What is a dish you make you just can't live without?

[_Maya_]

Not something you order but make that you could never give up. Let's here them!

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I make a lot of "chili", like Chili Con Carne and Texan Chili. I put it in quotes though since I have a tendency to add lots of things which might not always belong in what's normally considered chili.

What I generally start with are canned or fresh tomatoes (although I'll exclude it in some exceptional cases), onions (sometimes sweated, sometimes caramelized, sometimes just thrown into the boiling water depending on desired texture), garlic (sometimes garlic powder if I'm low on garlic), chili peppers, cumin, and paprika (toasted for the last three).

Then depending on what I have and my mood, I might use ground beef, chicken, chuck roast, pork roast, or even mutton.

If beef, I always add jalapenos and either a small amount of dark chocolate or coffee. I also often thicken with corn or potato starch to get a very thick and hearty chili. If ground beef, I usually add beans. If roast, I'll generally exclude the beans and sometimes even the tomatoes.

For everything else, I vary a lot depending on mood. For chicken, I often like to add an Indian twist with Garam Masala, yogurt, and ginger-garlic paste, sometimes a dollop of ketchup and even heavy cream. Also I sometimes use the immersion blender to blend the tomatoes and onions which results in something that seems halfway between a curry and a chili.

With mutton, I really go all over the place depending on my mood. I'll sometimes even add spinach and blend it together with the tomatoes and onions to get something halfway resembling a palak or even exclude the tomatoes.

Anyway, I call it all "chili" but I'm a bit all over the place. It's my most common dish to make.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Might also add coriander, oregano, and/or bay leaves depending on the mood and the rest of the ingredients. If it's just for me, I'll add a lot of chili as well as dried habanero but I usually it make it for my wife as well and she hates spicy food, so I keep it mild most of the time and just add hot sauce or powder to my own servings. Then for soup base, I sometimes use stock (beef or chicken or sometimes even veggie), sometimes broth, sometimes wine; I'm a bit all over the place. I mostly just taste and tweak a lot to get it to fit my desired mood. I'm horrible at coming up with and following recipes; takes the fun out of cooking for me.

[loveslongnails]

I eat a wide variety of foods, but if I have to pick the dish I make more than any other it's a skillet skin on chicken thighs with tomatoes, onions, black olives and bella mushrooms, all sauteed in evoo and butter. Spices include oregano, thyme, black pepper, cumin, a bit of salt and garnished with parsley. You can serve it over rice, quinoa, cous cous, orzo or angel hair pasta.

[_Maya_]

Sounds like a good one!

[loveslongnails]

It's fabulous, and the same recipe works for most light to medium density fish.

[Paris13]

My Own Salad of Tomatoes and Eggs and Chicken. xxoo

[Paris13]

Thanks, Gag. xxoo

[Beckybooboo]

Stir fried Pitas! Baker’s Square style. Lol

[_Maya_]

Those sound good!

[Wiredone]

I make a great steak cooked on the BBQ grill. First I tenderize the Angus steak. Then I put my homemade dry rub on both sides. Sprinkle some a-1 steak sauce on it. Put it on the grill with indirect heat for 12 minutes on each side.

I serve it with baked red potatoes and steamed broccoli.

Sometimes I'll saute mushrooms, onions and garlic and put it on the steak and potatoes

[_Maya_]

Sounds unreal 🤯

[Wiredone]

Oh it's real and delicious

[_Maya_]

I like mine mid rare. You?

[Wiredone]

Yes I like mine the same way. I call it cooked but not dead

[_Maya_]

Boy howdy! What is the plan for the weekend friend? 😆

[Wiredone]

I'll be spackling, primming and painting 2 bedrooms in my house. My kids moved out so I'm redoing the rooms.
How about you, anything fun going on.

[DryGermanGuy]

My signature dish, that I make once a week: Fried salmon with rice and an assortment of vegetables. 🤤🤤🤤

[_Maya_]

That does sound good... and healthy.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Savory salmon combined with rice is one of my favorite food combos ever. I'm not the biggest fan of rice but whenever I have salmon, I always want rice to pair with it.

