The best thing you EVER ate?

[Mara]

I have been obsessed with Food Network lately and we keep seeing this commercial for 'The Best Thing You Ever Ate' where celeb FN people talk about the best thing they have ever eaten.

Which led Greg and I to ask each other ...what is the best thing you EVER ate?

This was over a week ago and neither of us have ONE answer yet. Which made me wonder...is this typical? Does this mean we have too many favorites?

So what's the best thing you EVER ate?? And if you can't think of one, top 3??

 

[MichelleCarmen]

THE best food EVER? This is a question I will have to think long and hard about for a few days before I can answer! lol I'm betting at least one of the top-three will involve chocolate.

 

[Diamond*Dana]

Date: 1/27/2010 9:44:27 PM
Author: MC
THE best food EVER? This is a question I will have to think long and hard about for a few days before I can answer! lol I''m betting at least one of the top-three will involve chocolate.

I will have to give this some thought...but yeah, definitely chocolate something or other.

 

[wsu12]

Love this thread! I have to think about the best single thing, however I am sure it will be of the cheese variety!

The best meal on the other hand, that''s easy:
http://www.spondi.gr/

(2 Michelin stars on our Honeymoon in Athens...With Wine pairings). ::Licks Lips::

 

[Matata]

8 mos ago in Spain we had a dish in a tiny Basque village that is my current #1 best thing. I don''t remember what it was called. It''s served in 2 courses; first course is a simple chicken broth with noodles. Second course is what they call the "stuffing" of the soup -- several varieties of beans, sausages that were made in the mountains outside the village, some green vegie I''d never seen, potatoes, onions, garlic...it was so good we ordered two family size portions for 4 people and ate until we hurt. We had it for dinner 3 nights in a row. I think it was so delicious because everything in the soup was grown locally. I don''t usually eat meat but we were fighting over the sausages.

 

[oobiecoo]

I''d have to say that the entire meal I had at a wine tasting is probably in my top foods ever. I don''t remember the menu exactly but it was something like bison w/a cherry sauce, amazing risotto with truffles maybe?, and the only other part I remember was some sort of shrimp with a fancy cracker type thing. I think there were 4 or 5 courses though... definitely one of the best meals of my life!

 

[hlmr]

Hi Mara:

Just wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a safe and speedy delivery!!

The best thing I ever remember eating was a spinach risotto dish in northern Italy. I still dream about it 20 years later!!

 

[yssie]

The cup of hot ramen noodles and warm fresh-off-the-stove toasted cheese sandwich I had on my way home after camping for two weeks..!

 

[vespergirl]

Braised short ribs cooked sous vide style at Citronelle.

 

[rockzilla]

Truffle ravioli at this place called osteria de giovanni in florence!

 

[Apsara]

My mom''s homemade rigatoni & meat sauce, served piping hot & al dente after a long day of high school and cheerleading practice.

 

[wsu12]

Date: 1/27/2010 10:02:50 PM
Author: rockzilla
Truffle ravioli at this place called osteria de giovanni in florence!

I don''t think there is a bad meal to be had in Florence. Such wonderful food!

 

[Mara]

oooh, interesting how many people have a meal from another country as their option. Or down-home cooking...yummy.

I just asked Greg again and he says probably this Roasted Lamb he had in a restaurant in Madrid this summer, cooked in a 400 year old oven. He also loved the roasted chicken I had there, it was def one of the best.

me...jury is still out.

 

[Circe]

The Modern, MOMA''s fancy restaurant, has the most incredible food I''ve ever had in my life.

Close second? A really fancy Chinese restaurant in San Francisco (you''re in SF, right Mara?) called ... John Tong''s? Something like that. V. swank, and they had a shrimp and vanilla dish that *sounded* awful, but just melted in your mouth ... yum. I get hungry just thinking about it.

 

[emeraldlover1]

Date: 1/27/2010 9:51:05 PM
Author: fsu1227
Love this thread! I have to think about the best single thing, however I am sure it will be of the cheese variety!

The best meal on the other hand, that''s easy:
http://www.spondi.gr/

(2 Michelin stars on our Honeymoon in Athens...With Wine pairings). ::Licks Lips::

ME TOO! We had the best meal ever in Athen''s even though we were only there for two days. http://www.dionysoszonars.gr/ I think this is the place.

 

[Rachel9]

This is not too hard for me.........definitely food from Treviso!

1] Bruscandoi [risotto with wild asparragus]

2] unripened casatella cheese

with rustic fresh bread and some light O-Oil & Balsamic
3] TIRAMISÙ -the real deal.

