I could just live on ______

[cgarner]

I love summer! Especially because in my neck of the woods, I get awesome tomatoes, corn, blueberries, cherries, peaches, zucchini, peppers... ok, I get great fresh produce locally all summer long.

I could "live on" Jersey tomatoes and corn on the cob every day during the summer...

What foods COULD you eat every day and never get tired of?

[adventuresinbaking]

wine
coffee
dark chocolate
avocados
pesto pasta
peanut butter
pistachios
cashews

I guess that is more than one thing, but I could live a long time on one of them.

[Dagney]

Foie Gras
Ice Cream
Fresh Pesto
Mango
Patty Melts
White Truffled anything

[globocity]

Refried beans, tortillas, and Tapatío.

Brie, honey, arugula, and French baguette.

[mamachef]

Lately, chopped liver and matzo ball soup. :)
Usually, mashed potatoes w/ extra butter
Always, tomatoes and corn pudding

[afridgetoofar]

Mamachef, throw in a wild variety of yogurt flavors and you've pretty much described how I survived my health crises. SO has needed fresh veg, salads, but I needed calories and comfort. Chopped liver - gooooood. Mashed potatoes with butter, really really GOOD. Matzo ball soup from a good deli (SO doesn't cook but does deliver) - goood. Tomatoes, corn, goooood.

Throw in plenty of noodle dishes and whatever sparks your interest in life - goooooood.

Chopped liver - good! Braunschweiger - GOOD! Hang in there. Eat what tastes GOOD. The taste buds know.

[mamachef]

This needs an amen.
Amen. :)

[shaogo]

I don't want to be a "gloomy gus" but the bench-mark of what really appeals to me was made during a health crisis that reduced my appetite to near-zero.

Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, and peas stood out as my first request.

Lasagna was a close second.

I cheated and ate hamburgers often during that time, too.

Back to the subject: I could've eaten turkey dinners for 60 days and not tired of 'em.

And I consider myself a gourmet. Go figure.

[fldhkybnva]

Oh, thanks for the reminder. As it's called in our house - Thanksgiving Day food = mashed potatoes, turkey, gravy, stuffing and macaroni and cheese, don't forget the rolls trumps all for me. I could eat that food nonstop for likely a very long time.

[chloebell]

Nacho Cheese Doritoes
Eggs - prepared any way
Filet - rare
Salad (with lettuce) - of any kind
Ramen noodles
Any noodle
Anything with Sriracha squirted on it
Kraft Cheese & Macaroni

[fldhkybnva]

French fries

[tfacey]

Naturally Nutty Vanilla Almond Butter
Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder
Farmstead yogurt w maple syrup
blueberry, thai young coconut and raw cacao smoothies

[Pwmfan]

Good butter, on anything that will hold still
and
Home made Chex mix (heavy on the butter, natch).

[afridgetoofar]

Broccoli&cheese Rice-a-Roni. God help me.

For one thing, it reminds me of mom's casseroles. Pure comfort food. For another, it's economical (CHEAP). It was a "salad days" staple, more than Ramen soup packs, I lived on the stuff, and still could if it comes to that. It pairs well with so many other foods, meat or veg. If I were cast ashore on a desert island I'd be over the moon if a crate of water-proofed boxes of bc/RaR washed ashore after me.

I bet it would go well with breadfruit and coconut. I know it's good with fresh fish. mmmmmm I wonder if it's on sale now at my local grocery store, time to check the coupons section of the paper.

[Kholvaitar]

Porterhouse Steak (Rare)
Fish And Chips
Pizza (with Anchovies)
Yams

[mudcat]

Grits.

[GraceW]

Cake. Although I am an experienced baker, a really cheap, nasty grocery-store cake is so good tasting. Everytime I go to the store I have to remind myself: IT IS NO ONE'S BIRTHDAY: NO you can NOT buy a cake.

Also store-bought cookie cake. I don't even like cookies that much, especially commerically produced cookies.. but a store-bought Cookie Cake sounds so appealing. Again, I just remind myself: NO, it's NOT your birthday... what if you buy it and then Bob shows up to find his birthday-cake, and his Cookie Cake is not here!--It would be ALL YOUR FAULT.

[J.L.]

It's always someone's birthday somewhere!

[thespiritualmidget]

green chile cheeseburgers

[frannieface77]

I can, and do, eat at least one apple every day. I also don't get tired of almond butter, and really good dark chocolate, mm.