[Makeushiver]

A French salad called ( & made w/ frisee) also thick cut bacon. Dressing is warm and is served w/poached egg (s) on top. Sounds weird but everything goes together perfectly? When if it's on menus it's usually referred to as "Salade Frisee" Used French bread a a day old baguette to cut croutons and saute them w/ 1/2 rendered bacon fat & 1/2 EVOO.

Its like walking into La Coupole.

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[Sonorous]

Anything with good protein, fats, carbs, essential vitamins & minerals. I mainly eat for the health benefits. It's why I don't really usually season anything unless I want the health benefits from a seasoning.

[Grond21]

I don't have one yet. But my girlfriend makes some amazing ones. Perhaps when I learn them one of those will take the crown.

[_Maya_]

What's your favorite she makes?

[Grond21]

Its a tough call, but the first thing that comes to mind is butter chicken

[Mr_twoface]

If it had to pick something I MAKE and its yummy, its fried eggs.

PS: I love the fact I married a women who loves to cook :D

[Dongie]

I brew a mean beef stew.

I use shank steak. It's the bone that crushes it.

[_Maya_]

Bone in? Yeah?

[nawtee_me]

Spaghetti for sure. I do homemade meatballs and a sauce that takes hours to simmer. It is an all day job but worth it….

[Yannae]

A... Pancake. Childhood memories. I don't want to transfer to waffles.

[Kylie_Bug]

Homemade pizza!

[_Maya_]

Mmm love good homemade pizza.

[Kylie_Bug]

I miss it so much being at school. 😭

[_Maya_]

Aww whatcha going to school for?

[Kylie_Bug]

Early childhood education.

[_Maya_]

Awesome! 💜

[Enginn]

Makarna with tomato sauce and meatballs with salad and yogurt mixed with garlic next to schweppes.

[Finfin1981]

Chicken fajitas

[_Maya_]

Fajitas sound so good right now. Curse this question... makes me hungry.

[Finfin1981]

Me too wish I was eating it right now 😅

[MikeTheBartender]

Chicken cordon blu

[_Maya_]

Mmm that's a good one.

[exitseven]

I make fish and chips from scratch.

[_Maya_]

That's a good one. We do that with fresh caught lake perch.

[exitseven]

I get the fish right off the pier and make my own breadcrumbs out od anything that is stale.. I cut the potato into discs and fry them up along with the fish.

[worldscolide]

My grandmas spaghetti

[_Maya_]

I love me some pasta.

[worldscolide]

Me too, I make my own noodles from scratch, and I make the sauce the way she did, fresh ingredients and simmer for hours on the stove. I miss her, she died in 1994

[_Maya_]

Wow fresh made pasta! That's going all out.

[worldscolide]

Agreed I only make it once a month as a result

[Titanic1912]

It’s definitely my version of spaghetti!

[_Maya_]

Love good spaghetti. This question makes me hungry lol

[Pterodon]

New Mexico green chile stew

[_Maya_]

Never had that but sounds good. I'm guessing it has a kick to it?

[worldscolide]

Oohh thst sounds good.

[Pterodon]

It can depending how hot the chiles are. In Hatch, NM. You can get the chiles in different heat levels. Most restaurants use mild or medium. I found the best flavor for mine comes from using 50/50 hot and mild chiles

[_Maya_]

Yeah that sounds really damn good.

[Pterodon]

The bid change I make for mine is I use beef instead of pork which is how it’s typically made

[Smartman5]

One of them is definitely pasta.

[_Maya_]

Oh yeah pasta is a fave of mine.

[Smartman5]

After that comes chicken, meat and meatballs. there is actually a lot of food LoL

[Sameone]

Its ( hmise or 7mise) its traditional food in Algérie

Its just tomatoes and onions and peppers

[RebelinSteel]

Probably a curry, say a Chicken Jalfrezi.