What’s Your Favourite Dinner?
It’s the age old question. What would your last meal be? Or a less electric chair way to think about it, if you could only eat one dinner for the rest of your life, what would it be? O.K. Fine. Plain and simple. What’s your favourite meal?
For me … it would be a roast beef dinner. Without the beef. Actually, I like the beef, but it’s everything that goes with the roast beef dinner that I love. I love the mashed potatoes and the gravy and the Yorkshire Pudding and the turnip and pickled beets and the fella’s broccoli casserole, and whatever else you can pile on the plate. AND THE HORSERADISH! Roast beef (a beef tenderloin would be my choice, narrowly beating out Prime Rib) is really just a vehicle for the horseradish.
There are other dinners that I might think are tastier, or more impressive, but every time I think about my last meal (and since technically I’m a felon I think about it a lot) I always come back to a Roast Beef dinner.
The only thing missing from a roast beef dinner is stuffing. And I’m workin’ on that. I figured out how to stuff a meatloaf, I’m sure I’ll figure out how to stuff a roast beef.
The other thing about the roast beef dinner is it’s an all season appropriate meal. While hamburgers and corn on the cob scream summer, and chili con carne with cornbread harkens up images of a cold, wintery day … roast beef dinner (much like a roast chicken) is equally comfortable in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Notice how I used the word autumn there? It’s my preferred word for that time of year.
So you know what’s coming now don’t you? I’m curious. What’s your favourite quintessential 1980′s perfume? Oscar De La Renta? Obsession? Anais Anais?
No. That’s not what I’m curious about.
I am however, WILDLY curious about what your last meal would be.
Have a good weekend! See you Monday. Or … maybe before. Yes. I’m being cryptic.
Meg
That’s a tricky one… I’m in love with miso soup, wakame salad, and tuna sashimi, but I also love a good beef chili… I’m going to have to go with the soup. Yeah, I love biscuits and fried chicken like any Southern gal should, but there’s something soothing and appealing about the simplicity of smooth miso, tangy wakame, and fresh, clean, tender tuna.
Now I’m hungry…
Christian Marie
All the New Orleans food. Boiled crawfish with potatoes, corn on the cob, buttered french bread and a glass of whole milk. Coffee with chicory and king cake for dessert.
nancy
I agree 100%. except for the milk. and some garlic butter for the french bread. so maybe i agree 85%.
Kim
Steamed lobster with melted butter, just-picked corn on the cob, cole-slaw, blueberry pie made with wild maine blueberries, french vanilla ice cream on top. The perfect meal.
Karen
Oh no. I forgot about lobster. And crab. I actually prefer crab. I’d like to amend my dinner and add a large crab leg on top with some hot melted butter. ~ karen
Jillian
Seafood!! How could I forget? Top favorite foods. But still am in love with BBQ
Marti
“the fella’s broccoli casserole”? Details, please?
I love Salmon with Avocado – Grapefruit Salsa, a huge side of fresh mesclun greens to go with, some fresh homemade whole wheat bread and butter. And my favorite birthday cake that I always make. (I linked to the page with a picture on it for you, K, because you’re dementedly curious.) Top that cake, will ya?
Karen
Marti – You had me all curious. REALLY curious. I saw the link and thought you had a new non-news related website. Why don’t you ever link to your website here? Is it because it’s only for news reporters and such? Must go look at cake now. Broccoli casserole recipe is a secret. ~ karen
Marti
My comments almost always link to my website. On today’s comment, I linked to my personal blog, which oddly enough (remember when we talked about what’s on my plate?), hasn’t been updated lately but does have a lovely picture of my fav cake. (You gotta admit, it’s a GREAT cake. Here’s a better link: http://this-day-is-mine.blogspot.com/2011/05/cake-c-k-e-cake.html)
But beyond that, I don’t use your blog as the place to link to my website. You and all your readers are welcome ANYTIME to peruse that site. It *is* open and welcomes public readers.
Please, all of Karen’s Dear Readers, go take a gander at my darling website: http://www.newsgaggle.com
See there? Shameless self-promotion. Except people don’t come here to see “behind the scenes” with reporters and photographers. They come for late-nite videos of a very patient tattoo’d gentleman. Speaking of which… can we see a video of him making his secret recipe?
Karen
THAT is quite a cake! I know you won’t believe me, but Strawberry shortcake is my favourite cake in the entire world. Any kind of not too sweet cake with strawberries and whipped cream. FAVE. ~ karen
Marti
Aw, gee, thanks! Now go look at the website at WayLay built for me. ;)
Nancy
Wow Marti..the cake looks amazing..but..do you have a half naked tattooed fella that you can take pictures of in bed to share with us??? Just wondering..
