As mentioned many times, I love cooking. Love reading cook books, surfing recipe sites, watching the Food Network, reading cooking blogs, etc. Love all that. I also love cooking for people, LOTS of people. Dinner parties, family suppers, you name it. However, I HATE cooking dinner for myself . Moreover, I hate thinking of something to cook for dinner for myself, so I sometimes just spend time thinking about what I would havefor dinner if I could have anything that I wanted. And then sometimes I cook that, like last night I made myself a spinach, mushroom and goat’s cheese souffle with a mixed green salad. Yummy
But more often I don’t
Last week I asked a some other people that question: if you could have anything you wanted for dinner tonight, what would it be?
here are some of the answers …
my father: Halibut fillets, about an inch thick and pan fried in lots and lots of butter and capers for about five minutes and then five more minutes in a very hot oven, served with spinach and French fried potatoes of the type offered in Le Mas des Oliviers (thick and salted, but not too much). Start the meal with a green salad and delicate vinaigrette and finish with a medium age goat cheese and room temperature Stilton served with a baguette warmed in the oven. The wines would be a Chablis and a Californian red, not too heavy. All this followed by Espresso with a couple of 80% dark chocolate truffles.
my friend Sue: A pile of hot wings with lots of Ranch and 3 or 4 beers!!! Mmmm…and only 5000 or so calories too!
Julia, a new mum: someone to cook it for me (funny, this was a VERY common response!)
my mum: a plate of roasted vegetables on a bed of fresh pasta with goat cheese on top….
my friend Kathleen: Whitefish as DB Bistro Moderne did it three weeks ago for a special – lightly sauteed on a bed of blanched vegetables and white truffle sauce. For the appetizer, beet salad with goat cheese. For dessert, that tequila souffle we had at Chambar (which was AMAZING!).
my brother-in-law, Marcus (a vegetarian): a rib-eye with a side of ribs – ha ha!
and my favourite answer, mainly because she is vegetarian, deathly allergic to eggs and has major lactose issues (and because my mother & I so called it)
my sister, Paula aka Lola’s mum: Eggs Benedict with roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and a side of Rocco’s (owner of our fave restaurant in Montreal) carbonara, and for dessert I would have sugar pie from the Alpine Inn (in the Laurentians) and tartufo!
February 18, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Hmmm…i’d go with a big spinach salad with strawberries and walnuts, then salmon with a side of couscous…and molten lava cake for dessert.
February 20, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Carrots and whiskey.
February 23, 2009 at 5:44 pm
a most interesting combination – any whiskey in particular??
February 23, 2009 at 7:11 am
I’d want an asian chicken salad from Roy’s…
February 24, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I forgot to add artichokes with butter and lemon!!! UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM 🙂
February 24, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Paula – GOOD ONE!!!! and you can actually eat that, sans the butter 🙂