What foods make you feel like royalty when you're eating them?
currently jamming on this toasted bread with butter. someone else woke up to work baker's hours at walmart to bake this loaf, then i bought it, then toasted it, then added butter. a veritable feast
I'm British and grew up in the 90s, so I'm therefore conditioned to think Ferrero Rocher is the single fanciest thing on the fucking planet despite knowing full well there's no way that is the case.
Gimme that pyramid of foil-wrapped nutty chocolate spheres and I will be a king
Eating a whole rotisserie chicken with my bare hands while drinking wine out of a goblet and tossing the bones onto the floor for the dogs to fight over as entertainment.
It’s good to warn people against feeding their dogs chicken bones irl but in my scenario, these are tough mutts that know how to chew the bones properly before swallowing.
I avoid meat now due to its links to climate change so I’ve been on a journey food wise. Dal Makhani is just so decadent it made me so glad that I was born period. It’s a black lentil curry that is so fucking good i will devour a bowl in no time flat
There was a place near me in college that would make the special black lentil dal only on Thursdays for lunch, but it was always so good. I don’t know if it’s the same thing, but those lentils certainly made me realize I could be vegetarian.
Steak and some kind of berries-- strawberry, blueberry, kiwiw, whatever. Something about tossing a raspberry or something in your mouth between bites of filet mignon is just so damn aristocratic
Expensive chocolate, cheese platters and when I order fish-based meals from Gousto (ordered a creamy linguini with monkfish medalions once and felt like a queen)
Single origin chocolate (not even very expensive, but only royalty had easy access to cocoa until recently and they didn't make chocolate the way we do now).
OP, my adult daughter came to my house one day and I offered her filtered chilled water and fresh baked sourdough with butter - fanciest bread and water ever. Bread to me is magic, I make sourdough only so it's literally made of flour, water, a little salt and time. How does it get such flavor?
Anything with courses feels so luxurious to me. We don't eat that way in my house because we (mostly I myself) cook for ourselves and want to sit together to eat. Getting served small plates in succession is so labor intensive and also a nice way to eat. We did this at a small fancy restaurant once - we ordered several things and the waiter served them one at a time, for us to share. Best ever way to eat as a couple or small group.
I worked on one of those fish farms in '91 : floating clusters of nets holding salmon raised to be sold, etc.
Mortalities were worthless, even the super-fresh ones. The morts would be dead but their gills would still be pink, so you know they were fresh.
On discovery, all work would pause. One person, with the speed and care one would give an organ donor, would ferry this mort and any others off to the adjacent farm with the smoker someone built on the detached workshop section.
Fresher than fresh, this poor fishy would be cleaned and prepped and in it would go. When she and her friends came out, it was amazing salmon.
I bought a pack of trader joes smoked salmon to take to a brunch last weekend but I couldn't end up making it, and I ended up eating the whole thing myself over a few days.
Its stupid easy to make and sounds fancy as hell. You basically take a metric assload of thinly sliced red onions (use a mandolin. More consistent = more better) and cook them over a low heat stirring pretty much constantly until they are the consistency of jam. Most recipes call for red wine vinegar, or red wine and balsamic vinegar but I hate wine and balsamic takes over IMO so I use a little maple syrup and apple cider vinegar. If you season it correctly its amazing.
Problem is that its a bit of a time sink to make so you wind up making huge batches because its the exact same amount of work.
At first I wanted to say sushi, but basically anything I order online, because they're so expensive. But during those few occasions I really feel like royalty.