What food gives you butterflies in your stomach?

[Soop]

Is there any food, that you not only love to eat, but is SO good, that you actually get a happy feeling before you eat it? I haven't had it for a while but:

Ben and Jerries milkshake (big scoop or two of your favorite flavour and about a pint of cold skimmed milk)
Some chilli I made once (with casserole steak) and ate in taco shells. God, I was sad to see the last of that go. Only lasted a day.
Macaroni cheese - sourced the finest cheeses, used breakfast milk, and made a perfect roux. My girlfriend says it was the best cheese sauce (bechemal) she'd ever seen, and she hardly ever goes above "mmm, yeah good". Did a little dance while it was cooking and served it on top of two delicious, perfectly grilled dry-cured bacon slices.
And occasionally some really good cheese with fresh French bread.

[Soop]

I had some really nice smoked salmon on a hot bagel with roule, which was lovely. And I'm looking forward to some xmas pudding with brandy cream. All half price at this time of year, and I was too full for xmas pud at xmas

[BarmyFotheringayPhipps]

My wife made her beef stroganoff last week, and I was looking forward to it so much that I might have danced a small jig in the aisle at Russo's when I was buying the mushrooms to put in it.

[TampaAurora]

Purely for taste:
Fresh Roasted Corn with lime, chili pepper, garlic and salt
Tabbouleh - light on bulghur wheat, and all smiles. My SO was laughing at how smiley and bouncy I was eating it today.
Dim Sum Sesame balls
Bubble Tea - Thai Tea with Boba, or Fruity Teasanes with Jellies
Root Vegetable and Chicken Soup with Mazto Balls - it may be related to spending half the day cooking it and my subsequent expectations

Taste and Memory:
Potato Latkes with applesauce and sea salt - family recipe, no processor here - only grated knuckles
Passover Honey Cake - it's cake, I can eat it, and it doesn't taste like cardboard!!!
Raw Honey - can anyone have honey and not smile?
Rosemary - grows wild in Jerusalem, I can't smell it or taste anything with it without being almost overwhelmed by happy memories

[missfunkysoul]

chipotle chocolate pots de creme. serious butterflies.

[AngelSanctuary]

Lol I'm really sensitive to these things so anything that tastes good makes me do that XD!

But most recently, I was eating at a Szechuan restaurant (cuisine was Szechuan not the location) and I started laughing because their white fish poached in chili oil was that good. And their potato cakes too.

[Sal Vanilla]

My husband claps and does a small jumping motion as I plate duck leg confit and crispy.

When I know champagne is close to being popped my voice raises an octive or so and I start talking in song.

When we are shucking a pile of oysters I sometimes do a little dance of glee.

When I sauteed foie gras for the first time I think I let out a "woohoohoooooo"

I am an exuberant gal.

[chrischris]

Tom Kha Gai
Well-salted crispy french fries
Avocado, in the shell, with just a sprinkle of salt and squeeze of lime

[1sweetpea]

Really good quality sashimi. Perfectly steamed lobsters make my heart flutter, particularly if they are full of coral (roe). Anything with white truffles (even black ones make me happy). I once received a 6-month wine and cheese-of-the-month subscription as a gift. One of the cheeses that arrived one month was a Friulano style cow's milk cheese that was generously studded with flecks of black truffle. It was an aphrodisiac for the tongue. I try to avoid cheeses, since I am a dangerous cheese addict despite being lactose intolerant, but a stinky Cabrales or Roquefort will put me on cloud nine.

[Sam Fujisaka]

Momos, laab & khao niyao, inarizushi, mondongo, morning street tamales, broiled tuna cheeks, night street tacos, mid-day almost street bread straight from the tandoor, musubi with ume, manisoba, lau lau, any smoked fish or meat or duck, a good burger, a good street hot dog, ravioli in Italy, bierocks, and the rustic cheeses and fresh hot very rustic breads in Tarija, Boliiva, in a time that no longer exists.

[mrsbuffer]

Perfectly done broiled scallops with lemon butter.
A grilled steak medium rare.
Guacamole
Chinese spare ribs on the bone.
Bertucci's chicken wings - they aren't hot wings, but are charbroiled with olive oil, rosemary, lemon, garlic and pepper.
Cheesecake
A grilled chicken caesar salad where everything is fresh fresh fresh and the chicken is hot and juicy

[Jaytizzle]

Korean BBQ Short ribs with white rice
Mac and Cheese
Lengua Burrito

[mpalmer6c]

Dim sum.

[Passadumkeg]

Beluga & Dom, dream on Markie, it's been 40 years!!

[bubbles4me]

A perfectly fried pile of french fries....

[ChefDell]

A juicy med rare burger on a buttery soft roll topped with sauteed onions and gorgonzola cheese. Add a side of well done homemade shoestring fries and the butterflies start to flutter!

[Passadumkeg]

A real taco al pastor. I'm for real now

[Soop]

mmm... my homemade onion burger. With all the extras you mentioned

[James Cristinian]

Anything, other than Sprite or chicken stock. I had a colonoscopy yesterday, that was my diet, plus sitting mere feet from a toilet for four and more hours. They said I could eat anything, so I did. Guacamole, augmented (with restaurant pemission) fresh jalapenos and tomatoes from my patio farm. Also, carne asada, lump crab enchiladas, and fish tacos, made my day. I even drove home from the restaurant, gasp, no operating heavy machinery, as my wife had three margaritas. Thank you, El Tiempo, Houston. Oh, melly, why didn't I think of freshly shucked oysters for dessert?

[melly]

Fresh, just opened oysters with a spritz of lemon.

[Prav]

Butterflies, of course!

Seriously, grilled cheese.

[Paula76]

A curry from my local Indian restaurant here in the UK; just the thought of the poppadoms with chutneys, the stuffed paratha and the various delicious marinaded meats in beautiful sauces makes my heart miss a beat...and the smile on my face lasts for a whole day afterwards!

[tazochai]

kalua pig, or laulau, with rice. I grew up in Hawaii and miss the food there so much. Kalua pig is so amazingly good, I definitely get a very excited happy feeling before eating it. laulau would be a close second. I would have a hard time making either one properly here on the mainland, especially since I've never made either one before. Ti leaves aren't in my produce section.

[Phoo_d]

Chuao chocolates - Whenever I'm lucky enough to be near a store I get big butterflies!
Al's Italian Beef - The thought of standing in the original store in "the stance" going in for that first bite - oh my!
At home: Fire roasted chicken enchiladas (link below), burrata cheese - the essence of fresh cheese, grilled corn on the cob with salt, lime juice and freshly ground pepper.

Phoo-D
http://www.phoo-d.com

[krisrishere]

Just looked at that enchilada recipe a few hours ago. Looks good! I'm planning to try it out at some point.

[Kate is always hungry]

Italian beef! There's another flutter.

[CeeBee]

Bacon
Mom's Pot Roast
Cadbury Flake bars

[Morganna]

Lobster does this to me. And sometimes snow crab legs. :) They both make me croon happily. :) I'm a bug eater...

[krisrishere]

I agree! Lobster, steamers..any crustacean from the ocean really.
Ben and Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch Ice Cream
Thick Coffee Frappe's with coffee syrup
Porterhouse Steaks.
Fried Calamari from my favorite restaurant

[Kate is always hungry]

Ooh yeah, French bread with butter and a glass of ice water. There's more, to start potato latkes with sour cream. Too many to list right now!

[Soop]

I remember going to brasserie blanc too for the first time; they started us with (free) freshly baked bread with butter and/or olive oil. Damn, that Raymond Blanc knows his stuff!