March 22nd, 2007
In no particular order…
- Green Thai Curry with beef
- Honey Garlic Pork – we have to order two of these because everyone in our family loves it.
- Bacon – not just any bacon though, it’s a Martha Stewart recipe that was first made for me by a friend and now I cannot have bacon any other way. It has brown sugar and pepper on it. It’ll make you fall in love. I promise. :love:
- Biscuits – not so easy to get in Canada, at least not in Western Canada. We don’t have biscuit McMuffins at McDonald’s up here. Ours are served with English Muffins. However, recently Tim Hortons came up with a breakfast sandwich with a biscuit. It’s amazing.
- Greek Salad – especially when it has lots of feta and really good tomatoes.
- Caprese Salad – basically boconcini (sp?) and tomatoes with basil, sweet onions and drizzles of olive oil and balsamic (I think there can be different combinations but this is the one I adore).
– ok technically I know that coffee is a beverage but to me it is food since it’s the first thing I have when I wake up. It sustains me, therefore I feel it belongs in this category. 
- Purdy’s English Toffee – this is like the chocolate to end all chocolates for me. Any occassion where I get this is a good one. I even made something similar for my wedding favours, although I used almonds. It took me a lot of months to make enough and people were trying to steal it from each other at the wedding. I haven’t made it since. It’s easier (albeit more expensive) to just buy it from Purdy’s.
- Burritos – well, really any Mexican food but I guess burritos are my favourite. Wait, no, maybe tacos, hmm…Well anyway, we generally make our own at home but when Taco Bell opened up here I was very happy. Most of our Canadian taco places aren’t as good. Although, Taco Del Mar, recently opened up near us and they are good. Very large burritos and you can get pork mole filling.
- Mushrooms Neptune at the Keg
- Ooey Gooey Cupcakes – we don’t make them often and apparently they started as an Emeril Lagasse recipe but these ooey gooey cupcakes are the best ever. They are chocolate with cream cheese and chocolate chips in the centre and ganache over top.
- Salmon – could nature make a more perfect food? I don’t think so.
- Lobster – my absolute favourite thing in the entire world. The one thing I had to have when pregnant with each of my children. A whole lobster with butter and a bib. That’s my idea of heaven on a plate. O
Its a good thing I just had lunch-otherwise today’s shopping trip would have been CRAZY! Great, delicious list!
by RG March 22nd, 2007 at 9:37 am ♦OH MAN…I LOVE me some good biscuits. And I love salmon, too–it’s such great fish! I love it barbequed and grilled…mmmmmmm
by Rhonda March 22nd, 2007 at 10:48 am ♦OOh, another woman who loves and knows food.
by Jennifer Bianco March 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 am ♦I adore salmon, and the funny thing is I use to hate it. I don’t know what changed, but now we eat it often-ish. My son (5) even adores it.
Curry is simply delish, biscuits are comfort… I could talk about food all day long…and it shows.
I have a yummy recipe for biscuits if you’re ever interested. And it’s not hard to make.
Shonna
by Shonna Brannon March 22nd, 2007 at 11:38 am ♦Mmmm…sausage biscuit, no egg, with hash browns. *slurp*
And what’s ganache?
by Shannon Stacey March 22nd, 2007 at 11:41 am ♦Amen to coffee as a food–but I’ll pass on lobster. I just don’t care for it at all (although everyone else in the house loves it).
by Joely March 22nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm ♦Ganache is a mixture of heavy whipping cream and chocolate. You pour it warm over cakes and suck and it makes a nice smooth layer that stiffens a little when it cools. Those cupcakes sound outrageous!
Happy TT!
by Kate Willoughby March 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 pm ♦My family could eat bacon and biscuits all day every day if I made them. They’re a lot of work! I’ll have to try the brown sugar idea with pepper.
by Kissa Starling March 22nd, 2007 at 1:58 pm ♦:foodsmiley: Coffee? Darling, that’s not a beverage or a food: it’s the elixir of life! Thanks for making me hungry…
by Gina March 22nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm ♦Yes coffee is a food! It has to be because that’s all I seem to have some days.
by Christine d'Abo March 22nd, 2007 at 4:09 pm ♦Green Thai Curry. Mmmm………..
by Keziah Hill March 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 pm ♦Mmmm…I might have to try this ganache stuff. Yummy.
by Shannon Stacey March 23rd, 2007 at 2:56 am ♦Share the recipe for ooey gooey cupcakes. Are they like blackbottom cupcakes? (chocolate cake batter with cream cheese filling and baked?)
