What was the best thing you ate this weekend?
January 22, 2007 | By Adam Roberts | 108 CommentsPlease answer in 47 words or less.
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Spicy black bean soup with rice cakes. Watermelon for dessert.
The “X Rated” chocolate cream filled, chocolate buttermilk cup cake with sinfully chocolate buttercream frosting.
Chocolates used: Droste and Sharffenberger
OMG!
A very delicious Caramel Apple Walnut Cake, with Double Vanilla Bean ice cream on the side. Yum.
Sweet potato and black bean soup.
BBQ Pork Spareribs and Thai fried rice.
Chocolate Fudge Cake from Black Angus. Yum.
Moroccan Lamb stew served on toasted pine nut whole wheat couscous; I paired it with a nutty sour dough and a full bodied sonoma merlot. YUM!
Crumpet with a little tart four-fruit preserve and a thin slice of d’affinois.
Homemade Warm Chocolate Cake with an oozing center – yum
my mom’s most delicious homemade shrimp ‘mandoo’ aka gyoza aka potstickers. though sometimes the best part is making them together, these were pretty amazing to eat. yum!
Paksiw na Lechon. Look it up if you haven’t heard of it. It was AMAZING.
Passionfruit & basil macaron. Trop bon… And some white chocolate & green tea cake with pistachios, overcooked but good.
Tapioca balls rolled in shredded coconut, with mango coulis and mango sherbet. Heavenly.
Rabbit
wholewheat bread with cottage cheese
Pizza Caprichosa. Napolitean style (thin crust). Tomato sauce, mozzeralla, a touch of parmesano, ham, anchovies, capers, chopped tomaotes,topped with an egg. Wood fired oven.
I am from Brazil, more specifically Bahia, I went there this weekend and the best was my grandfather freshly fished lobster barbecue, followed by a bananaleaf fish barbecue. It does not get better.
My mother’s Sunday dinner – roast chicken, loads of veg., perfect roast potatoes, Yorshire puddings.
Moist pumpkin bread, with mini-chocolate chips… yummmmm…
Chilaquiles made by the dishwasher at work.
Mussels steamed in a spicy jalapeno broth.
Homemade chicken and dumplings. Herb dumplings w/ parsley & rosemary. Yum! Comfort food!
homemade meatballs.
Unfortunately, only this homemade chocolate-peanut butter (am on a diet!)
Tarragon and sage turkey breast with mashed potato gratin from the November issue of Cooking Light!
Diver scallops and shrimp on top of grits with wilted arugula.
Red currant bread pudding
Shrimp & vegetable quesadillas. Delicious!
Nigella’s Hugarian sandwich, dense black bread, cream cheese and black cherry jam (whole cherries still intact).
Supernatural Brownies. YUM!
Everything at my family’s Robert Burns supper – haggis (not the real deal, more like a lamb-beef-liver meatloaf), tatties & neaps (mashed potatoes & turnips), cock-a-leekie soup, courgettes, baked ziti (hey, we’re also half Italian), shortbread, tipsy laird (fruit trifle) and a lot of other great desserts.
Pork carnitas with two homemade salsas, roasted tomato shallot salsa, and roasted tomatillo and poblano salsa for a football party yesterday.
home made chili
I made Horn and Hardart’s Macaroni and Cheese
Warm chocolate rice pudding.
Fish three ways all keralite style — really small fish prepared dry with coconut, banana leaf fish and fish curry.
Wow, I want to spend the weekend with Arthur!
Teh best thing I ate this weekend was german chocolate cake (made with the frosting in the batter) with whipped cream on top.
Homemade mashed potatoes and turkey gravy. The turkey was pretty good too!
biscuits w/chicken sausage gravy at relish diner in williamsburg
Chicken in a chipotle cream sauce with garlic mashed potatoes
homemade kettle corn– so easy to make, and so delicious and addictive.
Lobster Roll w/ chips and cole slaw
pork lau lau
Boiled Crawfish
Homemade oatmeal raisin cookies.
Linguine with homemade tomato sauce and meatballs.
It was a good food weekend! Either the Indian lamb with spicy pickle, or the homemade kim chee peach ice cream.
