Modern cuisine and your favorite dish(es)!

[marlingardener]

Rajesh, I haven't a hope of finding the ingredients for you Paratha, or Dum biryani, but if you would be so kind as to post recipes, I can at least dream of preparing them! Photos, if possible, would be helpful, too.
I apologize for my ignorance, but would love to learn more about India's cuisine.

 

[alp]

My kind of cuisine

I love thighs most! Yummy!

 

[Silentrunning]

If a restaurant brought something like that French cuisine out to a North Carolina farmer after he had worked hard all day, it would take 10 men to extricate the waiter from the garbage can.

 

[alp]

I'm much better at eating than cooking; plain honest food for us every time; we never visit restaurants or buy take aways.

Hahaha! I thought I heard myself talking!

 

[alp]

If a restaurant brought something like that French cuisine out to a North Carolina farmer after he had worked hard all day, it would take 10 men to extricate the waiter from the garbage can.

I watched another Masterchef episode last night. I nearly burst into tears when this blond girl (only girl in the group of 4) used tons of ingredients and the flavours clashes and received not very favorable comments. A tiny dish with 4 or 5 different flavours and a tiny amount of each ingredient (nearly 20) and invariably garnished with 3 tiny pea-size sauce... Specialisation has gone mad. Only possible in a restaurant for the snobs.

 

[Colin]

Hi,

If a restaurant brought something like that French cuisine out to a North Carolina farmer after he had worked hard all day, it would take 10 men to extricate the waiter from the garbage can.

Well said Silentrunning; the "OFF" button is my favourite when it comes to any food programs; I wouldn't cross the street to meet foul mouthed Gordon Ramsay and he's certainly most unwelcome in our front room on TV but he's a celebrity so it's OK? What a role model he is to youngsters exposed to him.

Supermarket shelves are now packed with food I haven't a clue about; Food is food so why try to turn it into art? I could eat Yorkshire pudding; dumplings and stews the year round and be happy.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

[Silentrunning]

I have a suspicion that the patrons of the fancy restaurants are like the person who pays far too much for a car. They have to say how much they enjoy it and how great it is or people will think they are a fool.

 

[alp]

Some saveurs probably feel intensely rarefied pecking at their dishes.. At that price, they'd better be. £60 for a starter .. I don't think these people have children .. How can you feed a gang of hungry growing kids with those dainties? How can 3 pea-size sauce cure any adolescent hunger pangs!

Give me these any time
Crabs or lobsters

Love these .. Must have a feast like these for my son's wedding .. First, need to find a girl! Hahaha!

 

[Karen May Jones]

One of the UK most revered cooks says that she's not impressed with modern cuisine which probably influenced by the French is served with tiny potions, not enough to lodge in your teeth (good for the teeth!) and yet looks very restrained with tiny drops of balsamic sauce, one piece of fried shallot, one flat cut carrot called carrot STEAK and a tiny blue but stunning borage flower from the garden and the bill comes up to an eye watering amount.. and you have to join a waiting list for months
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What is your IDEAL version of a lovely meal? Share your photos please! Or get one similar to your favorite dish please!

Those first dishes look ridiculous. I would be embarrassed to try to take my first bite of that. I guess I'm unrefined. lol. But that sizzling carrot looked like salmon to me and I was going to comment that it was the only normal dish until I found out it was a fried carrot.
A lovely meal is having a supper with everything ready on the table and not served in separate courses. I think it's called family style in our area. So, roast chicken, roast vegetables, hot or cold pasta, piled up in big bowls for plenty of leftovers. lemonade! Easy on the salt, thank you, Mrs Dash.
Something like:

Not exactly fancy food, but it could be spruced up - but NO vinegar unless it's in the hotsauce

 

[Esther Knapicius]

looks like someone re-discovered an old thread. Awesome.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

As a routine, part of our vacation plans is to bring up Trip Advisor, or open table for the area we will be staying in to get reviews, and make lists of top restaurants, or hidden neighborhood gems. Hate spending my calories at a restaurant with yucky food.

 

[Radish Geek]

I like veggie sticks straight out of the garden with hummus or guacamole.

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

Try feeding him Toad in the Hole instead. If that's not filling enough, don't know what you can do.

But back to the original subject: I eat food, not art. Art is way too expensive and a waste of time and money if you eat it. It's just for egotistical narcissistic snobs. They should donate their excess wealth to something worthwhile and find those foo foo "chefs" a real job.
Andrew Zimmern is my hero when it comes to food. If it's "edible" I'll eat it, however I do a have preferences on a sliding scale. Haven't met anything I won't try yet, except art and sushimi or sushi containing raw fish - just tastes wet to me and I prefer the flavor of fish cooked. Plus, 100 years ago out of a pristine sea an hour ago maybe, but today - are you kidding me! Who knows when and where it came from and what it has been subjected to since. I'm not gambler.

 

[Radish Geek]

You've got a point there, cntrl. Damn shame, too. I really like tuna roll. Fortunately the local Asian buffet carries lots of totally inauthentic sushi.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

You've got a point there, cntrl. Damn shame, too. I really like tuna roll. Fortunately the local Asian buffet carries lots of totally inauthentic sushi.

love a good Yellow Tail. yummy.