Kim from 3 peanuts
It is cruel to show that beautiful cake and not share a recipe. I am drooling here.
WENDY
Forget Broccoli casserole! (As that was sounding quite good to me too!) but now I am intrigued by Salmon with avacado and graprefruit salsa!!
Kate
It sounds funny, but my favourite meal is a great depression staple my grandparents and parents both made for me .. total comfort food: Creamed Peas on (Cheesy) Toast
Karen
Kate – LOL! It does sound funny. Everyone’s mentioning bread. I think I need to add bread to my final meal. Fresh, warm, homemade bread. Yup. It’s added to my dinner along with crabs legs & butter. ~ karen
April
My favorite meal would have to be grilled sirloin steak with a baked potato, everything on it, and Cesar salad, served with a top shelf margarita on the rocks, no salt on the rim. If you ever visit North Idaho there is a place called Wolf Lodge that raises there own cows then cooks their beef over a wood grill, It is heavenly. :)
Karen
April – Have you tried my Caesar Salad dressing? Search it in the side bar. It’s really good. But you really *do* need to let it sit for a couple of days before eating it. Mmmmm … love caesar salad. And baked potatoes. Anything potato actually. ~ karen
April
I will definitely try your caesar dressing next time! it’s very similar to the one I have (knock off of outback)than you!
Barbie
OMG! You must live near me! Wolf Lodge is in Couer’D Alene right? I live in Spokane! LOL….there is actually one in Spokane too….never been to that one though. :)
Barbie
Correction “Coeur D’Alene” I always screw up the spelling!
Cindy
Handmade cheese ravioli with ragu bolognese, creamy sage polenta and roasted vegetables… on the waterfront in Hawaii… while wearing Anais Anais… mmm.
Aimee
A really, really AMAZING cheeseburger. With blue cheese or gruyere or something equally mouth-watering. Juicy and well-done, with enough condiments to make my tongue sing and placed on the perfect roll. With it, sweet potato fries. Margarita on the rocks, no salt.
Mmmm…MAN, I’m hungry…
Design Love
cheese scalloped potatoes, cottage roll with my cinnamon brown sugar glaze, and roasted carrots. Yum ,so good!!!
Karen
Design Love – I would also like to add Cheese scalloped potatoes to my dinner. So my final meal is currently, roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli casserole, turnip, a bunch of other stuff, a crab leg with melted butter, homemade bread, and cheese scalloped potatoes. Yup. ~ karen
Meadowlark
Bacon, eggs & toast. With a coffee.
Because it’s my last meal, I apparently don’t have to worry about cholesterol.
Danielle
I’m with you, I’ll have to go with roast beef and mashed potatoes and everything just absolutely SMOTHERED in brown gravy. And no pesky veggies, just bread with gobs of butter to mop up all of the leftover gravy. Dreamy. I moved from Canada to Texas and 99% of the gravy here is white. Blech.
Tricia Rose
Hot sour Thai soup. It is perfection.
Karen Eggleston
My mother’s pot roast and home egg noodles, with coleslaw, watermelon pickles, and blackberry cobbler.
Gknee
Turkey dinner with all the trimmings, yep the fare most of us scarfed down only weeks ago. I’ve always called it my death row dinner.
Ginny
So, can I basically fill my plate with whatever I want and possibly add things later? I’ll start with my homemade chicken pot pie, roasted asparagus with Italian Cream Cake. Oh and 24 hour salad. Have to have some bacon and fried eggs somewhere. I forgot shrimp scampi and lobster. I’ll just use the scampi sauce to dip the lobster in. Several kinds of sushi. That better be one big plate. Now I’m hungry. Guess I’ll go much on some homemade chef mix also known as trash. Better add some of that to my plate too!
Corri W
Actually Karen, Im with you. A great rib roast beef with all the trimmings and a red wine heavy pan juice gravy. Washed down with a great big shiraz of course. Apparently we are keeping good company. Gordon Ramsay maintains that would be his last meal too!
Kate
My homemade pumpkin soup with a side of roasted Brussels spouts, toasted with pistachios that have been sauteed in a little butter and fresh pomegranate seeds.
Or
Oysters. Fried oysters, roasted oysters, pickled oysters. Preferably all three. In unlimited quantities.
