Oh, those lucky few who can eat what they want and not have it result in fat or illness! Today I was daydreaming about what I would eat if I could do that. I have to watch my diet very carefully but if I could I would slather butter over everything salty and dollop whipped cream on anything sweet. My daily diet would contain bowls and bowls of the saltiest pretzels possible. I would eat a few healthy things, but not in moderation! For instance, I would have clams and oysters shipped in by the carload! I might eat a vegetable from time to time, such as a tomato picked off the plant in the sun...

If health or weight (or cost!) were not a concern, what would you eat to your heart's content?

I agree about the clams and oysters, 5-O! Since I am landlocked any kind of seafood and shellfish is my idea of luxe living. Cold peeled shrimped cooked in Old Bay seasoning and served with lemon butter and homemade shrimp sauce. Lobster tail. Cracked crab. Scallops. All served with salads and fresh vegetables.

Egg rolls, spring rolls, fine Chinese cuisine.

Oh so many things come to mind, but big, juicy, med-rare steaks along with baked potatoes loaded with sour cream, and crusty French bread would top the list as these are all things I love but have been avoiding or eating very little of these days.

Lots of crunchy peanut butter, fettucine alfredo, hot fudge sundaes, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Tacos, Nachos, Hamburgers & french fries, pizza, queso dip, donuts...

Yes folks, now you know why Yvonne ended up getting a gastric bypass, lol!

Any number of grease-soaked potato products....fries, tots, chips, jo-jos. Fish and chips by the truckload as well with a ton of tartar sauce.

Deep fat fried everything , samosas , egg rolls , home made french fries ( this inludes poutine).
Everything drenched in really really good butter.
Daily , something from the salt group , the sugar group , the fat group and the carb groub (blananced diet ya know)
Fresh seafood , and this would include shrimp ( in an ideal world I would not be allergic )
Pork products , its been ages.
Cake , tarts and cheese cake

Sister! Them's my choices! Can we pig out together?

We'll make sure we have *piles* of cracked crab. And bowls of chilled jumbo shrimp.... sweeeet!

And lotsa spotted prawns grilled on a skewer... to DIE for!

And do you mind if I bring some Vietnamese and Thai dishes to round out the selection? It won't matter what they are... it will all be gooooood.

Oh yes, and I must have greek salad with huge savory olives...

Okay, this will be a good start.

Fun topic! My fantasy pig-out would include any and every kind of fried potato known to man, a signficant variety of cheeses, chocolate, cheesecake, loaded baked potatoes, Dungeness crabs with lots of melted butter for dipping, lobster, fried oysters, salsa and fresh fried tortilla chips, and strawberry shortcake with lots of fresh whipped cream.

I would do a combo of Hungarian food and pre WW I Imperial Austrian cuisine with a full English breakfast every so often... so, we're talking kuglhopf, milk strudels, veal cutlets, dumplings, kaiserschmarn, roast goose, cabbage, etc.., coffee with heavy cream, kedgeree, stuffed carp, roast duck, Omelet Arnold Bennett, cucumber salads, boiled beef with spinach, goulash, etc.. washed down with Gruner Veltliner, Austrian reds, tokays, rieslings, etc...

Or instead of alternating between soup and salad for my usual weekday lunch, I'll be ordering a different poboy each day from Casamento's in New Orleans

Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream

Flaky pastries of all kinds and WATERMELON!!!

I'm diabetic, so....

Oh, man, what a delectabe-sounding array of food!


Ha, ha!

Aromatique, I completely forgot about cheese! Triple-crème, s'il vous plaît!

I'm another who wants piles of crab (soft shell and blue), oysters (fried and on the half), Lobster (steamed with a pound of melted butter) and black beluga eggs (I'll just eat it with my lobster and butter, no bread or crackers thank you).

For desert I want a pile of those sessame coated, lotis paste filled, round crunchy Chinese pastries from SF Chinatown AND a
perfect Creme Brulee.