 

[Kaleigh]

In Florence there was this little restaurant that was in a basement. No menu. It was huge with the locals, we had steak in a tomato sauce that was To Die for....

Mara, Ash went to an Italian restaurant in Philly that was featured on this show. I am dying to get the name of it from her. She was soooo excited to go and try it, had waited a long time for a res. She and her friends are really into good food.

 

[upgrade]

The Pavlova I had on my honeymoon in Jamaica... to die for!

A close second though would be the toast and tea the nurses made me after I delivered my first child... I was exhausted and starving and WOW did it hit the spot!

 

[iheartscience]

I''d have to say it was an INSANELY delicious Argentinean steak I had at a restaurant in Costa Rica. It was so perfectly cooked and had this incredible sauce that was peppery and perfect and delicious. And then I finished it up with a ridiculously delicious chocolate mousse at the same restaurant.

 

[ForteKitty]

A Carne asada burrito from Carnitas Michoacan, located in a not-so-great area in L.A., Northeast corner of 19th St. and Broadway.

They start by warming the tortillas on the grill, then they add this fried rice, almost like a chinese fried rice, w/ tiny diced carrots, onions, and peas. I get mine w/o beans tho... i dont like mushy stuff. Then they drizzle this AMAZING chili sauce that has a hint of roasted black beans... it's so good that I usually buy a large soda cup full to take home. It goes great w/ the chinese food I eat at home. Best of all, they do something absolutely magical to their carne asada. I swear it's marinaded in crack. It's THAT good.

Back in college, after a weekend at home, I used to take the train from Union Station to San Diego. Before every train ride, I would stop and buy 21 burritos. one for each meal, every day of the week. After a few times, the guy would see me, and immediately slap a stack of tortillas on the grill.

Local LA folks should seriously try it out... just dont go there after sunset. It's not in a safe neighborhood. During the day, there are plenty of downtown business folks who go there for lunch.

ETA: My second fav is fresh salmon sashimi, w/ a bit of ponzu sauce. Third would be the butternut squash soup from a small French restaurant in Waterville, NY (upstate). They are only open a few months out of the year. Rest of the time they live in the south of France!

 

[Smurfysmiles]

1. red velvet cheesecake from cheesecake factory
2. me and dh''s special spaghetti sauce (I don''t get it often so we don''t get sick of it)
3. cotton candy ski jump from maggie moo''s

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 1/27/2010 10:17:58 PM
Author: Mara
oooh, interesting how many people have a meal from another country as their option. Or down-home cooking...yummy.

I just asked Greg again and he says probably this Roasted Lamb he had in a restaurant in Madrid this summer, cooked in a 400 year old oven. He also loved the roasted chicken I had there, it was def one of the best.

me...jury is still out.

not your cupcakes???

 

[FrekeChild]

I have had many many many great dishes, but the first thing that sprang to mind was...

...a turkey sandwich.

But it wasn''t JUST a turkey sandwich. It was October 2003 and my parents and I had just toured the grounds of The Culinary Institute of America. October in NY on the Hudson can be really really cold, and this one was. So we had wandered around the campus, this mecca of food where celebrity chefs are common sighting and often even instructors, and we had seen what we needed to see. But we were hungry and didn''t make reservations at any of the restaurants.

So we went to the Apple Pie Bakery Cafe, which is NOT staffed by professionals, and not by aspiring chefs, but by aspiring pastry chefs. The sandwich was thinly sliced roasted local Hudson Valley turkey (not the processed stuff that comes in a big log), with smoked applewood bacon (also local), heirloom tomatoes (also local), freshly made herbed mayonnaise, on a freshly made sliced wheat bread with pumpkin seeds. At The CIA, you aren''t going to get Ruffles potato chips as a side. The side that came with the turkey soup was the most incredibly velvety fresh (and again, local) cream of mushroom soup. That stuff that comes in a can might as well be inedible pig slop compared the absolutely exquisite creation that was that soup. The simplicity of the ingredients and the preparation and the perfect meld of ingredients put me into a trance, and all I remember of that meal was taking each bite and savoring it...

 

[loriken214]

My most favorite, lately, is a filet cooked medium rare from Pappas Grill. It melts in your mouth and I crave one often, but do not indulge very much.

All time favorite is cheese enchiladas from El Jarrito Mexican Restaurant here in Katy. Love their rice, too.

