Day 21: Your 10 favorite foods

[smittenbyu]

#21: Your 10 favorite foods

mmmm…favorite food… how to list them all? (no particular order)

1. Pizza - the most memorable pizza was when I was 4, it was in Petrolina (Brazil) - it was shrimp and lots of tomato based sauce with cheese. My first memory of food, I can still taste it!*


2. Tomato rasam/charu - having some right now as I type. Simplest of dishes but the most comforting ever (with rice). Anything wrong with the world is just whisked away.


3. Avocados - first time I tasted them was in Rome, when I was 13 years old! And then I was introduced to guacamole (forget when) and I thought I found heaven. These days the best guacamole is found at Oyamel (in Washington DC).


4. Grapefruit - it is a fruit that took a decade to like. Now can't have enough! Yum…and the season has started!


5. Injera & Ethiopian food. just yum and healthy too. The Orthodox Christians eat vegetarian food and so most restaurants have a vegetarian meal. The metro DC area has the biggest Ethiopian immigrant population in the country. You can't go wrong with any restaurant.


6. Thai food - was always the favorite place to go. Until we found D's allergy to peanuts and coconuts. We just stopped going. Unless I go out with friends without her, which is a rare event.


7. Lebanese food. What more to say.


8. Red, yellow & orange bell peppers. Aside from daughter's favorite vegetable, I just love it in everything!


9. Chipotle…. yummy


10. Ragi mudde with generous portions of tamarind gojju - I never liked it growing up. But since we had to eat what was put on our plate, I ate it for 20 years before I liked it. Now it's the first thing and only thing I ask my mom to prepare when she asks for my requests! yum!

I have to say, I have to thank my dad for helping us explore new cuisines growing up. And mom who instilled that we had to eat whatever she put on our plates like it or not. Or as dad said, the kitchen was ours to prepare our own meals and clean up.

And I grew up in countries where food is such a big part of culture, India, Brazil, Italy, Singapore, Malaysia!

* Brazil has changed a lot today. Back in the 80's "vegetarian" was unheard of. We couldn't exactly live on red beans for a whole year! So, we consumed some meat while we were there!

Comments

[voyageofdreams.livejournal.com]

I thought for sure I would have seen mango on this list :)

[smittenbyu]

ha ha.. you are right! I guess I was going through stuff I have eaten in the last 3 months! I don't buy mangos here anymore. Always disappointing. :P I do get raw mangoes and love those!!

[smittenbyu]

but it's also D's favorite fruits!! (Sourer the better! Truly my girl!) So, we do get it once in a while to keep that taste on her palate! Can't have a daughter who won't eat mangoes!!! :P

[echomyst.livejournal.com]

I only like the Manila ones, but the ones from Mexico are more common here. Jas had never had Manila mangoes before meeting me and thought mangoes didn't taste that great, but now he lives them too :-)

[echomyst.livejournal.com]

Loves, not lives.silly autocorrect on phone.