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[killing_rose]

In an effort to see if anyone's still following, what is your favorite dish to eat/make and why?

Of my father's food, I love German potato salad, but my house won't eat it. But it's delicious, and something that my father only broke out for major barbecues.

Of my culture's food, I love frybread (and don't make it because I'm not sure I could handle the disappointment of discovering it doesn't work gluten free). I grew up with it at major events, potlach, and it's pretty much one of my favorite forms of bread.

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[falena]

I'm afraid I am stereotypically Italian. My fave food to make is pasta al pesto. It's so easy and quick to make, including making your own pesto.
I also love foacaccia, though I don't usually make it because it's very time-consuming, and there are loads of excellent bakeries around.

[killing_rose]

I don't think I've ever had pasta and pesto. I didn't encounter pesto until college, and dining hall pesto was, according to my roommates, terrible.

I also encountered foacaccia there and omg, so tasty. Sooo tasty.

[rosefox]

Favorites are so contextual! My favorite comfort food when I'm sick is orzo cooked with broth until it's a sludge; my favorite restaurant meal is grilled lamb chops or steak. Very different foods but so delicious in their respective places. :)

[killing_rose]

They really are! I was hoping a super general question might spark discussion.

I have yet to eat lamb chops.

[tameiki]

The problem with loving food so much, I have too many "favorites" and it's hard to pick just one :)

If I were really pressed I'd have to say it's the recipe for my mother's Japanese gyoza (a steam-fried wonton) because it reminds me of her. It's a delicious comfort food for me and my family.

[killing_rose]

Om nom nom. Yeah, I was aiming for a general question to spark discussion.

Other than the gyoza, what other foods do you enjoy? (I am perpetually curious, and also perpetually looking for dinner ideas.)

[catty_the_spy]

It's hard to say. Maybe macaroni and cheese or stewed chicken. They're both simple tasty comfort foods.

On the other hand, biscuits and gravy feel like an accomplishment every time, even though each part on it's own isn't difficult. Every time I make gravy I feel like a winner.

[killing_rose]

Mac and cheese is delicious. Baked or stove?

I'm pretty sure I've never had stewed chicken.

I feel you. Gravy is so easy to do wrong, esp if you're using a recipe that doesn't call for corn starch. So you are definitely a winner!

[jjhunter]

Momma's Golden Banana Bread is my childhood favorite; as a wee person, one year all I wanted for Christmas was my own private loaf of banana bread. (My mom baked two; one for the rest of the family, and one for me, and I had banana bread for just about every meal for several days; it was amazing.)

These days I especially like making soups and trying out experimental pizza topping combinations - both offer opportunities for repetition with variation where me doing the equivalent of a food jazz session (cooking a bit on the fly) is likely to turn out both edible and *om nom nom*, so to speak. :D

I have a Kitchen Recipe Log tag on my journal that I should use more often (and xpost here) - thank you for reminding me!

[killing_rose]

Bananas have been one thing I've always been on the fence about. Because when people do banana bread right, it is delicious. The problem is when they do it wrong.

Yes! Soups are delicious. (Pizza is less experimental around here.) But soups are often the experiment of the day.

And now I shall be stalking your tag. (I kid.)

[wendelah1]

Chicken soup.

[anotherslashfan]

Me, too! I tend to play around with versions, too, adding different kinds of veggies, or chillis, etc.

[weaverbird]

I think lentil soup is probably my favorite food. No idea why I love it so much. I like a lot of other soups - I have soup of some kind pretty much every day - but lentil is the one I love best.

In the not-soup category, it'd be pizza. Thin, crispy whole wheat crust, lots of garlic in the sauce, plenty of mozzarella. I love to make it on Sunday afternoon, to eat while watching movies. And I save a piece or two to have for elevenses on Monday. :)

[ilyena_sylph]

Mom's mac and cheese, which I can't replicate even when I'm NOT cooking GF.

One I can is probably the round steak skillet supper I regularly subject y'all to.

[catty_the_spy]

Nothing ever tastes as good as when your mom makes it.

[monanotlisa]

German potato salad is great!

My favorite dish to make myself is probably stew -- traditional enough, given my heritage: starch + meat + TONS of veggies. I vary the ingredients of each type so much that I have likely never made the exact same dish twice, but I like them all.

[ossobuco]

I could never pick a favorite dish to eat, but I'm going to a fancy steak house for my birthday next week so I must say that a good dry-aged ribeye or new york strip is high on the list. :3

Pies are some of my favorite things to make--there's a certain satisfaction to ending with something all nice and packaged up and ready to bring to a gathering.

Honorable mention for both categories is risotto!

[killing_rose]

Agreed on all three points!

[rynia]

Current favorite to cook is probably either my variation on chocolate chili (carrots and peppers in place of onions, add asafoetida to the spice blend, serve over or with sweet potato fries) or this paleo quick "bread" (it ends up with more of a dense, cakey texture, but it holds together amazingly), as they are both easy enough for me to make on weekends and really help to have available during the week.

