Question thee first.

[changeling]

insanitytheory
My ideal meal. Hmm....

First entree: vietnamese rice paper rolls. Yummy.

Next is the soup. I choose chicken and corn soup; the one where the chicken is still visible as little stringy bits, and the soup isn't as opaque as normal chicken soups. I've had pumpkin soup a little too much recently, and C&C is slightly lighter, leaving room for later.

For the final entree, I choose the standard three-dip thing they serve in Mexican restaurants: guacamole (lessthanthree for guacamole!), bean dip, and chili con carne dip. I'm less than enamoured with bean dip, but it's not bad, and hey, the ideal meal would be shared with other people, right? Also, instead of your standard dodgy-Mexican-restaurant-half-stale corn chips, we'd have lovely crisp ones. With lots of salt.

Phew. I should have been born about a hundred years ago... but then, no Mexican or Vietnamese food. :(

So. On to main course.

I propose a chicken extravaganza: chicken with cashew nuts (ala restaurants. You know the one, with the comparatively bland sauce. So much love for chickenwithcashews), chicken tacos (I only ever have them at restaurants, thus making them special), Chris' chicken shepherd's pie (the only one I'll eat, because he puts curry powder, and lots of mushrooms, and breadcrumbs or similar instead of cheese), and maybe even a small serving of veal parmigiana. Which isn't chicken. Let's pretend that you didn't notice that.

On the side: the yummy spicy rice you get at my local Mexican place, or maybe the stuff you get at Nando's (the spicy rice I make is just never the same); roast pumpkin and potatoes; corn, zucchini and carrots cooked with rosemary, and some of those scalloped potatoes.

Never say I do things by halves.

Finally, and somewhat importantly: dessert. I propose mousse. Lashings thereof. Toblerone chocolate mousse (milk chocolate) and strawberry. Maybe a bit of vanilla icecream as an aside.

Then we shall all retreat into the drawing room, where we shall have absinthe.


Mmm. My mouth is watering in anticipation.

Comments

[nys.livejournal.com]

"You'll be dead!" Said in vaguely tripod-like fashion. sorry popped into my mind.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

After all that, it's possible. *grins*

[insanity-theory.livejournal.com]

damn, you've made my mouth water *wipes droolings with napkin*
10 points for the awesome answer :) you definetely don't do things by halves! :D

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*bows* Thank you.

I want that meal. I want it so much...

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[insanity-theory.livejournal.com]

*LOL* it'd probably be possible...but DAMN that'd have to be a team effort!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Definitely.

I now crave rice paper rolls. They take stupid amounts of preparation. *sulks*

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[insanity-theory.livejournal.com]

rice paper rolls? naaah, so easy! i guess the chopping of vegetables and stuff can get tedious :/ but it depends what u like in them? What ingredients do u use?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I chop veges as I go. I just find that making & eating them takes at least a good hour, which I don't really have. I should go to bed.

I have whatever's around. Cucumber if I can (though I usually skin it, as that can poke through), grated carrot (less likely to damage rolls, again), some random cold meat, ham or whatever. Mebbe some lettuce. Vermicelli to bulk it out if it's the big sort of paper.

It's the sauce I love. Mine is a bastardisation of the one I was originally given the recipe for, because I forgot some ingredients, or didn't have them. I have approximately equal parts of red wine vinegar, sesame oil and soy sauce, plus crushed garlic (I use the jarred stuff).

[ishara.livejournal.com]

i am invited to this banquet, right?

(oh, btw, i make an awsome chinese chicken and corn soup)

[ishara.livejournal.com]

-and- I make the best kahlua mousse pie you'll ever taste...

ohh, and there's this coctail you can get at montezumas... it's a mixture of kahlua, tia maria, bailies, and frangelico, with a bit of milk, icecream, and the glass is drenched chocolate syrup.. oh baby, oh, baby oh... ;) I think it's more like a dessert than a beverage though ;)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Haven't come across a kahlua mousse pie before...

Wow, that sounds pretty cool. I know there's a nifty toblerone one, which includes honey... They make it (or made it) at Hideout, on Brunswick St.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

It is, alas, a hypothetical banquet. But yes, you're hypothetically invited!

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Sounds really nice. Plus making that shepherd's pie is fun.

May I suggest lemon couscous as a side? Works really well, particularly with a strongly flavoured main . . .

You should have 15 different varieties of chocolate mousse for dessert!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I've never had couscous, lemon or otherwise, so I can't say.

But toblerone chocolate mousse is The One!

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Couscous is nice stuff. Ridiculously easy to prepare, too, and I reckon it goes very well with chicken (particularly saucy marinated chicken).

Toblerone chocolate mousse is nice. I make one myself and have tasted a few, but there are dozens of recipes out there . . . I personally can make 4 completely different ones or so, depending on what ingredients I have etc.

Anyway, I'm a big fan of dark chocolate without too much sugar added to it, so our tastes probably differ on the whole mousse thing ;-)

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I like dark chocolate in the right setting, not all the time. I find milk chocolate smoother on the palate.