New question of the day -

Best meal ever - one you had or one you'd like to have?

that would probably be some sticky rice with vegetables, thai wok style, made fresh at 4:30AM after a night of partying at my friends' place

or maybe some homemade lasagna during our Sopranos phase at the same friends' house

mmhmm

sticky rice with sesame sauce

ties with

saganaki when it's cut just the right thickness and brought at just the right flame

conch salad

with sour orange juice - not lime juice - cracked black pepper and salt

ideally with a kalik after a long day in the boat

aaaaahhhhhh :)

cheeseburgers :o

Schwammerlsuppe + Semmelknödel

(approximately: thick mushroom soup with bread dumplings,
there is no pic on the web to visualise this peom of a meal...,
but here we get close:


imagine the soup with even more mushrooms and together with the dumplings cleaft into pieces)

i'd like to think the best meal ever is something i haven't tried yet and perhaps haven't even heard of yet.

mákos tészta

pasta with the mixture of crushed poppz seed and sugar

OR

strapačky

potato-based noodles with sauerkraut and bacon

I can't decide which meal is better...

I'm with Auntie on this one;
Just yesturday, I was gonna make my calamari-brocolli soup, but was out of squid, so i used crawfish instead, and it was the best ever..yum...so my quest for the best meal, i hope never ends....

I know 'mákos tészta' (though I had not known / forgotten the name until just now)
- one of the two dishes my stepfather always made (well he still makes I figure):
And really extra-yum-yum :) (Although I'm no fan of sweet main meals usually)
The other one was noodles and potatoes mixed with a spicey paprika sauce... we called it 'mud' ('Matsch' in German) because the Hungarian name was too complicated (for us) ;)

COOK FOR ME!

You fiend. And it's coming into winter here too.

^;)

(If you need the recipe I could dig into my bookshelf tracing for the Bavarian cookbook my granny gave me once :))

Yes please.

It's far too late to answer this question, but as there's not a new one...

at the risk of being repetitive:

sticky rice (it's popular because it's good, okay -- especially that particular Vietnamese sticky rice with its lovely glassy glossiness)
along with Japanese vegetables tempura style
and a vegetable spring roll (not, I repeat, not an egg roll)
and both sesame and sweet chili dipping sauces
and then fried bananas stuffed with red bean paste and sprinkled with powdered sugar and honey

but also if I could go back in time and have my grandmother's chicken fried steak and cream gravy, Kentucky Wonder beans, creamed potatoes, scratch biscuits, and lemon icebox pie, I would. I really really would. Screw the vegetarianism. And of course if I could skip the meal and just have my grandmother, that would be just fine.