This is what I snack on when playing ESO

Eggs, in all their wonderful permutations. The classic scrambled/fried/poached/hard-boiled are all delicious, but then you can branch out into custards, quiches, bakes, omelets, etc.

Then there is hollandaise sauce, surely invented by none other than our own Sanguine. That's right, a sauce that consists almost entirely of eggs and butter... and it actually tastes better than it sounds.

Once you reach hollandaise you are left with nowhere to go but up:



Eggs with egg sauce, and a little pork thown in for good measure. Does not get any better.

A fillet of long pork in a light balsamic sauce with a liver pate

I forgot to mention coffee. Not supermarket coffee; that stuff's awful.

I mean real coffee that you have to order on special consignment from a supplier in a country where the really good coffee beans are grown. Really good coffee beans include:

Jamaica Blue Mountain
Ethiopian Harrar
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe
Zimbabwe AA
Brazilian Santos

When you have had good coffee, you'll wonder why anybody drinks that overhyped swill from the supermarket. It makes a cup that tastes like it was brewed from floor sweepings: harsh in the mouth, with an aftertaste redolent of charcoal. Supermarket coffee isn't really consumed for its flavor. No, it's drunk by people desperate to wake up so they can go to their jobs reasonably alert. If it weren't for supermarket coffee, married couples would need to slap each other in the face every morning to achieve the same results.

But good coffee does exist. You just have to know where to get it.

My favorite food is....your mom

wldkarde wrote: »

Great bunch of pictures @UrQuan must say I'm impressed...and now quite hungry

While I can understand that seafood might not be for everyone, as a fellow Pacific Northwest person I hope that doesn't include Dungeness crab.

Of course I guess if your not a crab person either....that just leaves MORE for me

Actually, crab is the only food that I know I'm allergic to. So no crab for me! Actually every year some friends and I go down to Seattle for a convention, and when we're there one of my friends always insists on going to the Crab Pot down on the pier one night. So every time there'll be everyone else digging in to piles of crab, while I'm eating the crappy chicken or crappy pasta

UrQuan wrote: »

Actually, crab is the only food that I know I'm allergic to.

Sorry to hear that

Then again with your cooking skills, it doesn't look like leaving seafood off of the menu has slowed you down one bit.

BTW, whatever happened to your plans for a "Tamriel" cook-off? Those are the pictures I really want to see

Pizza hands down lol wit a close second being chicken parm.

wayfarerx wrote: »

Eggs, in all their wonderful permutations. The classic scrambled/fried/poached/hard-boiled are all delicious, but then you can branch out into custards, quiches, bakes, omelets, etc.

Then there is hollandaise sauce, surely invented by none other than our own Sanguine. That's right, a sauce that consists almost entirely of eggs and butter... and it actually tastes better than it sounds.

Once you reach hollandaise you are left with nowhere to go but up:



Eggs with egg sauce, and a little pork thown in for good measure. Does not get any better.

There's a place here in Salt Lake that makes an amazing Benedict, Original Pancake House. They use super thin shaved ham and get a little char on it and I can't emphasize enough how awesome it is.

I really shouldn't have looked at this thread while I'm hungry

My second favorite food is anything made at @UrQuan 's place.

Anything with garlic and/or onions mixed in I love that stuff my friends complain because I always get extra ...but I hate seafood. I also love popcorn and junk food DDs chicken ranch sandwich with bacon is great. also steak and cheese from the local sandwich shop that is within walking distance

I'm not educated chef or in any way working at a restaurant, but I love cooking as a hobby base. Cakes, dinner, desserts, lunch, brunch, breakfast; you name it, I cook it.

So I'll just divide it a bit into categories in terms of favourite food to make and eat.

Starter

Good choices here for me, you can go with something as simple as prunes wrapped in slices of bacon, backed in the oven for 10-15 min. The sweet tang of the prune combined with the salty smoke taste of the bacon, delicious. Stick a wooden pin to hold the back together while baking.

Another starter I love, is smoked whale meet with diced red onion, flat bread and sour cream. Simply amazing, and really easy as well as the smoked whale meet is already ready to eat and only need to be sliced.

And finally; soup. I think that fish soup - made out of good portions of fish - is a proper good starter if you're going for meet as a main. Cook the soup stock, steam boil the fish, and add some thinly grated carrots to top of. Can also be topped with some shrimps. Yummi.

Main

Oh dear, this is where I spend most of my time, as I normally don't make starters that often. I might cook up some fish soup, but it often ends up becoming the main dinner anyway

What to serve here? Loads of options that I love to make, Sheppard's pie (or mostly Cottage pie since minced lamb meet isn't that easily obtained here and getting hold of good lamb meet off season isn't that easy), Lasagne, Chicken Tika masala, various curries, chilli dishes (served with tortilla chips and sour cream), fish cakes with sandefjord butter and mashed potatoes.

Now I mentioned whale meet at the starters but I'll mention it here as well; I love whale meet. It's one of the best meets you can get your hands on. It's sort of gamey taste to it but stronger. And at the subject of game (meet); Finnbiff stew, which is basically meet of reindeer or caribou (no Rudofls have been harmed in the making of this dish), vegetables (such as mushrooms) and a thick gravy consisting of juniper berries, water, meet stock and sour cream. Served with mash potatoes and mountain cranberry jam. Gargh, getting water in my mouth thinking about it

Desserts

This is an area I love, who doesn't love desserts? My personal favourite is home made vanilla ice cream and brownies. But I also boil up some caramel pudding (with home made caramel sauce of course), Panna cotta, Creme brullee, crumble pie with blue berries or strawberries (preferably wild grown, I live in an area with a LOT of woodlands and outlands to choose from for fishing and hunting).

And of course; Yes I'm a coffee lover. I'm basically as bad as a dragon in the morning prior to my mug of black magic, it's so bad that while I worked at a hotel and had to start at 7 a.m in the morning, my colleges avoided asking me question until they were sure there was at least 1 mug of coffee in me. Even some of my regulars that stayed often at the hotel mentioned they noticed my before and after coffee mood. Without coffee, there's nothing that works. And I'm not that fancy about what coffee beans and such, though I do like trying different coffee types, but any regular black beaned coffee works for me. As long as there's caffeine to be had, I'm happy