Favourite foods
September 26th, 2008
Butternut squash soup
Isn’t food brilliant? Can’t get enough of it. It’s a damn good job that eating, something you have to do so you don’t die, is also something that can be so pleasurable. Other than overcooked liver in school, the time I mistook taramasalata for strawberry ice cream, and the times when my mother deceitfully tried to sneak parsnips into my dinner when I was a child by disguising them as chips, eating has been a favourite hobby for most of my life.
Some favourite foods, and where I might get them:
- English sausages, buttery mashed potato and thick caramelised onion gravy with peas (home)
- Roast pork, apple sauce, roast and mashed potatoes, veg (home or the Funky Munky, Siem Reap)
- Chicken nuggets (Soria Moria, Siem Reap)
- Double bacon and guacamole burger, coleslaw, chips and onion rings (Wilde’s, York)
- Khmer fish amok or curry with big chunks of potato and carrot (Paper Tiger or Khmer Kitchen, Siem Reap)
- Rotisserie chicken in a crisp baguette with lashings of mayonnaise (Sainsbury’s then home)
- Vietnamese barbecued wild boar and venison eaten with whole lemon grass, salad, and lime pepper dip (small unnamed restaurant in Kon Tum, Vietnam)
- Roasted butternut squash soup with parmesan baked parsnip wedges topped with creme fraiche (home)
- Corn on the cob dripping with butter (home)
- Moules mariniere (home or Belgo)
- Proper fish and chips (Elmsett chip van, Petergate Fisheries in York)
- Risotto (home)
- Argentinian steak with everything (Las Tanjeras, Mendoza)
- Patatas bravas (anywhere they speak Spanish)
- Salt and pepper squid with garlic mayo (practically anywhere)
- Aloo baigan masala (practically anywhere)
- Ben and Jerry’s Caramel Chew Chew ice cream (the shops then home)
- Apple crumble with custard (home)
OK, I have to stop. All I have is an eccles cake and instant coffee.
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Sticky toffee pudding. I had it twice on holiday this weekend (not the same day).
Oh, and if you like Eccles Cakes try Chorley cakes. A bit like Eccles cakes but:
1. They have less flaky/crispy pastry and I think are nicer overall.
2. There wasn’t a Goons character called Chorley (to my very limited knowledge) thus avoiding crap impressions from elderly relatives every time you try and eat said pastry.