KRLD Restaurant Week in our area started last weekend. We have visited Lonesome Dove which was wonderful and tonight is Chamberlain's Steak and Saturday is Mercury Grill. Next week is Chamberlain's Fish Market and Bistro Louise. If I can still fit into anything I own, does anyone have other surefire pleasers for the rest of "Restaurant Week"?
I have finally tracked down an awesome sherry vinegar and having made a nice vinagrette, I now need other ideas.
My biggest splurge is the chili cheeseburger. When I was pregnant with my last child, I had a condition which required me to eat NO SALT for 8 weeks, leaving me with shredded wheat and grape juice as a diet. When the baby was born I sent my husband to Ruby Red's ( sadly no more) in Houston to get me a chili cheeseburger and it was the most heavenly thing I have ever eaten still to this day. Chili's had a pretty good version but to my dismay, yesterday the server said they are taking it off the menu because they are trying not to be so regional!!! Who else makes a good one?
Moibec is the man pleaser in this thread. Red meat and potatoes. Men love to eat but Mama may have spoiled them by not making them try new things ( sound familiar to anyone?) and you can't lose with the basic standards.
Based on a meal we had at a Fort Lauderdale restaurant once:
Blackened Red Snapper with Cilantro Pesto, Goat Cheese, Toasted Pine Nuts and Black Eyed Peas.
Ladle a couple of tablespoons of cilanto pesto on a plate. Using blackening spices and a really hot iron skillet (we do this outside) cook the fish briefly and place on the pesto. Sprinkle with a couple of tablespoons of black eyed peas (can warm if you like), a sprinkling of toasted pine nuts, and a sprinkling of goat cheese. As you can see, this is one of those recipes that you make to your own taste. I got my cilantro pesto recipe rom the internet but there are commercial products out there. Basil pesto doesn't give you the same result. Same with untoasted pine nuts...just loses something.
Fried chicken is always my go to meal for the beach bought from the Tom Thumb down the street that makes better fried chicken than my grandmother!
I had kids allergic to wheat and we started eating spoonbread as an accompaniment to whatever I would have served cornbread with. We also had it for breakfast with honey or syrup.
Oh my! A barbeque tour of America could take months...and every moment could be ethereal.
Cantina Laredo's Mexican Apple Pie with cinnamon ice cream and brandy butter sauce. I had a "throwback" dessert at Chamberlain's Steakhouse in Addison this week: Baked Alaska! I had to get it because when is the last time anyone had that on a menu? It was updated with mango sorbet and tropical fruit on the side. It was beautiful, light and delicious.
My kids had wheat and yeast allergies so I made a lot of rice flour pancakes, which are delicious with a very nutty flavor. They outgrew the problem but we still make the rice pancakes.
Spoonbread with honey on it is another favorite.
People were getting sick from germs on the surface of melons when they cut the fruit so I clean my melons AND am very careful when I peel the fruit.
Actually, Flowergirl, when I read what your grandaughter will eat, I think she eats more variety than many kids her age. Avocados usually don't get acquired that early! Rice and beans together are a good protein and I don't see a lot of junk !
What a tough question to answer! In my opinion, there's no better form of chocolate than a perfectly made truffle. I know of no other dessert that can be so satisfying after only a few bites. For me, it would very dark chocolate, with just a hint of espresso and vanilla to really make the chocolate flavor shine, and rolled in sweetened cocoa or possibly powdered sugar to counter-balance the darkness of the chocolate center. It should be ultra-smooth, creamy, but still slightly firm at the same time.
All that said, my other choice would be to drop high-quality dark chocolate chunks or chips into a jar of peanut butter, and then just dig them out with a spoon! :o)
Wow. What a great question. I would totally have to have a yummy, slightly gooey in the middle, really crispy chewy on the outside, covered in vanilla ice cream chocolate brownie...no wait, the whole pan of brownies if I could manage it!
My second choice would be to have dark chocolate covered pomegranates! I recently discovered these at a local market and I'm sold. Its a mini-chocolatey-ball of goodness that bursts into a tart and sweet flavor when you hit the pomegranate.
My first choice of course would be for luscious chocolate ice cream sandwiched between warm baked dark chocolate chip cookies (marshmallows optional). Then while you eat it you have the warmth of the cookies softening the ice cream and mixing to create a delish, textured chocolate blend.
Chocolate chess pie with a side of Chocolate Mousse
The chocolate "bark" from Gayles chocolates here in Roya Oak, MI.
INCREDIBLE
If, god forbid, I only had one more chance to enjoy the rich and incredible flavor of chocolate, I would eat it straight. A high quality, creamy, semi-dark bar of great chocolate...the memory of that could probably last me a lifetime (albeit a sad one!!).
I love anything chocolate! If I could eat chocolate only last time it would have to be a fresh baked, gooey chocolate brownie, covered with ice cream and sprinkled with nuts...
I gave up chocolate a couple of times in my life (call me crazy) ad I always found that I craved cookie cake when I did that. So I guess I would chood a bug fat cookie cake loaded with chocolate frosting!
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