Food and Drinks You love! (both restaurants and home cooked)

[tastegw]

Fast Food & Restaurants:
Bojangle's - Fried Chicken (dark meat only), Fries and Dirty Rice + Sweet Tea
Popeyes - Friend Chicken (mild dark meat only), nothing else is good here.
Burger King - Original Chicken Sandwich
McDonald's - Sweet Tea
Chick-Fil-A - Number 1
Sonic - Tots
Smithfield's - Just about anything here

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Home Cooked:
Grilled Steaks - T-bone / Porterhouse, Rib-eye and NY Strip
Salad - Lettuce, green pepper, tomato, raisins, bacon, cucumbers and carrots /w either French, Catalina or Italian dressing
Fish - Grilled or Fried Speckled Trout, Cat Fish or Flounder (speckled trout is salt water)
Spaghetti
Hamburgers on the grill - with or without cheese
Veggies - :::Raw: Cucumber, Green Pepper, Green Bean, Carrot ::: Cooked: Lima Beans
Seafood - Boiled Crab Legs and Shrimp cooked in any way
Chicken - Baked, Fried, Barbecue'd, Boiled /w rice, or any other way that is done, its hard to screw up some chicken.
Good ol Fashioned PB&J - strawberry or peach
Tomato Sandwiches - 2 slices of bread + sliced fresh tomato's + miracle whip + lots of black pepper


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Deserts:
Yellow Cake /w Choc Frosting
Upside down Pineapple Cake
Cheesecake
Apple Pie

Food and Drinks I do not like and will not consume under any circumstances:
Most Beers, All Champagne's / Wines, Clear Liquors Straight
Salmon served any way possible, all other types of red fish as well
Squash of any variety or anything even remotely close to looking like a damn'd squash
Celery, its a shame i do not like this, its very healthy
Cheese by itself,  also will not put Cheddar Cheese on anything.
Cottage Cheese, just wtf is that? it looks disgusting.
Pumpkin Pie
Cranberry Sauce
Flavored Water
Kiwi anything
Avocado anything
Sushi
Boiled Okra (fried okra is great)

Man am I a healthy eater or what!

[nevadaballin]

I cook quite a bit. I can't list any fast food joints as favorites, they are just convenience when we go there. Wendy's, Awful Awful and In and Out have the best cheeseburger though. Pizza is in this category too unless i make my own.

I bought a set of cookware from Gotham Steel (yea, that commercial) and it's the best I've ever purchased. They are as advertised. So good in fact that i boxed up all my other pots & pans except for an iron skillet and a large pasta pot and put them in the garage. I cannot recommend them enough. Don't just buy the one pan on TV. Go to their website and purchase the set.

My next purchase will be a pasta attachment for my Kitchen-Aid. I need to have that.

My favorite recipe I have is hot cheez-its fried chicken/pork chops. Instead of flour I pulverize a box of hot cheez-its and use that with other seasonings. Short list of other stuff I make pretty regularly:

Grilled meats, mostly beef steaks and chicken. All about the seasonings here.
Beef and pork roasts in the crock pot
Baked cheese manicotti
Stuffed chicken breasts in a parmesan alfredo sauce
Potato croquettes
Bad ass garlic mashed potatoes (Kitchen-Aid FTW with this - lump free everytime)
Home made chili over rice topped with shredded cheddar
Omelettes with corned beef hash
Sh1t on a shingle AKA creamed chipped beef on toast.
Taylor Ham AKA pork roll with ANYTHING!!!!

I'll be attempting to make Beef Wellington for the first time for Christmas dinner this year. We'll see how that goes.

Drinks, mostly diet coke. Sometimes with some Captain Morgan White Rum but not often. Not much of an alcohol person. Iced tea and of course there needs to be coffee when i get up in the morning. The world doesn't exist if there is no coffee.

Desserts - gimme chocolate something and I'm all good.

Stuff I won't eat:
Most seafood - but i love crab cakes and fried shrimp. Canned tuna also. That's as far as i go with seafood.
Venison or any other gamey wildlife
Avocados

I could go on and on with all those lists but those are the main radar things for me.

[joegolferg]

I just survive on craft beers, ales and wine. German wheat beers are liquid food.

[ABU_Bear]

Wings and Beer(preferably craft beer)

[reebdoog]

dangerous subject for me as I like anything that tastes good and doesn't kill me. Don't care what it is really. So I've tried a lot of stuff...
Favorites? Holy crap...um... A really good Pho is just amazing and it's even better if they will give you a bowl of the roasted bone marrow to stir into the broth (Oh yeah!). Love some good ole sashimi and sushi. Pretty much everything that comes out of the water is tasty if prepared well. A good squid salad is killer. Chicago style pizza is freaking awesome. but the number one food of all time is tacos. Holy Moly do I love me some tacos. TAcos any time of day are ok with me. Soft/hard/fried...don't care. I also like em hot n spicy please.

There's too many good foods out there to say what's best though. I hunt so unlike nevada up there gamey doesn't bother me (I brine game first usually so it's not as gamey). Pheasant/turkey/duck/deer/squirrel...whatever (although I don't care for bear...tried it...bleh).

very few things I just flat out don't like. Um... raw tomato all on it's own? No thanks. Broccoli...not a fan but I can eat it. Raw carrots...again not a fan but I can eat em. um... what else...horrible bland casseroles that are basically filler for your belly? No thanks. Such a cop out for cooking and gross.

[pablo]

Interesting question. I'm spanish and we have a couple of notions of food over here. I don't want to sound like a petulant chauvinist, but there are a few spanish dishes that I will introduce you.

For me, my absolute favourite is the potato omelette. It's great because it's simple. It's basic ingredients are eggs, potato and onions. Some people do it without onion, but it's not as tasty. In addition, you can add it a vast array of things. While frying the potatoes and the onion if you add it some peppers it's a killer, or if you use chorizo sausage man, that's heaven:


Another classic of spanish food, very well known all over the place is the paella. But paella is not a dish, it's a way of cooking rice-based dished. The paella is the pan used:


All these preparations of rice are very common on the mediterranean coast of Spain, and it can be prepared with almost any kind of ingredients. My prefered are "Arroz a banda", made with fish and seafood and "Arroz Negro" (Black rice) made with squid ink, which gives it its black colour. The paella dishes are usually served with a typical sauce called All i oli (garlic and oil in catalan). That sauce can also be used with french fried and it's extremely easy to prepare. You only need to chop the garlic really small, and add it to the oil (olive oil, of course ) and then whip it until it gets creamy:



My family comes from Asturias, a region in the northern part of Spain, well known for its filling food. The best example is fabada, a preparation of beans with all kind of meats (raw bacon, chorizo and morcilla sausage, shoulder of pork...) Take a portion and you will know what it is like:



Also very well known are a few of the most iconic products in spanish food, the mentioned aceite de oliva (olive oil) Jamón ibérico (iberian ham) which is the best product I ever try and the huge amount of spanish wines. Almost in every part of Spain there is at least one type of wine. And a few of them are amongst the best wines in the world. There is also another type of product that is very usual in spanish food. The cheese, not as well known as french cheeses, but amongst the (literally) hundreds of varieties of cheese produced in Spain there are some amazingly good ones. Cabrales, Idiazabal, Torta del Casar, Mahón are a few of them. And if you can, I suggest you try them.

Man, I'm hungry

[reebdoog]

I've had them. Love em. I make the first often (Spanish tortilla). The ham you mentioned is freaking legit awesome too. Been years since I had it though.