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MissAdventure Tue 25-Aug-20 23:20:15

If you were told you could only eat one dish for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Mine would be either a roast, or a jacket potato with cheese, beans, and probably some coleslaw, too.

Grandson would have just pizza, he says.

Callistemon Tue 25-Aug-20 23:28:05

Probably a roast including a huge selection of vegetables.

But it could be a bit much for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.

Chewbacca Tue 25-Aug-20 23:29:32

Egg and chips.

merlotgran Tue 25-Aug-20 23:31:40

Hard to choose but I think it would be lime and tarragon roast chicken with slices of garlic shoved under the skin and lots of fresh vegetables.

Callistemon Tue 25-Aug-20 23:35:23

Oh, I haven't tried that but I've ordered a chicken and have limes and garlic already and tarragon growing outside.

Do you just squeeze the juice over the chicken and roast as normal?

BlueSky Tue 25-Aug-20 23:38:52

Jacket potato cheese and beans!

crazyH Tue 25-Aug-20 23:43:47

Steak, chips, peas and fried tomatos

Callistemon Tue 25-Aug-20 23:46:51

I chose the largest option because it could be most versatile.

You could leave the meat and have vegetarian days, just have cauliflower cheese and potatoes etc, as long as it's not compulsory to eat everything.

merlotgran Wed 26-Aug-20 00:03:42

Callistemon

Oh, I haven't tried that but I've ordered a chicken and have limes and garlic already and tarragon growing outside.

Do you just squeeze the juice over the chicken and roast as normal?

Push thin slices of garlic under the skin of the chicken breast, squeeze a lime over everything then pile as much tarragon as you can spare on top with a knob of butter.

The juices make delicious gravy with some white wine or cider.

BlueBelle Wed 26-Aug-20 01:53:07

Curry which I love and which can be varied in so many ways so many countries have their own ways of cooking curry from sweet to hot and everything between

Esspee Wed 26-Aug-20 03:48:48

Caribbean stewed chicken with pigeon peas and rice, coleslaw and macaroni pie. Served as pelau you can close your eyes and imagine you can hear the breeze blowing through the coconut trees.

Pantglas2 Wed 26-Aug-20 07:00:32

I couldn’t do it - I can’t even eat the same breakfast or lunch every day for a week, let alone the same dinner/supper forever!

I love food, the buying, cooking and eating thereof but no one meal would tickle my taste buds for the rest of my days.

tanith Wed 26-Aug-20 07:01:48

I thicken a chicken roast with as many Vegs as possible would be the most versatile if allowed to mix and match the different components.

Beauregard Wed 26-Aug-20 07:18:51

Roast rib of beef with cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and parsnips and an assortment of fresh vegetables.

ginny Wed 26-Aug-20 08:00:25

Couldn’t contemplate it.
Love to have different meals and try new ideas.

DanniRae Wed 26-Aug-20 08:05:51

Curry - I crave it if I've haven't had it for awhile. Either homemade (I make decent chicken, prawn or mince beef versions. Or takeaway - always a veggie one)
Yummy - now I know what I am making for dinner tonight!!

Spangler Wed 26-Aug-20 08:08:28

Sherry Trifle

grandMattie Wed 26-Aug-20 08:11:24

Pantglas2

I couldn’t do it - I can’t even eat the same breakfast or lunch every day for a week, let alone the same dinner/supper forever!

I love food, the buying, cooking and eating thereof but no one meal would tickle my taste buds for the rest of my days.

Absolutely, Me too, Pant. DH would eat the same thing ever day, I would get bored to tears... two days in a row are too many.

Maggiemaybe Wed 26-Aug-20 08:14:28

It’s a toss up between seafood risotto and curry.

But I know I couldn’t do it. I once had a day eating nothing but chocolate (a bucket list thing). I thought it was going to be a real treat, but by teatime I was ready to fight DH for his fish and chips.

Nortsat Wed 26-Aug-20 08:29:24

Toasted ham, cheese and pickle sandwich, packet of crisps and a large glass of very cold Sauvignon Blanc.

I could manage on that for quite a while ( leaving the wine out at lunchtime) and just having the toast for breakfast.

I could introduce a tomato and a spring onion and have some lettuce and cucumber on the side of the plate. I could swap the ham for an egg for breakfast occasionally and introducing a jar of marmite into the equation would result in a very happy outcome for me. ??

FindingNemo15 Wed 26-Aug-20 08:53:07

Bacon sarnies

Marydoll Wed 26-Aug-20 08:56:33

Anything which contains seafood!

BlueSky Wed 26-Aug-20 09:01:30

Pant you are like my DH! I would happily eat the same things and do to a certain extent!

lovebeigecardigans1955 Wed 26-Aug-20 09:02:35

My first thought was fish and chips but basically almost anything fishy such as shellfish. I was once told by a medical person that if you ate fish and chips everyday with pickled onions your diet would be perfectly adequate! How could that be true?
If it was every day though I would quickly get sick of it

harrigran Wed 26-Aug-20 09:08:50

Minced beef because it is so versatile, we make a big pot and have some with Yorkshire puddings. Another day we will add tomato sauce and have with spaghetti.
Whatever is left can be added to rice and made into stuffed peppers.