Otherwise I’ll throw severed hands at you.
PS I did check your blog for a TT before you commented, then I came back to check after you commented. Should have refreshed, I supposed.
by May March 23rd, 2007 at 3:45 am ♦You’re going to drive me to leave my bed and cook!
by Karen March 23rd, 2007 at 4:29 am ♦Maybe some bacon and biscuits…
Hmmm! I just tried Tim’s breakfast sandwich for the first time last week. Yum yum!!
by Elle Fredrix March 23rd, 2007 at 5:47 am ♦Ohhhhh my! Now all I want is a cupcake! Chocolate with lots of really good whipped icing! :love:
Happy TT!
And great list! I love food lists!
by Victoria Krain March 23rd, 2007 at 5:54 am ♦LOL – Thanks everyone. I guess we’ve now proven that coffee is a needed item in our food groups! :foodsmiley:
Shannon – you really should try it. It’s easy to make, you just have to watch it so it doesn’t get too hot and burn but it is very versatile. And oh so yummy.
May – I’ll send you the recipe. I think I can even link to it. Yes, you pour batter in the bottom, then the cream cheese filling, and bake. You leave a couple of the wells empty and have water in them. I think it helps the batter steam or something.
OK – I might have to go make that bacon…I should post the link to that recipe too!
by Michelle March 23rd, 2007 at 7:26 am ♦OK – everyone, I’ve added the links for the bacon and ooey gooey chocolate cupcake recipes. I should have done that in the first place :smirk:
by Michelle March 23rd, 2007 at 7:29 am ♦Yummm lobster. I can’t imagine not being able to get biscuts lol.
by Loribelle Hunt March 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 am ♦Mmmm, you can feed me any time. :cheekysmiley: *goes to look at recipes*
by Immi March 23rd, 2007 at 9:07 am ♦And what do you call biscuits? Here, biscuits are thin, sweet, crisp round things good for dipping in coffee. What Americans call cookies. But seeing as you’re talking about them with McDonalds breakfasts I’m thinking you mean something different?
Immi
x
OH yeah, Joely, how can you not like lobster?
It is my dream food. Ahh if only it didn’t cost so much.
Loribelle – I wish we could get biscuits here. We used to have a place called Popeye’s (not sure why since it didn’t have any correlation to the cartoon) that sold biscuits on their own, along with jambalaya and other Southern-type foods (eg fried chicken). They closed down but man did I love their biscuits. We used to buy a dozen and they’d pretty much be gone before we got home. I just cannot make them as well (will have to hit Shonna up for her recipe).
Immi – biscuits in this case aren’t cookies. They are made with flour, baking soda and often buttermilk. They rize slightly. They are very different from our English Muffins and crumpets. You bite into them and they (should) melt in your mouth. :cheekysmiley:
by Michelle March 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 am ♦Hmm, interesting.
I’m not such a fan of lobster either. I got it once for my partner’s birthday, and when it was on the plate I just kept thinking it looked like a big cooked insect.
Which, you know, it kind of *is*.
I love love love crab, though, although again I prefer it all prepared so it no longer looks like a giant spider that – eugh – I’m considering eating.
And I’m so with you on the coffee. Coffee… :cheekysmiley:
by Immi March 23rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm ♦MG! I love the look of your blog!
Must disagree with you on the coffee, though. Coffee … bleh … you are welcome to all of mine!
by Debbie Mumford March 23rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm ♦Coffeeeeeeeeeeeee. Bacon……. Thai…….. hungry……
by Rhian March 25th, 2007 at 3:21 pm ♦I love bacon, which is a probem as am trying to be a vegetarian.
by Emily Veinglory March 26th, 2007 at 4:33 pm ♦