I would love to have gorgonzola stuffed gnoochi saturated with gorgonzola sauce. I'd be in heaven.
This stuff is just to die for.... I feel my waistline expanding, "NO!!!!!!!"

These, please!

http://www.eonline.com/gossip/partygirl/de...4f-e584d4aa273b

Brie-and-bacon stuffed tater tots.

*faints dead away*

We must be related. But I also want ice cream, cheeses of all sorts, and a really good, fresh seeded rye.

Oh God...I didn't even think about Brie! I try very diligently not to because it usually results in me eating most of the wedge solo. It's not pretty.

I'm pacing myself...cheese table follows desert

... ice cream.... oh, ice cream.

BlueCedar, It all sounds good! Bring the Thai and Vietnamese food; I've never tried it. I also like Korean Kim Chee.

I'm with Sharil. French fries, lots of potatoe chips and old fashioned onion dip. Cheeses..........ahhhh.........cheeses..........
Seafood..........I can get that pretty often..........

I'd get the kind of fried platter that they serve at the Carolina beaches (Calabash)......with tons of tarter sauce. Oysters, clams, shrimp........you get the picture.

Tons of pasta. All different sauces.

Cherry Garcia

My own home made toffee. Toffee ice cream. Chocolate chip cookies. Oatmeal cookies

You can eat anything you want, but have smaller portions. I can't deprive myself of food I love. I just adjust everything else accordingly and exercise. Calorie in and calories out.

What would I not eat? I love to eat. I think I'd gorge on lobster tail with butter sauce. I'd wash it down with the finest, driest red wine I could get my hands on. Then, for dessert I'd feast on a molten chocolate cake with raspberry sauce and as much whipped cream as I wanted. An Irish coffee would cap it all off.

-Noelle

Wow!

Pie, lots and lots of pie!

Wow, again!

Lots and lots of ice cream.

Cake with gobs of frosting.

Dozens upon dozens of Krispy Kreme donuts.

Pizza everyday.

Fried samosas and french fries everyday.

When I think of it, I already eat whatever I want. I just keep on top of working out and exercise so well I don't see it really make a huge dent in making my waistline bigger. Been there, done that. Now I'm afraid of becoming huger than a house! That image is one that always keeps me in check.

Smaller portions?! What's the fun of that??!!!

Cold seafood platters (I get every sort of seafood I like in one hit)

Chocolates - especially violet and rose creams, marzipan and rumballs!!!

Ice-cream, especially cassata

Chips/french fries

champagne to wash it all down!

Mon dieu! I just saw this mention of a chocolate covered bacon cake!

http://www.aldenteblog.com/2008/07/chocolate-cover.html

Choc and red wine and/or port --- Yes !!! Choc and bacon? they both enhance lots of things individually, but together .... Naw Nugatory

Has anyone ever eaten solona or teperte sp?) or pogacsa? Well, I used to when I was a kid and I could go for some right now!

I could only find a picture of pogacsa, biscuits made out of bacon fat and bits with flour and paprika:



Teperte is the Hungarian equivalent of crispy fried bacon rinds and solona is pure bacon fat, usually cut into little ½" cubes and served on rye bread sprinkled with salt and paprika. All of these wonderful for the heart! Now it must be said that solona bacon is not the gooey fat kind you see in North America but a more textured, springy European style smoked bacon.

Oh--and while we're at it, give me some salted beef marrow on rye bread too!

Exactly!!! LOL

I would eat platters of fried oysters with tartar sauce and cockatail sauce.
And medium-rare prime rib, ribeye steaks, and filets.
And ribs. Lots of ribs.
Washed down with Barq's Creme Soda (the red kind).
For dessert I'd eat bread pudding and brandy sauce.
I'd probably throw in some baked potatoes with all the trimmings...and pounds of HUGE red, seedless grapes...very ripe plums, very ripe pears....and some sharp cheddar cheese.


