O:T G.O.A.T Foods
With Big Ten Media Days next week and Fall camp after that, I’m guessing OT season is finally going to end so I wanted to squeeze in part 6 of my GOAT Series. Not sure if this will be last for this offseason or not.
What do you believe are the G.O.A.T Foods. Criteria is the following, 1. 1 item, not a meal. That’s it... it’s pretty simple.
Here are mine in order. Let’s do top 5.
1. Ice Cream Cake
2. Prime Rib... slow roasted and cooked medium rare to medium
3. French Onion Soup baked with cheese
4. Bacon wrapped onion rings
5. Pizza
Upvote/Dvote
1. morels
1. walleye
1. venison backstrap on the grill
4. tamales
Tamales!!! That is a great one. Top 10 for me for sure.
You got number 1(a) right.
Morels are fantastic, certainly. Not sure where you are, but look for hedgehogs (mushrooms). They are known locally (Oregon) as gems of the forest. We get both morels and hedgehogs, and its hard to say which I prefer more.
I haven't found good local harvesting for morels, yet, but I live about 30 minutes away from very good "hunting" grounds for chanterelles, hedgehogs and truffles.
Cheese. Any cheese. Still have yet to try one I haven't liked. Even had limburger. Haven't had that Italian maggot cheese though...
1. Blueberries
2. Fried chicken
3. Ribeye
4. Duck breast
5. Roasted cauliflower
Fried chicken was just outside top 5 for me. I’ve never had duck breast, but it sounds good.
Chick Fil-A, Raising Canes, and Chicken Express, the holy trinity of fast food.
1. Brisket
2. Burnt ends
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3 ribs
4 wood fire pizza
5 pulled pork
like all my bbq Texas style. Mostly just salt and pepper, no sauce or light sauce and smoked using oak wood.
Like your style, though I often go with Memphis or Carolina style bbq over Texas. Can't believe I left pulled pork off my list...I need to repent to the pig gods.
Sauce belongs on the side, brother.
Maybe I've never had GOOD Burnt Ends, but the ones I've had I have not been impressed with.
You have never had good burnt ends. Many places that serve "Burnt Ends" are just using fatty cuts from the brisket instead of actually using, you know, the burnt ends that naturally result from properly seasoning and smoking brisket.
In my experience, they can be especially amazing when they are the ends of pastrami.
1. Stroganoff I had in Budapest
2. Kinhali
3. Khachapuri
4. Sushi
5. Venison back strap
Honorable mention: Burritos
1. wings
2. ice cream
3. porterhouse steak on the bbq
4. ribs
5. chocolate molten lava cake
Solid choices man.
I have never had a good porterhouse. For me, it's just a bad cut of meat. Ribeye, strip, or sirloin for me anytime.
I can kind of agree, because filet is an inferior cut of meat and I am baffled why people like it. It lacks the fat that makes steak taste great and has no texture it's just mushy. A good NY strip, ribeye, or cross-cut short rib(think galbi or tira de asado) beats it everytime.
suggest you pick better cattle and butchers. a well cut, well-aged filet is a joy. you are eating old, grain-fed, gmo-filled, vaccine-riddled cows. no wonder the taste and texture are bad.
Tacos need to be on that list
Agreed. Always tacos.
#1 is a toss up between Canadian Walleye that was swimming less than an hour before its breaded fillets hit the hot oil.
and Venison tenderloin rolled in flower, fried in butter, on the night of the kill.
follow both with a Woodford Reserve Double Oaked, neat.
Add a side of your avatar and that as good as it gets.
Anything cooked using a smoker will get my vote.
When I lived in South Quad for 4 years (1999 - 2003) the answer was Chicken Broccoli Bake. Do they still make that in the dorms today?
And there were two preparations of the world famous CBB:
1. Rice cooked separately. The CBB is then served over rice.
2. The rice is cooked inside the CBB.
Option #2 was the hands down winner.