Your posted recipe for Tom Kha Gai! Yum. Made w/ tofu. Found the galangal but no lime leaves, added more coconut and lots of chili…so so good! Thanks!
Mark Bittman’s Beef Stew with Prunes recipe. I substituted FLANKEN, doubled the quantity, used half prunes/half dried apricots & figs, cooked for 3 1/2 hours, the last 3/4 hour moved from stovetop to oven. RAVES.
Dinner at the French Laundry. ;)
Homemade green corn tamales.
Cayenne buttermilk fried chicken breast served over a sweet potato waffle with rosemary syrup from O-Bar in West Hollywood! If I’m convicted of murder today, I want that as my last meal before they inject me with pink juice.
Sunday dinner with my fiance and both sets of parents. They brought sirloin (they raise cows, yay!) and I made simple sides of baked spuds, peas and salad. We ended with homemade brownies (snagged the recipe from a Ghiradelli package and they are to-die-for) and my mom’s 7 layer bars- similiar to the Hello Dollys @ Magnolia bakery in NYC. Yeah, even this Indiana bumpkin knows about Magnolia….sigh.
My homemade spicy chili, cornbread, and guacamole while watching both my and my boyfriend’s respective favorite teams clinch Super Bowl bids.
I think you’ll relate to this…the doughnuts from Dahlia Lounge, dipped in apple butter and sweet crème fraiche. mmmm mmmmm good!!
Homemade miso glazed salmon, stir-fry veggies & rice.
Ina’s turkey lasagne from her Family Style book. Delicious!!
And I live in NYC so I was at your reading last weekend — loved the chapter you read, can’t wait to read more!
The Barefoot Contessa’s shrimp bisque. It was the perfect remedy for a cold Sunday night.
Homemade orange cranberry scones with homemade lemon curd.
Lucky Charms. They are, after all, “magically delicious”
Tied between the vegan chocolate cupcake from Whole Foods, one of my all-time favorites; and the mushroom and cheese whole-wheat calzone I ordered in last night, which tasted amazing because I was starving!
La Quercia spiced prosciutto piccante. The chilies and fennel rubbed into the fat is beyond belief delicious. Had it with fresh mozzarella as I watched the Colts defeat NE. Yeah!
Chocolate and rosemary braised short ribs which I served on top of a shiitake risotto.
The chicken, leek and bacon puff pastry pie I cooked to welcome my Mum and Dad home from skiing. Yuuuuuuum!
Moroccan Stew: Chicken Tagine with Lemon and Olives.
Kanga skewers and the Barramundi filet with asparagus and basil cream sauce from Eight Mile Creek. Yum! Even if kanagaroos are cute, they certainly are declicious!
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with fettucine alla carbonara and a bottle of Zinfandel. Sabayone and limoncello gelato.
A toasted English muffin with quark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(cheese)) and fresh lingonberry preserves. Yum!
Pesto, Artichoke & 4-Cheese Stromboli
Homemade pesto spread thin on premade dough covered with garlic-sauteed artichoke & fresh ricotta, buffala mozzarella, manchego & pecorino romano.
Made it myself!
Stacey’s multigrain pita chips with some babaganoush.
The “Ike & Tina Tuna” sandwich at The Great Lost Bear in Portland, ME — basically, a tuna Monte Cristo. yuh-ummm…
The “Jambon, Beurre, et Fromage” sandwich from Back in the Day Bakery. Their bread is what makes such a simple sandwich so fantastic.
tie between my friend emily’s orzo with feta and sun-dried tomato or the vanilla, anise pound cake from the culinary institute of america where she trained and now works.
stuffed eggplant from the ‘Silver Spoon’ Italian cookbook.
Warm lentil salad with grilled radicchio, arugula, and crispy pork jowls. (you thought it was healthy before that.)
Fried potatoes, zucchini, tomatoes, garlic, cheddar cheese, and onions scrambled with three eggs and covered with cracked black pepper and parmesan reggiano.
The rest of the weekend I ate cold sausage pizza, so it’s not much of a competition.
Bratwurst grilled in the fireplace while watching the Indy / Pats game.
If Friday afternoon qualifies as “this weekend” then it would have to be Tom Douglas’s recipe for Fresh Coconut Cream Pie that my friend made for 8 of us and we all just about died from joy while eating it.
