What's your favorite meal?

[LostInTheMist]

You're in a restaurant, so you don't have to prepare it, or clean up after it. Everything you've ever eaten in your life is on the menu, and it will be prepared exactly the way you want it, perfectly every time.

What do you order? In other words, what is your favorite food in the whole wide world?

My favorite breakfast is a salt bagel with (a little) cream cheese, (a lot of) lox, and (a moderate amount of) capers.

For lunch, you can't go wrong with a nice BLT, but with spinach instead of lettuce on toasted sourdough.

Dinner is much more difficult. I have a bunch of recipes that I really like, but I don't make them often because they're fiendishly complex and/or time-consuming. I think I'd have to pick my mother's secret chicken liver pate recipe on toast points (slices from a baguette fried in oil and salt). I unearthed the recipe a few days ago, but because it's so difficult and delicate that I haven't tried to make it yet. Yet.

So what would you order? Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or just your favorite overall meal?

[Peony]

I like oatmeal for breakfast, but not just any oatmeal, cherry oatmeal with almond butter on top. For lunch, an endless supply of candy melon. My favourite dinner is a huge salad comprised of rocket (arugula), roasted root vegetables (like carrots, beets), baked tofu squares, crispy butter beans with a balsamic reduction dressing.

[Earlyworm]

I love the morrocan salad arrangements with tons of salads to chose from and many people around, passing around wonderful plates full of delicious flavours from one person to the next.

I know it's hard to order atmosphere, but sharing different kinds of dishes and experiencing new wonderful flavours I haven't known of before and talking with friends until late at night would be what I would order.

[DukeJohn]

For breakfast I would just have scrambled eggs and link sausages with orange juice. For lunch I would have a ribeye steak cooked rare with warm bread and honey. For dinner I would have a caesar salad, fettuccine alfredo made with raw eggs, and NY cheesecake for dessert.

[LostInTheMist]

...and NY cheesecake for dessert.

Cheesecake is my kryptonite. So long as it's not chocolate and there's no chocolate involved, I can't say no to cheesecake.

[RedRose]

French or Italian food.
Though Indian and Chinese kill…
I cannot choose! My craving now is a big juicy steak and fries with maybe béarnaise sauce or pesto?!

Though I love sugar brioche, Nutella and chocolate milk I wouldn't choose bfast

[Mathim]

Breakfast: Nothing beats a breakfast sandwich and/or breakfast burrito. Every savory ingredient known to breakfast kind rolled together in a tortilla or stacked up in a toasty bun or other variety of bread (croissant being the personal fave). The key thing is the cheese.

Lunch: Let's go with an Olive Garden style pasta dish. Me, I like the stuffed varieties like tortellini and ravioli, with a really creamy savory sauce, not the overly sweet but still otherwise bland red stuff. A bowl of that gorgeous potato/sausage/kale soup and those soft, salty, buttery breadsticks for the appetizer and I'm golden.

Dinner: Simple, and I'm going to be doing this for my birthday in just under a month. There's a place called Cattlemen's with a few locations around the surrounding towns or just over the county line and they're one of the higher quality steakhouses around here. We start with unlimited salads (my friend asks to hold the onions but I just ask for a dish of them on the side) and Bleu Cheese dressing as the standard; there's also unlimited bread and butter but that's pretty bland. I usually just use the bread to soak up the steak drippings, yum. A mini cauldron of ranch-style beans (served cold for some inexplicable reason) accompanies the entrees. My dinner guest always gets a helping of Alaskan King Crab legs with his entreee, sometimes a cut of the filet mignon, occasionally the prime rib. I go for the 2-lb sirloin every time. A twice-baked potato always accompanies it, because why bother with anything less when it comes to taters?

How 'bout some optional dessert? Can't go wrong with a milkshake from Cold Stone, their cream is the best. Red Velvet Cake is my flavor of choice. But Cattlemen's also has some competitive favorites. They have a chocolate chip cookie fresh from the oven and topped with a small ice cream sundae blend of goodies. Or their signature Cow Pie, which replaces the cookie with a huge brownie. And now that I think about it, let's give an extra-shiny bronze medal to some of the lovely treats at Dairy Queen. A good Blizzard (S'mores have a special place in my heart but only during summer, sadly; oh, and cotton candy, when they have it) and you can't go wrong.

Yeah. Why the hell did I have to write all of that when I'm trying to resist eating anything else before bed? Damn it...

[Blythe]

Breakfast: Bacon so crispy that it's almost got a little burn to it. Diced fried potatoes the way Uncle R used to make them when I visited my grandparents and uncles as a child--I had few good memories of those times, but those potatoes were the perfect balance of crispy and yet fluffy made in a cast-iron skillet--happy times. Two pieces of wheat bread toast. Tall glass of orange juice with it. Fresh squeezed. No pulp.

Lunch: My sister's homemade pizzas, with all the meat toppings. She never stints on pepperoni, sausage, or canadian bacon--and she knows that I prefer a bit less beef than is typical of those pizzas, there's always extra cheese, and the crusts she goes out of her way to put a garlic butter spread and makes a homemade & very tangy marinara to dip them in.

Dinner: A thick medium-rare NY strip steak, grilled asparagus with a fresh garlic and salt drizzle on it, deep fried and breaded tiger shrimp with a very spicy pepper-flake & soy dip that I used to get from my favorite college steakhouse, crabcakes with the only mustard I ever liked--this houseblend that was sweet and also had pepper in it. Southern-style hushpuppies. Freshly made beer battered onion rings that are more batter than onion, as I've always loved the crispy golden-brown batter better than the onion part.

Dessert: The chocolate-coated fluffy donuts me and my dad buy for ourselves at the local donut place. They are my favorite thing ever. There's nothing special about them other than I only ever eat these when I get them with my dad, but for that, they are my favorite.

[Rinzler]

Breakfast: Toast with Gentleman's Relish (strong anchovy butter).

Lunch: Lord Woolton pie and mash with proper liquor - eel gravy - and not the fake stuff.

Tea: Chips and curry sauce from the chip shop.