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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 23, 2025 2:09:31 GMT
What would it be? I am trying to think here. I used to think I could eat Italian forevermore and I just had Italian food better than anything I ate in Italy. I think I am tired of Italian for a while. I may change my mind tomorrow.
I think I will be eating very simply for a while. There is fancy then this. It is all that. We had the manager of the restaurant come to our table twice and they served us some prosciutto which we didn’t order and was lovely. She wanted to make sure everything was good with us. Mejor que Italia. (How could it not be spectacular?) She doesn’t want to speak English but I have to speak English for a few days. I am tired of Spanish everything. Remember I am a gringa and Spanish is my 3rd language. It is pretty cool getting to speak it though. I am the favourite guest here. I notice the special treatment and it is pretty cool and we are all paying the same. My dad has noticed the same about me.
So if you could only eat one cuisine forevermore what would it be?
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Post by busy on Feb 23, 2025 2:13:15 GMT
I like so many kinds of food but if I had to choose one type of cuisine forever, it would be Pacific Northwest cuisine. We have such an abundance of delicious ingredients here, prepared to perfection, without a lot of fussiness but tons of flavor. It’s perfect food to me.
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Post by katlady on Feb 23, 2025 2:21:58 GMT
From just one country, Japan. I can easily eat Japanese food for the rest of my life. They have all kinds of dishes - noodles, vegetable, meat, spicy, non-spicy., etc. They also make breads, cakes, and ice cream. And they use my favorite meat a lot, pork! 😂 They don’t have too many baked dishes though. If I could add another country, it would be Mexico.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 23, 2025 2:43:22 GMT
From just one country, Japan. I can easily eat Japanese food for the rest of my life. They have all kinds of dishes - noodles, vegetable, meat, spicy, non-spicy., etc. They also make breads, cakes, and ice cream. And they use my favorite meat a lot, pork! 😂 They don’t have too many baked dishes though. If I could add another country, it would be Mexico. I think eating miso soup (and mine is goooood) onigiri and tamagoyaki everyday for breakfast is easier. It doesn’t have a huge flavour punch but it is very popular (250M people can’t be wrong) and that makes it easy. Japanese food for dinner would bore me. We didn’t eat a lot of sushi and I stopped eating fish to boycott the weird stuff the in-laws tried to get me to eat. Curried rice is good. Sukiyaki is good. Shabushabu is good. I am just not Epicurious enough to eat it every single day again. Your heritage is not exactly the same as my son but you’d be a close cousin and he could eat it everyday forever and ever. I think PNW cuisine with all the fresh food we get is the best. I don’t eat fish except for sushi (ask my former in-laws why and my father is pissed af at them for serving me sh!t that no Gaijin would want to eat) but the whole PNW cuisine is just so good. |
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Post by lesley on Feb 23, 2025 2:48:46 GMT
This is one of the questions I ask people if we match on dating sites. 😁 Definitely Italian for me. There is such a huge range of pastas and sauces, risotto, bread, pizzas and soups, meat and fish dishes - wow! And then of course there’s the ice cream.  |
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Post by katlady on Feb 23, 2025 2:57:35 GMT
I think eating miso soup (and mine is goooood) onigiri and tamagoyaki everyday for breakfast is easier. It doesn’t have a huge flavour punch but it is very popular (250M people can’t be wrong) and that makes it easy. Japanese food for dinner would bore me. We didn’t eat a lot of sushi and I stopped eating fish to boycott the weird stuff the in-laws tried to get me to eat. Curried rice is good. Sukiyaki is good. Shabushabu is good. I am just not Epicurious enough to eat it every single day again. Your heritage is not exactly the same as my son but you’d be a close cousin and he could eat it everyday forever and ever. For dinners, besides what you mentioned, I would also have things like Rafute (Okinawan Shoyu Pork), Karaage (Fried Chicken), and Oyako/KatsuDons. These are things that I only eat when we go to restaurants. My grandmother would make Rafute occasionally, and I loved it. Our dinners at home are boring, usually just a stir fry type dish or I like to bake chicken. Breakfast would be shokupan (Japanese milk bread), maybe some miso soup, rice balls, some meat (but no fish). Oh, and I love the Japanese Egg Sando (Sandwich). I have to eat that a couple of times whenever I go to Japan. |
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 23, 2025 2:59:51 GMT
I think eating miso soup (and mine is goooood) onigiri and tamagoyaki everyday for breakfast is easier. It doesn’t have a huge flavour punch but it is very popular (250M people can’t be wrong) and that makes it easy. Japanese food for dinner would bore me. We didn’t eat a lot of sushi and I stopped eating fish to boycott the weird stuff the in-laws tried to get me to eat. Curried rice is good. Sukiyaki is good. Shabushabu is good. I am just not Epicurious enough to eat it every single day again. Your heritage is not exactly the same as my son but you’d be a close cousin and he could eat it everyday forever and ever. For dinners, besides what you mentioned, I would also have things like Rafute (Okinawan Shoyu Pork), Karaage (Fried Chicken), and Oyako/KatsuDons. These are things that I only eat when we go to restaurants. My grandmother would make Rafute occasionally, and I loved it. Our dinners at home are boring, usually just a stir fry type dish or I like to bake chicken. Breakfast would be shokupan (Japanese milk bread), maybe some miso soup, rice balls, some meat (but no fish). Oh, and I love the Japanese Egg Sando (Sandwich). I have to eat that a couple of times whenever I go to Japan. Wakarimasu! Zenbu wakarimasu! |
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Post by snyder on Feb 23, 2025 3:16:56 GMT
I like so many kinds of food but if I had to choose one type of cuisine forever, it would be Pacific Northwest cuisine. We have such an abundance of delicious ingredients here, prepared to perfection, without a lot of fussiness but tons of flavor. It’s perfect food to me. Would you share examples of what a Pacific Northwest cuisine includes? I've never heard of it and I probably should because we have southern food and I know what that includes.