[HouseSparrow]

Shrimp/scallops/squid
Noodles (Pasta, pho, Asian style...)
Mushrooms
Chocolate milk
Tofu
My mom's tuna sandwiches
Fresh tropical fruit juices/smoothies
Thai curries

[ninestraycats]

Buffalo tenders and french fries, served with blue cheese dip and celery. Mmmm....
I could probably eat lobster every day too. At the very least two ~1lb lobsters a week.
I'm afraid I might get tired of massaman curry (with potatoes, pineapple, baby corn, some onions) and jasmine rice every day, but who knows?

[FoodFuser]

It is abundantly possible
and represented historical

That one can live,
yea, even thrive

On fresh made tortillas
and good refried beans.

[lilgi]

Fuser if you ate refried beans everyday, I think I'd be afraid to squish your cute belly :)

[FoodFuser]

My factory packing of yeast gives me good rise, and carbon dioxide serves as good leaven,
But tortilla and beans and the consequent methane are a whole 'nother heaven.

I'd agree that a poke to my methane-filled belly
is a deed that you'd not want to do.

[Bliss149]

TATERS and MATERS!

[chef chicklet]

Wild shrimp/prawns - fixed any way possible
Yukon gold mashed potatoes and my gravy
any Asian noodle dish or soup
fresh spinach sauteed with garlic, and olive oil s&p- fresh lemon drizzled on top - a bucket full please!
sprouts- any kind
sushi- is that allowable?
Perfect Haas avocados
asparagus
Fresh green beans
Beautiful summer tomatoes
A great big ripe pineapple
In season, California strawberries
Oregon raspberries
Oregon cherries - bing/ or dried
apples
grapes
lemons - from my backyard
Farm fresh eggs - poached
summer rolls - with super fresh herbs and beautiful lettuce and shrimp
and my special long baguette of sourdough french bread that I buy at the bakery daily
French Onion soup
Mortadella & Provolone
Scharffen Berger dark 72% or or bitter sweet chocolate 70%
light beer

[linxi]

Mashed potatoes
Seafood
Ramen noodles
Peanut butter
Gatorade

[raisingirl]

Chicken wings and leafy greens.

[crt]

PEANUT BUTTER!

[emilyjh75]

Pizza
Chocolate
Cheese

I worked in pizza restaurants for several years as a teen and young adult, and literally ate pizza every day, and still never get tired of it. I love me some pizza!

[Nanzi]

lobster & oysters

[Jay F]

pasta (Italian) and ice cream

[GraceW]

Recently it has been ketchup... I switched to the low-sugar version.. and now I love it much better on many foods.. but I think I may be using too much.

[SpokaneFoodLover]

Pho. Makizushi. Sashimi. Huo guo (Chinese hot pot). Jiaozi (potstickers). Yezi nai cha (coconut milk bubble tea). Pretty much anything that reminds me of my childhood in Southeast Asia.

Steamed lobster. Eggs Benedict. Sausage, peppers, and onions with penne. Scallop escabeche. Grandma's biscuits and gravy. Rare fillet of beef. Huckleberries. Exceptionally sharp white Cheddar. Tom Collins.

[velochic]

Cantaloupe. Hands-down it is my favorite food and I could eat it every day during summer. I can't imagine I would eat it every day for LIFE, but since *good* cantaloupe is available locally only 3 - 4 months of the year... I could live on it when we have it.

[sandylc]

Ha! I ate canteloupe every day day when I was pregnant. When my son starting eating solid food, he went for the orange foods - so much so that the beta carotene turned his little nose orange!

[HillJ]

If I could find a perfectly ripened canteloupe it would def. be on my list too. But, I can't even recall the last time I ate a good one and just recently I returned a melon to the market because it tasted like cardboard.

[sandylc]

Yeah, that is a major issue here as well.

[sandylc]

And yes, these days at these prices, if it's awful it gets returned. The store needs to know that tasteless garbage is not acceptable.

[Chinon00]

Sushi/ Sashimi
Chicken Livers
Sweet Breads

[guilty]

pineapple
cherries
untoasted nori

[cocoagirl]

I always say I could live on Chicken salad- the kind with grapes and nuts and any kind of chili

[PotatoHouse]

PASTA!

At least until it led to my fourth and final heart attack (Yes, fellow foodies, I've racked up three so far).

[tracylee]

I've always said that I could live on Pepperoni Pizza and Sushi.

More realistically these days, it seems like it's cheese and eggs.

[nutmeg0287]

Potatoes! Any way you cook them. Yum.

[noodlepoodle]

All noodles and stringy pasta
Baby backribs
chicken wings
chicken roasted with carrots, onions and potatoes
apple pie
meatballs
goat cheese stuffed dates
baked Brie with good baguettes
good mashed potatoes
plain ice cream (no gimmicky additions)
whipped cream
good whole milk yogurt
good chocolate truffles
fresh cooked salmon
lobster, clams, shrimp
breakfast crepes
bacon
butter
BLTs

p.s. I like to eat.

