Tray of oysters at Oshucks with some cheap beer

I too enjoy Popeye occassionaly plus Veterans 20% discount on entire order.

This is Serious!
 

A three pound (3 lb.) steamed Maine lobster with drawn, clarified butter.

Yes, you can go to the movies and when you get back, I might be finished!
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Thanks for starting a “tasty” thread. Fun reading others dream meal. Love to eat and love to cook. Traveled for business and always came home trying to replicate the best dishes. My fav recent dish was Kung Pao brussel sprouts at Bonefish Grill. But if it was my last meal it would be anything with noodles!

You didn’t pay attention what I said. We bought four breasts from Popeye’s because I wouldn’t have to waste all that oil to deep fry them. And I made the mashed potatoes (cook three potatoes till soft and drain them and put in a mixer with a block of cream cheese, about a tablespoon of salt, ditto with butter) and I made the green beans. Plus I made the gravy. I’m getting hungry again!

You had protein drink! :icon_wink:

My best dinner was my first meal after I got released from prison. Just a simple Big Mac and fries. I served 35 years for elder abuse and aggravated manslaughter.

The Villages will be like a playground for you! :22yikes:

Overheard at Mallory Country Club

3 single women sitting together, when a dark haired stranger walks by.

One of the women turns around to talk with him and asks who he is and where he's from.

"I'm new here and just move to TV", he says.

The women ask, "so where are you from?" He hesitates and then says, "I'd rather not say".

"Oh come on, you can tell us," they reply.

"Well, I just got released from Prison last week. I served 30 years for killing my wife and hiding her body parts in a freezer."

One of the women jumps in ... "Oh wow, so now you're single? Why don't you sit down and join us.?"

Best chicken in The Villages is at MacCall’s Tavern in Spanish Springs.

I prefer the fried chicken at McCall's Tavern in Spanish Springs. It's the best I've ever had.

that sounds amazing.

I had spaghetti carbonara in some little hole-in-the-wall neighborhood place in Rome, 20 years ago, with my dad, that I still dream about. Just the red house wine with it, was delightful.

You win the prize for Best First Post Ever!
Congratulations on your release, and we all hope parole goes well for you.

Jenny's Birthday dinner on the Zephyr Dinner Train back in 1990. Zephyr Dinner Train - Stillwater MN - On the Lake

It might have been 1989.

I do remember she argued with the man from the couple seated with us during the trip about the worth of lawyers as a profession. But that was and is Jenny,

Bistecca alla Fiorentina, sitting outside at a restaurant in a park in Cortona--husband.
Me: simple pasta dish with shaved white truffles in a tiny restaurant in San Quirico d'Orcia in 2000. Can't get it out of my mind.

As a fairly new Florida transplant I can say we grew up eating steamed crabs almost every Sunday. My brother caught and steamed them. They are the one thing we miss the most.

OMG, baramundi at our son's wedding reception at an eco lodge in the n Daintree Rainforest, Australia. Yellowtail snapper in the Florida Keys.

We stayed at the old Rusty Pelican, Port Douglas, Aus. for five nights. 1992.
Had Pumpkin Soup, Barramundi, and Pavlova every night. It was that good.

I had the misfortune to break a leg in July in Dover, England a few years ago. I spent nine days in a hospital in Ashford having surgery and getting well enough to be put on a plane accompanied by a nurse from "On Call Intl." The hospital was an old facility and there either was no AC, or it was broken the whole time. So was the WiFi.

The care from the staff at the hospital was very caring and good, but the meals were beyond skimpy and tasteless. Usually no more than a cup of thin soup and maybe a piece of dry bread at lunch and dinner, though one day they did bring a baked potato. One of my four roommates thought that National Health spent $3 or $4 per day per patient on food.

So, after days of this regimen, the one meal I daydreamed about was a big helping of tender boneless chuck pot roast submerged in a rich red wine gravy with onions, carrots, red bell peppers, etc., a piece of artisan bread, and mashed potatoes on the side. No matter it was hot in the room with no AC. My hunger overrode all other desires.

On arrival home, at the first opportunity, my husband made the trip to Sam's Club for a beautiful piece of boneless chuck and roasted it to perfection.

I know our hospitals do not serve gourmet meals, but gruel and dry bread?
I call BS.
If you had any decent medical insurance, you would have been in a private ward anyway.

Ashford NHS Hospital menu below.
https://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk/p...cilities/meals

Make sure you only say nice things about the developer, last person who did not got 10 years in Leavenworth.

Dear Two Bills: I certainly didn't mean to insult you or the NHS; as I said, the care was very good and attentive, actually better than most I've experienced in the U.S. When the Wi-Fi was out one of the nurses allowed downloading data from my insurance co. to his cell phone.

Also, I thought we had good trip insurance from Berkshire Hathaway, with medical being primary rather than secondary to Medicare. It paid the hospital bill and all the associated trip expenses. As far as accommodations, maybe placement in a ward is standard procedure for people with trip insurance.

Actually, I misspoke; the hospital was not Ashford, it was Wm. Harvey Hospital, in Ashford. And I'm sorry, at that point I would have looked forward to a meal at Denny's.

Satisfaction Guaranteed!
 

The best I’ve ever had out was at The Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth, TX. I don’t know what possessed me and my husband as this was about 35 years ago when we certainly weren’t rolling in the dough so to speak. The restaurant server told us they never have to seat a table twice in one night and I can sure see why. We had course after course, from soup to salad to fruit and best thing they had was steak, about three inches thick and done to perfection. I still think back on it and the hundred dollars we paid for it was sure worth it!

Fresh Lake Superior white fish.

Not a dinner, but just about the best thing that I have ever tasted was the porchetta at La Norceria di Iacozzilli in Trastevere, Rome.

In Charlevoix, MI, there was a restaurant that served planked Lake MI whitefish. They also had the best fish chowder ever.

Lightly dusted and sautéed Lake MI lake perch at the former Spinnaker Restaurant at the Hilton Hotel on 28th St SE in Grand Rapids, MI. Back in the '90s. The first time I ever liked fish, and it's been onward and upward from there.

With good beef, my idea of "done to perfection" is when it mom's when I cut off a chunk. Bloody good, eh wot!

Maybe a ½ lb of steamed shrimp while waiting for the crabs