Five of my favourite foods, in no particular order:
1. Cheese - I'm a vegetarian, but could never be a vegan and the reason for that is cheese. I usually have at least 3 or 4 kinds of cheese in the fridge at any one time and my current total is 7. I don't really have a favourite, more like lots of favourites depending on what I'm making, the only exception being that I'm not a big fan of the blue stuff.
2. Beer - if beer doesn't count as a food, it really ought to. Like many teenagers, I started drinking at an early age and for a while I drank cider - I was only really introduced to beer (and by 'beer', I mean real ale) a few years later. I was lucky I grew up near a good brewery, then had the chance to try more things at university, and finally have had the good fortune to have settled in what is currently considered to be England's real ale capital. My current pint of choice? Derby Brewing Company's Business as Usual.
3. Eggs Benedict - I rarely have this, because I'm usually too lazy to make Hollandaise sauce, but it's a favourite of mine. I've also had the kind with guacamole, which is always going to be good because I love avocados and chilli.
4. Pasta - again, a major love for me, also a staple of vegetarian life. My particular favourite is a wholemeal one of the shape called mafalda corta, which the supermarket does good deals on every so often at which point I end up buying 5 or 6 bags of it.
5. Pretty much any kind of curry, as long as it's vegetarian. Once, this used to be mixed veg in curry sauce (meh) but now it can be all sorts of things. Personally, I eat a lot of dhal, but am also likely to throw whatever I have into a basic curry or alternatively buy something particular (like pumpkin, which makes a great dry curry).
This reminds me a bit of a conversation I had with someone who's a chef but who had only been in the UK for about 10 years - I was telling her about how food used to be back in the 1970's and 1980's (and into the 1990's in some places!). About how my first experience of pasta was tinned ravioli and tinned spaghetti, how I used to only be able to get particular spices in one shop and that when people first started cooking with olive oil they had to buy it from the chemist's rather than the supermarket.
Hard to believe how much things have changed now, isn't it?
1. Cheese - I'm a vegetarian, but could never be a vegan and the reason for that is cheese. I usually have at least 3 or 4 kinds of cheese in the fridge at any one time and my current total is 7. I don't really have a favourite, more like lots of favourites depending on what I'm making, the only exception being that I'm not a big fan of the blue stuff.
2. Beer - if beer doesn't count as a food, it really ought to. Like many teenagers, I started drinking at an early age and for a while I drank cider - I was only really introduced to beer (and by 'beer', I mean real ale) a few years later. I was lucky I grew up near a good brewery, then had the chance to try more things at university, and finally have had the good fortune to have settled in what is currently considered to be England's real ale capital. My current pint of choice? Derby Brewing Company's Business as Usual.
3. Eggs Benedict - I rarely have this, because I'm usually too lazy to make Hollandaise sauce, but it's a favourite of mine. I've also had the kind with guacamole, which is always going to be good because I love avocados and chilli.
4. Pasta - again, a major love for me, also a staple of vegetarian life. My particular favourite is a wholemeal one of the shape called mafalda corta, which the supermarket does good deals on every so often at which point I end up buying 5 or 6 bags of it.
5. Pretty much any kind of curry, as long as it's vegetarian. Once, this used to be mixed veg in curry sauce (meh) but now it can be all sorts of things. Personally, I eat a lot of dhal, but am also likely to throw whatever I have into a basic curry or alternatively buy something particular (like pumpkin, which makes a great dry curry).
This reminds me a bit of a conversation I had with someone who's a chef but who had only been in the UK for about 10 years - I was telling her about how food used to be back in the 1970's and 1980's (and into the 1990's in some places!). About how my first experience of pasta was tinned ravioli and tinned spaghetti, how I used to only be able to get particular spices in one shop and that when people first started cooking with olive oil they had to buy it from the chemist's rather than the supermarket.
Hard to believe how much things have changed now, isn't it?
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