My favorite cusine that I could eat foevermore is Mexican with Asian a REAL close 2nd.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 23, 2025 3:19:16 GMT
One hundred million percent SE Asian / Asian Fusion. And if I have to narrow it down I would choose Vietnamese, with Thai coming a close second.
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Post by don on Feb 23, 2025 3:21:14 GMT
I like good old fashion American food. Especially Apple Pie.
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Post by brynn on Feb 23, 2025 3:26:29 GMT
This is one of the questions I ask people if we match on dating sites. 😁 Definitely Italian for me. There is such a huge range of pastas and sauces, risotto, bread, pizzas and soups, meat and fish dishes - wow! And then of course there’s the ice cream. Italian for me too! |
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 23, 2025 3:30:02 GMT
From just one country, Japan. I can easily eat Japanese food for the rest of my life. They have all kinds of dishes - noodles, vegetable, meat, spicy, non-spicy., etc. They also make breads, cakes, and ice cream. And they use my favorite meat a lot, pork! 😂 They don’t have too many baked dishes though. If I could add another country, it would be Mexico. Japan for me also. Left to my own devices that’s what I eat (and cheese). |
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Post by busy on Feb 23, 2025 3:31:33 GMT
I like so many kinds of food but if I had to choose one type of cuisine forever, it would be Pacific Northwest cuisine. We have such an abundance of delicious ingredients here, prepared to perfection, without a lot of fussiness but tons of flavor. It’s perfect food to me. Would you share examples of what a Pacific Northwest cuisine includes? I've never heard of it and I probably should because we have southern food and I know what that includes.
My favorite cusine that I could eat foevermore is Mexican with Asian a REAL close 2nd.
There aren’t really signature dishes - it’s much more about the incredible local ingredients, respecting seasonality, and simple but not boring preparations. This piece describes it well IMO projects.seattletimes.com/2015/what-is-pacific-northwest-cuisine/ |
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Post by AllieC on Feb 23, 2025 4:19:17 GMT
One hundred million percent SE Asian / Asian Fusion. And if I have to narrow it down I would choose Vietnamese, with Thai coming a close second. Ditto here. First would be Thai and I’m lucky that my hubby is an excellent cook so I have it all the time. |
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 23, 2025 4:38:52 GMT
Would you share examples of what a Pacific Northwest cuisine includes? I've never heard of it and I probably should because we have southern food and I know what that includes.
My favorite cusine that I could eat foevermore is Mexican with Asian a REAL close 2nd.