Kate
Oops. That would be Brussels sprouts TOSSED with pistachios…
doni
I am with you on the beef tenderloin and horseradish. And while I am prepping it I manage to slice (sneak) off a little bit of the end for a tartar appetizer with some fresh ground black pepper. That is totally my go to meal, but usually we have it with spinach salad with roquefort crumbles, candied pecans and balsamic drizzle, and sliced boiled baby potatoes on the side, crusty bread, red wine. If it’s my last meal I would like to substitute a white cheddar gratin, add a couple king crab legs too and probably start it all off with French onion soup and end with those adorable Tiramisu dessert shooters that I have pinned on Pinterest. And a Godiva Chocolate Martini!
Cheryl in Wisconsin
Dannnnggggg. What Doni said.
my honest answer
Steak. Mmmmmmmmm.
lynne Knowlton
I now officially have a Yorkshire pudding craving. Thanks. I guess I know what I am making for BREAKFAST. :)
Karen
Hah! ~ k
Violet
Mine would be dessert. I don’t even care what kind, just so long as it’s dessert. I’m a strong adherent to the “Eat Dessert First” philosphy (and, apparently, also the “Eat Dessert Last” philosophy).
Sian
Mmm slow roasted pork belly, with potato dauphinois, and asparagus. I know they don’t go but I love all three – maybe with some lobster thrown in as a starter. And freshly shucked oysters with a red wine and shallot vinaigrette. God, so hungry now.
Tracy
I LOVE a few slices of cheese (preferrably a soft goat and something hard, but any cheese at all will do), water crackers, and olives (kalamata and any other… I love the HUGE hard green ones). Then, if possible, some veggies with dip – any dip. Maybe a few slices of wonderful cured meat – salami or something. A lovely wine or sangria and I’ve got pure bliss!
Now, if you really want to make it the best ever, put all that on a rustic platter just about anywhere in Italy overlooking…any piazza, something incredibly old or the sea…and it’s just going to taste a wee bit better still.
pve
Hmm, let me think, my last meal before the electric chair, “fondue” and the pot of hot oil with beef. Oh and there would be cubes of bread and pickles. Souffle for dessert if there is time.
pve
Langela
“Souffle…if there is time” HAH!
“Come on. It’s time to flip the switch.”
“But I haven’t had my souffle!”
Jamieson
I’m also on board with your favourite meal and I totally agree about the horseradish AND the stuffing (perhaps my favourite food)!
Somehow I’d like to see watermelon involved – perhaps a starter? – and my special Sangria as the beverage (not together though – I hate my sangria slutted up with fruit).
I like a medium rare ribeye better than prime rib, but then I lose the context for the horseradish. I have referred to oysters as a vessel for horseradish.
And I’ll go with White Diamonds. Or if we can go 70s I’ll say Charlie with undernotes of Jean Naté.
Karen
OMG my older sister used to wear Jean Nate! Wasn’t it lemony? Thank you SO much for reminding me of that. ~ karen
Brenda
Seeing as I am an Islander born & bred…the good old PEI lobster supper….. you buy a big bucket of lobsters at the wharf, cook them outside while you drink beer or wine, then totally make a pig of yourself by eating as many as you possibly can..shell buckets on the ground around the picnic table that has fresh rolls, potato salad and bowls of melted butter for dripping..then when you think you just may have eaten a few past your limit have a big bowl of fresh strawberry shortcake. I tell you there is nothing better than freshly caught & cooked lobster at home where the mess is just part of the fun!! unless you eat them on the fishing boat or on the beach. This has been the way we have had lobster all my life..not the same dressed up in a restaurant.
Karen
Brenda … Do you cook them in salt water? I loveeee lobster. LOVE it. ~ karen
Brenda
You have to get some sea water..perfect amount of salt…..lay the lobsters upside down when you take them out of the pot…come to PEI we will send you out on a boat, they might cook you a feed right on it and you just sit on the washboards, have a feast and maybe you will see a whale as entertainment.
Karen
Brenda – I’ve always wanted to go to P.E.I. I *meant* sea water. I always overcook my lobster. :( ~ karen
Holly
Chips and guacamole. No doubt.
Darlene
Maryland Crabcakes made with Old Bay Seasoning!
Eastern Shore corn on the cob
Red Velvet cake with cream cheese icing!
farquist
Here’s your stuffing…
My husband (1st generation from British stock) makes the best stuffing. Diced bread ( rye, white, brown, stale buns, bagels, whatever you have- gluten free for me), onion, salt, pepper, poultry seasoning, splash of water to moisten. Mush around with your hands in a big bowl, pack into a baking pan and bake in the oven for 45 minutes ( or until brown and crispy on the top) at a high heat (425). It will have the lovely crusty layer on top and underneath that is steamy lovely-ness. Then smother with gravy and enjoy.
