Further to that food meme, several people on my flist have made cogent critiques of what was in it and the basis for selection, and that one might include other things or set different criteria.

And I have been thinking of meals I remember which would probably not make it onto any list of 'gourmet/exotic things I have eaten', but were exactly the ( Read more... )

After making delicious pheasant and apricot pilaff yesterday, I have been thinking about leftovers and the various dishes that one can make with them which are delicious but which one would not, normally, make unless one had the leftover wherewith to make it. Though I think somewhere in one of Elizabeth David's books she gives a recipe that some ( Read more... )