There used to be this pizza place by my mom's old office run by a nice Eastern European family that made the most ridiculously amazing Greek salad. They used cheap, grocery store lettuce, tomatoes, olives (I always ordered it without olives though), and feta....but the dressing and chicken were out of this world. I don't know how they made the dressing and chicken, but all I know is that they were doing it right. Unfortunately about a year or so ago they were bought out and decided to open a pastry shop nearby, where they no longer serve salads.
I've got a serious weak spot for Ziggy's Macaroni Salad. Honestly, I don't even buy it anymore because I have zero will power to resist the stuff if it's sitting in my fridge.
garnetpalmetto From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5244 posts, RR: 55 Reply 3, posted (6 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1096 times:
Soups and stews:
Beef Bourguignon
Beer-Cheese
Cacik
Chicken Tortilla
Chili con carne
Coq au vin
Cream of Mushroom
Cream of Tomato
Japanese Onion Soup (the type you get at teppanyaki places)
Potato-Leek
Rabbit Stew
Tom Kha Kai
Salads:
Caesar
Caprese
Coleslaw (vinegar-based, not mayo-based)
Fattoush
Garden (with romaine, cucumber, carrot, tomato, broccoli florets and a vinaigrette, please)
Larb
Panzanella
Tabbouleh
South Carolina - too small to be its own country, too big to be a mental asylum.
I love cole slaw, although my favorites are ones with alternatives to the creamy mayo dressing. There's an Asian slaw recipe I really like with a sesame-ginger-honey dressing.
I also love a nice tossed spinach salad with assorted veggies, some balsamic and oil, a bit of blue cheese or feta.
As for soups, I'm not much of a soup man, but I do like a really thick split pea soup (if the spoon doesn't stand upright, it's not thick enough) and black bean soup with cheddar and sour cream.
I love good Chili con carne. Unfortunately, there's a lot of mediocre-to-bad chili out there, but nothing beats the good kind over white rice with some sharp cheddar shredded on top.
Fitzgerald's Casino in Reno used to serve the most delicious Potato-Leek soup. That's just one more reason why I'm sad that Fitzgerald's closed.
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 4): As for soups, I'm not much of a soup man, but I do like a really thick split pea soup (if the spoon doesn't stand upright, it's not thick enough)
Agreed. I make mine with probably more bacon than is recommended by the American Heart Association, but I figure that I avoid enough cholesterol in other ways that I can afford to eat really good split pea soup once or twice a year.
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 4): and black bean soup with cheddar and sour cream.
Leave the sour cream off mine and I'll be right there.
Like Chili, there is a lot of mediocre and bad potato salad out there amongst the good. I like mine very tangy with green olives or dill pickles cut up in it.
As long as the person making it doesn't go crazy adding raw onions, I love it.
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 4): I also love a nice tossed spinach salad with assorted veggies, some balsamic and oil, a bit of blue cheese or feta.
For me it's either baby spinach or baby greens, balsamic and oil, blue cheese or feta, slivered almonds or sunflower seeds, and sliced grilled chicken breast. I also like sliced Roma (plum) tomatoes on a salad, but I'm picky about them and they have to be "just right"- not under-ripe or over-ripe in the least.
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Aeri28 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 591 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (6 months 23 hours ago) and read 1096 times:
I love soups and stews of all sorts and am always on the hunt for new ones, here are just a few of my likes:
American
Chicken & dumplings (omg, my absolute favorite. You have to roast the chicken with many herbs before pulling it apart for the soup)
Beef stew many different variations, but my mother used to make one with beef, potatoes, carrots onions and a few tomatoes in the broth and put a head of cabbage in it towards the end)
And since I live in Honolulu, i llike to eat a range of ethnic soups (now don't shoot me if these aren't 'authentic' to the country. We do differently in Hawaii).
korean soondooboo
korean yukaejong
vietnamese beef stew (bon kho)
vietnamese bun bo hue
chinese chicken jook
Japanese
Tan Tan Ramen with pork katsu
Bukkake Udon (yes it sounds nasty but it's good)
and a rare treat is a good bouillabaisse
Salads,
I have, all my life, have been a Potato Salad afficionado (I know, subjective, but I like what i like). I loved my grandmothers potato salad and never learned how to make it. It'll always be a good memory of mine. I like mayo or (miracle whip) based ones. There's a particularly good one here called a Red White and Blue which consists of Red Potatoes, White (for the mayo I guess) and Blue for the blue cheese added among other things.
Love a good tossed salad with as many veggies as I can find.
AviRaider From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 161 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 months 17 hours ago) and read 1096 times:
Soups:
French Onion
Cream of Chicken
Chili - Being from Texas it's a staple.
Baked Potato Soup
Beef Stew
Gumbo
Salads
Cobb Salad - so refreshing and yummy. The Brown Derby has the best,they invented it.
Macaroni Salad - love it
Potato Salad - Mustard based
Chef Salad
Taco Salad - Not the Tex-Mex kind but the variation with the French "Catalina" Dressing, yum.
Crab Salad
ALTF4 From United States of America, joined Jul 2010, 1143 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1096 times:
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 4): As for soups, I'm not much of a soup man, but I do like a really thick split pea soup (if the spoon doesn't stand upright, it's not thick enough) and black bean soup with cheddar and sour cream.
You hit the nail on the head.
I'm holed up in bed with the flu, so tomato soup hit the spot an hour or two ago. But under ideal (non-sick) condition, split pea is awesome.
The above post is my opinion. Don't like it? Don't read it.
type-rated From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 4342 posts, RR: 21 Reply 11, posted (5 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 951 times:
Just give a a bowl of hot German Potato soup (potatoes, carrots, onion & sauage bits) on a cold winter day and I am happy!
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garnetpalmetto From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 5244 posts, RR: 55 Reply 14, posted (5 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 791 times:
Quoting varigb707 (Reply 9): Seriously now. New England Clam Chowder.... Yummy!!!
FTFY. You wouldn't want to get that confused for Manhattan Clam Chowder
South Carolina - too small to be its own country, too big to be a mental asylum.
I love good Chili con carne. Unfortunately, there's a lot of mediocre-to-bad chili out there, but nothing beats the good kind over white rice with some sharp cheddar shredded on top.
Quoting Aeri28 (Reply 6): vietnamese beef stew (bon kho)
vietnamese bun bo hue
chinese chicken jook
Ooooh man those are good soups. Kentucky style coleslaw is wonderful and my aunt's Taco Salad.
Manhattan (Red) or New England (white/hurl)
I'm not a cream soup person. Some of them are hurl inducing along with pea soup! Can anyone say Exorcist?
My likes in no particular order:
Won Ton
Italian Wedding
Jewish Chicken and Matzo Ball Soup
Ministrone
Beef Barley (no cream)
Manhattan Clam Chowder
Maryland Crab Soup
Cabbage Soup
Salads:
Potato
Chicken or Turkey Salad
Egg Salad... These three must have Real Mayo, not light Mayo or perish the thought Kraft hurl inducing Miracle Whip which smells like stinky feet.
Shrimp Salad
Caesar Salad
Spinach Salad
Tossed Salad No, not that kind of tossing the salad which is all the rage in a prison near you!
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