My fav meal would be surf and turf – lobster, steak, baked potato.
Karen
That’s pretty much the exact stuffing I make. Except I use chicken stock to moisten. I never thought to cook it randomly in the oven, with a roast though, LOL! I love stuffing … ~ karen
Donna
I am with Marti……the very patient tattoo’d gentleman needs his own segment. And cooking something? Please. Karen you truly have hit the jackpot….and thanks for making my mouth water soooo early in the day. mmmmmm roast beef and yorkshire pudding! In our house we used to fight over how many everyone had eaten!
Suzan
Ham and string beans with new potatoes, pepper cabbage, soft white bread and apple butter. I am a Pennsylvania Dutch girl through and through!
Jillian
BBQ!! Especially Chicken wings & beef ribs. Along with corn bread, greens and some type of potato, particularly fried or roasted so I can smother some sauce on them. Yummmmm
Cindy Marlow
Pheasant (or quail will do in a pinch) stroganoff served on wide egg noodles with parsley, hot biscuits, and steamed broccoli. This was our special meal during hunting season assuming someone got lucky. My mom is a great cook.
Janalee
Fish n chips with lots of tartar sauce, a slice of lemon, and vinegar with lots of salt.
Korrine Johnson
I thought I knew until I read the rest of the comments. No way I could ever choose now. But I sure am hungry!
Erika
Gosh, I’m torn – I love my mom’s meatloaf. NO ONE makes meatloaf like my mother. I won’t even eat anyone else’s. But for a last meal? Probably my chicken casserole. That’s it. Don’t need anything else. Could eat the whole thing myself. In fact, four of us DID eat an entire 9×13 casserole at one sitting, completely ignoring the lovely salad I had also made. But seriously, when it’s that chicken casserole, that’s all you want to eat, and putting anything else in your mouth feels like a sin. It’s perfect. Even smelling it cook is near torture for wanting to get at it. I take it to every church potluck and funeral dinner, and there is NEVER any left. OMG. I want some right now, but I’ll have to settle for a bagel. :)
And, I WILL share the recipe. But if you’re misguided enough to want to change it, don’t tell me – it will just make me cry bitter tears that you’re such a misguided heathen.
Karen
Erika – And THAT is exactly why the fella won’t share is broccoli casserole recipe. For fear of the bastardization of it. ~ karen
Erika
Oh, well, I figure that once I give it to someone then it their recipe and I SUPPOSE they can then do what you they like with it, even if they are so lost to common decency as to want to alter it in any way. My friend put peas in it because she said it needed color. Peas! Color! It doesn’t need either – it’s perfect. But the pea story has to now be brought up discussed every time I serve it.
Erika
It was my grandmother’s recipe; she’d want people to have it. And I like that her spirit lives on, even if only in a recipe. :)
Dawn
I think I *need* your recipe – you make it sound mouthwatering,
Cindy
Now, I’m intrigued, Erika…. how do we get this recipe?!
Gale
Me too!!! can’t make our mouths water like that and then not share!!!
Erika
Easiest thing in the world. If you would like to send your email to my email, it is veldracon@yahoo.com, and I’ll send it to you that way. :)
Laura
Four cheese stuffed pork tenderloin wrapped in maple bacon, baked potato and strawberry salad…oh! can’t forget to end with our family version of DEATH BY CHOCOLATE! Yum!
Bradley
It could only be Chicken Fried Steak and gravy with mashed potato and dressing… just the way my mom, grandma, great grandma all made it. It is the best!
Gettinby
Just what IS Yorkshire pudding? It sounds so yankee…
Karen
Gettinby – It’s British. Kind of like a popover. Served with gravy. ~ karen!
Gettinby
So it’s just a roll? There’s no pudding?! What a rip-off…
Karen
Mmm … no. It’s not a roll. It’s moist on the inside. It’s hard to explain. But no … definitely not an actual pudding. ~ karen
Kim
I can’t believe that none of the previous comments asked for clarification of this statement:
(and since technically I’m a felon I think about it a lot)
Oh do tell!
Nicole2
She keeps chickens in her backyard. She’s wanted in several provinces and states.