[ptrichmondmike]

Pork vindaloo
Fish and chips
Eggs Benedict
Grilled portabella burgers
Chicken Caesar salad
Lao green papaya salad (extra spicy please)

[Breadcrumbs]

Mapo Doufu w steamed rice.

I never seem to tire of it.

[buttertart]

That's what's for dinner here in hot hot hot NJ, with local green beans, dry-fried. Fuchsia D's recipes. I love it too.

[Breadcrumbs]

Mmm, so delicious bt!! You know, I still haven't made FD's recipe even though I bought the book for that specific reason. I really must make it soon.

btw, did you see that I actually made some bread? Ok, just flatbreads and they were baked on the grill but bread nonetheless, involving yeast and everything!!

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/7932...

[buttertart]

Just peeped that! Good on ya, miss.
FD's recipe makes the real thing - you're going to love it.

[Breadcrumbs]

Maybe I'll do it for lunch early this week, I have a couple of days off! You've really made me crave it!

[buttertart]

:)

[Pzz]

Thank you, because I thought I was the only person profoundly addicted to Mapo Doufu. As long as the tofu isn't deep-fried. And it MUST contain the frozen peas and carrot pieces.

Wait - I just realized I have the ingredients on hand for a batch...

[Breadcrumbs]

Totally agree w/r/t the tofu Pzz....pity we aren't neighbours!!

[ROCKLES]

Pasta, shrimp, cheese
or any combination there of!!
oh and cheeseburgers!!!!

[jcattles]

Rice & beans of any type

[LauraGrace]

In the winter, ITA. I could eat variations of rice and beans twice a day when there's a chill in the air.

[Popkin]

For cereal, I could totally live on Quaker Oats brown sugar oatmeal squares. I can absentmindedly munch through a box before I know it lol!

Other than that, I could just live on potatoes and garlic. My family has teased me since I was a little kid about living off potatoes, garlic, and spicy stuff lol. Baked, boiled, oiled, buttered, broiled, scalloped, mashed, fried, toasted, loaded, bare, and all else in between!

[Querencia]

Reading through this thread, am I the only cereal addict? Shredded Wheat. Rice Krispies. Corn Flakes. Puffed Rice. Wheaties. With blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, peaches. In winter, Cream of Wheat. Oatmeal.

[EWSflash]

In a perfect world-
Cheese- I need a blanket pass on this one, there are so many good ones
sushi
Nectarines
garden greens, most of them except dill
ribeyes and prine rib (I know, same thing)
baby back ribs
deep red cherries
seaweed salad
squid salad
fresh young peas
young raw okra, fresh off the stalk
great summer corn

Well, I guess i'm going to have to narrow it down some.

[inaplasticcup]

What all goes into that squid salad uh yers?

[EWSflash]

I'm not sure- I get it at Japanese restaurants. Actually I usually get half squid and half seaweed. But aside from squid and seaweed and sesame oil I don't know what-all is in it.

[inaplasticcup]

Sushi and summer rolls - for the time being (summer) at least. :)

[EWSflash]

Oh yes, I forgot about the summer rolls. Add those.

[BananaBirkLarsen]

Thai curries
salmon burgers
goat cheese
homemade multigrain bread
mangoes
cherries
homegrown tomatoes
avocados
artichokes
gyoza
fruit salad with granola, yogurt and honey (I did live on this for most of a summer)
pizza with bacon, pineapple, spinach and artichoke hearts

...Now I'm hungry.

[bobbert]

Mashed potatoes

[Cynamar]

I could live on garden-fresh heirloom tomatoes, over-easy eggs, and fried taters. YUM!

[lawkitty]

Cheese:
triple creme brie
bufalo mozzarella
aged gouda
blue

Seafood:
grilled lobster w/lemon and salted sweet cream butter
alaskan king crab
seared scallops
sushi: hamachi, sake
kumamoto oysters

Breads:
crusty fresh baked bread
fresh popovers with honey butter

Veggies:
Minnesota heirloom tomatoes
morel mushrooms sauteed in butter

Fruit:
mangoes
pineapple

That's me: fish fruit veggies bread cheese.

Oh, and I nearly forgot wine....oh how I love thee, WINE!

[J.L.]

Paella. All day. All night.

[chicgail]

lobster (crab...shrimp...mussels...clams)
popcorn
sushi
really good chewy, crusty bread
cheese

[sandylc]

Reading this thread for the first time - can't believe that my beloved popcorn wasn't mentioned until more than halfway through!!!!!!!!!