They sure do. I worked at Markley for the past two years and chicken broccoli bake goes just about as fast as we can put it out. It’s easy to serve though
All solid choices
1. Steak (filet, prime rib, ribeye, strip, tbone, venison), cooked medium rare to medium
2. Mother Bear's Pizza from Bloomington, IN
3. Blackened Red Snapper
4. All other meats not named on this list.
A few that come to mind...
- Ribeye, Ribs, and Bacon in the meat category
- Italian Subs, Burritos, and Gyros in the "sandwich" category
- Coleslaw, bbq baked beans, grilled corn on cob in the sides category
- Caprese in the salad category
- Cheesecake in the dessert category
And now I am salivating.
A few that come to mind...
- Ribeye, Ribs, and Bacon in the meat category
- Italian Subs, Burritos, and Gyros in the "sandwich" category
- Coleslaw, bbq baked beans, grilled corn on cob in the sides category
- Caprese in the salad category
- Cheesecake in the dessert category
And now I am salivating.
1. smoked Pulled Pork
2. New York style Pizza (any meat toppings)
3. Kung Pao chicken
4. Ribeye, medium rare
5. Adobada burrito with cheese
A nice thick, juicy ribeye steak. Grilled on high heat to medium rare. Only adorn with salt and pepper. Please don't ruin it with any "steak sauce."
1.) Pizza
2.)Curry Fried Rice with Beef
3.) Burger and Fries
4.) Chinese Buffet (just stuffing everything I can in a to go container)
5.) Trinidadian (West indian) Stew Chicken with Baked Mac and Cheese and rice (mix all the chicken broth all over...so good)
I am a simple man, with simple tastes. Honorable mention is oatmeal cream pies
Salt
Amen, brotha. Everything else is just a salt delivery vehicle.
excuse me. you both forgot butter and bacon. i may a big fan of you both, but i suggest you supplement your menu or your lives might just end up as empty, tasteless shells of what could've been....
1. medium rare plus steak
2. wings
3. maki sushi rolls
4. deep dish pizza (chicago or detroit style, doesn't matter)
Maybe not top 5 all-time but every time I come home to MI I have to get certain foods.
1. Whole #15 on white at Intermission Deli (I'm from Saginaw)
2. Tony's steak sandwich grilled with pizza cheese (Still from Saginaw)
3. Mackinaw Island Fudge ice cream. Superman 2nd.
4. Jonny's (RIP) chicken wing pizza (back 'home' in Nashville).
5. Any of the meats. Wings, steak, ribs.
+1000 for the mention of Intermission Deli.
I've bought the same bread directly from Hamilton Street Bakery and tried to make my own. Just not the same. Close but it's all ingredients. Certain type of deli meat, condiments. Store bought just not cutting it. Cannot beat their price either, for as much sub as you get no one comes close.
Intermission deli is good but I think it is a bit overrated. That being said Saginaw doesn’t have much else to offer.
Maple grille in Hemlock is outstanding though.
Also Maria Elena's bakery, which used to be in Carrollton, but I think its in the Township now...??? That place had the best pork carnitas, my mom used to buy a few pounds after church on Sunday and we'd munch on it all day. God I miss that place, all of their food was amazing!
I'm appalled that steak has three votes for being cooked medium in only 24 posts (so far). Steak should never - NEVER - be cooked further than medium rare, or you've ruined it.
/step stool
- Steak in all of its flavors (rare to med rare, no 'sauce')
- Prime Rib (rare to med rare)
- Walleye/salmon
- Caramel
- Creme Brulee'
Anything beyond medium rare is just ruining the steak.
THANK YOU
Yes, this is so true. I know some people who want their steaks well done. Such a waste.
In that case, they should not spend the money and just get a burger.
I'm going to paraphrase Anthony Bourdain, but I really appreciate people who order well done steaks. They use the crappy cuts of meat up so those of us who eat steak properly don't get stuck with them.