Oops. I forgot my home-made fudge -- chocolate and butterscoth. Pounds of it.

shrimp cocktail where the sauce is very spicy with horseradish
ceasar salad
good french bread and real butter
medium rare filet mignon with sauted mushrooms to go with it
butter garlic mashed potatoes made from red skinned ones
gin and tonic with a lime or stella artois to wash it down
red velvet cake

Nathan , now I am feeling a tinie bit ill

I would like to go to Maine for an authentic clambake. And also have clam chowder that did not come out of a can.

My list has lots of repeats at this point, but here goes:

Steak, a good ribeye or skirt, rare
Mashed potatoes with butter and cream
Lasaga or ravioli with meatballs and braciole
Baked macaroni and cheese, breadcrumb topping
Baked clams oreganata
Sliced fresh mozzarella and beefsteak tomatoes dressed with chopped basil, salt, balsamic vinegar and good olive oil
Corned beef or brisket or pastrami on rye with mustard, full sours and kosher dills on the side
Fried anything - onion rings, zucchini, potatoes, samosas, calamari, oysters
Any and all bread and butter
Pie - fruit, pecan, lemon meringue, chocolate cream
Linzer tarts, black and white cookies
Noodle pudding
Ambrosia
Haagen-Dazs ice cream, Mayan Chocolate; Ben & Jerry's Fudge Brownie
Italian pastries, especially cannoli
Coffee granita
All washed down with a mojito/capirinha/extra dirty martini/a nice Barolo

That'll work! LOL

Works for me too!


Rebecca, SIL and I were travelling through Maine one time and we are both clam and lobster lovers. We decided that for breakfast we would go to a seafood place. It was a big barn where they steam the clams and lobsters for you in any amount you want. SIL had a huge lobster for breakfast and I had three pounds of steamed clams (and one purloined lobster claw)!

LOBSTER for breakfast! Oh YESSSSS!! <cue angelic choir>

And my 11 yr-old son would have joined you in the clam epic, FiveO. He's been a steamed-clam junkie since he was 5 or 6. He can eat more clams than most adults!

most are here due to fat, salt, or my wish to eat far more of them than recommended; a few because I am for the most part vegan and give myself very rare and specific non-vegan allowances

- a quinoa + avocado (+ 1-2 other toppings) concoction I make that lends itself to extra helpings
- fancy potato dishes with good roquefort
- gindara (black cod in miso sauce)
- various black bean rice noodle dishes
- lots of Indian foods (different curries especially with paneer, onion bhajis, rice dishes, Indian snacks of fried chick pea flour, rice crisps, nuts, especially boondi, tiny little ###### of fried chick pea flour, lightly spiced, utterly addictive)
- good fish and chips and tartar sauce
- an Afghan dish of meat, grains, pulses, looks like a very thick mash, is called Shula but that may be spelled wrong
- cheese (x-old mimoulette, expensive roquefort, walnut cheese from France, smoked cheddar, port cheese)
- organic beef
- fried carbs

What's wrong with that, Besotted? That's what I had for lunch, except that I used fresh mozzarella pearls instead of slices. Granted, I didn't eat a pound of mozzarella, but I thought it was pretty healthy. And oh so yummy during tomato season. I did add some minced garlic and cracked pepper.

That about covers it for me as well.

Well, I might add gelato ...

Nothing's wrong with it. I'd eat an entire platter of it rather than limit myself to my usual slice or two, is all.

A child after my own heart!

And scotch. Since money is no object, 21-year-old MacAllan. Or Balvenie. Or Highland Park. Or Edradour. Or all four. Only after the sun has gone over the yardarm, of course.

I'll have a 30 year old Balvenie myself. :-)

As for sinful foods, I eat everything I want in very small portions. I would certainly love to eat more pop-tarts, cookies, ice cream, pizza, raviolis and tater tots than I do however. :-)

I cannot believe I left out that important alcohol group , mojitoes, bloody cesar , Glenlivet , Crown Royal on ice and nowt else , Bailey's but the bucketload and Goslings Rum.