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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.