I miss boudin and pralines a lot, both of which are off limits now due to ingredients. Current favorite to eat is probably a good tom kha gai without onions. Dunno if it counts as a dish, but I've also really been digging smoothies throughout the year this year.

[sabotabby]

I recently found out about chocolate chili (one of my friends made some for a dinner party we had) and it's brilliant.

[minoanmiss]

I couldn't pick one favorite either, but I'm still proud of myself for replicating my grandmother's fruitcake. *laugh at myslef*

I would encourage you to experiment with making fry bread. I have never made it nor had it, but I have fried other kinds of bread, and I think the support of the oil while cooking might help a gluten-free version not fall apart. You'll definitely want a baking mix optimized for cohesion.

[azurehart]

My favorite thing to eat is probably Ginger Chicken the way my Mother makes it. Favorite to cook is Egg Drop Soup as it's fast and inexpensive to make and one of the best things to eat when you have a cold.

[kore]

FRY BREAD POWER //grew up in New Mexico

Wow that is a surprisingly hard question. Maybe a version of black bean stew, which I make with garlic, onions, black beans, diced tomatoes, chopped green peppers, and corn, served over brown rice, with sour cream on top (these days I substitute plain Greek yoghurt). Sometimes I add chicken too.

[green]

Beef stew and chicken pot pie. :D

[the_shoshanna]

I have like a ninety-way tie for favorite food, but at the moment I have a particular fondness for apple Dutch baby pancakes!

[azurelunatic]

Mama's beef stew. No flour, cooked until the potatoes lose their corners and become gravy.

[sabotabby]

My favourite comfort food is Korean noodles.

Of my culture's food, I think sour cherry vareniki counts, even though I didn't grow up eating it. I am not so fancy as to make it.

My favourite large-batch foods to make are misir wot and shiro wot, and I also like doing phall if I have ghost peppers to use.

My favourite show-off food is this veggie pot pie.

Also I like baking, though I don't really like eating sweets.

[iosonochesono]

My favorite food to make was Moroccan meat turnovers, from Kosher by Design, Short On Time. My grandmother emigrated from Morocco and we're Jewish, but, we never got a lot of that culture.

I also like these little feta cheese/spinach triangles I got out of a pretty regular cookbook I used to own.

Sadly, other than that, I'm very much a raw food/sandwich/burger+fries type of person.

[pebblerocker]

Frybread is similar across so many cultures! I remember a dinner where South African and Māori guests were comparing their traditional frybread techniques.

My favourite food right now, in the pre-Christmas heat and humidity, is tabouleh. Tomatoes are cheap and in season, my parsley hasn't all gone to seed yet, and we can make tabouleh with bulgur wheat for the general audience (me and my sister, mostly) or with soaked buckwheat, which is both raw and gluten-free. It's the best lunch imaginable on a sticky hot day.

[sporky_rat]

Mmmmm, butter chicken. I do it in the Instant Pot.

[megpie71]

I have a few favourites. Beef vindaloo, either the traditional Indian recipe, or the Anglicised version I do up with spuds and carrots and such stretching the sauce. Salmon mornay, or the pasta bake mornay-a-like I do with commercial Three Cheese pasta bake sauce, tinned corn and tinned salmon. Biriyanis are lovely - I like the one-dish nature of them, although cooking them is a right nuisance, and I don't do it often.

[iamshadow]

If we're talking sweets, I love making old, traditional cake recipes with a lot of liquid sugar in them, like Date and Walnut Cake, Parkin or Honey Tea-Bread. I've worked out how to make them gluten free, because my partner has Coeliacs. The Honey Tea-Bread took the longest to work out an adaptation for - I use a bicarb and vinegar rise these days, as in the Date and Walnut Cake. I love Healthful Pursuit's Quinoa and Lemon Cake, too. I always add plenty of poppyseeds.

For savoury, I have a deep and abiding love for Sam's Spicy Peanut Butter Soup (recipe also here on LJ).

[rydra_wong]

It changes! Whatever's the new shiny I have discovered and am working on perfecting my recipe for.

Right now, it's kimchee grilled cheese pasta -- I discovered the glory of kimchee grilled cheese on toast but can't eat a lot of bread, hence the adaptation to trying it with lentil pasta instead. Which is amazing.

Eggs with spicy black beans and vegetables is a regular.

[rhi]

Favorite to eat is still the family tuna salad recipe. I had a cat who would come to the kitchen as soon as she smelled celery being chopped because she assumed there would soon be drained tuna water for a deserving kitty. (This was problematic if I was making spaghetti sauce instead...)

Favorite to cook depends on how I'm doing for energy. If I'm good, I like making vinegar-braised chicken and mushrooms because I love having the house smell like balsamic vinegar for days. On a low energy day, it's caramelized onions: so much good food and good smell for relatively minimal effort.