Sandra C
Anything seafood but salmon is my top choice. I was raised in North Seattle (the Pacific fishing fleet docks in Ballard – you can go to Fishermans Terminal & buy right from the boats!) I like it grilled with lemon & garlic – steamed rice – cucumbers pickled with vinegar, sugar, & water. Dessert would have to be anything that involed fresh fruit & french vanilla ice cream!
Brie
I’m a New England girl, so fresh Maine lobster with a bowl of melted butter on the side. We eat it with a giant bowl of lays potato chips at each end of the table. Lemon wedges for cleaning hands….it’s messy business. There is no better place for lobster than York beach, Maine.(I’m sure P.E.I. Has wonderful lobster as well…. I’ve wanted to go there ever since I watched Anne of Green Gables as a kid.)
Kristen S
Medium rare striploin with crumbled blue cheese, twice baked potaoto, crab legs with butter, a glass of Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz and a cherry cheesecake for dessert. Kill me now
magali
A piece of chicken pot pie with a piece of tourtière (meat pie), some of my grandma’s mashed potatoes and corn on the cob. BUT the most important thing is that for desert there would be sugar on snow. I love that stuff more than anything in the world and just thinking that most of your readers have probably never tried sugar on snow makes me very sad for them. Do you have sugar shacks around your area of Ontario?
Nicole2
Oh, you’re a good French Canadian like me! Yes, you haven’t lived until you have had maple syrup toffee on snow. Yumminess!! I have been in Ontario for 26 years now and every spring, I miss the sugar shack ritual! If you ever have the chance to go to one in Quebec, now there’s a hearty, country meal!
Deb
I’d have to start with tiramisu, ya never know if your gonna live thru dinner so get dessert first, and a peach margarita. Some split pea soup with a nice peach margarita. Ceasar salad and a peach margarita. Lobster, prime rib, crab legs, jumbo shrimp, roasted asparagus on toast points with cheese sauce, baked sweet potato, my mothers yorkshire pudding and several peach margaritas. If I live thru that I’ll take my mothers butter tarts and a couple more peach margaritas…
Oh…and a spritz of TWEED and I can die happy!
Kellay
Pizza. I would probably have a variety of toppings since I can never decide on just one. One would have pulled pork. Another of my homemade faves are apples, caramelized onions, cheddar, corn, garlic and olive oil. Yum. It seems simple but I have never ever uttered the worlds “menh I don’t really feel like pizza tonight” when trying to decide what is for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Patti
Well, first of all – if you decide to make this and need a dinner guest, there is just nothing like home cooking like that.
I would have jasmine rice and Red Curry Chicken, with thai spring rolls. Specifically from my local restaurant, Ben Thanh, because they make it with bamboo shoots and eggplant and it’s just so delicious. Add their stir fried udon and veggies, with another side of spicy veggies, like green beans in dried hot pepper sauce. And maybe a slice of pizza, and a plate of spaghetti on the side. Oh! And a poutine made of fresh cut french fries.
Oh yeah. And there would be coca-cola. Lots of it. And some chips and probably nibs and starbursts, too. Because I love sugar!
A recipe for you, Karen, is the combination of my favourite thai dish, and yours! I’ve made it before – amped up the red curry paste, and it was delicious. And okay.. I can’t find it on the site. But it’s a red curry roast dinner and the recipe was from Chatelaine. It had a red curry gravy instead of your typical gravy and boy oh boy was it good. If you want the recipe, I’ll send it to you when I get home!
Perfume? I loved Vanilla Fields like nobody’s business. And Tabu..which, in retrospect – that REALLY smelled HORRIBLE.
Patti
I really have to learn not to be so long-winded.
Ann
I am a bit surprised that no one has gone with a curry. I would absolutely need to go with a mild chicken curry, with jasmine rice, a few freshly made naan. And then a big death by chocolate dessert!!! I know, crossing cultures is probably a violation of some food law but you did want our honest answers!!
Lauren
Fresh fried shrimp, cole slaw, corn bread, cucumbers and onions in apple cider vinegar, fresh sliced tomatos, baked beans and sweet tea with fresh sugared strawberries and cream to end
Preferably all prepared by my grandmother and served at her table on hot summer evening :)
And if it’s winter…roasted oysters (caught by my husband in the Pamlico Sound) with tabasco, vinegar, melted butter and cold beer…eaten in a backyard in the cold…
Renee
Cranberry-glazed roast duck, garlic-roasted fingerling potatoes with shaved parmesan atop, sauteed brussel sprouts and baby carrots, and a rhubarb ‘pie’,…using the term loosely,…with whipped cream for dessert. Yummy!
