What THREE favorite foods would you combine to create your favorite entre or meal?
I'm going to try and judge this by, more than less the criteria of flavor variety, describing why integrating certain flavors is so good, direct relevance to the question, imagery, answering style, originality, beverage complements, and the overall aroma you would get (if any).
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Fresh New England boiled lobster from the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Fresh picked Hollis, NH corn on the cob.
Thats how we do it.
late summer
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Shrimp
Steamed Broccoli
Why?
1.When combined chicken and broccoli have 7X the nutrients they would contain when separate.
2.The shrimp contains omega 3 and DHA, great for mental health and great skin.
3. It is a fairly healthy meal that just as delicious.
Beverages
1. A Nice White Wine
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Is it really that individually the two foods have more nutrients when combined, or is it that there is a precursor for molecular alteration, such as an enzyme that's found in one, necessary to breakdown the other,etc? Anyways, interesting; I didn't know that. Thanks.
By the way; just for the record, DHA IS an Omega 3 fatty acid. OH, and- I love piano music. Ha. Seriously though.
Alfredo's awesome, very nice hearty combos, great choice of pics. CLOSE CALL.
That is true that DHA is an Omega 3 fatty acid. I'm not completely sure how the broccoli and chicken things works. I read it somewhere but can't really find anything about it now. I was trying to find a link for you but it didn't work.It's something in the chemistry of then; how they mix. Can't go wrong with alfredo.
1.) Gnocchi (small dumplings filled with potato) w/ a garlicky Alfredo sauce
2.) Garlic toast - fresh out of the overn
3.) Spring salad with greens, carrots, radish, dried cherries, and vinaigrette dressing
The reason they go so well together? The gnocchi is heavy, rich, filling, and sinfully delicious. Can you smell the cream and garlic? Taste the basil?
Now imagine using the heavily seasoned garlic toast to mop up extra sauce and give the meal a crunch. Then serve the salad on the side for a lighter, somewhat sweet, means of cleansing the palate.
Serve with a white wine - my personal preference would be a Pinot Grigio, which would compliment the sweetness of the dried cherries.
Bring it all together and you have a divinely rich and pleasurable meal fit for the gods!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/2995431_d5c030b86f.jpg?v=0
I'm hungry.
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My apologies - at the time I posted my answer, Mahalo was glitching really badly. I HAD a link to a gnocchi pic, but by the time I realized it had disappeared on me, I couldn't edit my answer.
So here you go:
Where's the Gnocchi?
That bread looks dry...maybe it's supposed to be.
NICE EXPLANATION, and such.
Lobster
Cristal
If these 3 things could somehow be combined in one single, delicious combination, I would refer to it as the "Meal of Success" and eat it when my portfolio crossed the million mark :)
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CRAWFISH PIE
2 cups water
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon liquid crab boil
2 cups Crawfish tails
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 large onion
1 bell pepper
Cajun seasoning (Commander's Palace or Emeril's)
1/4 cup minced celery
1/4 cup minced parsley
salt and red pepper
pastry shells
Preheat oven to 350
Boil water with bay leaf and crab boil. Add crawfish to boiling water; cook 2 to 3 minutes. Drain, reserving water.
Chop crawfish.
Make roux by melting butter; & adding flour slowly. Brown flour until golden brown; add onion, bell pepper, celery and half the reserved water. Cook until soft.
Add the crawfish and parsley.
Season with Commander's seasoning and add enough of the reserved water to make proper consistency.
Put mixture into pastry lined pans and bake for approximately 30 minutes, or until crust is browned.
Paul Prudhomme's Jambalaya
Makes 6 Servings
1/4 cup chicken fat, pork lard, beef fat or margarine
3 cups finely chopped onions
2 cups finely chopped celery
1-1/2 cups finely chopped green bell peppers
1-1/2 cups chopped tasso (preferred) or other smoked ham (preferably Cure 81) (see Note)
1-1/2 cups chopped andouille smoked sausage (preferred) or any other good smoked pork sausage such as Polish sausage (Kielbasa) (see Note)
8 medium-size tomatoes, peeled and chopped
1 cup tomato sauce
4 bay leaves
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Chef Paul Prudhomme's Meat Magic
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1-1/2 teaspoons Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Pepper Sauce
2-1/2 cups uncooked rice (preferably converted)
2 cups hot Basic Pork or Chicken Stock or water
NOTE: K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen Cajun Pork Tasso (smoked pork strips) and K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen Andouille smoked sausage are available through 1-800-457-2857. If you substitute ham for the tasso and/or sausage for the andouille, be sure to add more Meat Magic.
In a 4-quart saucepan, melt chicken fat over medium heat. Add 1-1/2 cups onions, 1 cup celery and 3/4 cup bell peppers. Cook until onions are a rich brown color, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the tasso, andouille and remaining 1-1/2 cups onions, 1 cup celery and 3/4 cup bell peppers. Continue cooking 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the tomatoes, tomato sauce, bay leaves, Meat Magic, garlic and Magic Pepper Sauce. Simmer 15, stirring occasionally. Turn heat to high, fold in rice until well mixed. Add stock, cover pot and remove from heat. Let stand, covered, 15 minutes. Return saucepan to medium heat and cook covered for 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, until rice is tender, about 10 minutes. Remove bay leaves and serve immediately.
Make sure to serve with plenty of cold beer :-)
Oh, man...I'm ready for next spring!
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Nice New Hampshire corn from Kansas; lol. Anyways...
What would you drink with that?
Sparkling water... Pellegrino with a wedge of lemon.