[montrealeater]

cheese (room temp and stinky)
avocado (interesting to see this in so many replies)
pistachios
ice cream
seaweed salad
spring rolls (gotta have mint in em)
indian candy (smoked salmon)
challah bread
my mom's turkey gravy (seriously, I could drink this stuff)
potato and potato based dishes (esp. involvign very high fat and salt contents)
onions
mangoes
Frog Hollow Farm peaches

[Luna2372]

Made a soft goat cheese today....cant live with out it now

[majordanby]

trail mix

[jmcarthur8]

Cheese

Cheese

and Cheese

[Peg]

Are we twins?

[Bria Silbert]

Kashi Berry Crisp cereal - totally, hopelessly addicted to it.

[Luna2372]

Homemade granola with honey and yogurt. could eat it all day.

But corn...fresh corn with butter and lime and pepper and salt

[jmcarthur8]

Or, as my mother used to say, "Did you two crawl out from under the same rock?"

[jester99]

fresh baked bread, cheese and salmui/charcuterie.
Oh and Ice Cream

[debw1946]

Fried chicken.

[HillJ]

fresh spring rolls

avocado

grilled tuna

and any farmers market produce available, I'm not fussy

[HillJ]

I'd have to add Greek yogurt, Cuties and honey to my list.

[kubasd]

cuties, as in clementines? love those. soooo good :)

[HillJ]

Yes, I have a serious addiction to them. At least six a day.

[iL Divo]

love those little addictive buggers

[Uncle Bob]

Seafood.....Pork.....Vegetables

[twyst]

A great steak and well made mashed potatoes.

[southvalleycook]

POTSTICKERS handmade and juicy

SWEET CORN from any farm stand near my home

BEEF SANDWICH wet with a lot of hot mustard

SANTA MARIA BBQ

HOLLANDAISE SAUCE on almost anything

[hyde]

nobody said bread?
i guess thats implied in sandwiches but still surprised.
and cheese.

[mariacarmen]

i said bread, two posts above you! yum. i don't know how/why i left cheese off. it's actually better than fries.

[onceadaylily]

I said bread and cheese. What do I win? Hopefully someone who can actually bake bread for me. ;)

[jlhinwa]

And I said crusty bread with dipping oil and balsamic vinegar. :-) Gotta have bread on any list like this!

[Peachie]

I'm with you....I could live on crusty bread and butter alone.

[mcel215]

Steamed lobster
Sliced beefsteak tomatoes from the garden
Corn on the cob

[mariacarmen]

tea leaf salad
the aforementioned french fries (fried potatoes of any kind, really.)
liverwurst/pate
good french/vietnamese style baguette with good butter
Lay's bbq potato chips
hamachi nigiri
ankimo sashimi
oysters
manila mangos
pineapples
nectarines
bruschetta if tomatoes are good
bacon/pork belly
carpaccio over arugula drizzled with very grassy extra virgin olive oil, kosher salt
saltenas (i could, too, but that one is for Passadumkeg.)

[kubasd]

I love saltenas. Pike pizza on Columbia Pike in Arlington, VA has amazing saltenas as long as you arrive early enough on Saturday morning for them to have any left. I miss those so much!

[Matahari22]

Last summer, and probably this one too, I lived on zucchini, peppers, brocoli and eggplant out of the garden. Basically tons of vegetable curries, and ratatouille. And my newest thing I must have as my midnight snack, Ben & Jerry's Pistachio Pistachio Ice Cream.

[jlhinwa]

Seafood, especially crab, lobster, scallops, prawns and salmon. All with lots of fresh lemon slices and a little butter.

Pasta

Ice cream

Cheese

Crusty bread w/dipping oil & balsamic vinegar

Watermelon

Pineapple

Tart, crisp apples

Bell peppers

Asparagus

Greek salad

And many more, I am sure!

[Luna2372]

Not fair....

In the spirit of the post I thought it was the ONE thing....

I NEED...

summer peas

Sweet corn

Prawns

Crab

Roasted chicked

GREAT steak

and

FIRE ROASTED MARSHMELLOWS...oh ya thats summer

[easily amused]

Brie...., Goldeye....Sea salt Pita crackers
Ok...maybe some swisschard, tomatoes, garlic.

[cayjohan]

I am indulging in my summertime need for a pitcher of gazpacho in the refrigerator at all times. It's marvelous. I could live on it. I am living on it. And happily.

[Luna2372]

Truly I need

watermelon

that is summer to me

[GraceW]

Berries.