BGrigg
If I have to eat it every day? Roast beef, horseradish, Yorkshire, gravy, mashed potatoes, and I mash carrots in with my turnip. Though I would suspect I would want to kill myself after a couple of months.
And there are plenty of recipes on stuffing roast beef. Google is your friend!
Broccoli casserole? Yuck! Broccoli should only be eaten raw, and I prefer the stalks to the tops. I suspect that broccoli casserole will be one of the “True Casseroles” in a future post?
Carole McGinnis
Veggie pizza with extra sauce and chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting. I wish I could say a healthy salad and fruit – ha, ha.
Susan
Dungeness crab enchilada (corn tortilla, lotsa sauce & cheesy), spaghetti, soft buttery garlic bread, Dungeness crab……mmmmmmmmmmmmmm shrimp, lobster, pork sausage, link sausage, bacon, more crab and more bacon, et al…………
Kathe
I know I am gonna catch flack for my last meal. Beef liver and sauteed onions with a side of spinach and home style fried potatoes. Drooling as I type this!
Cindy
I play this game with my grown children, around the dinner table, when everyone is being “too quiet”. It’s your last meal, being executed tomorrow, you can have anything and everything you love for your last dinner…. what’s on your plate? They think I’m demented, but we always end up laughing. Especially since I’ve now opened it up to… being executed tomorrow… what music do you want played, who would you like to be at the event (living or dead), what would you wear….?
Anyway, my list includes my mom’s fried chicken (best ever), chocolate mousse, a few Cheetos, roasted brussell sprouts with cranberries & balsalmic vinegar, seafood alfredo, steamed shrimp with Old Bay, Utz potato chips (the regular variety), creamy mashed potatoes, fresh corn on the cob, the beautiful center of a rare cooked melt in your mouth steak…. that’s my start.
Barbie
I have ALWAYS wanted to learn how to make a good yorkshire pudding! I even had someone (a Brit…when we lived in the UK) actually try to teach me how…..using the drippings and all that….I have NEVER been able to repeat that process…perhaps it is because it has been WAAAAY to long ago now….could you do a post on how to? Yours looks mouth watering! I would probably make it the same day! LOL I love and agree on your last meal choice….especially about the meat being the least important part! and I could eat mashed potatoes until I explode! and dressing too!
However my favorite meal would have to be homemade spagetti….and garlic bread……but I would have to somehow incorporate guacamole into that….since avocados is the one thing I would choose to have to eat for the rest of my life if stranded on a island somewhere….if could only have one thing. I have long stated this, and I would just be a hypocrite if I didn’t say so! LOL
AmieM
Red Duck Curry, with Tom Yum soup to start, and creme brulee to finish. The dessert doesn’t quite go, but I love me some duck, and I love red curry, and tom yum soup is my food for my soul.
Sherri
My choices for a favorite meal in winter are likely different than what I would choose in the summer months so please ask that question again in July. For winter—my mom’s meatloaf recipe (it’s so moist!); baked potato & butter; green salad with shredded cheddar, pineapple chunks and sweet dressing, green beans sauteed with diced bacon; and for dessert, the best bread pudding in the world. I might have to wait a few hours to eat the bread pudding after all those other goodies though.
Kelly
Karen, to your meal of roast beef, crab and all the fixings, I would also like to add sautéed mushrooms in butter and garlic. Oh, and an appetizer of homemade mac and cheese with bacon.
Gayla T
Mom always let us pick the menu on our birthday and mine was meat loaf, scalloped potatoes, green beans chocolate cake and red jello w/fruit in it. However, once I left Kansas things changed so now it is bacon wrapped shrimp for starters, shrimp cocktail w/blue cheese dressing to dip them in.(dip in red seafood sauce and then in the blue cheese) Seafood Almondine made from McFarland’s recipe, cauliflower in cheese sauce with a crumb crust,home baked dinner rolls baked in a pan greased with butter flavor Crisco, key lime cheese cake made from Luedi’s recipe that has a crust made of ground almonds. All these are of course made from heart healthy recipes, NOT. It probably will be my final meal because I’ll probably have a heart attack after eating it but it beats dying of anything else I can think of. The only time I’ve eaten Yorkshire pudding was in Ireland and they either did a bad job of it or it’s way over rated. It was like a tough dinner roll with no insides with brown gravy over it, the beef and the potatoes, as in swimming in it. It was not nasty, just very ordinary. Now I’m thinking if you all like it that much, something must have been wrong with what I ate because I can easily never eat it again and die happy. What I would like to add to my menu or put on my last lunch menu is lobster salad served in that funny bun that looks like a hot dog bun with a slit in the top. LOL We don’t have that bun in the grocery stores here. Can you tell I don’t ever get enough sea food living in Kansas?
