What's the best meals you've had in your life? (ingredient, grilled, fast food)

[riffwraith]

Ralph's BBQ in Weldon, NC (whole mess of stuff)


The Swizzle Inn in Bermuda (Ribs, BB and slaw)

[steiconi]

Originally Posted by gentlearts

Those walleye Friday fish fries in the Midwest were really, really good.

I had walleye just once, in Minnesota. It tasted like the oil was rancid, though the restaurant swore they had just changed it. Does walleye taste rancid, or did the restaurant lie?

I've always assumed the latter, but haven't had a chance to try walleye again.

[gentlearts]

Originally Posted by steiconi

I had walleye just once, in Minnesota. It tasted like the oil was rancid, though the restaurant swore they had just changed it. Does walleye taste rancid, or did the restaurant lie?

I've always assumed the latter, but haven't had a chance to try walleye again.

No, it’s very mild tasting,

[SkyLark2019]

Community sourced meals in Latin America.

It's always farm-to-table, and most of the cooks are experienced.

If you visit Latin America, go eat where the locals eat.

[Charlie&Rose]

Lobster, steamers......with alot of melted butter....and ice cold beer.

[kyle19125]

My dad's Delmonico Steaks from the local butcher cooked over the charcoal grill to a perfect medium, circa late 1960s-early 1970s.

[TaxPhd]

Originally Posted by Threerun

Chesapeake blue crabs steamed and doused with Old Bay, roasted bay oysters with hot sauce and copious amounts of cheap beer.

All on a wooden picnic table covered in newspaper, wooden mallets and bowls of melted butter and cider vinegar.

Heaven.

There are a few reasons I miss living in the south.

[LittleDolphin]

Am I just a simple gal?

Just had a brick-oven baked pizza from our fav local place.

Pizza had on it: Speck (wonderful, smoky flavor), caramelized red onions, very flavorful fresh mushrooms, and several kinds of quality cheese--not too, too much--and not the stretchy, plastic-y kind used by the pizza chains.

Perfect spices.

And I don't know what they do with their crust, but it was sublime--flavored with olive oil and maybe some sea salt..just a bit.

Bliss...they call this pizza variety their Speckinwolf.

[twinkletwinkle22]

Niagara Falls, Canadian side.
We were staying in a big hotel I booked because the restaurant faced the Falls which were lit beautifully at night in rainbow colors. I cannot remember the name of the hotel.

I had a baked chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and some vegetable. It was absolutely the best chicken dinner I ever had and I am from Delmarva where we eat chicken a lot. My husbands meal was also good but I was so in love with mine (the gravy!!) that I asked our waitress to please give my compliments to the chef. The chef (female) came out after that and I got to tell her in person.

Not to offend Canadians but we have travelled many places in Canada, eaten a lot of very mundane Canadian food and I can only hope this chef's superb cooking was appreciated by others.

An example of the usual food was dinner in another city where I asked for oil and vinegar as my salad dressing and they brought some vegetable oil and WHITE vinegar to the table.

My other memorable meal was 50 years ago in New York City where I had escargot for the first time at a French restaurant. Swoon. No memory of what entree I had.

I love to cook now that retirement gives me time to do it well. It's not about how expensive something is, it's about quality and freshness and how the food is handled from beginning to end.

[burdell]

I didn't really appreciate it at the time but likely Sunday dinners at my Dad's parents' house. My Grandparents were Ukrainian. Grams was a genius, she cooked on an old cast ion stove with no dials, bells or whistles, everything depended on how you tended the fire and placed the pots and she'd deliver a feast of delicious Eastern European foods.