There aren’t really signature dishes - it’s much more about the incredible local ingredients, respecting seasonality, and simple but not boring preparations. This piece describes it well IMO projects.seattletimes.com/2015/what-is-pacific-northwest-cuisine/There is a lot of seafood influence. The salmon and halibut we get are so good. I make the “best halibut ever” and my family loves how I cook it. It’s butter and evoo and maybe some lemon pepper. I cook salmon ‘well’ and my dad loves how I prepare it. There is no mystery involved with that either. We eat a lot of chicken, beef and pork. We always have readily access to good green fresh vegetables. I mean fresh French beans, green beans, yellow beans, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, tomatoes of all colours and shapes and sizes that I can cook or put in salad or roast. Even the chicken quality we get is just better than other provinces I have visited. We have access to prawns, shrimp, spot prawns (they are not worth it. They suck for all the work they require to peel.) Lobster is not readily available yet my fish monger gets it all the time. Dungeness crab is typical. I don’t do crab but I love picking your crab for you. I love that. We eat a lot of fresh vegetables in season and then imported when out of season. We have a very important Asian influence and the Chinese grocery store sells only wonderful and weird vegetables. Asian fusion with Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, this comes back to the boat people who Canada took in as refugees in the 70s. There was never a huge immigration of Thais to Canada. |
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Post by gar on Feb 23, 2025 9:59:33 GMT
English  I love Italian (although I have a small appetite and the portions are always too much for me) Thai, etc, but sometimes you just can't beat a sumptuous roast, or bangers and mash or maybe a shepherds pie  |
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Post by Judie in Oz on Feb 23, 2025 10:08:46 GMT
One hundred million percent SE Asian / Asian Fusion. And if I have to narrow it down I would choose Vietnamese, with Thai coming a close second. Thai would be my first choice, with Italian second and Vietnamese third. We're spoilt for choice in Australia. |
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Post by hopemax on Feb 23, 2025 10:48:58 GMT
When I have been asked my favorite cuisine I always say, “I’d eat anything from the Pacific Rim.” But now that I know that there’s an actual name for what PacNWs (and what I grew up on) eat, I can go with that too. Seafood, Asian influences, local produce.
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Post by anaterra on Feb 23, 2025 11:18:41 GMT
Mexican... im Hispanic... its what i cook... its what we like to eat most...
However if we are going out... it is almost always a steakhouse...
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Post by 3boysnme on Feb 23, 2025 11:46:46 GMT
I can't see being regulated to only eating one type of cuisine. That would be so boring. But I used to think it would be Italian. Now, maybe Mexican or Chinese. But even those, when I think about only being able to eat from those menus, it just makes me sad. LOL! I can't pick. Sorry.
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Post by Merge on Feb 23, 2025 15:34:01 GMT
I don't think I could stick with just one. It's part of why I like living where I do - we have access to such variety.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 23, 2025 15:36:50 GMT
I don't think I could stick with just one. It's part of why I like living where I do - we have access to such variety. I know and don’t want to decide either. That was why I asked. I am not deciding definitely what cuisine I want to eat forever more either. |
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 23, 2025 15:38:25 GMT
I can't see being regulated to only eating one type of cuisine. That would be so boring. But I used to think it would be Italian. Now, maybe Mexican or Chinese. But even those, when I think about only being able to eat from those menus, it just makes me sad. LOL! I can't pick. Sorry. This is is not rage bait. It was just a question for foodies. I am not a foodie and I don’t want to have to decide either. |
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Post by Scrapper100 on Feb 23, 2025 17:11:14 GMT
The Pacific Northwest sounds good and healthy. First thought was Mexican as that’s what we eat most often if we could.
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British  Our cuisine has become so diverse over the years with the influx of many cultures bringing their wonderful flavours & spices with them Also you can not beat a proper sunday roast , |
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Post by huskergal on Feb 23, 2025 18:43:13 GMT
Italian or Mexcian
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Post by voltagain on Feb 23, 2025 19:08:14 GMT
Even if I said a specific cuisine I'm not sure my home cooking would stick to it. After all, all recognizable cuisines feature a majority of the same vegetables, meats and carbs. It differs mostly in the herbs/spices used. In the 1800s and years prior, regional cuisines were more of a thing I think because non royalty could only eat what was produced locally which also included locally sources herbs/spices. As an example, I like a dish known in Italy as uova in purgatorio (eggs in purgatory) but change the spicing just a bit and I have shakshuka or menemen. Add some mashed fagioli (beans) and you have huevos rancheros. Italians do eat beans of many varieties so I haven't left the "Italian cuisine" ingredients.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 23, 2025 19:11:31 GMT
Either Japanese or Greek. It would take me a long time to get fed up with Greek salads.
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Post by ntsf on Feb 23, 2025 19:37:20 GMT
pacific northwest for me too.. so much fresh seafood and shellfish, fresh veggies, massive fruit orchards of all types, grains.. and there is excellent wine if you are into that. mushrooms and great cheese.
and berries to die for. what I miss about living there is going out in the fall and picking huckleberries.. which are related but do not taste like blueberries. marionberries, logan berries.. strawberries...blueberries.
lots of scandinavian influence. and asian influence
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 23, 2025 19:42:30 GMT
Easy. The United States. All nations are represented in our country and they have brought their culinary arts with them.
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