[Harters]

Lamb sandwich

[chefathome]

almost all fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs

cheese

bacon

mashed potatoes with browned butter

duck (especially seared duck breast) and confit

lamb

rillettes

pulled pork

poached eggs

lobster, prawns, squid, scallops, octopus

white flaky fish such as sea bass

tons of risottos then arancini

all kinds of mushrooms (especially morels and chanterelles)
grilled baby back ribs
salted caramel

[Luna2372]

Chefathome...Can I live with you?

No scallops tho...allergy

[grayelf]

Anything deep fried. Deep fried paper, deep fried sand, batter it, dip it in hot fat for a few minutes, I'm there. Kidding. Kind of.

[SteveRB]

Iceberg lettuce. Almonds. Cheese. Iced tea.

[alliegator]

pistachios!

[Cheese Boy]

Any pasta, chinese noodle dishes, rice noodle dishes (pad thai), pho, etc ... Answer = Noodles.

[danionavenue]

pizza, sushi, wine, ice cream

[woodleyparkhound]

+1 on pasta / noodles

[lilgi]

Fruit, all types.

[lilgi]

oops! eta: EXCEPT cherries, hate em.

[goodhealthgourmet]

[gasp!] you *hate* cherries? really? what is it about them that you find offensive? our cardamom experiment was such a success that i think we should tackle this one now ;)

[EWSflash]

*mouth open in shock, not believing what she's reading*

[lilgi]

None of us like cherries here of any kind. Tis okay since they're anaphrodisiac - at this age I don't need anything that blunts our libido, but since we don't like them no loss ;)

@ghg: I only just opened this thread, sorry I missed your comment. Cardamom, yes, cherries, no way.

eta: for anyone else reading this please don't ask me to reference; comment was based on a few articles I read years ago and info may be conflicting.

[LauraGrace]

Peaches, corn, and tomatoes in the summer. I could be happily high-raw and mostly vegan in the summer generally. Maybe 90% vegan and 10% bacon-and-tomato sandwiches? Hey, don't knock my lifestyle choices, man! ;)

I think I could really eat quinoa every day and never get tired of it, because there are so many ways to prepare and eat it, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

[cgarner]

Salad sandwiches - I almost forgot to add that to my list

My grandfather had a BIG garden and grew lettuce, we’d fight over the leftover salad in the bottom of the big bowl, it was sitting in the oil and vinegar and we’d stuff it into the heel of some really good Italian bread with a slice of tomato and call it a salad sandwich… we’d basically eat that at the end of every summer dinner at my grandparents house…I could eat a properly prepared salad sandwich every day!

[cayjohan]

Agreed. We consider it one of the best parts of the meal. We sometimes just tear up the remaining bread and toss it with the salad greens and dressing dregs so the bread gets a little soft. We have fruit with it, generally. It's a nice end to the meal.

[JenJeninCT]

I used to have this a lot in college, only stuffed into a pita. YUM!

[Peg]

Cheese (but I can't else I turn into The Blob)
Peanut butter (ditto)
Gin martinis (ditto)
Pizza (ditto)
Spaghetti with o-oil and raw garlic (ditto)
Pretty much any kind of seafood
Chickpeas
Refried pinto beans
Avocados
Chillies
Onions/Garlic
Green salad with o-oil and sherry vinegar
Cheese (sigh)
Did I mention cheese?

[basketwoman]

ditto

Plus, summer veggies and wine

[artychokeasana]

sheesh, I wish I could plus one this!

[feelinpeckish]

re: Peg
Same here but including the gin martini.

[RealMenJulienne]

Hash browns. I can eat a disgusting amount of hash browns for any meal of the day. Potatoes, onions, fat, and salt; I'm lucky to have cheap vices.

On the healthy side, massive amounts of stir-fried Chinese greens like gai lan, napa cabbage, and water spinach are on our table every night.

[CanadaGirl]

Pho

[southernitalian]

+1 pho.
Any blue cheese
Artichokes
Cashews

[onceadaylily]

Tomatoes, avocados, Greek yogurt, olives, shrimp, soft cheese, good bread, and pie. I think I just planned my upcoming market list.

[gator28]

Strawberries
Apples
Cucumbers
Greek yogurt
Hard boiled eggs
Ahi poke

[buttertart]

French fries.

[mariacarmen]

i love you. and fries.

[TheHuntress]

Yep, definitely fries!

[fourunder]

I could "live on" Jersey tomatoes and corn on the cob every day during the summer...

.I would further add Shellfish and Barbeque...

[cgarner]

I was going to say that I'd tire of barbecue, but then I thought of all it's variations and I rescinded that thought... good one!

[CarrieWas218]

Doughnuts....

<sigh>

[shaebones]

sauteed garden greens
peanut butter
granola
ice cream