If not, then I would have to go with the homemade tomato basil soup that I made last night. Then I served it with provolone paninis, but I just ate the leftover soup heated up with crunchy, toasty garlic croutons on top and that was even better. YUM!
Frozen passion fruit parfait with coconut ice cream and lil’ bits of apple soaked in a lemongrass sauce. SWOON.
Homemade Cheese Steaks with Provolone & Fried Green Peppers and Onions on a fresh Portuguese roll.
A sublime $2 carnitas soft taco: crispy pork, cilanto, chopped raw onion and lime juice.
Yeah, baby.
Chicken “parmesan” with almond, asiago & fried shallot crust atop tri-color peppers, tomatoes, artichokes, sweet onion & spinach “sauce” and whole wheat pasta.
Crab cakes and coconut cake from the Dahlia Lounge…all thanks to your recommendation.
Homemade ravioli with a filling of four cheeses – ricotta, gorgonzola, goat’s cheese and Parmesan, served with a sage and butter sauce and extra grated Parmesan on top. View pictures at http://www.kattebelletje.com“ rel=”nofollow”>http://www.kattebelletje.com (and recipe, too)!
A toasted whole wheat bagel with strawberry cream cheese from my local bagelry – but i think im only saying that becuase I hadn’t had a bagel in 2 years. So probably the hot fudge sundae made of haagen daaz caramel cone, coffee, and vanilla ice cream. Yum.
An impromptu walnut & sausage ragu. It accompanied less-exciting braised chicken thighs and some sort of red wine alfredo & fettucine.
Rachel Ray’s Meatloaf Brasciole – really.
Beignets courtesy of Cafe du Monde (from the box, but still oh-so delish).
Weekend’s best, in haiku:
Cod en papillote
Lemon, thyme, ginger & wine
Over rice, of course
Lamb at Kabul – YUM!
Succulent, grilled, served with bread
Firni for dessert
Pizza made from scratch
Chicken, capers & olives
Someone cooked for me!
A full pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream.
My mom’s chicken soup and matzo balls!
Delmonico steak with red potatoes and a simple green salad. Mmm-mmmm!
Chocolate Chip Raisin Oatmeal Cookies (hot out of the oven) with a big glass of milk
Rice noodles with homemade peanut sauce and garlic shrimp.
Cheesecake at the original Junior’s on Flatbush Avenue.
An orange, shipped up from my father’s tree in Florida to me in New Jersey. I ate it over the kitchen sink as I watched the winter’s first snowfall–the first snow I’ve seen in over 13 years.
Dungeness Crab Cake Benedict from Sam’s Anchor Cafe.
A toss up between my homemade hummus,drizzled with olive oil and served with pita bread for dipping, and my lemon curd swirled cheesecake with a blueberry-apricot sauce.
Handmade flour tortillas at Avenue Cafe in Austin, TX.
Lemony chicken and couscous and arugula loaf. (Ground chicken, lemon zest, whole-wheat bread crumbs, rehydrated couscous, steamed arugula, coriander, s&p, baked in a loaf pan for an hour. Served with roasted red peppers with capers.
The 3-meat combo (ribs, link and brisket) at Woody’s BBQ in South-Central Los Angeles.
Taco soup, served with cornchip crumbles and cheddar cheese. And a pork blade roast made with brown sugar, apple juice and soy sauce…juicy and fabulous. Served the latter with mashed potatoes and broiled tomatoes stuffed with artichokes and Feta. Very yum.
Three cheese ravioli at Baltimore’s Brass Elephant. The cheeses? Brie, white cheddar and ricotta. That with toasted pecans in a port sauce. The rabbit wasn’t as good. That, and luscious three onion mashed potatoes.
Amaranth Buttermilk Pancakes with real maple syrup – they hit the spot late Saturday morning!
half rack of the sweetest and most tender ribs at Ruby Tuesdays’
Spinach frittata with fresh plum tomato, the perfect breakfast (recipe featured on our blog right now!)
Savory butternut squash puff pastry tart with caramalized onions, ricotta and feta. Recipe courtesy of the lovely Heidi over at 101cookbooks.
Escolar sashimi – a weekend full of sashimi and all-you-can-eat (and remarkably good) sushi. What a way to start a birthday!