Evalyn
Well, while it is true that I have seldom met a food I didn’t like, if I had to think of one taste on my tongue for the rest of eternity I would choose lemons.
jodie
last meal: lemonade, my mom’s fried chicken, my grandma’s homemade chicken noodles, fresh grilled corn on the cob with butter and salt. garden peas. Flourless chocolate torte.
fav 1980′s perfume: Love’s Baby Soft…it totally takes me to that legwarmers and banana-clip bad hair time.
Lauren in Winnipeg
It has to be the tradional turkey dinner. Turkey, apple sausage stuffing, deeply browned roasted potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, brocolli cauliflower casserole, cole slaw, lemon dill carrots. Grand Marnier creme brulee.
Lauren in Winnipeg
That is my creative way of spelling traditional :)
Val
My favourite meal is home made Holubtsi.
Nancy
OK..my favorite meal lately has been my own homemade hot wings with my homemade mac & cheese..but..then I would have to cook my last meal..that’s not fair is it..if it’s our last meal shouldn’t we have it cooked and served to us??
Erin Hall {i can craft that}
RIBS!!! delicious pork ribs with roasted mini red potatoes and steamed sweet potato and steamed or grilled asparagus…. ummmm. I was going to make it tonight but then decided that I was going on strike until people start helping out around the house. but really i think I am punishing myself more because I really want them.
I have to admit I have never had horseradish, or Yorkshire pudding……
Tonia
I was thinking about it, and if I were to have my last meal, I don’t really think it would matter what I ate (as long as it wasn’t horrible of course). It would matter who I was with. If my sweet husband and my best friend Dan were with me, that’s all I would need. Thanks Karen for the fabulous post, as always!
Karen
O.K. Tonia. Let me rephrase the question. What would your husband and best friend Dan bring you to eat? :) ~ karen
Marsh
Roast beef, definitely! With lots of horseradish, mashed potatoes and gravy. Wore Halston in the 80′s along with Georgio and Anais Anais–just so you know. Can’t wear anything anymore–nose too sensitive–just sneeze and sneeze. Very sad. Saves me lots of money, though.
marilyn
how entertaining was that? people are sooo funny! bring on the crab and scallops for moi!brand new roasted mini potatoes roasted asparagus and a true blue caesar salad with some kind of fabulous bread and butter and maple creme brulee for dessert. and jean nate…love it my mom wore it sometimes. that along with l’air de temps were her scents and i still keep a bottle of l’air de temps just to smell now and then when i’m really missing her.this was fun Karen..thanks
Nicole2
A good roast beef dinner is always amazing. We had a beef tenderloin roast just this Sunday. I’m so proud of myself because I bought a whole tenderloin, undressed it, cut the roast, tied it and cooked it. Then I cut and froze four filets mignons and the narrow part tenderloin. It was like I knew what I was doing!
My fave meal has and always will be spaghetti and homemade meat sauce with garlic bread. Ultimate comfort food for me. And red velvet cake for dessert.
Love’s Baby Soft in the seventies, graduating to Oscar in the eighties, had no time for perfume in the nineties, heck, I had 2 young kids, it was a good day if I showered! Tommy Girl Jeans in the 2000′s. Now it’s Marc Jacobs as my everyday perfume and the iconic Chanel no. 5 for special occasions. Later, when I’m in my eighties, I’m sure it will be some foul Avon perfume. There you go. My perfume repertoire. In case you wanted to know.
Kim from 3 peanuts
This is hard….I LOVE food. I think I would have to start with french onion soup, then barbequed shrimp (the are just baked in lots of butter and herbs and sometimes beer but they are called BBQ shrimp in New orleans). Then I would like a nice salad of mixed greens, goat cheese and candied pecans with a balsamic vinaigrette . Then for the main course, beef tenderloin, my Mom;s homemade mac and cheese and sauteed spinach. Og course, some fresh baked biscuits or dinner rolls would accompany all of this. For dessert, either hot apple pie a la mode or chocolate souffle… or why not both? I would not be counting calories if it were my last meal.
If I had to eat the same meal everyday though….it would be good east coast pizza without a doubt.
Paulina J!
