Happy food meme.

[saxikath]

(As opposed to happy food noises. Though not unrelated.)

From ceo: List your top 6 "happy foods". the foods that when you eat them, make you want to do a little dance in your seat. Can be restaurant, junk food, home-made, whatever.

1. My mother's linguine and clams. No tomato sauce and no cream sauce, thank you.
2. Hot, fresh-from-the-oven homemade bread.
3. A grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of soup on a cold day. Preferably for lunch.
4. A gorgeous, vine-ripe, just-picked tomato, by itself or drizzled with basil and olive oil.
5. A really good piece of tuna. (Sushi, or a tuna steak just barely cooked.)
6. A ripe, late-summer peach.

Comments

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

I share numbers 3 and 6 with you [with the addition in the case of #3 that the soup should be Campbell's Cream of Tomato, and that a dill pickle should be supplied on the side to enable one to alternate freely between bites of pickle and bites of sandwich]. To these I would add:

(1) Spaghetti with meat sauce, thickly covered with parmesan cheese

(2) Homemade apple crisp with vanilla ice cream

(4) Rice pudding with cinnamon

(5) Oatmeal with cream and brown sugar, and two slices of peanut-butter-smeared toast on the side.

[crossfire.livejournal.com]

I am SO with you on numbers 2, 3, and 6. There is just nothing better than a late summer peach, is there?

[saxikath]

The only thing that comes close is a pie made from late-summer peaches, topped with vanilla ice cream.

[kelkyag]

Oooh, peaches, sun warmed and straight off the tree, the essence of summer.

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Sax--

My list looks like yours, with some mutations.

My sub in for #1: big ol' handmade gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce, with roasted garlic, roasted red peppers, and fresh-grated romano.

#2: pumpkin bread pudding (aka deep dish french toast) mixed in with: about a pound of butter, some alcoholic beverage, cinnamon, and raisins. If feeling particularly wack, top off with a buttermilk or cream cheese frosting glaze.

Absolutely agree with #3, on potato bread with fontina cheese. And a spicy fruit relish on the side.

#4... too healthful... must leave room... sub in a large bowl of half-soggy Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch with whole milk. Or flat rice noodles with chili oil, caramelized onions, and peanut butter (yup!).

Big yes to #5 (especially seared tuna sushi, with wasabi mayo). I could also sub in a too-tender filet mignon, a rare burger with all the fixins, or spicy pork bulgogi.

My sub in for #6: a perfectly ripe, sweet mango, you know, the kind with the day-glo meat. And in so many formats: au naturel, dipped in bitter chocolate, or in a crisp w/coffee heath bar ice cream...

I'd better get out of here... ;)

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot: my happy dance consists of waving my fork/spoon around like a conductor's baton.

Pooh

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Clearly my food faves are Out of Sync with the US Zeitgeist....