hometown foods you crave

[Ice Cream]

mussels

[ihop]

I love the frozen canal!  So very cool.

I don't have much to add - except I do crave pizza sometimes.  Big slices with blistered crust that you fold to eat.  Yum! 

[ihop]

I am going to add bagels.  And lox.  And fabulous cheeses.

[diablita]

yes, bagels are a big one.  There are no decent bagels in Ashevegas so I learned to make them.  Happily I found a NY Bagel-style shop 20 minutes away in another town recently (Hendersonville), so I'm happy!

[merigayle]

We have TONS of black raspberries on our property, but this year, they were far outnumbered by raspberries (aka wine berries) which were just divine. We probably picked 20+ lbs of them just around our yard! We do have some blackberries, but we did not get as many this year, they ripened oddly this year.

[leggova]

Hong Kong Roasted Chestnuts. See these guys around the streets in winter.



Sui Mai



The best dish to be found in Hong Kong and maybe the world - Beef Rendang with roti channai

[CheryG]

Stewed tomatoes and canned yellow beans.

[caribougrrl]

the greek yogurt thread just gave me a craving for a peanut butter and old cheddar cheese sandwich.

[OldBaldHippie]

[mango]

Hong Kong Roasted Chestnuts.

we have those too, along with these:

1. what kind of fish are they?

2. how do you eat them -- not as they are, I presume?

[caribougrrl]

I grew up across the border.  We were rarely allowed a can of pop, but when we were, it was Vernor's.  I don't know if you can find it anywhere in Canada other than in the Windsor area.


And perch!!  I live near the ocean and can get all sorts of fresh fish and shellfish, but I do sometimes crave a good feed of pan-fried perch.

[OldBaldHippie]

Perch and walleye are my favorites...

Did you ever have a Vernor's float?


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[caribougrrl]

Did you ever have a Vernor's float?

one in Detroit at a pizza parlour... can't remember the name of the place but it had a player piano in the lobby

[diablita]

Vernor's, how I love you 

[mango]

Perch and walleye are my favorites...

and again, I ask (cause I'm not gonna be IGNORED): how do you eat them perch and walleye in your hometown?

[OldBaldHippie]

and again, I ask (cause I'm not gonna be IGNORED): how do you eat them perch and walleye in your hometown?

Oh...how do I eat them...filleted and fried...


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[GreenMan]

My Kansas hometown didn't have a distinctive food, but I really miss the pizza at a little place that went out of business in the '80s. Biscuit-style crust; can't get that most places anymore.

And on my and my sister's birthdays we'd always get a cake from a neighborhood bakery. It had a distinctive taste. Later in life I lived two doors down from the place and could have that cake anytime I wanted. It eventually closed too. 

[merigayle]

I have none, is that weird?

[CheryG]

Aren't those yellow perch?  We never ate the yellow perch, only white perch.

[mango]

...filleted and fried...

ah yes, fried, of course: as water meets fire, fish become art.

(which, trust me, sounds way better when said in Korean)

speaking of... back in my hometown, fish are more commonly grilled, like this:



which are then served like this:



sigh...