Ok. I thought I knew what I wanted to eat, but peer pressure has gotten to me. How about a feast with all the dishes listed and the company of course. That would be such an awesome party!!!
I’ll have anything my mom cooks. I’m from Dominican Republic so something along the lines of mangu, with fried cheese, yucca, eggs and salami. Yum!!!
Karen
Paulina J – How do you cook yucca? I think I’ve been told before but forget. Boil it? Bake it? Fry it? ~ karen!
Paulina J!
You can boil it with some salt like you do potatoes and if you have any leftovers, you can fry it. I love fried yucca and it’s a great way to use leftovers.
Jaclyn
Filet Mignon cooked Medium Rare with mashed potatoes, buttery asparagus, spinach salad, and a glass of fine red wine. Mmmm, thanks Karen, I’m hungry now. ;)
Belinda
My favourite would have to be mustard and cheese bread to start with and then my husband’s kangaroo hamburgers with a side a big fat homemade chips!
Then for dessert it golden syrup dumplings with whipped cream.
V.
Enchiladas & big plate of baked pasta just like my mom-in-law prepares for sunday lunch, yes, carbs all the way!!
V.
kelliblue
Oh, what a question! Mine would be a mashup of all things ‘midwestern’ (fork tender pot roast, scalloped potatoes, gravy) with a side of the sea (sushi, shrimp, lobster) and a chaser of Lagniappe (ettouffe, jambalaya, muffaletta). A very low-cal dish, to be sure. :)
Quintessential 80s scent? Liz Claiborne (in the cool triangle bottles) of course! Ha!
Pati
Prime rib with LOTS of horseradish,homemade mac & cheese, stewed squash with lots of butter and onion, homemade yeast rolls & Commander’s Palace white chocolate bread pudding with rum sauce ! And my perfume of choice at that time was Coty’s Musk Oil…but not the spray…the little brown bottle with the little dauber ONLY ! ;o)
Gayla T
I had to come back and read the posts after mine and I’m not disappointed. You can just pick one of these and post it and your work will be done for a long time. I thought there would be a constant running through but the only one I could even think to say is mashed potatoes. I forgot to say my fav perfume has always been White Shoulders. There’s been another from an off the wall company that does parties. It smells like sticking my nose in a newly opened rose and is called Cupid. I got mine as a gift and then ordered more but I guess it’s gone forever now. It smelled even better than Yankee Candle’s Roses. I do love anything lavender and I grow my own Patchouli in my little table top greenhouse. I just pick off a leaf and rub it on. That was my favorite scent in my hippy 60′s. Gone but not forgotten. LOL
Stacy
It’s gonna be Thanksgiving for me. Turkey, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, corn casserole and sweet potato casserole!
And I personally think it’s hilarious the way I torture myself with this meal. I absolutely REFUSE to cook it any ol’ time of the year. It’s only to be cooked in November. And also for the Superbowl. Which may seem odd but it makes sense when you think about it. Football, family and friends….why not make it Super-Thanksgiving? We do. :)
Karen
:( I wish I liked watching the Superbowl. It always seems like so much fun. ~ karen
Shauna
mmmm, I loooove Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding and am more on your side with it’s more about the yorkshire pudding & the gravy than anything else. We have it every year for Christmas – when our oven works and doesn’t ruin it like this year;)
susie
my 6 yr old boy love oven pancakes… just like your photo! we call them pannucakku (Finnish). maple syrup and butter!
Karen
Wow! I’ve never tried them with maple syrup and butter. Hmm …. :) ~ karen
Brianne
My favorite meal would be a compilation of all my favorite things:
Salmon Onigiri
Lobster bisque
Lobster mac and cheese
Cheddar biscuits (I have Red Lobster’s recipe)
Gorgonzola encrusted filet
Spiny lobster, grilled & brushed with butter
Broccoli casserole (my grandma’s recipe! love it!!)
Warm beignets with chantilly cream for dessert
Bonnie
My last meal would be a dozen cold salty oysters on the half shell; icy cold beer in a frosted mug; real crawfish bisque with the stuffed crawfish tails; a New Orleans boiled seafood dinner–hot blue crabs, crawfish, and shrimp with potatoes, corn, mushrooms, sausage, artichokes, etc.; and rum pecan cake with whipped cream for dessert. All followed with a steaming cup of cafe au lait and B&B.
Bonnie
By the way, pet peeve–people who won’t share recipes, especially if they talk about the dish and/or show pictures of it.
Erika
Bonnie, I’ll share mine – my email is above on Jan 13th