Oh, we have a new Mexican restaurant that just opened near us, El Rancho, and I really love their enchiladas Tejadas....awesome!

One more, the chicken fried steak from the Mason Jar.

Lori

 

[Kaleigh]

Date: 1/28/2010 1:09:15 AM
Author: FrekeChild
I have had many many many great dishes, but the first thing that sprang to mind was...

...a turkey sandwich.

But it wasn''t JUST a turkey sandwich. It was October 2003 and my parents and I had just toured the grounds of The Culinary Institute of America. October in NY on the Hudson can be really really cold, and this one was. So we had wandered around the campus, this mecca of food where celebrity chefs are common sighting and often even instructors, and we had seen what we needed to see. But we were hungry and didn''t make reservations at any of the restaurants.

So we went to the Apple Pie Bakery Cafe, which is NOT staffed by professionals, and not by aspiring chefs, but by aspiring pastry chefs. The sandwich was thinly sliced roasted local Hudson Valley turkey (not the processed stuff that comes in a big log), with smoked applewood bacon (also local), heirloom tomatoes (also local), freshly made herbed mayonnaise, on a freshly made sliced wheat bread with pumpkin seeds. At The CIA, you aren''t going to get Ruffles potato chips as a side. The side that came with the turkey soup was the most incredibly velvety fresh (and again, local) cream of mushroom soup. That stuff that comes in a can might as well be inedible pig slop compared the absolutely exquisite creation that was that soup. The simplicity of the ingredients and the preparation and the perfect meld of ingredients put me into a trance, and all I remember of that meal was taking each bite and savoring it...

You should be a food critique... This description has my mouth watering.... YUMMMMM.

 

[MissMina]

It hasn''t happened yet but it''s going to be a Wagyu steak with truffles.

 

[qtiekiki]

Date: 1/28/2010 12:18:07 AM
Author: ForteKitty
A Carne asada burrito from Carnitas Michoacan, located in a not-so-great area in L.A., Northeast corner of 19th St. and Broadway.


They start by warming the tortillas on the grill, then they add this fried rice, almost like a chinese fried rice, w/ tiny diced carrots, onions, and peas. I get mine w/o beans tho... i dont like mushy stuff. Then they drizzle this AMAZING chili sauce that has a hint of roasted black beans... it''s so good that I usually buy a large soda cup full to take home. It goes great w/ the chinese food I eat at home. Best of all, they do something absolutely magical to their carne asada. I swear it''s marinaded in crack. It''s THAT good.


Back in college, after a weekend at home, I used to take the train from Union Station to San Diego. Before every train ride, I would stop and buy 21 burritos. one for each meal, every day of the week. After a few times, the guy would see me, and immediately slap a stack of tortillas on the grill.


Local LA folks should seriously try it out... just dont go there after sunset. It''s not in a safe neighborhood. During the day, there are plenty of downtown business folks who go there for lunch.


ETA: My second fav is fresh salmon sashimi, w/ a bit of ponzu sauce. Third would be the butternut squash soup from a small French restaurant in Waterville, NY (upstate). They are only open a few months out of the year. Rest of the time they live in the south of France!

I am going to try that place. I drive by there pretty often for work.

 

[ANGEL WANTS A HALO]

The best food that I have ever eaten was this one dish my step-father makes. I don''t know what it''s called but it looks exactly like it would be called green chili chicken lasagna lol. Sounds horrible but it is to die for. It has shredded chicken, green chili, philidalphia cream cheese ugh, now I''m making myself hungry lol and now I forgot the rest of the ingredients lol. Yeah but, that is by far the best I have ever tasted.

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

For me, the answer to this is what I crave when I wake in the night and I''m hungry. It''s consistent.

Top 3:
1. Soup I ate in Northern France when I was about 5 years old. No idea what it was, or how it was made, but it was garlicky, rich and delicious

2. Something to do with shellfish and hot cheese - again, I ate it as a child on holiday in France and I have been trying to replicate it or find it again ever since

3. Steak from Champany http://www.champany.com/the-restaurant/ where they have their own beef cattle herd and are very serious about serving the perfect steak. If ever you are in Scotland, please eat steak at Champany (assuming you are not vegetarian).

Jen

 

[bee*]

ooh that''s such a tough one to answer. There are a few I can think of but I''m not sure if they were the best ever. I loved a lunch that I had in Barcelona a few years ago when we got engaged. Also the calamari that I had in a restaurant in Ireland where they only cook what they catch that day was phenomenal. So tasty. There are so many more but I can''t think of them now.