BaHa at 2:11PM on 06/19/07
apples are great. So is cold cereal w/milk
zekks at 2:26PM on 06/19/07
Cottage cheese. Plain. From the container.
Diz at 3:08PM on 06/19/07
Simple foods are so often the best - I definitely have too many favorites to list, but like BaHa, I'm eagerly anticipating the tomato "squishies" soon to be had! One other simple combo (which I'm eating right now): a pita bread - sans pocket - spread with roasted garlic hummus from a local Portland company, topped with roasted, marinated tomatoes (from the mezze bar at the grocery). Delicious!
ienefra at 3:32PM on 06/19/07
Half a chilled cantaloupe, sprinkled lightly with coarse-ground pepper.
A great way to begin a breakfast/brunch.
DocChuck at 3:44PM on 06/19/07
instant pudding
ceforrester at 4:14PM on 06/19/07
What kind, ceforrester?
DocChuck at 4:34PM on 06/19/07
Granny Smith apples. I keep a bag of them at the office for my afternoon snack.
PhotoKirk at 5:12PM on 06/19/07
Frozen grapes
enjyns at 5:50PM on 06/19/07
Great replies, y'all ... I wasn't expecting this many interesting replies!
Another of mine I neglected to mention: For breakfast or an evening snack, crumble a pack of graham crackers into a bowl, drown in chilled milk, and add sugar on top. This is a cereal I've eaten since the mid-1960s, long before it came in a box. Of course, it gets really soggy after a while, but I don't mind at all.
LunaPierCook at 6:07PM on 06/19/07
Shake & Bake pork chops, Mac & Chz in the box....has a sense of nostalgia for me.
Dried Beef Gravy on toast (or SOS for the 'others' that know what I am talking about) would also bring back memories...but since this question doesn't ask about the ones we hate....NIX
tyronebcookin at 6:34PM on 06/19/07
Chicken thigh fillet steamed with ginger and soy.
turkiyaki at 6:40PM on 06/19/07
Good old cinnamon toast----drenched in real butter & cinnamon sugar!
JEP at 6:48PM on 06/19/07
good call enjyns, frozen grapes are great
zekks at 7:54PM on 06/19/07
LunaPierCook, when I was a kid my dad would make us apple "pie"--put some saltines in a bowl, put some applesauce on top, sprinkle some cinnamon on top, and pour a little bit of milk over it. God, this brings back memories . . .
ride&cook at 8:00PM on 06/19/07
A nice crisp and garlicky dill pickle.
DaveFaris at 10:44PM on 06/19/07
banana and peanut butter, for lots of energy.
Littlebluesiren at 11:18PM on 06/19/07
Not dissimilar from many already mentioned: apple; good bread (plain); cheddar or gruyere; all three together (ie ploughman's lunch); cold wholegrain cereal with milk...
sammac at 12:18AM on 06/20/07
DocChuck - I'm all about the jello instant pudding - chocolate flavor.
ceforrester at 9:26AM on 06/20/07
I'm echoing banana with peanut butter. Salty and sweet with protein and nutrients. Perfect. Also tomatoes with fresh mozzarella and basil, and good chewy bread with olive oil and salt. And fresh-picked berries in the summertime.
maasikas at 9:55AM on 06/20/07
fresh steamed asparagus tips made into a sandwich on rye toast with just a tiny bit of mayo. my mom used to eat this and as a kid I always thought "gross" now, I could eat this at least 5 times a week. Also for simple, plain mac and cheese, nothing special just basic no frills.
huney_bumper at 9:57AM on 06/20/07
I like the tomato sandwiches as described by BaHa, above, except I live in California so I get them starting now and not ending until November, most years. I don't "squish" them down, though. Well, not more than it takes to cut them in quarters.
Then there is caprese salad- sliced tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, chiffonade of basil, a drizzle of good olive oil, salt and freshly ground pepper. Ah, to die for!
Another true love is the big original Shredded Wheat biscuits with whole milk and a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar. Divine! And, no, I don't crumble the Shredded Wheat before eating. I just cut peices off with my spoon. It stays a little crispy that way.
Calichef at 10:21AM on 06/20/07
Heirloom tomatoes sliced, topped with fragrant lemon olive oil and black pepper.
Endives with mesclun and nuts topped with a simple vinaigrette.
Fresh raspberries with dollops of creme fraiche and cream combined....heaven!
flakevanille at 11:18AM on 06/20/07
lightly salted popcorn... done in a pan with oil.
Alm25 at 1:08PM on 06/20/07